Real Flowers in a Ceramic Vase: The Glaze Question
The internet’s whole vibe on ceramic vases is that they’re basically foolproof. You buy a vase, you fill it with water, you jam some tulips in, done, this is the…
A Portable Fire Pit and a Wood Deck: Easy to Move, Easy to Get Careless
Portable fire pits have a reputation as the responsible choice for a wood deck. The story goes something like this: an in-ground fire pit or a heavy stone ring is…
Electric Blanket Under the Topper or Over It?
I turned my electric blanket on for the forty first night in a row this week. I know it was forty one because I actually kept a tally on my…
Rotating a Mattress: The Easy Chore Worth Doing
I bought a two thousand two hundred dollar mattress in 2019, the kind of purchase that comes with a hundred night trial and a company that emails you like it’s…
Stacking an Electric Blanket on a Mattress Topper
I was on my knees at eleven at night, wrestling a two inch memory foam topper into a fitted sheet that was clearly sized for a mattress with less personality…
Sides of a TV Stand: Lamps, Plants and Storage
I own fourteen things right now whose entire job in life is to sit on either side of my TV stand and look like they didn’t cost anything, when at…
Headboards for a Room With Green Walls
I’ve typed “what color headboard goes with green walls” into a search bar four separate times in the last two years. Always at around eleven at night. Always right before…
Styling a Vase of Roses So It Doesnt Look Like a Store Bouquet
I own fourteen vases. Fourteen. I counted them properly last month while looking for a specific ironstone jug that had gone missing into the depths of my kitchen cabinet, and…
Dressers That Go With a Pax Wardrobe
I bought a dresser off Facebook Marketplace once, seventy dollars, drove forty minutes each way to get it, absolutely thrilled with myself, and got it home to stand next to…
Comforters for a Blue Headboard
I was on my knees on a drop sheet in my bedroom at eleven on a Sunday morning, sanding the top rail of a headboard I’d bought off Facebook Marketplace…