The floors are vacuumed, the clothes are laundered and the toilets are scrubbed. A clean house feels like a deep breath of fresh air, but there might be some places that have gone overlooked for too ...

A few years ago, I bought sheer off-white drapes for my family room. I had a stripe of dark red grosgrain ribbon sewn on the inner edge of each panel to tie in with the colors in the room. When the ...