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…
My bedroom ideas for small master bedrooms Maximize the Space
I’m typing this from our guest bedroom. Well, it used to be our guest bedroom. When we downsized last year, we converted it to our master bedroom. Funny thing is,…
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 Use Regular Bricks for a Fire Pit Question I Finally Have a Real Answer To
My brother in law spent an entire barbecue last summer building a fire pit out of the leftover bricks from his patio job, the ordinary red ones, the kind you’d…
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…