If you’re a musician yearning to record that ground-breaking album that you know will change the world (or at least propel your name into musical conversation) the good news is that you really don’t need the keys to Abbey Road in order to make it a reality. The equipment available to the modern home recording studio is many times more powerful than the old four-track that The Beatles recorded Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on.
Tag Archive for creative spaces
Better living in small spaces: Cooking Without a Kitchen
What do you do when you’re a passionate cook, but have an area approximately the size of a postage stamp to do your cooking? Miriam Nice, food writer and London-based foodie, has taken a rather a novel approach to the art of cooking in a less-than-comprehensively kitted out kitchen: contemplating what to do when you don’t have one at all.
From bedroom to brewery: How home brewing has become London’s new hobby
As regular readers will know, we’re all about better living in London’s small spaces. This week our roving reporter, Em Kuntze, set out for the Old Kent Rd Brewery to discover how a hobby that started in a bedroom is fast becoming a way to make a living.
Less is more: Capsule hotels, Kisho Kurokawa, and making the most of small spaces
In the hustle and bustle of a busy city even the most energetic of us sometimes need to stop and rest, and if you’ve ever missed the last train home (for whatever reason – we’re not judging), you’ll know this only too well.
On the record: vinyl storage for all collections
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.
Gardens for apartment dwellers: exploring indoor gardening
‘Gardens,’ said Rudyard Kipling, ‘are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade’. We’ve no doubt this is true: we are British after all, and if we believe what’s said about us, we are the nation of gardeners.
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).
Living bigger in small flats: 5 space savers for London living
It’s all there in our tagline: ‘better living in small spaces’. The Box Room exists to help life feel a bit bigger, even when your apartment seems a bit, shall we say, constrained. We’re interested in the wise ideas, the wonderful and the downright quirky – whether we’re talking about helpful ways to get your London flat ready for sale (thanks, Sarah Beeny!), tips on moving in with your partner for the first time, finding London’s ultimate man cave, or even ways to satisfy your need to live in storage (yes, that’s a real thing!)
Living in storage: the rise of London’s container-dwellers
If we’re not converting barns into bungalows, we’re shipping containers to dwell in. Emma Kuntze explores our strange need to live in storage.
14 problems that London renters will recognise
People that love London and love space rarely find themselves fully satisfied. While miserly apartment sizes are a problem the world over, there’s something suitably eccentric about the way that London’s property is divided up and marketed. Here then are 14 space problems that London renters are bound to recognise.
A spring declutter in 6 easy steps
How do you know when it’s time to get the spring cleaning underway again? Is it when the daffs are out, the birds are doing their thing, and the big yellow ball in the sky seems to be producing a bit of warmth? Or is it – like us – when #springcleaning starts threatening to trend on Twitter?
Moving house in London: 5 life hack services that’ll sort you out
Feature image: The Guardian Gone are the days when searching for a new home in London meant scouring dodgy estate agent windows and booking a viewing with no idea what awaited inside. These days, we’ll have surveyed the area via Google Street View and enjoyed a 360-degree virtual tour from the comfort of our sofa before we send our first speculative email. In fact, despite its reputation as one of the most stressful things we go through in our lives – even more so in the chaos of London’s streets – moving house needn’t be a headache.