Warm Bedroom Lighting That Still Lets You See
I have changed the bulb in my nightstand lamp four times in the past two years, and not one of those changes happened because the old bulb burned out. Every…
What Should Bedroom Lighting Color Actually Do?
Casey walked into my room at eleven at night, stopped in the doorway, and went “why does your room look like a Cinnabon.” Which, fair. I had a salt lamp…
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 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…
Protecting Hardwood Floors From a Scratchy Bed Frame
Ask anyone who’s ever bought a house with original hardwood and they’ll tell you the same thing: keep furniture off it or it’s ruined within a year. I heard that…
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…
Picking a Headboard Color Without Overthinking It
I’m on the floor of my own bedroom, knees complaining about it, holding up four paint chips against a stack of quilts I got off a woman clearing her mother’s…
Wooden Beds and Nightstands: Match the Wood or Mix It Up?
I bought a bed and nightstand set once. An actual set, matching pieces, same finish, same everything, because I’d read somewhere that matching furniture was the “grown up” way to…
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…