Wardrobe Against a Radiator: Warmth Stolen
I own six wardrobes. Not six wardrobes’ worth of clothes, six actual pieces of furniture, three of which are currently doing absolutely nothing except taking up space in a storage…
Area Rugs in a Home Washer: Probably the Wrong Tool
Okay so it’s a Tuesday, I’m doing normal human laundry, and I’m standing in front of my machine holding my kitchen runner going “this is basically a big towel, right?”…
Rug on Top of Carpet: Layers Done Right
I own six rugs sitting directly on top of wall to wall carpet right now, in an apartment where every single room already came carpeted before I moved a single…
Layering a Rug Over Carpet the Designer Way
I own eleven rugs. Eleven. I counted them properly last week while looking for a runner I was sure I still had, laid them all out mentally room by room,…
An Outdoor Rug Straight on Dirt
Everyone acts like “outdoor rug” is basically synonymous with “throw it wherever, it’s outdoor, it can take it.” That’s the whole marketing pitch, right there in the name. Outdoor. As…
Any Headboard, Any Bed? Not So Fast
I get called out to fit a headboard onto an existing frame somewhere between ten and fifteen times a year. That’s not a guess, I actually started keeping a rough…
Not Every Light Belongs Near the Shower
Everybody’s got an opinion about bathroom lighting, and the opinion is almost always the same one: it’s complicated, it’s dangerous, don’t touch it, call someone. I spent years believing that…
Chimineas on Wood Decks: Tall, Top Heavy and Spark Prone
Everyone talks about chimineas like they’re the polite, contained cousin of a fire pit. Something you can tuck into a corner of a deck, light with one match, and forget…
A Fire Pit Inside a Gazebo: Cozy Idea, Careful Answer
Marcus texted me a photo at eight o’clock on a Friday night. New gazebo, cedar posts, asphalt shingle roof he’d put on himself over a long weekend, and sitting dead…
Fire Pit on a Concrete Slab
I bought my first fire pit off a clearance rack in early October, the kind of purchase that made complete sense at 9pm on a Tuesday and almost none the…