The Full Comforter We Keep Talking About
This one comes up in the office more than almost anything else we stock opinions on, and the actual argument is never about the comforter itself. Nobody’s fighting over fill…
The Velvet Bed Frame We Still Have and Still Like
Nearly everyone in this office thinks the velvet bed frame was the right call, the exception being one person who still maintains, four years on, that we should have gone…
The Wooden Bed Frame We’d Skip Next Time
There is a wooden bed frame currently disassembling itself in slow motion in a spare room, and it keeps getting compared, unfavorably, to a frame that got thrown out four…
The Upholstered Bed Frame We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
For months there was a genuine standoff in the group chat about how high off the ground this bed should sit. One camp wanted it low, moody, almost floor level,…
The Velvet Throw Pillow That Earned Its Place at Home
There was a period, roughly two winters long, when this whole site was quietly anti velvet cushion. Too much like something a hotel lobby would have. Too shiny. Someone described…
Is a Velvet Pillow Cover Really Worth the Money?
The velvet pillow cover fight in this house was never really about velvet. It was about whether you’re the kind of person who eats crackers on the sofa or the…
The Velvet Storage Bed We’d Happily Buy Secondhand
We spent a good three months arguing about whether a velvet ottoman bed was a good idea or just a nice looking mistake, and then a flat move with nowhere…
The Cheap Velvet Sofa Bed Versus the Nicer One
The real disagreement about the velvet sofa bed has nothing to do with the velvet or the sofa or the bed. It is about whether guests are an event you…
The Walnut Nightstand That Survived the Kids and the Dog
Someone on the team admitted last week, completely unprompted, that they spent two years pushing everyone toward the pale oak nightstand and it was, in hindsight, a mistake. Wrong wood…
Should You Buy a 13.5 Tog Comforter? The Team Is Split
The 13.5 tog argument had been going on so long in this office that nobody could actually remember who started it. One side wanted it as the only duvet in…