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 — ...
Furnishing a Bedsitter: Buy in This Order
A bedsitter is one room doing four jobs, and the furniture decides whether that feels compact or chaotic. The single most useful principle: nothing...
Bamboo in the Home: Where It Works and Where It Fails
Bamboo turns up everywhere in homeware, and it is not only a look. It is a grass, not a timber — it regrows in three to five years instead of thirt...
Build a Coffee and Tea Station in One Hour
Every kitchen already has a coffee and tea station — it is just scattered across four cupboards. Gathering it into one place takes an hour and remo...
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...
Kenyan Bed Sizes and Duvet Sets Explained
Kenyan bedding is sold in feet — 4x6, 5x6, 6x7 — and mattresses are sold the same way, which sounds simple until a 5x6 duvet arrives and hangs off ...
Granite, Ceramic or Aluminium: Cookware Coatings Compared
Non-stick pans in Kenyan kitchens rarely die of old age — they are killed. High heat, metal utensils and a scourer will ruin any coating in under a...
Chopping Boards: Two Is the Real Minimum
One chopping board used for everything is the most common food-safety failure in a home kitchen. Raw chicken juices soak into the surface, and the ...
Setting Up a Home Desk You Will Actually Use
A home desk that does not get used is almost always a desk with no edges — no boundary between work and the rest of the room, and nothing on it tha...
Kettle Charcoal Grills and the Two-Zone Fire
Nyama choma at home usually fails in one of two ways: the outside is black before the inside is done, or the meat dries into leather. Both are the ...
Home or Commercial Blender: What Wattage Really Buys
A blender that struggles with ice is not underpowered by accident — it is built for a different job. The gap between a 300W home blender and a 2500...
Choosing a Small Fridge for a Bedsitter or Office
In a bedsitter or a single room, the fridge is usually the largest appliance you will own, and the one most often bought wrong. The question is not...
Laundry Baskets: Sorting at the Right Moment
Laundry piles up because sorting happens at the wrong moment. If clothes are sorted when they come off, wash day is just loading a machine; if they...
Shelf and Drawer Liners: Small Cost, Big Difference
Shelf liner is the least glamorous thing you can buy for a kitchen and one of the highest-return. It costs almost nothing, takes an afternoon, and ...
Microwaves: Wattage, Safe Containers and Cleaning
A microwave is the most-used and least-understood appliance in a Kenyan kitchen. Most of what goes wrong with one — uneven heating, exploded food, ...
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...
Fruit and Vegetable Racks: Store Produce So It Lasts
Fruit and vegetables bought on Saturday should not be soft by Tuesday. In most Kenyan kitchens they are, and the reason is almost always the same: ...
Under-Sink Storage: Working Around the Plumbing
The cupboard under the kitchen sink is the worst-organised square metre in most Kenyan homes, and for a structural reason: the plumbing runs straig...
Double-Walled Glass Mugs: What the Air Gap Does
A double-walled glass mug is two pieces of borosilicate with a sealed air gap between them, and it does two useful things at once: the drink stays ...
Vacuum Flasks: Why Filling Them Right Matters Most
A vacuum flask has no moving parts and nothing to plug in, and it still keeps tea hot from 6am to lunchtime. The trick is the gap: two walls with t...