The Unit Toy Storage That Earned A Permanent Spot
This divided us along lines that didn’t involve the unit at all. They involved what kind of person cleans their stuff before bed and what kind of person doesn’t. One…
The Velvet Armchair We Fought Over
There’s a green velvet armchair in the corner of our office that has ended conversations rather than begun them, and won. It still sits there. Half of us believe a…
The White Toy Storage Nobody In The Office Agrees On
Someone has bought three white toy crates stacked up like a shooting challenge under the window. Someone else has a single white bench box that’s turned grey at the edges…
The White Bedside Table Nobody In The Office Agrees On
Someone mentioned the gloss white one from the flat with the horrendous boiler. The one that sat next to a bed for six years and still didn’t look like it…
The White Bathroom Cabinet That Actually Earns Its Keep
It was put in writing by one of us – unprompted – in the WhatsApp at half ten on a Tuesday morning: “bought the wrong one first…mirrored front, no shelf…
The White Storage Unit We Keep Recommending
This website had a good year or two where its stance on white storage cabinets was essentially “no.” Cold, sterile showroom piece, looks like something your parents kept the coat…
The Washable Rug That Earned A Permanent Spot
Scroll back through all the things this website has said about washable rugs over the past few years and you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d taken an entire U-turn on…
The Walnut Bedside Table We Actually Use Daily
Half of us believe a walnut bedside table is worth spending actual money on. The other half believe that is precisely the kind of statement people must make right before…
The Walnut Coffee Table We’d Put In Our Own Home
“One of us said it bluntly last week. No one was asking for commentary, certainly not from both of us: we bought the wrong walnut coffee table the first time…
The Walnut Console Table We Can’t Stop Recommending
One of us cannot walk past a walnut console table without running a hand across it. Proper palm flat on wood, like she’s verifying that it’s still there, still alive.…