Walk-in larders | Lighting that echoes the kitchen adjoining rooms will visually extend the interior in ways that evoke a more expansive home… #experttip #interiordesign #surrey #kitchendesign #joinery #larder #walkinlarder #heatherjenkinsoninteriors #interiorarchitecture

This is special — the architectural design, the brick work… 🤌🏽 and the deeply practical interiors for women in need. Beautifully done. Good design is humanitarian.

Spain really is building the *best* social housing in the world right now. And here’s a great example. 24 apartments in Ibiza by 08014 Architects. A thread 🧵

A slight revision. The different subjects of “assured” didn’t easily jibe.

A compelling, monstrous tonic to the dystopian taunts of an AI generated world. Here for it.

Interesting read. I’m not a fan of using red in this way — aside from being expansive, in that it ‘grows’ due to the volatility of the atoms, it can have an unbalancing impact. A theory I have used to great effect: every room needs a little bit of black.

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.” ― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman

A rule that will accelerate your career: If you bring a problem, bring context. If you bring context, bring options. If you bring options, bring a recommendation. People trust people who help them think. Anyone can spot an issue, few can actually help move things forward.

If you have a south facing kitchen-extension/sunroom, and you’re considering an upgrade…

Painting by Sally Anne Fitter, a London-based artist—background in textile design ceramics, known for floral designs featuring a painterly style and often incorporating gold leaf…

Doctor Mike on grief: "Put on your shoes. You'll go somewhere. Doesn't matter where." Doctor Mike lost his mother to cancer. She had an aggressive form of CLL, a disease that normally moves slowly, but hers didn't. After gruelling treatment that changed her physically and left her weak, her oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering shook Mike's hand and told him she was cured. "That's the greatest news anyone can hear. Your hopes, ten out of ten." Days later, she developed gram-negative sepsis. Her blood pressure collapsed. The pressors didn't hold. She was gone. One of the hardest parts wasn't even his own grief, it was watching his father fall apart. Two Russian immigrants who had given up everything. His father retrained as a doctor in a foreign country. His mother, despite holding a PhD in Russia, went back to university just to learn enough English to teach high school math. "It was painful to watch my dad go through it. For the first few months, my focus was more on him than on myself." For those in the middle of that storm right now: grief, depression, whatever has brought you to your knees, Doctor Mike has one piece of advice: Action comes before motivation. Not the other way around. You don't wait to feel ready. You don't wait for the fog to lift. You put on your shoes. "You'll go somewhere. Doesn't matter where. Gym, not gym, walk, dog park." After his mother passed, the thing that helped him most wasn't traditional therapy, though he's done that too. It was going to the dog park with his dog. "Animal therapy is real." He even notes you don't need a dog to go. Just go. When you're inside the storm, you can't see a way out. That's not weakness, that's just what storms do. But motion creates momentum. One small, physical act: shoes on, door open, they interrupt the paralysis. What's the smallest action you could take today?

Stone Brick Mastery in Iran 🧱

In Finland, libraries lend out tools, sewing machines, musical instruments, and even sports equipment, not just books, so everyone has access to things they might not be able to afford

If you like that, you’ll love Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo’s Connecticut home. She’s one of the all time greatest designers, IMO—incredible colourwork/knows how to turn a house into a nurturing home. No one quite like her… instagram.com/amybethcupp?ig…

The working palette brings to mind a Vermeer: Pure artistry.

Inspiring to not only see some positive news on Iran, but to also be reminded of the genius that lies within…

Highly informative and aesthetically pleasing — hits all the spots…

1. This is where engineering comes into play: facilities are best centralised and extremities, better utilised when temperature controlled. 2. It’s time, UK residential construction add saunas, integrated RLT (shower panels), bidets dimmable recessed lighting as standard.

A totally different view of Lake Como, Italy 🇮🇹

Fascinating...

Ricardo Bofill's home, a former cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona