Tag · hand tools — Peace Love Decor

● Living Room — May 02 · 17 min read

The broom cost seven euros at the corner shop. We hung it beside the hall and promised ten deliberate strokes each morning while the kettle …

● Living Room — May 02 · 16 min read

I unscrewed the bracket while the kettle cooled. The rod came down, one coat of paint later it went back on three centimetres higher, and th…

● Small Spaces — May 02 · 21 min read

The hallway was the part of the apartment everyone hurried through and nobody looked at. We mounted a slim brass picture rail high along the…

● Living Room — May 02 · 16 min read

The side table had a loose rear leg when we moved in: the kind of wobble you ignore until a glass tips and your plants nearly follow. We re-…

● Small Spaces — May 02 · 18 min read

There is a 1.6-metre stretch in our flat that used to be a chaotic catch-all: umbrellas dumped by the door, a pile of shoes like a small mig…

● Reading Nook — May 02 · 18 min read

We brought home thirty‑eight second‑hand books over three weekends and bolted a two‑metre shelf to the kitchen wall using one plank of pine,…

● Kitchen — May 02 · 22 min read

There’s a slim, well-worn drawer under our butcher block that holds a few curious things: pruning shears, a small awl, a roll of butcher’s t…

● Kitchen — May 01 · 21 min read

We added a 12 cm-deep oak shelf above the kitchen window for spice jars and a small ceramic Mira’s grandmother sent. It started as an aftert…

● Small Spaces — May 01 · 20 min read

We changed one chrome handle for a little brass pull that cost less than a coffee. The drawer it lived on went from stage prop to daily work…

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