Travel Internal Door Lock

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

 

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Our Traditional/Vernacular Architecture tour

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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.
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I was too scared to go in.
It had not been in use for a while.
What if it caves in under our weight?
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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.
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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?
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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?

Happy New Year!!! It’s 2024

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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

Architecture themed happy birthday cake

It’s been 32 years.

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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.

Welcome and Happy New Month!!!

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Welcome, and Happy New Month!!! “Supppp people!! Your favorite chap is back, rocking and rolling – literally doing backflips – just at the thought of sending you this. Yea, I miss you toooooo! What’s been going on witya? You good? Life, good? Fam, good? Akant, popping? That’s what I’m talking about, G! You winning. You … Read more

6 Things You Shouldn’t Have in Your Shared Bathroom When Guests Come Over

Shared Bathroom

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Happy International Girl Child Day

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The Danger of Stainless Steel Handrails with Glass in public buildings

A visually impaired man tracing his apartment with Stainless Steel Handrails with Glass

You see handrails in buildings, especially the ones located by your staircases and balconies, I beseech you, to avoid those ones with round, shiny surface finish. That was how Mama Nkechi visited her daughter at Lekki. This daughter lives in one of the most expensive areas and to worsen the matter, she wasn’t staying on … Read more

9 Bathroom remodeling tips: making it look and feel better

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Bathroom remodelling is simply the art and act of making interior changes to your bathroom layout, tiling, lighting, fixtures, and storage spaces by choosing the right materials and colour for each element. There are reasons why you may desire to remodel your bathroom. You could want a new look. You may have a vintage bathroom … Read more

ArchiStories: A Tale of 2 Prospective Clients

My ArchiStories

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The First things Guests notice about your Guestroom interior: How to Improve it

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Are you worried about the impression you make on your guest through your guestroom interior? Supposing you invite a guest to your home or a guest visits your home randomly and you are expected to host them in your guestroom or your hospitality unit, ever wondered what they notice as they enter the space? Are … Read more