What's New at WIMU: The September Arrivals
We have just added several hundred new pieces across the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living room. Rather than list them, here is what changed — ...
Home Fragrance Without a Flame: Candle Warmers
Scenting a home used to mean lighting something and remembering to blow it out. Candle warmer lamps melt the wax with heat and light instead of a f...
Housewarming Gifts People Actually Use
The problem with housewarming gifts is that everyone buys the same three things, and a new home ends up with four sets of glasses and no serving di...
Decorating for a Kenyan Christmas: Start With the Table
Christmas in Kenya is hot, bright and usually spent with a full house. Decorating for it works better when you stop copying northern winter imagery...
Curtain Tiebacks: Where to Fix Them and Why
A tieback is a small thing that solves a real problem: curtains pushed to the side by hand fall back across the window within an hour, and you lose...
Candles and Tablescaping: Getting the Height Right
Candlelight is the cheapest upgrade a dining table can get, and the most commonly botched. The rule that fixes most of it: candle flames should sit...
Styling Vases: The Neck Does All the Work
Most vases in Kenyan living rooms are the wrong shape for what goes in them. A vase is not a container — it is a support structure, and the neck do...
Rugs and Floor Mats: Sizing, Placement and Cleaning
Tiled floors are standard in Kenyan homes and they are cold, loud and unforgiving underfoot. A rug fixes all three — but only if it is big enough. ...
Wall Clocks as Decor: Size, Height and Placement
A wall clock is the one decorative object in a room that people look at deliberately several times a day — which makes undersizing it the most comm...
How to Hang Mirrors So a Room Looks Bigger
A mirror is the cheapest way to make a small Kenyan flat feel larger, but only if it is hung where it has something worth reflecting. A mirror faci...
Artificial Plants That Actually Look Real: What to Check
Artificial plants have a bad reputation earned by plastic ferns from twenty years ago. The current ones are a different product — and in a Nairobi ...
Wall Lights With No Rewiring: Plug-In and Battery Options
Wall lights change a room more than any other fitting because they light at eye level instead of from above — but most people assume they mean chas...
How to Measure for Curtains: Width, Drop and Fullness
Curtains look wrong for one of two reasons: they are too narrow, or they are hung too low. Both come from measuring the window instead of measuring...
Vases & Centerpieces in Kenya: Types, Styling & How to Choose
Guide to vases and centerpieces in Kenya — ceramic, glass and resin vases, styling tips and care. Types, comparisons and FAQs. Same-day Nairobi delivery.