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Which Service for Cleaning In Beverly Hills?

December 18, 2011 By

Finding a good cleaning service can be a chore. There is always word of mouth as ways of referencing a cleaning service you haven’t used before, but that can be unreliable. It is priceless when you find the right company though. Services for cleaning beverly hills as well as the surrounding areas are available from a few different sources. I like a company that comes with references that I can vet and know for myself the consistency and reliability of the company and its employees.

It is hard for me to feel comfortable inviting someone into my home, so when I found someone that could provide excellent references it went a long way to alleviating any lingering concerns that I had.  I also think that many companies can vary in the degree of care they take cleaning one’s home or work area. I am particular in my own standards and like a company that caters to that level of cleanliness. Cleaning service Glendale is also available from a number of companies. I prefer to go through a company as opposed to personally making arrangements that allows for any lapse in availability to be taken care of by the company that handles scheduling.

I think that knowing that you have a reliable company to schedule your cleaning for home or business is invaluable. Many people are too busy with work to keep up with home cleaning Los Angeles. And when people have down time I think many would prefer to spend it relaxing, spending time with loved ones rather than cleaning the house.

Filed Under: Janitorial & Cleaning Services

Wicker Furniture, Rattan Sofas, And Dining On The Patio With Jay And Daisy

December 11, 2011 By

There’s just something classy about wicker and rattan furniture. It makes you think of spending summer days at a mansion on long island in the nineteen twenties; sitting down for lunch on the porch at an elegant wicker dining set with Jay Gatsby and Daisy, and going out after lunch to play croquet with other members of the smart set, eternally young and yet somehow old fashioned.  Maybe it’s because wicker furniture looks handmade, even though modern methods of manufacture may be used.

Whatever the reason, wicker furniture, with its retro yet timeless appearance, fits in everywhere from a small apartment to a Gatsby sized estate. But in my case anyway, wicker patio furniture always seems to call up these exotic tropical images to mind, and can make a suburban deck overlooking the back yard  suggestive of an episode from a short story by Somerset Maugham or Joseph Conrad set in some distant tropical local.

Maybe the real source of these images isn’t the books themselves, its movies, especially older movies, with their innocent fascination with the mystery and romance of distant places. Even if you don’t quite remember all of the movie Casablanca, you can still probably see Sidney Greenstreet sitting in a wide backed rattan chair, laughing with Peter Lorre, or Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart seated close together on a rattan sofa talking about Paris before the war, and how the problems of two little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Filed Under: Home Improvement