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
Rutherford Estates Condos: A Chance to Return to Your Roots – January 22, 2006 BARBARA ROCHE FIERMAN harbors unusually intense nostalgia for the place where she was born. At age 68, she has decided she wants to buy a part of it and make it her home. Until now, that has been almost impossible at…Continue Reading
CURRENTS: WHO KNEW?; To the Rescue, Elves Who Come to Clean – December 8, 2005 A good cleaning service can rescue a home before a holiday party, or after. New York’s Little Elves, in business nearly 30 years, has a staff trained in the cleaning and handling of fine art and furniture. Clients have included…Continue Reading
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Good Question: How Do I Deep Clean My Carpets – March 24, 2005 Not dwarves. We needed a cleaning crew last week and our go-to guy wasn’t available. Who Ya Gonna Call? We got a tip to call Little Elves and can’t say enough good things about them. They came the same day in a…Continue Reading