When it comes to the best use of your living room space, built-in storage is king. ‘If you are planning on staying put for a while, built-in joinery allows you to create storage solutions that suit both your tastes and functional needs, but it is an investment,’ explains Gemma Tucker...
If you have a dark basement cupboard, closet, stairwell, or corner which never gets above the low 70's, exhibits nominal and slow temperature fluctuations, and is free from vibration, you are set from a short term storage perspective. Store well away from any source of heat and vibration,...
A year earlier, confronted by the necessity of doing a MD and probably a fellowship abroad in order just to stay in general medicine, I decided to follow my schoolboy plan to become a psychiatrist. In my boyish imagination this would be the perfect combination of science and the arts – an...
“It isn’t that we don’t like your designs but we don’t want to be imposing on India for too much longer and were thinking that maybe a tiny house would be a good interim solution – while you build the rest of the house and garden” said Gina. “Ah, I see” said Mamadou. ...
Pioneers in a new land had to build their own homes and forge their own destinies to such a degree, they continue to inspire fresh country style in modern times. Even as the boundaries of the wilderness moved (from western Massachusetts to Michigan, from Colorado to California), the image ...
Whenever I feel down, aimless, unproductive, or lost, I open the cupboard, pick the most appealing item on the list, and do ten or twenty minutes of it. Read on the front stoop. Send off a few “Hey what are you up to?” texts. Take a fifteen-minute jog around the neighborhood....