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Let the floor be your canvas
Any design can be reproduced on a tile or marble floor. The decorative flooring gives a refined finish.


Use cement judiciously, cut building costs
Cement prices are at astronomical heights. The best way to reduce cost escalation on this count is to reduce wastage of this building material. BIJU GOVIND digs out a few tips.
Home is where the heart is
Interior designer Supraja Rao believes Indianness should be at the core of all décor
Say it with flowers the Japanese way
Ikebana bestows life and takes us close to nature.
Filter in the sunlight your own way
Come summer and the only question on everyone’s mind is how to keep the house cool
Linking gateways and driving development
The Seaport-Airport road, on the outskirts of Kochi, has been witnessing construction works on a major scale.
Packing boxes with a 200-year tradition
Ollur, in Thirssur district, may be the last place that comes to your mind when using wooden boxes for packing household wares. But these have been made there for years.
For developing better infrastructure
The role of government-sponsored corporations in public works needs a re-look.
The youth brigade buying houses
The young brigade no longer dream; they just buy what they want.
Pick your art from across the world
There is a sense of order and balance within the composition of African art or Egyptian painting.
Easy to grow on normal soil
It is a leaf with qualities so impressive that it continues to remain an integral ingredient of south Indian meals. Though the aromatic and hair colourant value of the Karuvepilai leaf is well known, the fact that this aromatic leaf has ...
Prevent those pesky predators
Here is an unbelievable fact. Only 75 per cent of the agricultural produce is actually consumed by human beings in India. The rest goes to rats… literally! If not for rodents, the agricultural produce, profits and also margins could have ...



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