Summer is but a few weeks more; back-to-school/back-to-work/back-to-routine is just around the corner. Why not let A Votre Service! premier Hamptons housekeeping agency, featuring house cleaning in Southampton, help free your time so you can entertain from now through Labor Day? Final clean-up after last guests of the season. Tired of cleaning after company? Spend [...]
Traveling to see the eclipse and need Hamptons house watching while you are away? We offer year-round house watching services throughout the East End, including in Southampton, East Hampton, Westhampton, Quogue, East Quogue, Water Mill, Remsenberg, Sag Harbor, Montauk, and Amagansett. For information, click here.
What can the Hamptons’ premier housekeeping service offer besides vacuuming and dusting? For us, housecleaning is just the tip of the iceberg! We offer a full panoply of Hamptons accommodating services, including running errands. You have better things to do with your free time! Explore our top accommodating services below. Hamptons Accommodating Services But first, [...]
Don’t spend your weekends cleaning your rental property or corporate housing—let A Votre Service! do vacation rental turnover cleaning in The Hamptons for you. Regardless of the length of your tenants’ stay, or the amount of post-rental cleaning needed on the grounds and inside, our dedicated team is at the ready to assist. Here are [...]
Rebuilding your deck? Gutting your kitchen? Installing a pool? Whatever your dream project for this season, large or small, we at AVS understand that renovations can be a challenge. Projects extend beyond their deadlines, materials are delayed. The best of crews run into unexpected issues. When you find yourself crunched for time emerging from your home [...]
Someone once said the reason that so many great artists, poets, and writers hailed from the northeast was the long winters. Piles of snow limited outdoor tasks, and food had been preserved and placed in the pantry the previous autumn. What was probably a quite boring time provided endless opportunities for introspection and creativity. Although [...]
It may be hard to imagine, looking at the thermometer, but the calendar approaches spring! At A Votre Service, the premier housekeeping service on the East End, we’ve been getting ready with a little closet decluttering and by freshening up our web page. We hope that the new format is more user-friendly, and might even [...]
The long-awaited holidays are here! Whether you are spinning the dreidel, awaiting Santa Claus or the birth of Jesus, celebrating the solstice, or creating new traditions, there is a sense of anticipation, of the miraculous unfolding. For a few short weeks, people of all beliefs and political leanings come together to celebrate innocence. We treasure [...]
The first snowflakes have fallen, and the nights are longer. Shops are decorated with bright lights, and the lines at the Post Office are becoming intimidating. It’s a time of year when the focus shifts to childlike enthusiasm over stars, trees, and holiday parties. Although neither Hanukkah nor Christmas begin until the end of the [...]
As the furor over the national elections wanes, our thoughts can again turn toward home, gratitude, and the approaching season of holidays. In another week, families across the country will gather around tables full of traditional foods of turkey, squash, mashed potatoes, and many kinds of pie. And while the Plymouth Colony, with Pilgrims and [...]
Little ghosts and goblins have come and gone, with St. Nicholas safely weeks away. Now is the time to breathe into the slower pace of fall as you relax with your family before the revelry of the holiday season begins (or, perhaps before-or after-you head out to the polls this Election Day). Here are a [...]
It's hard to imagine cool weather is just around the corner. Carving pumpkins in 80 degrees seems almost sacrilegious, a pagan flaunt to the weather gods. Yet Jack-o'-lanterns have lit the way for trick-or-treaters and religious observers alike. Before there were pumpkins, there were turnips. And beets. And large potatoes. Irish and Scottish children carried [...]
Though fall has just arrived, cold weather isn't far behind. Here are a few things you can do now so you aren’t caught off guard this winter. 1. Check windows for leaks and calk or seal them now Before the cold air arrives, check your windows for any gaps or new cracks which could allow [...]
Fall begins September 23 and soon enough the leaves will be changing colors, it will be time to put away all the beach clothing and pull out the sweaters, to stow away the barbecue and get the fireplace ready. It’s also the time of “les vendages” (grape harvest), and the making of fine wine. Happily, [...]
Washing in direct sunlight or in the heat of the day. This can leave streaks on the windows. Instead, make sure to choose a cooler part of the day and a time when the sun is not directly shining on the window. Using paper towels to clean with. This can leave residue and debris on [...]
Labor Day weekend is upon us; the back-to-school jubilation of parents is almost as palpable as the looming desperation of children wishing to hold on to summer. Closing up your summer Hamptons home or cleaning your weekend home can be a snap, using our checklist below. Assemble an easy-carry bucket of cleaning supplies. This should [...]
Summer seems to have flown by. As the Hamptons season rushes to its Labor Day close in just over two weeks, residents are scrambling to take advantage of one more day in the sun, one more social event-"One More Day," in the words of Jean Valjean. (How fitting that movie man Hugh Jackman, who portrayed [...]
For more than 20 years, the team at A Votre Service! has been leading the way in ensuring local properties shine. It all begins with organization. AVS founder and local resident, Jocelyne Ranucci, offers unique insight into corporate and residential housekeeping services. “It’s not only the physical clutter, but also the psychological. It’s natural for [...]
There are no words to illustrate our feelings for what took place in Nice at a time that should have been a joyful celebration. Our love, our hearts, our thoughts unify with the people of Nice, of France, and all over the world. Amitiés, Jocelyne
Summer brings out the child in all of us, with time to play and escape the grind. For youngsters, summer means endless fun and exploration, but potentially endless mess making. Rather than dread the extra cleaning from having children underfoot, parents can use the summer to teach five basic cleaning rules that will help instill [...]
