All Entries in the "Housekeeping" Category
How To Shine (Bull) a Shoe – The Butler Way
The Valet’s way to shine ( or bull) shoes – brilliantly! Rick sent us this shoe shine report:
“My employer recently returned from a shooting weekend and informed me that many of his fellow guests had commented on how exceptionally smart and shiny his shoes were. I was delighted by the compliment.
Arrange Flowers Like a Professional
If you want to learn a little about flower arranging – how to judge color, size and create an arrangement that just works this is the post for you.
Certainly you can go on a flower arranging course but if you’re in a hurry here are our basic guidelines for the butler or hostess in a [...]
How to Pack a Suitcase – The Butler Way
Learning how to fold clothes for storage in a wardrobe or shelved walk-in clothes-room is not always the same as folding clothes to pack into a suitcase so as to avoid creasing of the clothing.
A crease is formed when clothes are folded over on themselves so the secret in how to pack a suitcase correctly [...]
Who Cleans the Queen’s Silver Teapot?
It’s not every day one gets to speak to a man who has been held under armed guard in the Tower of London, has access to enough poison to kill a large herd of elephants and who cleans the personal silver teapot of H.M.
