Cheryl Mendelson's 'Home Comforts' is the modern bible for keeping a clean, comfortable, and welcoming home. I own both this book and Martha Stewart's 'Homekeeping Handbook' and prefer this one for it's depth of content. Mendelson's suggested cleaning schedules may seem borderline obsessive, but don't let that turn you off. The bottom line is that this book will provide you with the knowledge to clean and care for anything in your house, as often as makes sense for you. I do have to offer a caveat about this title in e-book format, though. The content formatting is a disaster. Paragraphs of text appear randomly and out of context at the end of chapters. Chapter numbers don't appear at the beginning of each chapter. Some images aren't correctly placed. Some text is just missing - for example, the Glossary of Fabric Terms in chapter 14 includes the definitions, but the terms being defined are missing. If this is your first time through this book, you may want to get the paper version. But having this wealth of information searchable in e-book format makes up for the (inexcusable) formatting problems.