Living Room
Living Room
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Living Room
Living Room
Museums Treat Sunlight Like a Bill That Adds Up. Your Sofa Should Too.
To a museum conservator, a dim room for 800 hours fades fabric as much as a brighter one for 400. Light damage adds up.
Living Room
Your Houseplants Are Lovely. They Just Aren’t Cleaning the Air.
To match a building’s normal air exchange, one review calculated you’d need 10 to 1,000 potted plants per square meter.Also filed here
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Bedroom
A Ceiling Fan in an Empty Room Is Cooling No One
Ceiling fans don’t cool rooms. They cool people. Leave one spinning over an empty bed and you’re just paying for the breeze.
Home Office
The Electricity Your Home Uses While Nobody’s Using Anything
In one NRDC study, devices that were off, asleep or idle used, on average, nearly 23% of the electricity in northern California homes.Other rooms
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