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If I had not heeded the siren call of journalism, I would have gone for interior design, forcing my will on the design-challenged. I read interiors magazines and try to recreate budget versions of the showcased homes. I am basically a voyeur, peering into strangers\u2019 homes and taking notes.So imagine my joy when I visited Chicago recently, and discovered precisely the thing to feed my obsession. When I asked for recommendations, my friend Eleanor\u2019s response was cryptic. \u201cAre you a fan of miniature things?\u201d she asked, and the answer was a resounding yes. So that\u2019s how I ended up spending a sunny afternoon in the basement of the Art Institute of Chicago, walking through the Thorne Miniature Rooms and peering into tiny replicas of living spaces from the last few hundred years. Reader, I almost floated with joy. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/jun\/30\/journalist-also-voyeur-bim-adewunmi-miniature-rooms\" target=\"_blank\">A journalist who\u2019s also a voyeur? What could be more natural? | Bim Adewunmi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; I love looking round other people\u2019s homesI love to rearrange my apartment on a whim,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-o9R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110569,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/making-friends-with-ferns-james-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":92867,"position":0},"title":"Making friends with ferns | James Wong","date":"September 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r An evergreen solution to dark problemsI am a terrible horticultural voyeur, forever peering over fences as I wander round my patch of central London. 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