Room by Room
The front door decides the plan of the whole house
Where you enter, and what you can see from there, sets how every other room is reached and used.
Room by Room
Kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and what each one is actually asked to do.
21 articles · updated August 11, 2026 · page 2 of 2
Room by Room
Extraction is the part of a kitchen nobody looks at until it smells
A cooker hood is a fan, a duct and a route out of the building, and the fan is the least important of the three. Most disappointing…
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The television has quietly rearranged the living room
Screens grew, thinned and cheapened, and living rooms reorganised themselves without anyone consciously deciding to. What follows…
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A larder works because it is shallow, cool and shut
Food storage fails in deep cupboards for reasons that are structural rather than moral. The old larder solved all of them with one…
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The downstairs cloakroom is a drainage decision wearing a small door
Where a second toilet can go is decided by pipes long before it is decided by taste. Understanding the constraint explains most of…
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A boot room is the difference between a clean hall and a losing battle
Every house has a place where outdoor things are dumped, and in most houses it is the hallway floor. Giving that job a room changes…
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Garden rooms are glass boxes with a temperature problem
A room made mostly of glass gains heat quickly, loses it just as fast and has almost no thermal mass in between. Everything that…
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Rooms that still work when your body changes
Most homes are designed for a person at the peak of their mobility. The adjustments that suit a different body are largely…
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Most rooms change use twice in a decade and few are built for it
The nursery becomes a bedroom, the bedroom becomes an office, the office becomes a spare room again. Rooms that survive this are…