At Home My Way

RECIPES AT THE TOP; CHITCHAT AT THE BOTTOM! Here's how I make homemade window cleaner AT HOME MY WAY!  It works just like store bought window cleaner and saves you money!     Homemade Window Cleaner 1 empty spray bottle (your old Windex bottle if you want) 1/8 cup White (clear) Ammonia 1/4 cup Isopropyl Alcohol 1 small squirt of dish soap (I use Dawn) Water Instructions : Put the Ammonia in the bottle  (you could use a permanent marker to mark the Ammonia level on your bottle for filling next time).  Add the alcohol (again marking that level on your bottle.)  Add a small squirt of liquid dish soap and fill the bottle with water.  Shake well.  THE CHIT CHAT! One of the things I clean the most with at my house is window cleaner.  You know... Windex.  Except I haven't bought actual Windex for years! I use window cleaner to clean my windows in my house and in my car.  I clean my countertops with it, my doors, my d...

We have a fixer-upper house that we have been working on.  The bannister railing and some of the other trim and cabinets look HORRIBLE.  I wasn't sure what to do with them other than replace or try to paint them and neither of those sounded very easy or affordable. Enter:  Pinterest and all of the helpful hints, ideas, and inspiration we all get there! When I saw this pinned on Pinterest, my thought was, "Surely not!  It couldn't be that easy,cheap and seriously work that well!"  I am here to tell you that this solution is all of those things.  I mixed up my oil (canola) and vinegar (apple cider) and wa-la!  Beautiful!  Now... having said that the scratches are physically still there but when you see the railing and the trim pieces I applied this treatment too, the color is right on!  As with any treatment for wood, I would try this in a small, not so visible area just as a tester but this works.  I will forever use this on m...