Healthier Indoor Air Without the Hype
Indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air. Here’s a practical, low-drama guide to ventilation, moisture control, filtration, and safer habits.
Design
Design is where imagination meets materials, where aesthetics meet responsibility, and where everyday objects become reflections of our values. In this category, we explore the creative practices shaping more sustainable ways of living — from architecture and interiors to fashion, craft, and digital innovation.
Our design stories highlight both the beauty and the complexity of creating in an age of environmental limits. We feature work from artists, designers, and studios experimenting with low-impact processes, circularity, cultural heritage, and new forms of expression deeply informed by place and ecology.
Whether you’re here for visual inspiration, thoughtful critiques, or an insider’s view of ethical creative industries, this section showcases design as an active force in shaping a more sustainable future.
How Nondestructive Testing Affects Life Cycles and Waste
Nondestructive testing can verify an item’s condition before and after it reaches consumers or goes into service, revealing the most effective way to handle it.
Designing a Kitchen That Ages Well: Why Material Choice Is Your First Decision
Designing a kitchen? Don’t start with colors or cabinet styles. Material choices determine how your kitchen will look, feel, and function for years to come. Learn why prioritizing durability is the key to a space that ages gracefully.
Sustainable Barrier Materials: What Actually Works
A practical guide to barrier packaging: coatings, films, paper, and bioplastics—what’s recyclable, what’s compostable, and what’s greenwash.
The Industries That Will Benefit Most From Electric Cars
Whilst there is no denying the positive impact that electric cars have on the environment, they also benefit various industries, to profit and productivity.
Right to Repair Phones: Repair vs Replace Guide
What phone right to repair really means, what blocks repairs, how to decide repair vs replace, and practical steps to cut e-waste and cost.
A Guide to Sustainable Interior Design
Sustainable interior design made practical: low-tox materials, energy-smart upgrades, ethical sourcing, and circular choices for healthier, lower-carbon homes.
How to Curate an Eco-Chic Home That Feels as Lavish as a Five-Star Hotel
Being intentional about home decor isn’t about restriction. The approach is more about turning a living space into a healthy sanctuary.
Jerusalem in Paint: How Art Shapes Place Memory
Cityscape art can anchor memory and belonging. Why paintings of Jerusalem resonate across distance, generations, and changing definitions of home.
Art as Memory: How Cultural Craft Preserves Identity
In a disposable world, cultural craft preserves memory, identity, and continuity. Why sustaining culture matters as much as sustaining ecosystems.
Prefab vs. Modular Building: What is the Difference?
Today we look at prefab vs. modular construction methods, discussing the key differences in design, cost, time, aesethetics, and environmental considerations.
Grey Textured Rugs for a Cozy, Washable Bedroom
Grey textured rugs are a versatile and stylish addition to any bedroom. They can add warmth and texture to your space while also providing practical benefits.
How to Choose the Right Interior Doors
Interior doors play a crucial role in home decor and day-to-day comfort, and they have an environmental footprint, too. Let’s discuss.
7 Strategies for Incorporating Biophilic Design in Green-Centered Environments
Biophilic design incorporates natural elements into spaces where you live, work and learn, using features such as greenery, natural light, water and organic forms. This approach enhances overall well-being while boosting productivity and creativity. It also supports environmental sustainability by reducing energy use, mitigating urban heat and promoting biodiversity. Biophilic design can create environments that … Read more
How to Add a Touch of Luxury Without Overdoing Your Interiors
True luxury lies in balance and the impeccable quality of a few carefully selected items. Let’s look at some techniques that will transform your interior.
The Effortless Elegance of Premium Acrylic Stools
Acrylic stools, in particular, have become a favorite among interior designers who value clarity and style.
Key Factors to Consider Before Choosing Sconces for the Bathroom
This article explains the most important things to keep in mind before choosing the best sconces for your bathroom.
‘Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives’ debuts Nov. 13
The Bruce Museum invites visitors to explore the hidden world of ants in new science exhibition
5 Kitchen Lighting Ideas for a Brighter, Modern Look
Most kitchens are either too bright or too dim. These lighting strategies fix common problems—better visibility, less glare, and spaces that actually feel good.
What Makes a Tile Truly Eco-Friendly?
As conscious consumers and eco-minded designers look closer at every material choice, the story of ceramic tile becomes both inspiring and complex.
Sustainable Reading Spaces: An Eco-Friendly Home Library
Sustainable Reading Spaces: How to Design an Eco-Friendly Home Library Have you ever dreamed about living in a Barnes & Noble, a Waterstones, or a Kinokuniya? If one of your life goals is to live in a bookstore, consider creating your very own library at home. Having a personal library has always been a symbol … Read more
Exhibition: DEFRAGMENTING EDEN
Galerie Sara Lily Perez is pleased to present Defragmenting Eden, a group exhibition featuring works by Tanja Selzer, Laura Eckert, and Daniel Sambo-Richter.
Geraldine van Heemstra – Windswept
With her solo exhibition Windswept Geraldine van Heemstra brings the vastness of the Scottish landscape to Winsor Birch’s Little Gallery in Marlborough.
Design Your Dream Home: Reflecting Your Personality
A beautiful home isn’t just made of furniture and paint — it’s made of emotion. The places we live carry our habits, moods, memories, and desires.
How to Incorporate Modern Pool Design Trends Into Your Yard?
Whatever it is you’re looking to achieve, there are exciting modern pool design trends that will turn your backyard from standard to stunning.
Exhibition: Eleanor Mahin Thorp, Bend of the Southern Cross
The work of the Brooklyn-based artist examines how landscapes are abstracted and reimagined through extraction and mythology.
‘Ascendia’, Justine Otto & Giuseppe Gonella, Galerie Sara Lily Perez, 6 Sept – 4 Oct 2025
Gallery Sara Lily Perez is pleased to present ‘Ascendia’, a duo exhibition by the acclaimed contemporary painters Justine Otto and Giuseppe Gonella.
What Interior Designers Do for Sustainable Homes
Interior designers shape waste, toxins, and energy use. Here’s what they do, what you get, and questions to ask for a truly sustainable interior.
Peel and Stick Wallpaper for a Dining Room Accent Wall
In this guide, we’ll help you create a dining room feature wall that not only looks amazing but also supports eco-friendly living.
Designing a Mindful Home: Decor Ideas for Every Room
Here’s how you can transform each room of your house into an eco-friendly haven, creating a mindful home, without sacrificing charm or comfort.
How Poor Building Standards Are Wasting Energy and Costing Homeowners
Communities can take action to make their houses more energy efficient while waiting for rules to be updated.
The Pulse of Arrival
The Pulse of Arrival brings together a group of artists whose works emerge through deeply embodied and intuitive processes.
Designing Health Spaces That Calm First-Time Visitors
Creating a calming environment in health spaces only requires intention to help people orient themselves quickly so their stress isn’t compounded by confusion.
Mental Clarity and Emotional Balance: The Benefits of Art
How Painting, Drawing, and Sculpting Can Support Mental Clarity and Emotional Balance
Upcycling the Ordinary: Tackling Waste in Home Renovation
Discover how design specialists are transforming waste into beauty through upcycling, redefining sustainability in home renovation.
Creating Harmonious Spaces: The Impact of Environmental Neuroscience on Architecture
Builders use architectural psychology to craft intentional spaces. Explore the impact neuroscience, environmental neuroscience on architecture.