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Hi, I'm Ebele Ubaka (a.k.a The Entrepreneurial Architect), a Licensed Architect, practicing in Nigeria. Welcome to this little internet space of mine. Here on my personal blog, I share my views, insights, strategies and how-to guides to help individuals, business owners, and other digital marketers like me.

Travel Internal Door Lock

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The 555 Cup
After my experience with hoteliers opening room doors at night, I opted to always travel with a stainless cup.
You know that 555 cup with a hand? That’s right.
The plan is to hang it on the door handle. The cup falls off when someone turns the door handle from outside the room and it will wake me up.
That’s my local approach.
I came upon this internal door lock. It’s small and easy to travel with.
Travel Internal door lock
Travel Internal door lock

 

Also, you can learn how this meal storage tip can help you stay organized.

Step 5: Choose Your Content Management System (CMS)

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Choose Your Content Management System || Image by Freepik

This post will show you how to choose your content management system. In the post I wrote about beginner blogging terms, I explained what a content management system (CMS) means. To choose your CMS, here are things to bear in mind. Cost. As a beginner, cost is very important. You don’t know how long you … Read more

Observation Post: Our Traditional/Vernacular Architecture tour

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My ArchiStories

Traditional/Vernacular Architecture tour for a school assignment was an interesting time.

In my group, we went to this village in Imo state.
Peaceful and quiet and we saw this building.
My first encounter with a real-life, one-storey, mud house.
Mud architecture 1
I was too scared to go in.
It had not been in use for a while.
What if it caves in under our weight?
Mud architecture 2
I peacefully took the building pictures without the need to tempt the gods.
In helping with building sustainability and minimizing climate crisis, we need to go back to using our local building materials.
Mud architecture 3
Clay is accessible and creates a better indoor climate for our interiors.
A research institute was conducting tests on clay bricks somewhere in Awka and it was abandoned. It’s probably due to funds but I can as well assume that other reasons would hover around disinterest in using local materials.
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Timber is within reach. I saw the neatly made raffia bed floor.
We don’t expect a complete overhaul back to local materials but start with the walls. Instead of floor tiles for finishes, use timber or raffia mats.
You’re probably thinking that this girl is going nuts, talking about us going back to what our fathers abandoned to embrace the kerosene lantern, but have you seen what the modern whites are doing with our local products in their homes?
Mud architecture 5
They use the raffia mat as a rug and they celebrate it like it’s gold. The way they write about it on CNN, if I wasn’t in Africa, I would be more than thrilled.
Their terrace swing chairs are made of raffia materials imported from where?
You tell me.
The challenge is will you be open to me designing such for you?

Step 4: How to connect Your Domain name and Hosting if You Bought them Separately

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How to connect Your Domain name and Hosting || Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik.com

So you bought them separately, here is how to connect your domain name and hosting. You can move over to the next step 5 if you bought your domain name and hosting together from the same company. I will be using the two hosting companies I recommended in my previous post to explain to you … Read more

Step 3: How and Where to Buy Your Hosting with your Naira card

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How and Where to Buy Your Hosting || Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik.com

Here is how and where to buy your hosting with your Naira card. If you are based in Nigeria, you would have experienced the issue of paying for services priced in other currencies outside the Naira currency. To address this, there are hosting companies, existing and catering to the Nigerian market. This allows you to … Read more

Happy New Year!!! It’s 2024

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New year new resolution 1

I have said it before and I will say it again, I don’t do New Year resolutions. While training myself, I seek out opportunities to use the knowledge I have. I hope you do too. Happy New Year and May the good Lord bless you. From all of us at ebeleubaka.com

Happy Birthday to Ebele Ubaka

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Architecture themed happy birthday cake

It’s been 32 years.

Ebele Ubaka 3

With all the mistakes I have made and the pains I have gone through, it’s with the strength of the Lord I stand today.

I don’t know who has the architectural-themed birthday cake, I just saw it in my old picture saved archive and it seems I got it from a Facebook account, but it’s beautiful. All flowers are given.

Happy birthday to me.