Sleeping Through August: A Bedroom for Dubai Summer
Good August sleep is engineering: darkness, air, temperature, and the war on small green lights. A practical guide to a bedroom that stays on your side until morning.
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Interiors
The rooms themselves. Layouts, surfaces, and the quiet decisions that make a flat feel like a house.
The Curtain Question: Curtains and Blinds for Dubai Sun
Glass walls make Dubai flats bright and, from May to September, slightly punishing. Window treatments are the cheapest climate control you will ever buy; the trick is layering them properly.
Cool Underfoot: Marble and Porcelain Floors in Dubai
Stone floors here are not a style decision; they are climate response. On marble's honest maintenance, porcelain's quiet competence, and the rug that makes both of them liveable.
The Open Kitchen in a Dubai Apartment, Reconsidered
The open kitchen looks generous on a floor plan and smells of dinner at midnight. On extraction that actually extracts, the glass partition compromise, and what closed-kitchen buyers quietly pay for.
Making 62 Square Metres Work: Small Apartment Layout in Dubai
The Dubai one-bed has a recognisable shape: a long living room, a corridor that does nothing and a kitchen wedged into a corner. Most of its problems can be solved with furniture, and almost none need a contractor.