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5 Best Wall Paint Colors for Summer

5 Best Wall Paint Colors for Summer

Filipinos love summer – going to the beach, feeling the breeze, all the fun and sun! We love everything about it, we want a part of it in our homes – except the heat.

Here are five of the best wall paint colors to keep your home cool this summer season (and probably your best home improvement you will do!):

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White

This is the best color to paint since almost all of its variations reflect the most light. White also gives the impression of cleanliness and simplicity. This color is always available in hardware stores.

Apart from helping your place become cooler during summer, painting your walls white makes your place look more spacious. It blends well with most of the other light colors, so you could play around with the color of your trimmings.

We recommend:
Boysen B-7410 Hygienic White odorless or Boysen HH-706 Tulle White
Davies BF+-50501 Satin White

Peach

Light pink, Light Pink orange, call it whatever you like, you get the idea. Peach colors remind us of the feeling of looking at a beautiful sunset on the beach. In the Psychology of colors, Peach promotes feelings of joy and warmth.

When using the color Peach, work around its spectrum – Light Red, light orange to light yellow.

We recommend:
Boysen HH-5-G72 Fresh Melon
Davies BF+-50551 Almost Peach

Yellow

This is one of the main colors of Summer – yellowish white sand, the yellow sand and yellow flowers! The color yellow is associated with sunshine, hope, laughter, warmth, happiness, and energy.

If you want the color yellow to stand out in your space, add around it a few of its complementary colors – green and blue! If you want it to blend well with other colors, choose between Red, orange and light green.

We recommend:
Boysen HH-15-G116 Gingko Tree
Davies BF+-50545 Yellow Lark

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Sky Blue

Not dark blue, not marine blue, nor indigo – sky blue. The color of a cloudless summer sky mid afternoon on the beach. Sky blue gives off the feeling of calmness, peace, and relaxation – something we all want at home.

Sky blue is fun to blend with jewel tones, cream, white and gold colors. If you want this color to stand out, add a touch of yellow or light pink.

We recommend:
Boysen HH-26-G56 Obagi Blue Peel
Davies BF+-50523 Blue Rays

 

 

Turquoise

What is the next best thing we love about summer? – Water! Specifically, the color of it on the beach or pool. According to DesignAI, Turquoise is a calm, friendly, and cheerful color, radiating the tranquility of blue, the growth of green, and the vitality of yellow.

Adding Turquoise with most other colors sends off different moods and meaning, it is so much fun to work with! Pair it with other neutral shades, wood tones, and darker shades of blue and you get fantastic results.

We recommend:
Boysen HH-24-G51 Facial Mask
Davies BF+-50525 Ocean view

Image by: Completely Coastal

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Wall paint color plays a big role in keeping control of the temperature of your home. You would want your home feeling cooler during the summer time, so, choosing the right colors that also match your preference, will help keep your place cool. Dark colors absorb light (infrared rays), making the space warm, while light colors reflect light and lessen the heat.

Early summer in the Philippines is the best time to have your space painted. Humidity is not that high and the paint dries and cures properly. This is another reason why most construction and renovations are done during this period.

HOW TO: Use Toilet Bowl Cleaners

HOW TO: Use Toilet Bowl Cleaners

Have you ever asked yourself if you really know “how to use a toilet bowl cleaner”? Because no matter how much you use it, and scrub it, on your toilet bowl, it still can’t remove the stains? We understand how you are feeling, and we have several feedback and testimonials that their chosen brand of toilet bowl cleaner doesn’t seem to work.

But don’t worry, we are here to show you how to use toilet bowl cleaners effectively.

STEPS ON HOW TO USE TOILET BOWL CLEANERS EFFECTIVELY:

  • Wet the toilet bowl
  • Spray your favorite toilet bowl cleaner
  • Soak
  • Scrub
  • Rinse your toilet bowl

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Step 1 – Wet Toilet Bowl

Start with wetting your toilet bowl with plain, tap water. You can use your bidet or a water hose to do this, and give your toilet bowl a good wetting. This will moisten and loosen up the stains and dirt a bit. Most toilet bowl cleaners already have water in them, but applying them directly on a dry toilet bowl can be costly on your part. Apart from body fluids, minerals from hard water contributes most of the stain in your toilet bowl.

Step 2 – Spray your Toilet Bowl Cleaner

Now you can spray your favorite toilet bowl cleaner on the toilet bowl. Don’t forget to shake it well before spraying and apply evenly on the surface. Add a few squeeze on the top part so that it would run down and cover other surfaces. Most of the stain trail marks starts from the top as well, so cleaning it in the same direction as how it was stained would help a lot. If you are asking us what is the best toilet bowl cleaner, you can check out our post on the Toilet and Bath Challenge. For other cleaning solutions, you can check out our list of Brand Names of Chemicals for Cleaning.

Step 3 – Soak

This is a very important step and should not be missed. Majority of the time toilet bowl cleaners fail is because it was not given enough time to react with the dirt and stains. Soaking for 5 – 10 minutes will help the toilet bowl cleaner work its magic, the ingredients will under go chemical reactions with the stains and will greatly help you in scrubbing later.

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Step 4 – Scrub

After soaking, scrub your toilet bowl to separate the dirt and stains. You can use basically any toilet bowl brush, or if you want to really get down and dirty, use a scouring pad (scotch brite). Don’t forget to use rubber gloves and face mask to for the unavoidable splashes.

Step 5 – Rinse

Once you’re done scrubbing, rinse your toilet bowl with water. If there are still leftover stains, repeat steps 2 – 4 until you are satisfied with the results. 

You can use these steps when cleaning your bathroom as well. Always remember when cleaning, soak your cleaning solution before scrubbing so that they can effectively clean your surfaces. When using a new brand of cleaning solution, check the label for instructions on how to use. Most of the time they are very helpful.

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Household Chores Filipinos Hate Doing

Household Chores Filipinos Hate Doing

We’ve asked Filipinos what household chores they love and hate doing. Some chores seem to be expected, others came out surprising! Check out the results below and see if you belong to the general group of Filipinos who love and hate doing these chores.

We sent out a survey in January 2023 and collected 106 responses over a period of 30 days. 67.9% of the respondents were women, while 28.3% of them were men. Majority of the respondents were between the age group of 36-45 years old (60.4%).

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Household Chores Filipinos Hate

  • Cleaning the toilet bowl – 75.47%
  • Cleaning someone else’s bedroom – 66%
  • Finishing the laundry (hanging, folding and ironing) – 56.5%
  • Cleaning the bathroom – 56.5%
  • Cleaning Pet Pee – 51.5%
  • Cleaning kitchen – 47.16%
  • Cleaning inside refrigerator – 42.45%
  • Cleaning the garage – 38.68%
  • Washing dishes – 37.73%

Household Chores Filipinos Love to Do

  • Cooking – 66.03%
  • Do the Laundry using washing machine – 47.17%
  • Cleaning your own bedroom – 42.45%
  • Sweeping the floor – 37.73%
  • Cleaning the sala – 36.79%
  • Wiping table tops – 33.02%

Household chores with Neutral take:

  • Taking out the trash
  • Vacuum floors

#1 Cleaning the Toilet Bowl

We have expected this result since when we were doing our research, surveys across the globe also show – “Most of us humans hate cleaning the toilet bowl”. Luckily, 78.3% of the respondents have someone to help them do their chores, which includes cleaning the toilet bowl.

The smell, the water in the toilet bowl splashing back (sometimes on your face), the yellowish stains within and around the toilet seat, and other horrific things we could add about the toilet bowl make most of us hate cleaning it. Some stains are even difficult to remove and the lingering smell of old pee drives some of us crazy.  Since it is part of the bathroom, cleaning the bathroom comes number 4 on the list.

There are already cleaning products that are specially made to clean toilet bowls. These toilet bowl cleaners do help in cleaning, but a “No Scrub” version is yet to be invented.

#2 Cleaning Someone Else’s Room

We don’t like the mess we did, much more someone else’s mess. Cleaning someone else’s room, even if it is for a family member comes number 2 on the list Household Chores Filipinos hate. 

We don’t know where their trash came from, what body fluids they left, and whatever other gross stuff they left in their room. We don’t want to know what other surprises we get from cleaning their room, so we hate doing it. After all, isn’t it suppose to be an adult’s job to clean their own room? The fact is, it is not always the case. Someone has to clean it, especially on cases where weird smells are coming from the room already, or worse, crawling and flying insects are already nesting there.

There are people who, despite the messy state their room is already, do not want others to touch their stuff, much more have it cleaned. But even your own home can make you sick, so someone must clean it.

It is a good thing we can hire professional cleaning companies like CMDA Cleaning Service to do such Home Cleaning.

#3 Finishing the Laundry

We love doing the laundry using a washing machine,it even falls on number 2 on Household Chores we LOVE doing. BUT, hanging the laundry to dry, folding the laundry and ironing clothes comes third in what we HATE the most.

With the number of laundry shops opening over the past few years, it really shows how people hate drying, folding and ironing clothes. We would rather send and pay someone to do our dirty laundry and receive it back after 3 to 5 days clean, folded and wrinkle free!

This could partly be due to the reason that only 44.34% of the respondents say they could manage their time doing chores. This may only include starting the washing machine, but doesn’t include the time hanging, folding and ironing clothes. With our busy schedule, the amount of time processing our laundry seems too much for us.

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#4 Cleaning the Bathroom

Removing stuck hair in the drain, removing yellowish-brownish stains on tiles, removing hard water stains on faucets, the list goes on, giving us a lot of reasons why we hate cleaning the bathroom.

Probably one of the biggest reason we hate cleaning the bathroom is the toilet bowl, which is number 1 on the chores we hate doing. It would be difficult to clean the entire bathroom without cleaning the toilet bowl. 

There are also stains that can’t seem to go away no matter how hard we brush. Are they really stains? Are they already molds? Or are the tile grout (tile adhesive) worn away? We have a separate blog article to help you with this.

#5 Cleaning Pet Pee

Cat and dog pee give out very strong odors, the smell lingers for a long time, and using bleach can’t seem to remove them completely. We hate cleaning up after our pet, that is why most of us let them out on the streets and let them do their business elsewhere. Little wee accidents even become horror stories when our fur babies pee on the carpet. Thankfully there are carpet shampoo services available. 

For cat fur-parents, they are lucky that cats use litter boxes instinctively. You can just simply open the box, scoop out the poop (and pee) from the sand on the tray, put back the box, and that’s it! The only dragging task is cleaning the entire box once a week to remove the lingering smell inside.

Dog fur-parents are not so lucky. Training their dogs on pee pads and hopefully the pup doesn’t miss the big target, replacing the pee pads when full, rolling the pee pad when there’s poop on it, and pray the pup doesn’t drag and play with it.

Filipino Housekeeping Practices

While some of us have a household helper, some who don’t have shown that they are happy doing the chores. Around 44% said they are happy cleaning their home and only 22% thinks it’s a drag. This would be because most of us know how to clean already (88.9%). From a very young age, we were already taught how to pack away our toys, organize our stuff and probably our parents have occasionally handed us a broom to help sweep the floor. Maintaining a clean home is actually part of our culture.

Despite having good housekeeping practices incorporated within us since we were young, some of us fail to keep our home clean. 62% of the respondents say they cannot, or are not sure, if they can manage their time to do household chores. With busy work schedules, heavy traffic going to work and returning home, who would have time to clean, right? But despite these set backs, we still try. 77.8% of the respondents said they have the right tools already. It could be in the form of robot vacuum, hand held vacuum cleaners like from Dyson or Deerma, and other common cleaning supplies we have at home.

Thankfully, there are solutions on how to work around these tasks like using good brands of cleaning products, or getting the service of a professional cleaning company.

5 Tips for an Easy Party Cleaning

5 Tips for an Easy Party Cleaning

Having a party at your place this holiday season is totally awesome! Doing the after party cleaning – not so great. This is why some people opt to just dine out, bearing the traffic and waiting in line at restaurants. After party cleaning shouldn’t be stressful at all. Here are some tips to help make the after party cleaning as easy as opening Christmas gift!

 

 

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1. Use some Ds (Disposables or Dishwasher)

Half of the after party cleaning involve washing the dishes. Investing in a good dishwasher can help – A Lot! Though this is an expensive option, a dishwasher is an appliance you can use throughout the year. Just load your dishes, add soap, press the button, and that’s it! 

If you are on a tight budget, using disposable utensils and paper plates will save you the time in cleaning dishes as well. As soon as your guests are done with their plates, they can simply throw them in a trash bag for faster disposal. This is very practical, to those who have no household help. However, if you are serving fried chicken, T-bone steak or Adobo, it would be difficult to cut through them using disposable utensils. You might want to consider the food you will be serving then, if you are going for this option.

2. Go Minimalist

Minimal preparation means minimal cleaning.

  • Serve food (delivery) with the tray it came in, don’t transfer anymore to another dish.
  • Buy drinks in cans or small bottles instead of liter bottles that you have to transfer to cups or glasses.
  • Use less decors – you only use them a few days a year anyway. Opt on soft holiday background music instead.
  • Order individually packed desserts such as Fruit Salad in a cup, Leche Flan in small containers, cake slices and other such dessert preparations.

These may sound frugal, but your end goal here is for you to have less cleaning after. 

 

3. Place Paper towels and Wet Wipes 

Accidental spills can happen anywhere, anytime. Strategically placing paper towels and wet wipes all over your place can help cleaning them up fast. Your guest might even do it for you!

Your guests will be needing some as well, specially if you are serving greasy food or food with sauce. Drink spills? They got you! With the paper towels nearby, cleaning up is easy. 

 

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4. Hiring a Personal Assistant

Christmas Parties are similar to weddings, they are both events. Having a personal assistant on the day will be a huge help, either with coordinating and accepting food/deliveries, setting up the place, receiving guests or assisting you with everything or anything you need along the way.

One of the feedback of event coordinators and HR managers during an event is that they usually don’t get the time to enjoy the party they have personally organized. They seem to be everywhere and there seem to be no time to sit down and watch the show. Hiring a personal assistant for the day can help ease things up. He or she can be the point person for all the deliveries, run quick errands for you and do last minute details while you attend to the general overview of things. Adding a person who serves drinks in your office party would be a nice touch for your event.

5. Enjoy the day and let tomorrow worry itself

The event day is a special day for you and your guests. Enjoy your time with them and worry about the cleaning the following day. Sure, the ants will be there probably, some roaches maybe, but they will not settle in at your place forever. Having your place in a mess for a night will not ruin your place permanently. 

Once the party is over, you can create a system of plans to carry out your cleaning. If you have used some of the tips above, things would be much easier for you.

 

Preparing for the holidays doesn’t have to be very stressful for anyone, organizer or attendees. There are a lot of ways to make the coming holidays worry-free. Don’t forget to mask up and watch out for COVID-19 symptoms from the attendees. We don’t want to make our events a super spreader this season.

Tips For a Worry Free Christmas Party at Home

Tips For a Worry Free Christmas Party at Home

The Christmas holidays are just around the corner, and when the family gathering will be done at your home, things can be a bit hectic. Ordering or cooking food, setting up the table, putting up decors and other party details can be a chore. Food deliveries can be delayed during the holidays and occassionally some food mix up occurs. And the most stressful of all – after party cleaning.

If you are looking for ways to organize a worry free Christmas Party at home, check out our tips below:

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Book Early

Whether you are making a reservation in a restaurant, have your food catered, or plan to order online, book your plans early or at least three to four weeks prior. If you have recently dined in a restaurant, you may notice that the queue is longer, the staff are fewer than usual (compared to pre-pandemic) and the choices in the menu are shorter. The chef will be cooking food for those dining in and for deliveries. These can affect your event even if it is held at home, so booking early can help the restaurant prepare the food, either for catering or delivery, and serve it to you hot and fresh.

The food industry is still recovering from the pandemic, transitioning from dine-in pre-pandemic norms to take out and deliveries, and then returning to dine-in has put a lot of stress on the restaurant businesses. This doesn’t even include those few who switched to Cloud Kitchens.

Survey the Food

In a recent report by a popular food delivery app, 2 out of 5 people prefer to order in for their social gatherings rather than dining out. This opens a lot of options for food choices. Create a poll in your family group chat on their food preference so you could narrow down which restaurants you should order from. 

The great thing about catering or ordering food for your party is that you are not limited to one restaurant’s menu. You can get creative by pairing the legendary fried spring roll (lumpia) with a variety of other food from the East to West, making the event memorable for everyone.

Reconfirm

Whether you are getting a caterer, or ordering-in, reconfirm the number of guests attending and the food you ordered. It wouldn’t hurt to do that and it prevents misunderstanding during the day of the event.

Usual concerns that arose from an “almost failed” parties were due to: The food did not arrive (wrong delivery date/time), different food were delivered (not the one you ordered), food was not enough, or food were not safe for eating anymore. If you have noticed, part of these are logistics problems, while a part of it is due to the food provider (restaurant or kitchen). Reconfirming details with yourself (if you are the one organizing it), with the restaurant and with the delivery team would help prevent these problems from happening.

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Hiring a Personal Assistant

Christmas Parties are similar to weddings, they are both events. Having a personal assistant on the day will be a huge help, either with coordinating and accepting food/deliveries, setting up the place, receiving guests or assisting you with everything or anything you need along the way.

One of the feedback of event coordinators and HR managers during an event is that they usually don’t get the time to enjoy the party they have personally organized. They seem to be everywhere and there seem to be no time to sit down and watch the show. Hiring a personal assistant for the day can help ease things up. He or she can be the point person for all the deliveries, run quick errands for you and do last minute details while you attend to the general overview of things. Adding a person who serves drinks in your office party would be a nice touch for your event.

Hire a Per Hour Cleaner

Spilled food and drinks are very common in a party. It can cause accidents and could ruin the whole event. Having no one on standby to clean it up can be worrisome. Hiring a Per Hour Cleaner can clean while the party progresses and they can double as a food server as well.

 

You’re lucky if you can hire extra household help to standby during the event, but if you can’t hire extras, you can always book one with us!

Hire an Event Cleaning Team

An event cleaning crew can serve food and drinks during the event, spot cleaning while they do that, and then clean up after the party. Their team leader can double as your personal assistant while you are at it, and they can come in with all the cleaning equipment they need to get things clean after the event. 

Preparing for the holidays doesn’t have to be very stressful for anyone, organizer or attendees. There are a lot of ways to make the coming holidays worry-free. Don’t forget to mask up and watch out for COVID-19 symptoms from the attendees. We don’t want to make our events a super spreader this season.

Tips For a Worry Free Christmas Party in the Office

Tips For a Worry Free Christmas Party in the Office

The Christmas holidays are just around the corner, and when you are tasked to host or organize the company party, things can be a bit hectic. Traffic is getting worse and restaurant reservations are getting full, yet people are more eager to dine-in or experience an exciting Christmas party. Who could blame them? After a series of lockdowns and restrictions these past couple of years, people are excited to celebrate in the new normal.

If you are looking for ways to organize a worry free Christmas Party in the office, check out our tips below:

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Book Early

Whether you are making a reservation in a restaurant, have your food catered, or plan to order online, book your plans early or at least three to four weeks prior. If you have recently dined in a restaurant, you may notice that the queue is longer, the staff are fewer than usual (pre-pandemic) and the choices in the menu are shorter. These can affect your event when your party day arrives, so booking early can help the restaurant prepare the food, either for catering or delivery, and the place in case your whole office decides to dine-in.

The food industry is still recovering from the pandemic, transitioning from dine-in pre-pandemic norms to take out and deliveries, and then returning to dine-in has put a lot of stress on the restaurant businesses. This doesn’t even include those few who switched to Cloud Kitchens.

Survey the Food

In a recent report by a popular food delivery app, 2 out of 5 people prefer to order in for their social gatherings rather than dining out. This opens a lot of options for food choices. Create a poll in the office on their food preference so you could narrow down which restaurants you should order from. Apart from the crowd, the venue and the activities, people look forward to food they enjoy eating when joining an event. Hanging out and eavesdropping at the pantry or water dispenser helps too. Lol.

The great thing about catering or ordering food for your party is that you are not limited to one restaurant’s menu. You can get creative by pairing the legendary fried spring roll (lumpia) with a variety of food from East to West, making the event memorable for everyone.

If you are raffling off prizes, it is best to survey them as well. There are some employees who might not appreciate an Induction Cooker because of its cookware requirements.

Reconfirm

Whether you are dining out, hiring a caterer, or ordering-in, reconfirm the number of guests attending, the food you ordered and the venue at least twice. It wouldn’t hurt you to do that and it prevents misunderstanding during the day of the event.

Usual concerns that arose from an “almost failed” event were due to: Not enough tables and chairs were prepared/reserved, the food did not arrive (wrong delivery date/time), different food were delivered (not the one you ordered), food was not enough, or food were not safe for eating anymore. If you have noticed, part of these are logistics problems, while a part of it is due to the food provider (restaurant or kitchen). Reconfirming details with yourself (if you are the one organizing it), with the restaurant and with the delivery team would help prevent these problems from happening.

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Hiring a Personal Assistant

Christmas Parties are similar to weddings, they are both events. Having a personal assistant on the day will be a huge help, either with coordinating and accepting food/deliveries, setting up the venue, receiving guests or assisting you with everything or anything you need along the way.

One of the feedback of event coordinators and HR managers during an event is that they usually don’t get the time to enjoy the party they have personally organized. They seem to be everywhere and there seem to be no time to sit down and watch the show. Hiring a personal assistant for the day can help ease things up. He or she can be the point person for all the deliveries, run quick errands for you and do last minute details while you attend to the general overview of things. Adding a person who serves drinks in your office party would be a nice touch for your event.

Hire a Per Hour Cleaner

Spilled food and drinks are very common in an office event. It can cause accidents and could ruin the whole event. Having no one on standby to clean it up can be worrisome. Hiring a Per Hour Cleaner can clean while the party progresses and they can double as a food server as well.

 

You’re lucky if you can have the building housekeeping standby during the event, but if you can’t hire them after their work hours, you can always book one with us!

Hire an Event Cleaning Team

An event cleaning crew can serve food and drinks during the event, spot cleaning while they do that, and then clean up after the party. Their team leader can double as your personal assistant while you are at it, and they can come in with all the cleaning equipment they need to get things clean after the event. 

Preparing for the holidays doesn’t have to be very stressful for anyone, organizer or attendees. There are a lot of ways to make the coming holidays worry-free. Don’t forget to mask up and watch out for COVID-19 symptoms from the attendees. We don’t want to make our events a super spreader this season.