Eating. A favorite Filipino pastime. Even if we don’t have much food, we still share. In fact, kain na po tayo can even function as saying hello sometimes. Eating is a…
In today’s local architecture for average Pinoys, antesala is an anachronism. In the Spanish colonial bahay na bato, an antesala (also known as caida) is a spacious upper floor landing directly…
I am a fan of Virtuoso Silk Touch, Boysen’s premier interior paint that uniquely combines the visual elegance of matte paints with the easy clean capabilities of gloss paints. When…
I don’t know how many 20 to 30-year olds like to read physical books. Most probably, they enjoy reading using the e-book or audiobook formats. But then maybe the BookTok…
In 1917, Piet Mondrian co-founded with fellow artist Theo van Doesberg the De Stijl (“The Style”), a Dutch art movement that is also known as neoplasticism. It is a pared-down…
Brooklyn-based interior designer Taylor Simon coined the “unexpected red theory” in a Tiktok video that she posted in January 2024. She also posted it in her instagram page at about…
Filipinos are known to bathe once or twice a day to beat the heat and humidity. Even on cooler months like December and January, the habit is so ingrained that…
I just learned a new word—sleepmaxxing, a viral wellness trend that takes good, old-fashioned sleep hygiene to an extreme. It was coined in late 2024 and gained viral traction in…
I wrote about the 3 Fs—Function, Flow, and Feeling—three basic principles that interior designers use to guide them when they are designing a space. You can find it in this…
People are moving away from a hedonistic lifestyle to one which is full of meaning and purpose rather than pleasure. We appreciate having more time to ourselves, unstructured and uninterrupted,…