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How to Make Your Home Look Elegant but Feel Cozy
Ladies, A home can look regal and feel cozy but styling these two qualities together takes careful consideration. Here are some solid guidelines for the homemaker decorator to achieve a home that looks elegant but feels cozy. Afterall, we want things to look nice but feel just as good. Long Billowing Curtains The more you use long, beautiful curtains around your windows, the more the look harkens back to the days of ballrooms, sitting rooms, and a certain elegance that can be as understated or overstated as you want. By using lighter colors or lighter weight fabric you can get an ethereal feel from your curtains, ones that can even…
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How to Love Homemaking by Delegating & Hiring Help
Ladies, “A woman’s work is never done.” as the old saying goes. Many days we can fall into bed with things still in the sink, people needing to be fed the minute we wake up and never-ending laundry and crumbs on the floor. We find as homemaking wives and mothers that it is not a badge of honor to wear yourself down until your disposition is anything but pleasant. But so often the workload does wear us down. No caretaker can go on endlessly at the same pace without serious burnout. There are countless paid jobs that do the work of the homemaking wife such as a maid, a nanny,…
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What to Prioritize as a New Homemaking Wife
Ladies, As you step into your role as a homemaking wife, you might have wonderful images and ideas of homemaking in your mind that drive you in your home pursuits. Those are good inspirations and valid! But let’s take a look at the bones of daily homemaking and what to focus on doing and why. Much like an outside job, our homemaking role is meant to serve someone else. That does not mean we have no joy in our job or do not take pleasure in our job at home. In fact, by focusing my efforts on serving my family, I have clear daily goals, a solid objective and a…
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How to be a Better Homemaker: Work like the Maid
Ladies, Do you want to know what changed my homemaking game? Working like a hotel maid in my own home. Funnily enough, I have met homemaking wives who are greatly insulted to be equated to a maid. But the fact is, homemaking is largely the work of the maid. It is resetting the room. The maid comes by a room every day to tidy, wash, or re-stock. We are the daily maid to our home, whether we like that or not. A Maid is Ready for the Job A hotel maid is expected to have her hair neatly tied back and wear a clean outfit with comfortable shoes. She is…
