https://slowinteriors.com A magazine about quiet rooms and chosen objects — how to arrange, choose and care for a home that has room to breathe. Independent, and written by people who live in the rooms. en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://slowinteriors.com/slow-living/before-you-buy-another-lamp-move-the-chair/ https://slowinteriors.com/slow-living/before-you-buy-another-lamp-move-the-chair/ 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. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT slow-living https://slowinteriors.com/materials/linen-wrinkles-that-is-the-point/ https://slowinteriors.com/materials/linen-wrinkles-that-is-the-point/ Why linen curtains, bedding and cushions look the way they do — what the creases actually are, what 'washed linen' means, and how to care for it without ironing the character out of it. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT materials https://slowinteriors.com/slow-living/cleaning-is-how-you-find-out-what-you-own/ https://slowinteriors.com/slow-living/cleaning-is-how-you-find-out-what-you-own/ Dust settles where air does not move, things fail where they are used hardest, and a chair leg tells you its history the moment you lift it. Cleaning is the only inspection a house gets. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT slow-living https://slowinteriors.com/rooms/a-twelve-square-metre-bedroom-four-pieces-of-furniture/ https://slowinteriors.com/rooms/a-twelve-square-metre-bedroom-four-pieces-of-furniture/ The smallest room in the flat, furnished with exactly four things — bed, one chair, one lamp, one shelf — and why nothing else survived the audit. Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT rooms https://slowinteriors.com/slow-living/changing-seasons-is-a-count-not-a-clear-out/ https://slowinteriors.com/slow-living/changing-seasons-is-a-count-not-a-clear-out/ Twice a year the house changes its clothes. Done as a purge it becomes a bad afternoon; done as an inventory it takes two hours and tells you something. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT slow-living https://slowinteriors.com/storage/open-shelving-is-a-decision-not-a-style/ https://slowinteriors.com/storage/open-shelving-is-a-decision-not-a-style/ Every open shelf is a permanent display of what you own. That is fine for a set of identical things and a mistake for everything else — and the rule is simpler than it looks. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT storage https://slowinteriors.com/storage/the-first-rule-of-storage-is-to-own-less/ https://slowinteriors.com/storage/the-first-rule-of-storage-is-to-own-less/ Every storage problem starts as a quantity problem. Buying boxes to hold things you do not use is a way of paying twice to keep a decision unmade. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT storage https://slowinteriors.com/materials/lime-plaster-what-you-are-paying-for/ https://slowinteriors.com/materials/lime-plaster-what-you-are-paying-for/ 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. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT materials https://slowinteriors.com/objects/one-lamp-decides-what-the-room-is-after-dark/ https://slowinteriors.com/objects/one-lamp-decides-what-the-room-is-after-dark/ Ceiling light makes a room into a room. A single lamp makes it into somewhere you want to sit — and the difference is almost entirely about height, shade and colour temperature. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT objects https://slowinteriors.com/storage/the-hallway-is-the-hardest-room-to-store/ https://slowinteriors.com/storage/the-hallway-is-the-hardest-room-to-store/ 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. Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT storage https://slowinteriors.com/materials/oak-ash-pine-what-actually-differs/ https://slowinteriors.com/materials/oak-ash-pine-what-actually-differs/ Three woods that get sold as interchangeable, three very different jobs. The useful question is not which is best but which one your table, your chair and your shelf each need. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT materials https://slowinteriors.com/objects/why-hand-thrown-pottery-costs-what-it-costs/ https://slowinteriors.com/objects/why-hand-thrown-pottery-costs-what-it-costs/ A studio mug is four times the price of a factory one and the difference is not romance. It is twenty minutes of labour, a shared kiln, and a failure rate nobody advertises. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT objects https://slowinteriors.com/rooms/the-wall-left-behind-when-the-tv-goes/ https://slowinteriors.com/rooms/the-wall-left-behind-when-the-tv-goes/ 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. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT rooms https://slowinteriors.com/objects/only-one-chair-needs-to-be-comfortable/ https://slowinteriors.com/objects/only-one-chair-needs-to-be-comfortable/ A room with four chairs has one chair everyone wants and three that hold bags. Buy the good one properly, and let the others be honest about what they are. Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT objects https://slowinteriors.com/rooms/should-a-desk-face-the-wall-or-the-window/ https://slowinteriors.com/rooms/should-a-desk-face-the-wall-or-the-window/ 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. Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT rooms