Mira Halvorsen
Editor · Copenhagen, Denmark
Mira writes about the small decisions that make a home easier to live in — bedding, air, light, and the things nobody thinks to replace until they fail. She has slept in enough rented rooms to be suspicious of any bedroom with one overhead bulb.
Sleep
Why your bedroom feels stuffy by 3am (and what actually fixes it)
It is almost never the mattress. It is the window, the bedding, and the fact that a closed room with two people in it turns over its air about once every eight hours.
6 min read
Mornings
I did not look at my phone for the first twenty minutes. Three weeks in.
Not a detox, not a productivity system. A cheap alarm clock, a phone charged in another room, and a note about what actually changed.
5 min read
Air
Does an air purifier need to run all day?
No, and running one constantly in the wrong room is how people end up with a noisy box and no difference. A short piece about sizing, placement, and what filters actually cost per year.
6 min read
Light
Lamps want to be at three heights
The measurements that make a room work in the evening: where a shade should sit, how tall a floor lamp should be, and why the corner is the worst place for a lamp.
6 min read
Light
The one-overhead-light problem, and the three-lamp fix
Almost every rented flat has a single bulb in the middle of the ceiling. It is why the room feels wrong after seven. Fixing it costs less than a takeaway.
6 min read
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