The Black Dining Table Debate in Our Group Chat
Someone dropped a photo into the group chat of a black table with chunky pedestal legs and the words “this one, non negotiable” and honestly it has not settled since.…
The Black Dining Chair We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
Someone on this team admitted, unprompted and slightly ashamed, that they spent three years telling people black dining chairs “show everything.” Dust, crumbs, the ghost outline of every dog that’s…
Sideboards in Commander: The Rules Question
The reputation goes like this: Commander doesn’t have sideboards, full stop, end of conversation, don’t even bring it up unless you want someone at the table to explain the Comprehensive…
A Sideboard in the Living Room
I counted it once, out of pure boredom during a work call I wasn’t paying attention to. Nine times. That’s how many times I opened the sideboard in my living…
Sideboard Blocking the Radiator: The Heat Problem
I was on my knees in the dining room with a tape measure, which is not a dignified position for a woman my age, but there I was, trying to…
A TV on a Sideboard: Convenient or Awkward?
My sister walked into the living room in October, took one look at the television sitting on top of my new (to me) sideboard, and said, “That looks like the…
Top of a Sideboard: A Simple Formula That Works
I once spent four hundred and ten dollars building what I can only describe as a shrine. Not to anything in particular. Just three white ceramic somethings, evenly spaced, on…
The Wall Above a Sideboard: Mirrors, Art and Shelves
My wife walked into the dining room, took one look at the wall above our sideboard, and just said, “Ben. What is happening up there.” Which was fair, because at…
Dining Room Sideboard: Serving, Storing and Showing Off
I own six dining room sideboards right now, if you count the one currently living in a storage unit in Daly City because I couldn’t bear to donate it and…
Sideboard Styling Rules of Thumb
My sister walked into my dining room last month, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, “Isla. Since when do you own a sideboard that doesn’t wobble.” Which, fair. For…