Natural Cleaning Tips For Healthy Living

Warm (& Quick) Breakfast Ideas

Warm (& Quick) Breakfast Ideas

While breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, it isn't always the easiest to throw together, especially on chilly weekday mornings.  Here are some quick, hot breakfast ideas that will not only be good for your family, but will be good for your...

5 Ways to Add Quirky Quotes to Your Home

5 Ways to Add Quirky Quotes to Your Home

Are you already missing the cute sayings found on the candy hearts you received for Valentine’s Day?  No worries.  Today’s home designers have taken quirky quotes off of the candy and have put them on some stylish elements for your home.  Here are 5 of our favorites:...

4 Ways to Reuse Your Child’s Valentine’s Day Cards

4 Ways to Reuse Your Child’s Valentine’s Day Cards

When your children come home from school with their handmade mailbox, filled to the rim with valentines from their classmates, don’t just throw them all away!  Instead, use this opportunity to reuse them and create some practical things for around the house.  ...

Vinegar Uses 101

Vinegar Uses 101

How To Use Vinegar for Cleaning Your Home We have mad love for a product that is probably in your pantry at this very moment: vinegar. Disguised as a common cooking ingredient, this powerhouse liquid has the ability to clean your home, deodorize smelly spaces and...

Healthy (& Tasty!) Super Bowl Party Foods

Healthy (& Tasty!) Super Bowl Party Foods

This Sunday, as many Americans are watching the big game (Super Bowl Sunday!), they will also be chowing down on an entire day’s worth of calories.  Yes, you read right—according to Health.com, the average football fan will eat any entire day’s worth of calories...

5 Unusual Things to Keep Your Workbag Organized

5 Unusual Things to Keep Your Workbag Organized

  As an eco-friendly cleaning company, we are specialists in keeping environments clean and healthy—and that includes your workbag.  Yes, your workbag.  What you pull out of your workbag says a lot about you as a person and if some of those things are old...

5 Things to Clean to Prevent Germs from Spreading

5 Things to Clean to Prevent Germs from Spreading

  While the timing of cold and flu season is quite unpredictable, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds cases peak in the United States between December and February.  Now that the holiday rush is over and kids have returned to school while parents...

5 Ways to Use Your Old Calendar

5 Ways to Use Your Old Calendar

If you are like us, you are still getting used to a New Year—which means, you may be a little late in swapping out your 2015 calendar for the 2016 version.  Before you literally toss out the old year, try one of these very easy DIY projects and repurpose those dates...

4 Ways to Keep Kids Healthy

4 Ways to Keep Kids Healthy

‘Tis the season for runny noses and harsh coughs—just visit any classroom and you’ll see what we mean.  While you can’t put your child in a plastic bubble the moment cold weather hits, there are a few things you can do to keep your child as healthy as possible this...

3 Delicious Hot Cocoa Recipes

3 Delicious Hot Cocoa Recipes

image courtesy of flickr CC/macinate  If the cold weather has you feeling a little less than warm inside, try one of these hot cocoa recipes.  From warming up after a day of walking in the city to taking your cocoa with you to a sledding hill (click here for best...

How to Use Winter White in Your Home

How to Use Winter White in Your Home

As January ushers in colder temps and those little flakes of white on the outside of your home, it also ushers in a little white on the inside:  winter white.  It is a trend that the fashion industry has embraced for many years, but now we are seeing more and more...

5 Things to Organize with Dollar Store Finds

5 Things to Organize with Dollar Store Finds

A recent study of the most popular New Year’s resolutions found that “getting organized” and “spending less” are number 2 and 3 on most of our lists.  Did they make it to your list this year?  If so, we have five ways to accomplish both using these simple dollar store...

Eco-Friendly New Year’s Eve Activities for Kids

Eco-Friendly New Year’s Eve Activities for Kids

If you are planning a family celebration this year, keep the kids busy until the ball drops by doing these fun (and easy) DIY activities: New Year’s Eve Noise Makers via Make and Takes Materials: Empty toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls Wax paper—cut 4x4 square...

Wine, Chocolate, Glitter..Oh My

Wine, Chocolate, Glitter..Oh My

Getting ready to ring in the New Year with family and friends?  In order to avoid starting 2016 with a less than sparkling home, here are our tips for cleaning the top 5 biggest New Year's Eve party stains:   Red Wine on the Sofa Upholstered furniture fibers...

Tips for Hosting a Cookie Exchange

Tips for Hosting a Cookie Exchange

What better way to reduce your holiday baking stress than to host a good old-fashioned cookie exchange.  Not only will you have some beautiful and delicious goodies to share with your family throughout the entire holiday season, but you will be hosting a festive event...

How to Keep Wrapping Paper Organized

How to Keep Wrapping Paper Organized

 image courtesy of flickr CC/Personal Creations: http://www.personalcreations.com  Whether your holiday shopping is already finished or hasn’t even started, there is a moment of Christmas truth getting ready to happen:  you have to wrap all of your purchases. ...

Our 4 Favorite Eco-Friendly Hostess Gifts

Our 4 Favorite Eco-Friendly Hostess Gifts

  Top 4 Eco-Friendly Hostess Gifts ‘Tis the season for holiday parties.  Before you head into your next celebration, consider coming in the front door with a unique and eco-friendly gift that will leave your party host/hostess singing your gift-giving praises all...

5 Things to Clean before Guests Arrive

5 Things to Clean before Guests Arrive

Soon your home will be brimming with the jolly sounds of company—are you ready?  If not, don’t worry—we have 5 things you should clean that will instantly give your home a holiday lift, making your guests feel welcome and comfortable during their visit.   Front...

The Green Connection to Small Business Saturday

The Green Connection to Small Business Saturday

While Black Friday seems to still get a lot of post-Thanksgiving buzz, it is Small Business Saturday that really gets us excited.  Why?  In addition to GreenHouse Eco-Cleaning being a small business, supporting local businesses is a great way to invest in those places...

5 Tips for Reducing Thanksgiving Waste

5 Tips for Reducing Thanksgiving Waste

As you make your final plans for Thanksgiving, we want you to consider giving thanks to our planet by reducing your waste this holiday season.  Here are 5 things you can do to reduce Thanksgiving waste: Plan Ahead According to the Natural Resources Defense Council,...