Tips, Tips and More Tips from June 2012

Do not oil furniture. Use a good quality paste wax without silicone. Apply about once a year. Do not wax any furniture that has a gilded, painted, lacquered or flaking finish.

We just heard of a new type of garage sale. Get all of the stuff you want to sell out on display in your garage or yard. Sort everything on tables, under tables or on hangers. Sell everything for $1. Be sure you have many small things to make up for the loss on some of the more expensive pieces. The report is that you get more money because you sell more items.

Create a staggered group of medium-sized pictures on a staircase wall. Use pictures with similar frames. Hang one every three steps starting from the first bottom step. Stand on the stairs and hang the picture so it’s 60 inches from the top of the step to the center of the picture. This will line the pictures up perfectly. If you are hanging a group of pictures of different sizes, put a large one in the center, then hang the others to follow the line of the stair railing.

Store vintage handbags on a shelf. Never hang a handbag by its handle.