A stair is a compromise between space and effort, and the dimensions that make one comfortable are older than any regulation that now enforces them. Here are fifteen.
1. Every…
The air around you is holding water you cannot see, and the amount it can hold depends almost entirely on temperature. Cool it enough and the water has to go…
There is a common way of describing chimneys that gets the direction of the mechanism backwards and consequently makes every practical problem inexplicable.
The description is that smoke rises and…
Every sound in a room reaches you twice - directly, and then repeatedly as reflections from every surface. What a room sounds like is almost entirely a question of how…
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A family car was a room the household occupied regularly, and like any room it filled up with objects nobody had decided to put there. Here are fifteen things…
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Sending cards was a project with a deadline, a budget, a list and an evening allocated to it - and receiving them changed what a room looked like for…