Red Sofa Pillows: Keeping a Bold Couch From Taking Over the Room
Corinne stood in my doorway with her coat still on, looked at my new sofa, and said, “Oh no. It looks like it’s mid argument with itself.” I’d just had…
Burnt Orange Sofa Pillows for a Room With Some Nerve
The sofa came home on a Tuesday, hauled up two flights by a mover named Reggie who told me, flatly, that burnt orange velvet was “a choice.” I laughed it…
Charcoal Sofa Pillows and Coffee Tables That Work
I bought my first charcoal sofa in 2011 convinced I was buying black, and I want you to sit with that for a second before you judge me too hard,…
Chocolate Brown Sofa: Pillows and Coffee Tables That Suit It
My sister walked into my living room in January, still wearing her coat because the house was doing its usual impression of a meat locker, took one look at the…
Tan Leather Sofa Pillows That Suit the Way It Ages
Everyone tells you tan leather is the safe choice. The default. The sofa you buy when you don’t want to think about it anymore, when you’ve spent four months on…
Bedding That Works With a Cream Headboard
I count laundry days now, not because I’m precious about it but because I’ve got a spreadsheet habit left over from quoting jobs, and the number that came out of…
Bedding Ideas for a Light Gray Headboard
Light gray headboards have a reputation for being the furniture equivalent of a beige rental wall, the safe choice you make when you’ve run out of decision making energy and…
White Headboard Bedding, Plus How to Keep It Clean
I was stripping the bed on a Saturday morning, the way you do when you’ve finally noticed the pillowcases have gone a bit gray and you can’t remember the last…
Do Gray Pillows Work on a Brown Sofa?
I’d like to have a word with the woman who spent forty dollars on two pillows in a shade the catalog called “storm cloud” back in 2011, brought them home…
Bedding for a Black Headboard: What Looks Right on Top
I swapped the bedding on a black headboard bed for a client shoot eleven times this year. Eleven. I counted because a friend asked why I kept photographing the same…