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Composition and angle in photography

Just before Sam started college, I bought her two photography books (okay, that’s in addition to all the other photography books I’d been buying her for the past two years). One of them is… Ummm, this is the part where I stood up and started hunting for the book which I was sure I left in the Blue Room but which, surprisingly or not, wasn’t there. Doesn’t...  (more »»)

Defining a section of the house

One thing about this house is that, strictly speaking, there is no “living room” and “dining room.” Instead, there is a living area and a dining area. Meaning, the dining and living areas are contiguous and no wall divides them. Now I like every area of the house to be defined. The easiest solution would be to place a divider between the two areas but...  (more »»)

Condiment saucers

As far as I know, condiment saucers are very Asian. We Asians have this penchant for dipping sauces like patis (fish sauce), the mixture of soy sauce and kalamansi, bagoong (shrimp sauce) and a dozen other different things which we do not like to get mixed in with the food on our plates until we’re ready to put the food in our mouths. That makes it essential to serve...  (more »»)

Solid wood dining table and chairs

Flashback: the magazine page with a photo of the dining chairs I wanted. Thirty days later, the dining set was delivered together with the living room furniture and bar stools. Why not a design with cushioned backrests? Ventilation, of course. This is the tropics where people sweat nine months out of every year. The cushioned seats are removable and so are their covers so...  (more »»)

Environment-friendly placemats

Apart from the decor of the dining room, the table linen, the china, the glassware and the flatware set the dining mood as well. I have had an assortment of table cloths and placemats for as long as I can remember. I even had a Christmas set with appliqued poinsettias from The House of Ramie which, as far as I know, has closed shop years ago. Had. Many of my placemat sets have...  (more »»)

The beautiful pendant lamp is a magnet for antflies

One of the lighting fixtures that took us longest to choose was the one meant to hang over the dining table. The popular choice is the pendant lamp with retractable cord but the designs we found were too saloon-ish. I wanted something different — something that was both unassuming yet capable of making a definite statement. After three weeks of going through shops in...  (more »»)

Custom-made hardwood furniture

Yesterday was order-the-furniture day. We already had “some ideas” about where to buy the furniture but we had not really made up our minds. We had scoured more than a dozen places, including Tiendesitas, Greenhills and malls, and still hadn’t made any final decisions. We were clear on one thing though — we want hardwood furniture, we want the covers...  (more »»)