"Housekeeping is an art: it combines intuition and physical skill to create comfort, health, beauty, order and safety.It is also a science, a body of knowledge that helps us seek those goals and values wisely, efficiently, humanely.
Such knowledge is drawn from practical experience, family tradition, the natural and social science and many other stores of understanding and information.
Some of this skill and knowledge is directed toward keeping the home clean, but cleaning is only a part of keeping house, and in modern homes, an ever small part.
Keeping house has always encompassed knowing and doing whatever is needed to make the home a small living society with the capacities to meet the needs of people in their private life: everything from meals, shelter, clothing, warmth and other physical necessities to books and magazines, music, play, facilities for entertaining oneself and others, a place to work and much more."
~ Cheryl Mendelson, HOME COMFORTS: The Art and Science of Keeping House
FRENCH DOORS by Kim Jacobs
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