“We Bought a White Kitchen Island
The comparison that keeps coming up in the office is the old butcher block cart one of us had in a rental for years versus the white island that eventually…
Is a White Kitchen Table Really Worth the Money?
If you go back through the archive on this site, there was a solid two year stretch where anyone who mentioned wanting a white kitchen table got quietly talked out…
The Honest Story of Our White Kitchen Cart
There was a proper argument the day the white kitchen cart arrived, and it wasn’t even about the cart itself. It was about the box. One person opened it standing…
Thinking About a Kitchen Island With Storage? Read This First
The argument that finally ended, for good, in this office, was the doors versus drawers debate, and it ended because someone walked in with a photo of their own kitchen…
Where We Landed on a Wood Kitchen Cart
The delivery driver who brought ours in said “oh, one of the nice heavy ones then” as he wheeled it up the path, which told us two things. One, he…
A White Freestanding Kitchen Cabinet Six Months In
There was a proper argument in month four, when someone stood in front of the cabinet holding a bag of open flour, a half used bag of sugar, and a…
The Velvet Bar Stool Nobody Talks About Enough
There is a running joke in the group chat that one of us cannot walk past a velvet bar stool without touching it, palm flat, like checking a horse’s flank,…
The Small Kitchen Table We Almost Sent Back
The plan was breakfasts. Two people, two bowls, maybe a laptop balanced on the end for someone catching up on emails before the school run. That was the pitch when…
Thinking About a Round Kitchen Table? Read This First
Someone on this team spent about eighteen months insisting square tables were the rational choice for a kitchen and has now quietly admitted, unprompted, that she was wrong the whole…
An Industrial Kitchen Table in Real Life: Love It or Leave It
Someone on the team admitted, unprompted, that they spent two years telling anyone who’d listen that industrial kitchen tables were a phase, the sort of thing you buy at twenty-six…