Is a Shoe Storage Cabinet Really Worth the Money?
Nearly everyone here thinks the shoe cabinet is the best money the collective has ever spent as a group. There is one holdout who still maintains, calmly, at every meeting,…
Sizing a Console Table Without Guessing
I’ve measured the same gap in my hallway five separate times since February. Same tape measure, same eleven and a half feet of wall, same result every time, and I…
Entryway Console Table: First Impressions and Everyday Use
I own four entryway console tables right now, spread across a condo that has exactly one entryway. That number should embarrass me more than it does. One is in the…
Top of a Console Table: Fewer Objects, Better Result
My sister walked into my condo two Saturdays ago, took one look at my console table, and said, “Aisha, this looks like a garage sale that got promoted.” She wasn’t…
Lower Shelf of a Console Table: Baskets, Books and Beyond
I currently own eleven baskets whose entire job in life is to sit on the bottom shelf of my console table. Eleven. I counted them last week while my roommate…
Console Table Behind a Couch: Sizing and What to Put on It
The reputation console tables have is that they’re furniture store filler. You know the vignette. Three matching books nobody’s ever going to read, a glass vase with two dried stems…
Hallway Console Table Ideas That Set the Tone at the Door
I currently own four console tables, which is objectively too many for one person living alone in half of a triple-decker, and I want to be upfront about that number…
Baskets Under a Console Table: What Goes Inside
I used to think baskets under a console table were basically furniture jewelry. You put them there, they look woven and warm and instantly your entryway photographs like it belongs…
Sideboard in the Hallway: What Goes On It, Over It and Beside It
“Rule of three, big mirror above it, lamp on each end.” That’s the sentence every interiors article says about a hallway sideboard, and it gets repeated so often that people…
One Console Table, Five Different Jobs
I was elbow deep in a bag of frozen peas, trying to get the last one off the kitchen floor before the dog found it, when my mom texted a…