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The leftover argument nobody wins by being smug
“You could have eaten yesterday's dinner.”
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Woodworking3 min read
The best workshop upgrade was an empty square metre
There was nowhere to stand in my workshop. I had a bench, tools, three promising projects and enough offcuts to suggest I was preserving a forest by installments. To reach one useful object, I moved
Interiors3 min read
Beige minimalism is allowed to be boring
The room was beige, the blanket was beige and the decorative object had apparently been chosen for its ability to remain beige under several kinds of lighting. The caption called the space calm. I found
Woodworking2 min read
Making a shelf for the things we actually own
The shelf began with a photograph of a beautiful shelf. This was my first mistake. The photograph contained three tasteful objects. Our household contains cookbooks of several heights, a plant with ambitions and a ceramic
Interiors2 min read
Another basket won’t fix the morning chaos
The keys landed beside the door. The bag landed on a chair. The scarf landed wherever gravity felt persuasive. Every evening, the flat demonstrated a routine. Every weekend, I tried to solve that routine by