Housekeep is an online home cleaning service connecting experienced home cleaners with London residents. Working within a two-sided market place, Housekeep provides a tailored service[2] for customers. Cleaners on the Housekeep platform are experienced in home cleaning but can also be booked for other domestic services, such as ironing and laundry.
The Housekeep model looks to pair Londoners with a local Housekeeper, ensuring that cleaners’ travel routes are kept to the shortest possible distance. Housekeepers on the platform use a smartphone app while working, which centralises their customers’ cleaning and access instructions, as well as their own schedule and working routes.
Houses may express the circumstances or opinions of their builders or their inhabitants. Thus, a vast and elaborate house may serve as a sign of conspicuous wealth whereas a low-profile house built of recycled materials may indicate support of energy conservation. Houses of particular historical significance (former residences of the famous, for example, or even just very old houses) may gain a protected status in town planning as examples of built heritage or of streetscape.
With the growth of dense settlement, humans designed ways of identifying houses and parcels of land. Individual houses sometimes acquire proper names, and those names may acquire in their turn considerable emotional connotations. For example, the house of Howards End or the castle of Brideshead Revisited. A more systematic and general approach to identifying houses may use various methods of house numbering.
