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7/24/2026 Air, draughts, orientation
Before the system, there is the design. A home that knows how to move air stays liveable in summer with very little energy.
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7/17/2026 Inhabiting the temporary
A holiday home lives on a few things, well chosen. It is an exercise in subtraction that teaches a lot about the everyday home too.
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6/12/2026 Colour in the Room: When to Choose and When to Step Back
Colour isn't a decorative choice. It's a decision about volume, light and emotional temperature — and getting it wrong costs you every time you walk into the room.
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5/15/2026 The Smell of Dwelling
Honest materials, real scents: a home is felt before it is seen.
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4/24/2026 Water, Flows and Rituals: Kitchen and Bathroom Where Design Is Really Tested
Kitchen and bathroom are where the home meets water every day — preparation, cleaning, care, rest. That is why they are also where the gap between beautiful in rendering and sustainable in use shows first: droplets at joints, twisted paths, light that lies about the face, surfaces that demand obsessive cleaning.
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4/17/2026 Micro-Outdoor: Balcony, Loggia and Terrace as a Room (Even a Small One)
In the city, those few square metres beyond the door are often the only truce between the flat and the noise outside. They are not a decorative extra: they are a border — different light, different wind, different rules. Yet too many balconies stay storage for crates, folding chairs and rushed tiles, as if design stopped at the glass.
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4/10/2026 Beautiful for Everyone: Accessibility, Age and Design That Doesn't Look "Clinical"
The prejudice comes from years of institutional rooms where function crushed aesthetics. In residential work, things have changed: handles that are objects, walk-in showers that are elegance before aid, wide doors and near-invisible thresholds that are build quality before regulation. The gap is not budget: it is awareness that dignity lives in daily details — the ones you touch hundreds of times a year.
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4/03/2026 Between One Room and Another: Vestibules, Corridors and the Rhythm of the Home
Open a catalogue of contemporary homes and you often find cover-worthy kitchens, theatrical bathrooms, living rooms that look like photo sets. Between one image and the next, a narrow corridor appears, lit by a sad single point — or a vestibule reduced to a knot between doors. That is not a technical detail: it is silent design about what life spends most of its time doing — passing through, pausing, shifting register, leaving one room before entering another.
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3/27/2026 A Room for Everything: Dedicated Spaces (Beyond Open Plan)
Open plan has dominated the image of the contemporary home: few walls, few boundaries, maximum flexibility. The promise was freedom — kitchen in dialogue with the living room, light flowing, no "closed" rooms. Over time many have discovered the downside: noise travelling, no refuge, difficulty concentrating or switching off. The response isn't to go back to the closed-off house of the past, but to rethink the value of dedicated spaces: environments with a clear function that the body and mind learn to recognise.
