What Actually Matters When Buying a Scented Candle
There is one candle in the office kitchen which has been lit twice in eight months. Both times it was lit by the same person. On both occasions someone opened…
What Nobody Tells You About an Industrial TV Stand
An industrial TV stand looks like it should be sat in a garage. That’s why we put them in living rooms. Black metal frame, distressed wood top kind of thing.…
What We Love (And Don’t) About a Rattan Outdoor Sofa
The great debate over whether rattan sofas survive a garden or merely survive garden centre patio display was resolved once and for all in the end, thanks to someone unearthing…
What Actually Matters When Buying a Rattan Coffee Table
It’s a marker of having made it when your flat gets a rattan coffee table. Sun streaming through the blinds, forgotten catalogue you leaf through but won’t bring yourself to…
Why We Keep Buying a Cotton Placemat
One of us confessed last week, unprompted, that she bought quilted placemats with cork backing for four years because she believed cotton placemats would “just get ruined immediately” before being…
What We Love (And Don’t) About a White Cot
One of us has finally unprompted confessed that she spent four years banging on about how white cots were a terrible idea for any home with a toddler capable of…
What We Love (And Don’t) About an Upholstered Dining Chair
Half of us believe an upholstered dining chair is the greatest investment you can make for your kitchen table. The rest think it’s a handheld cushion hybrid with legs, biding…
Why We Keep Buying a Double Bed Frame
Look back through our archives of double bed frame reviews and you can trace our opinion shifting back through the years. Initially it was heads all the way, cushioned headboards…
What Nobody Tells You About Buying Black and White Wall Art
We bought one once for £40 that’s a close up shot of a grainy bridge cable. It’s in your Newcastle office and was purchased from a shop that doesn’t exist…
What We Love (And Don’t) About a Touch Bedside Lamp
To be fair, one of us believes the touch lamp to be the greatest invention in modern bedside furniture. The other has spent the last eighteen months trying to convince…