Decor

You’ve wiped the bench and the mat, and your home gym smells even after cleaning. The fix that resolves it most often is drying every pad and mat open after …

Match the equipment to the room’s second job. Where a room serves only as a gym, a permanent machine wins on rigidity. Where it is also a bedroom or an …

One adjustable dumbbell pair does the work of ten fixed pairs in a 50 × 25 cm tray, which is why it tops any answer to what to buy first …

Rubber or foam gym flooring comes down to what hits the floor: rubber shrugs off a dropped dumbbell and a bench foot, while foam compresses under both and stays dented. …

Everyone knows the complaint: the home gym corner worked for two weeks, then became the place where laundry dries. A small home gym corner survives past the third month when …

You have a bed, a sofa, a table and a lamp, and still the room reads as a bedroom with a sofa put in it. The pieces are all good, …

Open the door of some studios and the first thing you see is the bed. It is large, it sits in the middle of the view, and it quietly turns …

Walk through a well-organised studio and count the pieces that do only one thing. There are fewer than there used to be. The bed has drawers in it, the bench …

A studio punishes bad purchases faster than any other home. There is no spare room to hide a wrong sofa in, and everything you buy is in view of everything …

In a studio, the bed is the piece of furniture that argues with everything else. A sofa bed solves the argument by being a sofa for most of the day. …