Seeking inspiration for how living room's TV wall? For the modern Maltese home, today's living room often also...

It doesn’t help that they’ve been taken out of the game by hard-flooring for a while - a trend which we argued against in this article. Many of our readers did not agree with wall-to-wall carpeting, and we won't argue with their points, which included the well-known fact that Malta's weather and humidity make it a nightmare to keep carpets clean and tidy.

Any local can tell you that Raħal Ġdid translates to New Town, but for a majority of tourists who visit our island, this is where you go to witness some of humankind’s earliest and oldest structures, from the famed underground Hypogeum in Ħal Saflieni to the Tarxien temples that dwell in Paola’s sister town, Ħal-Tarxien. But, prehistoric rocks and primitive sites aren’t Raħal Ġdid’s only weapons of mass attraction.

Street art, murals and graffiti are becoming powerful tools for activists, aesthetes and councilors who seek to regenerate and beautify their towns...