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Putting you in your home
Have you ever walked into a house that is beautifully decorated but has no character? It’s like you’ve stepped into a home furnishing catalogue where everything has been put into place, there are no books or shoes lying around and no memorabilia that tells stories about the owners of the place. Perfect for a photo [...]
Furnishing on a budget
If you’ve just bought a place then you’re probably up to your eyeballs in loan repayments, notary fees and expenses that nobody warned you about, so how can you afford to furnish your new pad? First know what style you’re after and what you want the place to look like. Once you have a clear [...]
Choosing a Bed
Rooms in a house all have very clear, descriptive names; well, except for the kitchen which really doesn’t explain much at all. However, your living room, dining room and bedroom all explain the basic function of the room. In fact, when it comes to the bedroom it’s evident that the most important piece of furniture [...]
Solar Power – Top Beach Gadgets
Let’s take a trip down memory lane to a sandy beach on a hot summer’s day where you’d find a suitable area halfway between the shore and the ice-cream van, not too close to that noisy family; erect your umbrella, lay out the deck chairs and place the cooler strategically in the shade. Once that [...]
A Very Decent Exposure – 42 Short Stories with a Maltese Complexion: Anna-Maria Buhagiar (Book Review)
ANNA-MARIA BUHAGIAR: A Very Decent Exposure – 42 Short Stories with a Maltese Complexion, MINT Editions Ltd, 2010, 184 pp I’m not an avid reader of Maltese literature; that’s both literature written in Maltese as well as literature written by Maltese; however, I was very interested to see what Anna-Maria Buhagiar’s book ‘A Very Decent [...]