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How to Choose a Teapot & Tea Set | Dubai Buyer’s Guide
How to Choose a Teapot & Tea Set | Dubai Buyer’s Guide
Tea in the UAE is at least three different rituals. There is chai, brewed with milk and spice and poured strong. There is Arabic tea, served light and often with... Read more...
Ceramic Bowls: Sizes, Uses & What to Buy | Dubai Guide
Ceramic Bowls: Sizes, Uses & What to Buy | Dubai Guide
The bowl is the most-used shape in a Dubai kitchen and the least deliberately bought. Most homes have a stack of mismatched bowls acquired in ones and twos, half of... Read more...
Serving Platters & Cheese Boards: A Dubai Hosting Guide
Serving Platters & Cheese Boards: A Dubai Hosting Guide
Most people own one serving platter and it is the wrong size. It is either a dinner plate pretending to be a platter, or it is enormous and comes out... Read more...
How to Choose a Dinner Set in Dubai | Sizes & Materials
How to Choose a Dinner Set in Dubai | Sizes & Materials
Buying a dinner set in Dubai is mostly an exercise in guessing. Listings quote piece counts without saying how many people they seat, plate diameters are rarely given, and "porcelain"... Read more...
Table Linen Sizing Guide: What Size Tablecloth Do You Need?
Table Linen Sizing Guide: What Size Tablecloth Do You Need?
Almost every table linen listing in Dubai quotes a single dimension and leaves you to guess. The guess is usually wrong by 20 centimetres in each direction, which is the... Read more...
Where to Buy Home Decor in Dubai: A Buyer’s Guide
Where to Buy Home Decor in Dubai: A Buyer’s Guide
Buying home decor in Dubai is easy. Buying home decor in Dubai that you still like in two years is the harder problem, and it has a specific local shape:... Read more...
Best Gifts & Handmade Souvenirs to Buy from Dubai
Best Gifts & Handmade Souvenirs to Buy from Dubai
The souvenir problem in Dubai is a specific one. The airport sells the same six things it has always sold, the malls sell what you can buy anywhere, and the... Read more...
Why 100% Pure Copper Cups? Benefits, Care & Authenticity
Why 100% Pure Copper Cups? Benefits, Care & Authenticity
For most people, the copper cup arrives through one drink: the Moscow Mule, served in that hammered copper mug that frosts over in your hand. But copper isn't a cocktail... Read more...
The Complete Guide to Bakhoor, Oud & Mabkhara
The Complete Guide to Bakhoor, Oud & Mabkhara
There's a moment just before guests arrive when the scent of bakhoor begins to move through the majlis - warm, resinous, unmistakable. Across the UAE and the wider Gulf, that... Read more...
Scented Candles in Dubai: How to Choose
Scented Candles in Dubai: How to Choose
You light a scented candle, walk into the next room, and smell nothing. An hour later the flame has sunk into a narrow well down the middle and the wax... Read more...
How to Style Cushions & Cushion Covers for a Dubai Living Room
How to Style Cushions & Cushion Covers for a Dubai Living Room
Most sofas are styled badly, and almost always in the same three ways: the cushions are too small, they match each other too closely, and there are not enough of... Read more...
How to Choose a Cake Knife & Server Set | Dubai Guide
How to Choose a Cake Knife & Server Set | Dubai Guide
The cake is out, the candles are done, and everyone's watching -and there you are, sawing at it with a dinner knife while the layers slide apart. That's the moment... Read more...