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…
Light Gray Sofa Pillows and Coffee Tables That Balance a Pale Base
You know that thirty seconds where you’re standing in the checkout line at the thrift store, holding two throw pillows, and the guy behind you is doing that thing where…
Beige Headboards and the Bedding That Keeps Them From Washing Out
The woman who sold me my headboard, a linen wrapped thing in a color the tag called “oatmeal,” leaned across the showroom and said, “Beige goes with everything, you really…
A Dresser Top That Doesnt Look Random
I realized what I’d been doing right about eighteen months ago, standing in my own bedroom, looking at a dresser top I’d rearranged without thinking about it for the tenth…
Which Color Bed Frame Should You Pick?
A guy at a lumberyard counter told me black bed frames were “a phase people go through,” like it was a rash. Handed me my lag bolts and everything, totally…
Teal Sofa Pillows That Make the Color Look Planned
I bought my teal sofa four years ago, in a fit of confidence I still can’t fully explain, and for three of those years I dressed it with whatever pillows…
Olive Green Sofas and the Pillows That Suit Them
I saw someone on a Facebook furniture group declare, with real confidence, that olive green sofas should only ever get white or oatmeal pillows because “anything else fights it.” Scrolled…
What to Keep in a Nightstand Drawer
I used to think a nightstand drawer was basically a filing cabinet for my whole personality. Old receipts, three different lip balms all dried to nothing, a phone charger that…
The Wall Above Your Headboard: What Deserves the Space
I was stripping the bed on a Tuesday, which is not a day that usually produces revelations, but there I was with the fitted sheet balled up under one arm…
Gray Beds and the Nightstands That Suit Them
I was standing in the cereal aisle at Star Market on a Tuesday night, genuinely deliberating between two brands of granola I already know taste identical, when my phone buzzed…