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 — ...
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...
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...
Chafing Dishes and Hotpots: Keeping Food Hot for a Crowd
At a Kenyan function, food goes out at 1pm and the last guest eats at 3pm. The equipment question is not how to cook for that crowd — it is how to ...
Beverage Dispensers: Sizing Drinks for an Event
At any Kenyan function, the drinks table is where the queue forms. A dispenser with a tap moves people through four times faster than a jug being p...
Serving Trays: The Most Underrated Hosting Tool
A serving tray is the difference between three trips to the kitchen and one. Most households own one tray that is slightly too small for the job it...
Picnic Planning: Quantities, Cooler Packing and Kit
A picnic is a meal with no kitchen, no fridge and no tap. Everything that goes wrong traces back to one of those three. The planning numbers: 1.5 l...
Kenyan Chai at Home: Ratios, Method and Tea Service
Kenyan chai is boiled, not brewed — and that is the whole reason instructions written for teabags in a cup do not work here. The ratio that gets it...
Ramadan & Eid Hosting: Quantities and Equipment
Ramadan hosting has a constraint no other hosting has: everyone eats at the same moment, and that moment is fixed. You cannot stagger service, and ...
Nyama Choma Setup: Grill Size, Charcoal and Meat Per Guest
Nyama choma is judged on two things: the meat, and whether it arrived hot and all at once. The second one is equipment, and it is where most home s...
Airbnb Setup Checklist for Kenya: Inventory & Quantities
Read Kenyan Airbnb reviews for an hour and the same complaints repeat: not enough hot water, one set of sheets, a blunt knife, no bin, nowhere to h...
Charcuterie Board Sizes: How Much Per Guest
A charcuterie board is one of the few things where getting the quantity right matters more than getting the ingredients right. Too little and it lo...
Plates, Glasses & Cutlery Per Guest: Hosting Quantities
Order one plate per guest and you will run out before the last table is served. Real hosting quantities are not one-to-one — they depend on courses...
How Many Chafing Dishes for 100, 200 or 500 Guests
The rule is one chafing dish per hot dish per 50 guests. Everything else — fuel, spoons, backup water pans — follows from that one number. Here is ...