The Tassel Cushion We Keep Recommending
There was shouting. An actual having-to-take-a-breath-before-speaking argument about tassels in the office once. Someone had brought in a mustard velvet cushion the size of a spare tyre, tassels the length…
The Terracotta Plant Pot We Keep Talking Ourselves Into
It wasn’t us who described our relationship with terracotta pots as a problem first. It was the delivery driver bringing one up our front steps last fedcember, having asked –…
The Truth About Buying a With Stool Dressing Table
Half of you will sit down at your dressing table each morning like it’s a date with yourself, moisturiser, brush your hair, hot-footpad day, minimum fifteen minutes. The other half…
The Truth About Buying a White Dining Table
There’s a white dining table in one flat that’s still going strong after four years, red wine and all, and there’s a different white dining table, in a different house…
The White Console Table We Keep Coming Back To
If you’re looking for information on the ones we owned previously, the console table argument ran for approximately two years. It didn’t get resolved, it just ceased to be. The…
The Truth About Buying a Striped Throw
There was a stretch, roughly the first two years of this account existing, where striped throws got mentioned in nearly everything and mocked in the comments almost as often. Too…
The Round Mirror That Actually Earns Its Keep
Someone buys a round mirror every time they move house. They hang it up, hate it because it’s “not quite right” and then leave it propped up against the wall…
The White Kids Desk Worth The Space It Takes Up
There should have been a proper debate about whether getting a white desk was high design or a white flag because someone arrived at the desk shopping expedition with a…
The White Vase That’s Worth The Argument
There’s a white vase in this office which has contained real flowers exactly eleven days in its entire life, maybe. We fought about whether that was scandalous or exactly the…
The White Hallway Shoe Storage That’s Worth The Argument
We won the argument, technically, in February when someone pulled up a photo of their hallway from the year they bought their white shoe cabinet three years ago and there…