A Well-Kept Home: Household Traditions and Simple Secrets from a French Grandmother

by Laura Fronty

Book Overview

This classic volume--now available in a new, smaller format and at a reduced price--provides time-tested advice and old-fashioned wisdom for maintaining a lovely and inviting home. The frantic quality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789305283
• ISBN13: 9780789305282
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

A breath of life from an older time

A little of everything...cooking, cleaning, beauty products, garden lore. Lovely photographs.If you're interested in "old ways" or in France, you might also enjoy REALLY RURAL, a book by Marie-France Boyer.

A Well-kept Home: Practical Advice

Am pleased with this book on two levels. 1)Visually exciting: beautiful photos giving a feel for a France that people really live in. 2)'Simple' recipes for household challenges: I am an antiques dealer and have been searching for repair/cleaning answers that don't come out of a bottle. The common ingredients listed are easy enough to come by and have worked wonders on my antique linens, copper and brass pieces, etc. Overall, a fun book for those of us who wish we could spend more than just 'vacation time' in France.

Homemaking, not just housekeeping!

A wonderful book! Just good. old-fashioned sense and solutions for living without modern chemical products. Simple "recipes" for cleaning, preserving, scenting your home. Very inspiring, too. There is joy in having a well-kept home and it's inviting to others, too. Complete without being overwhelming. Uncomplicated. The "old ways" are easy to fit into an over-burdened, stressed-out lifestyle and easily replace methods and rituals already used.