The journal
Room by room
Layouts, clearances and lighting for drawing rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and home offices.
Laying out a master bedroom that is not just a bed in a room
Bed position, wardrobe depth, the walkway nobody measures and the two lamps that change how the room is used at night. The dimensions behind a bedroom that works.
18 Aug 2026
How to lay out a dining room people want to stay in
The table is the easy part. Where the sideboard goes, how high the light hangs, whether the chairs can be pulled out — those are the decisions that determine whether dinner ends at nine or at midnight.
17 Aug 2026
Lighting layers that actually work
Almost every Pakistani room is lit from one point in the ceiling, which is why almost every Pakistani room looks flat after dark. The method that fixes it is a hundred years old and costs less than you think.
17 Aug 2026
A home office that is not depressing
Most home offices are a spare bedroom with a desk pushed against a wall and a ceiling light overhead. Four decisions turn that into a room you can work in for eight hours without resenting it.
16 Aug 2026
Furnishing a DHA apartment drawing room
Apartments in DHA phases 5, 6 and 8 share a set of constraints — a ten-foot ceiling, one window wall, and a lift that decides what can arrive. Solving them is mostly a matter of not fighting the plan.
9 Aug 2026