Thermal comfort in the workplace and a clutter-free home office

home-office

Last year, at the height of El Niño, I abandoned my home office above the dining room and moved my iMac and photo gear into the spare bedroom. Reason? My home office is on an open space where air-conditioning cannot be installed. Well, unless we install centralized air-conditioning in the entire house which we can’t ... (more)

Warm colors for the living area

Unlike blog themes which I can change just about as often as the mood hits me, changing how a house, or sections of a house, looks is not as easy. It costs money (as against free WordPress themes), it takes time and, in many cases, it’s difficult to get the items you like with the ... (more)

Mom and Dad bedroom

It is the master bedroom but I don’t like calling it that because it implies that the other bedrooms (or its occupants) are somehow inferior. So I call it the Mom and Dad bedroom. It has a bow window that looks out on the street and the swimming pool of the clubhouse. It also has ... (more)

Curtain rods for a curved window

One of the biggest challenges that our new house presents is the treatment of curved windows. We have two — one in the master bedroom and the other in Alex’s bedroom directly above it. The windows are so beautiful and so wide offering a panoramic view of the outdoors and I really don’t want to ... (more)