“Marriage is a compromise, and so is renovation”, Candice Olson The idea of re-configuring an existing space in your home to the requirements of your family and lifestyle is a very attractive proposition and most, given the time and money, will rush into it with earnest. …

Unpaid, Volunteer Work — One morning over breakfast, I was asked by my twenty-something daughter about what makes relationships work? She is normally never prone to such thought-provoking queries so early in the morning, instead choosing to scroll through her phone or watch an episode of New Girl or Brookyln Nine-Nine as she downs…

People say nothing is impossible. But I do nothing every day!~ Winnie the Pooh My dad was a great advocate of doing nothing. He was the quintessential strong, silent type. …

In Covid Times Last night I was on a catch-up Zoom call with a bunch of old school friends, now dispersed around the world living their own versions of settled lives. Some are married, some divorced. Some working, some stay at home moms. …

I have a confession to make — I have always found it hard to follow a recipe, any recipe for that matter. Nine times out of ten, halfway through a recipe for a delectable dessert that I really want to try — I will start doing the what ifs…. What…

Over the years spanning architectural design, a lot has been said and written about bare brickwork walls in interiors — rural, rustic, contemplated negligence, industrial — and its prevalence in domestic interiors is nothing new — brickwork and artisans of bricklaying were highly sought and indeed travelled far and wide…

I called my maternal grandmother Sisi (her name was Surayya) and my paternal grandmother Bibi (Her name was Sarwar BiBi). …

Forget Biden and Putin and their little snides at each other, the recent set of tweets by Elon Musk and Dmitry Rogozin was enough to set twitteraties aflutter, tweeting and speculating on what turned out to be a very public exchange of words and sentiments. But the rivalry between these…

To say ‘I love you’ one must be able to say ‘I’ Ayn Rand Every living person on this earth comes equipped since birth to find fulfillment — yet only a few do in the course of their lives. Most of us struggle, have problem with seeing ourselves as the person who can have it all. Life throws curve balls and challenges to everyone. The ones who appear to master the art of dodging the curve balls and riding the waves of success instead of sinking are the ones who understand the…