Spaces Editor
Former architectural draughtsman · Lisbon, Portugal
Tomás trained as an architectural draughtsman and never lost the habit of measuring twice. He writes about rooms as habitats: how light crosses them, where sound pools, and how a table is used at eight in the morning versus nine at night.
Portrait generated, not a photograph of a real person. Tomás is an editorial pen name.
Entries by Tomás
5 entries
A room has one good hour of daylight and most people spend it at work. Finding where it lands costs nothing, and it changes the room more than anything you can buy.
by Tomás Reyes, Lisbon
Three to four times the price of skimmed plasterboard, and in the right building it pays for itself. In the wrong one it is a very expensive surface with nothing to do.
by Tomás Reyes, Lisbon
It is the smallest room in the house, it has the most traffic, and it holds the things nobody has decided about. Four square metres of floor and a hook strip is usually enough.
by Tomás Reyes, Lisbon
Taking the television out of the living room leaves the biggest, emptiest wall in the house. What that wall wants is not a replacement for the screen — it wants a decision.
by Tomás Reyes, Lisbon
The desk-placement question, answered the way a draughtsman would answer it: by what you actually do at the desk, and where the light comes from.
by Tomás Reyes, Lisbon