How are we any different than little children who want new and better toys all the time? Not so different after all. Except for the part where we get the toys by ourselves since we’re grownups. And they tend to be a lot more expensive. With that in mind, here are four products you probably want for your home… but you don’t really need.
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If you feel adventurous at the end of this week, then you’ll be happy to learn that the three-day event ‘Museums at Night‘ is starting on Thursday (May 16). Museums might remind you of boring school trips but you definitely don’t want to miss out on this series of after-hour events. London’s biggest museums are now offering you quirky attractions and exciting one-off experiences.
You know you live in a country with long traditions when the Royal Horticulture Society celebrates a hundred years of anything. The event in question is the upcoming Chelsea Flower Show, which will be held at Chelsea Hospital between May 21st and May 25th and 2013 marks exactly 100 years since its creation. Before I discuss the present and the future of the show, I’d like to stop and talk a bit about its past – after all, a century is a lifetime.
Ever since its first show in 1913, the Chelsea Flower Show has been hosted every year and has established itself as the longest running and uninterrupted event of its kind, if we’re to ignore the two short gaps surrounding the two World Wars (though it would have shown quite the spirit and fortitude, if the show went on during wartime). In its earliest years, the show boasted the title of the biggest show in the country, but has since been beaten by the one at Hampton Court, though it still maintains the reputation as the most prestigious. Continue reading
The D*Table is more than just an ordinary coffee/low table, it’s more of a 3D puzzle! And it provides endless possibilities for your interior. Continue reading
This post has been inspired by Peter Clarkson’s series not a long while ago, where he revealed the cleaning techniques his grandmother has been using since forever. I’m a huge follower of everything vintage and one thing I thought would be interesting to see resurface is the olden ways of cleaning. To explain, I have a very sensitive sense of smell and even the traces of cleaning detergents can set me off in a spiral of headaches, which has always made me seek out ways to fight grime with less toxic tools.
I asked my own grandmother what she used in her cleaning when she didn’t own a specialized detergent for every task. This is what she told me about.
Social media has been hailed as both the saviour and damnation of human civilization. You can’t escape its polarity whether you like it or not. This article won’t tackle the intricate subject regarding how individuals communicate with each other, but the benefits you can reap from a well-planned and strategic social media presence.
Yes, social media can boil down to a chaotic back-and-forth of cats, gifs and gossip, but a well-harnessed media presence can do wonders for your career path than any traditional method can. With the right potential and ideas, you can reach overnight success status, but only if you play your cards right. Here’s what I have learned about social media and my success with it. Continue reading
You’ll find an infinite number of articles and newsletters on how your office is literally sucking the life out of you. And to some degree, they’ve got a point. Office workers often experience back pain due bad posture and headaches due over-illumination. But is that ergonomic chair really going to solve all your problems? They’d tell you anything just to sell their product after all.
But isn’t there anything else you can do? Of course there is! Here are a few simple changes your lifestyle truly needs if you are to survive your office!
Originally, I though to include Innocent Drinks, but since that was already picked, I will go for the office design I love just as much. I’m talking about the slick and metal interior of Red Bull’s London HQ. It’s chromatic and futuristic in its rounded shapes, which I have to say it easier to clean than the average offices. What I find absolutely entertaining is the fact that the whole office keeps up with one look rather than scatter different individual looks for a quilt effect. You can really imagine yourself being in a space ship – makes work fly faster. Continue reading
Amber and Christabel have really turned this into a series, so who am I to say no to marvelling at good architectural and design decisions. Who would I select to be the office to clean? Innocent Drinks with their low-key, innocently cool office. Yes, scope and imagination matter, but I find the previous two examples a bit too much for me. What appeals to me is a coherent office with a toned-down look, which breaks the stiff office environment, but also doesn’t distract the people trying to work there. Pink glow doesn’t really say productive to me. Continue reading
Since we have already started listing the offices we would ideally wish to work with as partners, it goes without saying that Melbourne Hosting will be one of them. The company has relocated in Manchester and since it boasts its love for employees and customers alike, the company has spared no expense to get an office environment, which will go down in the history of cool offices as colourful. Let’s take a look now shall we. Continue reading
