“The Industrial Dining Chair We Talked Ourselves Out Of
The industrial dining chair sat in six different browser tabs for about three weeks before anyone actually put money down, and honestly the argument might still be going if the…
The Industrial Dining Table We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
There’s a faction here that thinks industrial means one thing and one thing only, black steel legs, a top that looks like it survived a warehouse fire, nothing softer than…
A Marble Dining Table Six Months In
The delivery driver who brought it in said, completely unprompted, while easing it off the trolley, “these things always end up the villain of somebody’s kitchen story eventually.” We laughed…
The Ones Who Love the Industrial Sideboard and the Ones Who Don’t
There is one person on this team who cannot walk past an industrial sideboard without crouching down and knocking on it like it owes them money. Doesn’t matter whose house,…
The Trouble With Buying a Leather Dining Chair
There is a chair that lived in a rented flat with terrible light and got compared, unfavorably, for three years to a chair that lived in someone’s actual house with…
The Gold Sideboard We Didn’t Expect to Love
The gold sideboard caused a proper argument the day it arrived, before it had even been unwrapped properly. Someone had ordered it off the back of one photo, no discussion,…
The Gray Dining Chair We Bought on a Whim
It started as an argument about whether we even needed a fifth chair, and it ended when someone’s cousin needed somewhere to stay for a fortnight and suddenly a fifth…
The Glass Dining Table Our Guests Always Comment On
A guest said it within about ninety seconds of sitting down, glass in hand, before she’d even worked out what to say about the food. “God, I could never have…
The Extendable Dining Table Nobody Talks About Enough
Nobody on this team actually argues about the table itself. What we argue about is what kind of person needs twelve seats twice a year and keeps the leaves in…
The Cotton Placemat We’d Happily Buy Twice
We have bought this cotton placemat set three separate times now, which for an item that costs less than a round of drinks is either a ringing endorsement or proof…