Why a 22-centimetre-deep bookshelf beats a 30-centimetre one for actual reading.
Most bookshelves are too deep. The thirty-centimetre standard fits twice as many books and reads as half a library. A shallower shelf forces…
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The under-stair cupboard we built by hand on a long weekend.
Under-stair voids are sold as wasted space because nobody bothers to fit them. A weekend of careful joinery later, ours holds a vacuum, a to…
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The floor cushion and low bench that replaced our second armchair.
We sold the second armchair for forty euros and bought a floor cushion and a low pine bench instead. Total saved: six hundred euros and two …
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How a 60×90 jute mat and a brass hook fixed our entryway in an afternoon.
Our entryway was a corridor that ate keys, coats, and dignity. A jute mat, a brass coat hook, and a thrifted bench later, it lets us in and …
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How we found a reading chair that does not feel like furniture.
We bought five chairs and sent five chairs back. The sixth has not moved from the corner of the living room in two years. Here is what we le…
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The shallow alcove shelf that quietly fixed our living room.
Our living room had a 60cm-deep alcove no piece of furniture wanted to live in. Three pine boards, two coats of soft white, and a Sunday lat…
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