Archives for November 2015

Sabrina Fierman, Vice-president, New York’s Little Elves By Stephen Milioti Published Nov 4, 2014 What are your top cleaning tips? De-clutter every day. Don’t keep anything that isn’t beautiful, useful, or necessary. It’s harder and takes longer to clean around clutter. Also, clean a little every day. After you shower, squirt a couple of…Continue Reading

As a thank you to their dedicated and high-end clientele, New York’s Little Elves with SilverLining Interiors and The Ruffled Window hosted designers and industry friends to the Time Warner Building for cocktails, conversation and stunning views of the New York City skyline last Thursday evening. The Ruffled Window founder Robin Feuer, SilverLining Interiors President…Continue Reading

With a Whoosh and a Zoom: Cleaning Tools To some, cleaning house means making a casual tour with the vacuum and taking a few jabs at the toilet with a soapy brush. Not Sabrina Fierman. As vice president of New York’s Little Elves, a cleaning firm used by many designers and contractors, she takes the…Continue Reading

A Well-Made Bed to Lie In OUTSIDE of boarding schools, the military and mothers, few pay attention to proper bed making. Once you live on your own, your sheets can stay rumpled for days (and do, for many of us). Still, there’s an art to making a bed, or at least that was the message…Continue Reading

The $4,000 Spring Cleaning I can think of a zillion fun ways to blow $4,000. I’m dreaming about a fancy, four-week vacation—with a personal porter to carry my iPhone. Or 388 stacks of pancakes at Café Luluc. Maybe a house in Detroit. Or how about…a really, really, really clean kitchen. I mean, super-duper clean. So…Continue Reading

Scrub the Halls: Neat Freaks Shine at Holiday Time FOR most of us, the holiday season is a time of lists. There are wish lists, shopping lists, naughty and nice lists. But way down on the litany of to-do is one particular item that many find as offputting as coal in a Christmas stocking: clean…Continue Reading

Down & Dirty: Cleaning house the old-fashioned way BY Jason Sheftell DAILY NEWS REAL ESTATE CORRESPONDENT Maria Arateaga of New York’s Little Elves cleaning service. When you’re at least two to three times the price of companies that claim to do the same thing, you better be good. When it’s a house- cleaning service in…Continue Reading

What’s Your Time Worth? – August 05, 2009 7:00 AM EST Kid Taxi Express Meet Heather McAlister. Like any busy mom, Heather has trouble being in two places at once. To help her day run smoother, she relies on Kids Kab, a taxi service for children, to transport her daughter to her many extracurricular…Continue Reading

The Big Clean-Up: New York’s Little Elves – November 26, 2007 The annual Kips Bay designer showhouse always features some pretty nifty rooms filled with sumptuous furnishings — the finest carpets, extraordinary draperies, and countless objets and bibelots all just waiting to be manhandled and broken. The delicate task of cleaning the tchotchke-filled mansion during…Continue Reading

The Secret Lives of Elves – August 30, 2007