What is it about vinyl? It’s a curious thing when you think about it: the cassette and minidisc are all but defunct, CDs seem that way headed, but vinyl… vinyl appears to be the form that technology just can’t improve upon.
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From she sheds to shedquarters – a cosy place to call your own
Whether it’s a room for crafting, a reading nook comprising a favourite chair and a good lamp or a shed full of tools, it’s not just men that need their boltholes. Bruce Wayne may have built his first man cave way back in 1943, but it seems only recently that women have laid claim to a small area of their own on a larger scale (hush now with your jokes about kitchens and so forth).
Toy Storage! 8 ways to tidy it all away
Here’s a fun fact for you. In 2014 the toy industry in the UK was valued at three billion pounds. Yes, three billion. This might seem an enormous figure, but if you’ve ever stood staring vacantly at the contents of your child’s toy boxes trickling across the floor and down the stairwell, it might seem slightly easier to fathom. Where do they all come from? Eager to proffer some suggestions about how to deal with an ever-expanding toy cupboard, your friendly writers here at The Box Room have a few toy storage ideas for you.
How to do more with your garage space
What do you have clogging up your garage space? Chances are that you have a lot more than just your car. In fact, in many cases the car is the last thing you’ll find in many garages. For a lot of people, the garage is an extra room – a workspace, or perhaps even a man cave (we know a thing or two about man caves around these parts). Whatever the purpose, finding a way to make more of the space you have is a good starting point – not particularly easy when you realise that many people also use their garage as a spare loft.
Last-minute checklist for moving house
Feature image credit: Fine Art America Wouldn’t it be great if moving house involved six months of planning, a colour-coded spread sheet and a label-printing machine? Well, yes. But, like it or not, we live in the real world, which is full of last-minute changes, broken computers and stupidly packed schedules. You might be faced with an unexpected move from rented accommodation or perhaps you’ve been waiting for an age to complete a house purchase that’s suddenly going through – either way, we’ve all been faced with an eleventh-hour house move. And it’s no fun. To help you with your priorities over the next few days/hours/minutes, we’ve put together a handy checklist for moving house. We hope it helps – and good luck!
Tips for downsizing: a handy guide
There’s a myth that downsizing is just for empty nesters, rattling around a family home that’s too big to live in comfortably and too expensive to run. But moving into a smaller space can happen at any time of life: from your packed bedroom to your student digs, your uni room to your first flat, or from the countryside to the city. And there’s a lot to think about - do I really need that broken toaster that’s been in the loft for seven years? Will I ever use that penny-farthing I bought from that weird-looking bloke at the village fete? - and it can seem like too big a task to tackle. Well, fear ye not - we’ve put together a handy guide to downsizing to help make the process as smooth and as simple as possible. 1. Find your new home Clearly, this is the best part. Browsing the internet…
Great storage ideas
Here’s an experiment for you to try: gather together a handful of your friends and ask them how they’d make better use of the space they live in. Chances are that at least one of them is a smart alec and replies, ‘Simple – buy less stuff!’ That’s the easy way out, of course. The truth is that hardly any of us have the self-restraint to ‘buy less stuff’, and the majority of us quite like the accumulated debris that our life tends to bring. There’s also the possibility that those of us who are somehow able to sever all emotional links with their bits and bobs will one day feel the need to reminisce – to wallow in nostalgia for an afternoon. That’s when having your stuff easily at hand becomes invaluable.
10 space-saving solutions for your studio
There’s nothing like a bit of constraint to get the creative juices flowing. In fact, many of the technological world’s greatest innovations have relied heavily on constrained creativity – from the Sony Walkman right through to Vine and Twitter. As far as creative use of limited living space goes, the challenge can mean hours of fun, whether you’re working through the conundrums on your own or with a group of friends. It’s the kind of thing you can put aside a cosy weekend alone for, or turn into a bit of a house party with a purpose – if one thing’s certain, it’s that everyone invited will have an opinion. With that in mind, we’ve put together a little space-saving inspiration. Not every idea will suit your situation, but it’s interesting to look at how different people have approached similar problems the world over. Oh, and before we begin, we…