New Sheets Straight Onto the Bed? I Have Thoughts
I count these things because apparently I’m the kind of person who counts things now. In the last three years I have opened and washed nine new sets of sheets…
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…
Nightstands for a Metal Bed Frame
My dad walked into my bedroom last spring, looked at the new bed frame I’d just leveled out, then looked at the nightstand I’d shoved next to it, and said…
Metal Bed Frame: What Goes Under It
I reach under my bed frame roughly four times a week, which sounds like an oddly specific thing to track until you realize it’s basically the retrieval rate for one…
Bed Frame Colors That Stand Out Against White Walls
My sister walked into my bedroom in April, took one look at the new bed frame, and said, “Well. That’s certainly a choice.” Then she sat on the end of…
Going Without a Headboard: Protecting the Wall and Finishing the Look
I told a colleague, the woman two desks over who has strong opinions about everything from her lunch order to my monitor arm setup, that I was skipping a headboard…
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…
Bed Frame Colors for Gray Walls
Okay so I own six bed frames. Six. Not six beds, six FRAMES, because two of them are just sitting disassembled behind my armchair like some kind of furniture graveyard,…
Bedding for a Dark Gray Headboard
I got it wrong for about four months before I got it right, and I want to be honest about how wrong, because it’s the kind of wrong that makes…
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…