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You can make your own gifts for Christmas

November 17, 2023 — If you’re on a budget or you just want to show a little more personal touch with your presents, making your own gifts for Christmas is one way to do it. When you DIY Christmas gifts, it lets you t...
Happy 7! Here are Common Room’s 7 Best Selling Items

July 9, 2022 — When Common Room opened their doors in 2015, Roma Agsalud-Agsunod and her sister Maan Agsalud had almost a decade of crafting and running a business together. Popjunklove, their brand of upcycled t...
5 Ways to Stay Innovative in Your Business

October 8, 2022 — Any seasoned entrepreneur who’s gone through years of building their business and surviving during a crisis (say, like a pandemic to upend what’s normal) knows that staying innovative is important ...
Why your mess is the best starting point for the new year

February 4, 2025 — Whether we like it or not, we learn our most unforgettable lessons from our messes and failures. Most of the time though, a lot of us regard mistakes in a negative way. But we can always look at hi...
Sister Haul

August 8, 2020 — Common Room owners a.k.a. mother hens, Roma and Maan, were challenged to shop for each other under P3500 in one of their branches. With hundreds of locally crafted products to choose from, the tas...
Is building a business more challenging for women?

March 17, 2024 — Whenever we celebrate National Women’s Month, we remember and recognize many of the great strides women have made in different endeavors, including the world of business. According to the Departmen...
Makers and Artists on What Joy Means for Them

February 11, 2023 — Joy! For 13th century poet and scholar Rumi (whose words still resonate with many of us), it’s a river moving in us when we do things from our soul. For many, joy is an emotion. From the Latin word...
How to finish the year frenzy free

December 17, 2023 — Finishing the year strong and slowing down seems like an oxymoron. For many, the former means doing everything you can to achieve your goals or ticking all items off your to-do list before you rin...
Gift Guide for the 10 Types of People in Your Life

November 21, 2022 — We blinked and all of a sudden it’s just a little over a month before Christmas. If you haven’t checked any one from your gift list yet, Common Room is here to help. Whether you have a friend, sibl...
When the going gets tough, persist

March 23, 2025 — There is no growth without the challenges, the failures, and the mess ups. We’ve heard Common Room co-founder Roma Agsunod talk about this before when she looked back at the 17 years of building Po...