The question of what kind of domestic staff help to select for one’s home is a persistent question which confronts many a home owner. The answer lies in what kind of home or homes one owns and what ones needs are. If your home or apartment is relatively small, a live in or live out housekeeper might be sufficient. If having tasty nutritious meals is important in addition to keeping an immaculate home, employing a housekeeper/cook might make good sense here. On the one hand, if your life style involves entertaining both friends or business associates in your home on a regular basis, hiring a chef certainly may be appropriate here. On the other hand, if you have a large home which not only requires extensive housekeeping, fine laundering and ironing but also excellent to gourmet cooking and house management, the best solution might be a trained, experienced couple team where both do meticulous, detail orientated housekeeping and fine laundering , and one member does gourmet cooking and helps to manage the home. If, you possess a multi-staffed home which requires management and organization together with supervision of staff, a butler could be a good choice here. Up to this point, we’re neglected discussing outside maintenance. On a small property, a groundsman who does gardening, repairs and light landscaping might be enough. If your property is larger, it might well require landscaping and construction crews which in turn may in turn need an estate manager to supervise the running of both the inside and outside of the home and all personnel included there. To get the family safely to where they are going on a daily basis, hiring an experienced, well-trained chauffeur might be the solution to ones transportation needs. If security and airtight protection is an overriding concern, employing an armed, security chauffeur would definitely be a real option. Getting back to the inside of the home, hiring a personal assistant might be an intelligent decision if you need someone who is expert in organizing your affairs, handling correspondence, paying bills, making travel arrangements and making life much easier for you. In relation to your children, if they are young and particularly if there is more than one, you might consider hiring an expert, well-trained nanny or governess to help you to better nurture them and bring out the best in your children. In this brief discussion we have had, I hope I have offered some helpful options, whether it be a housekeeper, housekeeper/cook, a chef, butler, couple, estate manager, grounds man, chauffeur, armed or unarmed, or perhaps a nanny or governess, which may guide you in selecting domestic staff which, hopefully, will be suitable for your needs ,help to enhance your lifestyle and make your daily experience more enjoyable and relaxing.
