Blogs
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By Tommy Nguyen
How to Create a Warm Japandi Living Room
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1–2 minutesStart With the Wood, Not the Palette Japandi rooms are usually described by their colours, which is why so many of them end up beige and cold. The warmth comes from the timber. Pick one wood — oak, ash or walnut — and let every other wooden thing in the room agree with it, including the…
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Small Space, Big Style: Smart Storage Ideas
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1–2 minutesMeasure the Wall, Not the Room Small rooms are rarely short of space; they are short of usable wall. Before buying anything, measure the tallest unbroken run of wall you have and treat that number as the budget. A tall narrow unit on the right wall holds more than a wide low one on the wrong…
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The Art of Cozy Minimalism
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1–2 minutesMinimal Is a Count, Cosy Is a Texture The two words only sound contradictory if you think cosiness comes from quantity. It comes from texture, from light and from things being soft where you touch them. A room can hold six objects and feel warm, or sixty and feel like a waiting area. What decides it…
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Layering Textures for a Softer Room
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1–2 minutesThree Textures, Not Thirty Layering does not mean adding until something sticks. Pick three textures and repeat each of them at least twice in the room: a smooth one, a woven one and a pile. The repetition is the part people skip, and it is the part that makes a room read as composed rather than…
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Choosing a Dining Table That Lasts
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1–2 minutesBuy the Top, Then the Base A dining table fails at the top long before it fails at the legs. Solid timber can be sanded and re-oiled for decades; a veneer can be repaired once, carefully, and never again. If the budget only stretches one way, spend it on the surface you will put hot plates…
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Light, Wood and Quiet Colour
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1–2 minutesMatch the Bulb to the Wood Warm timber under cool light goes grey, and a whole room of carefully chosen oak can look cheap because of a bulb. Keep everything at 2700K and the wood does what it was bought to do. It is the least expensive change in any room and usually the most visible.…
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