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Cracked wall with peeling paint texture

What Your Walls Are Trying To Say (And Why They’re Almost Always Wrong About

Your wall has a damp patch. It appeared sometime around November, it's roughly the size of a side plate, and…
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The Crack in Your Wall Is a Sentence, Not a Scar

Most people see a crack and do one of two things: panic, or silently decide it doesn't exist. Both are…
old house window not efficient energy

Your Home Has a Metabolic Rate

A naturalist studying a woodland doesn't wait for a tree to fall over before paying attention to it. They learn…
Empty beach chair facing ocean

The Holiday You Never Took Felt Better Than the One You Did

There is a particular kind of evening, usually in January or February, that goes roughly like this: you are on…
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Your Screen Has Been Making Up Colours This Whole Time

Hold your phone at arm's length and look at anything on it. A blue sky, your friend's red jumper in…
Neutral color palette swatches

The Neutral Colour That Isn’t

Pick up any tin of paint with a name like "Pebble Shore" or "Whispering Stone" and the word neutral is…
Room with impossible architecture and illusions

The Room Has Been Playing Tricks On You This Whole Time

Stand in a white-painted cube and a red-painted cube of exactly the same dimensions, and the red one will feel…
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Your Walls Are Cheating Your Eyes (And Your Eyes Don’t Mind At All)

Pick up a red cushion and hold it at arm's length. Now do the same with a blue one. The…
Rawlplug anchor demonstrating wall grip technique

The Secret Judo Move Your Rawlplug Is Pulling On Your Wall

There's a small moment of satisfaction when a rawlplug bites – that slight resistance as the screw goes home, the…
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The Sale Was Never Real

Somewhere around 1850, a department store owner in Paris had an idea that would quietly reshape the way human beings…