Almost half of the participants in a study of bedrooms said they have or might have a sleep problem and they would prefer not to use the room for multiple activities.
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You’ll probably want to wash your sheets after reading this.
Today’s beds are thought of as bastions of privacy. But not long ago, they were the perches from which kings ruled and places where travelers hunkered down with complete strangers.
The standards we use today were designed to help avoid the overcrowded housing that blighted cities in the past. But severe overcrowding is again on the rise, so what needs to be done?
City living costs are driving people to organise themselves to share a room with strangers. These precarious living arrangements hardly qualify as a home.
How much would you give up to have a home that didn’t cost you a cent in energy bills? Would you sacrifice that spare bedroom that’s full of junk and hardly gets used? Or the additional bathroom? What…
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, University College Cork
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Senior Lecturer Sustainable Design, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Interior Architecture, UNSW Sydney
