The Geometric Throw Pillow We Still Have and Still Like
One of us thinks the geometric cushion is the only thing that stops a beige sofa looking like a waiting room. Another thinks it’s the interiors equivalent of a shoulder…
The Duvet Cover Set That Won Over the Skeptics
There is a running comparison in this team to a linen set one of us bought from a market stall in Portugal, the one that got softer every wash and…
The Day We Finally Replaced the Cotton Blanket
The old cotton blanket finally got binned after someone staying over asked, very politely, if we had “a spare one that wasn’t see through.” That was the whole review, really,…
Thinking About a Cotton Throw? Read This First
Whoever is on sofa duty at the end of the night is expected to fold the throw. Nobody assigned this. It just became true, the way a lot of things…
Thinking About a Full Bedding Set? Read This First
Someone on the team finally admitted, apropos of nothing, over lunch, that they spent four years buying whichever full set was cheapest and closest to the till, and that this…
A Topper on a Sofa Bed: The Cheap Comfort Fix
I bought my first sofa bed in 1979, the year my husband and I moved into the house I still live in now, and for a solid decade I operated…
Pillows Behind the Headboard: Solving the Odd Gap
Okay so real talk, I thought pillows behind a headboard was one of those things influencers do purely so the bed looks like it belongs in a boutique hotel lobby,…
A Firm Topper on a Soft Mattress: Fix or Fudge?
My sister stayed over three weekends ago, slept in my guest room on the topper I’d just put on my own bed for a night because the guest mattress was…
Adding a Topper to a Hybrid Mattress
I have reached for a mattress topper exactly six times in the past two years, which sounds like a lot until you remember that four of those times were on…
Throw Pillows in the Washer: What Actually Survives
I pull four throw pillows off my couch every single night, set them on the armchair like I’m clearing a job site before the crew shows up, and about twice…