A Leather Footstool Six Months In
Six months is exactly the point where a footstool stops being furniture you photographed for the group chat and starts being furniture you actually put your feet on, spill things…
The Black Coffee Table We Bought on a Whim
It was meant to fill a gap for about a fortnight, a stopgap until someone made a proper decision, and instead it has been sitting there for the better part…
The Black TV Stand We Live With Every Single Day
The black TV stand in the front room has been there long enough that nobody remembers who actually chose it, only that it arrived, got put in place, and quietly…
The Height Adjustable Coffee Table We Keep Buying for Friends
We have bought this table four times now as a gift and it has revealed something none of us particularly wanted revealed, which is that half of this team eats…
The White Coffee Table We Keep Buying for Friends
We have bought this table four times now as a housewarming gift, which either means we have found the one genuinely safe present in the entire homeware category or means…
Why We Keep Coming Back to a Velvet Armchair
The argument was technically about linen versus velvet and it ran for the better part of a year, until someone dragged out the office chair from the spare room, the…
The Velvet Footstool That Looked Better Online
Someone on the team owned up to it first, unprompted, which never happens: the photo made it look like a soft little cloud you could lift with one finger, and…
The Velvet Sofa We Keep Moving Around the House
The green velvet sofa has lived in five spots in this house and we are not exaggerating for effect, we counted. It started under the window, which lasted about a…
The Cheap Velvet Sofa Bed Versus the Nicer One
The real disagreement about the velvet sofa bed has nothing to do with the velvet or the sofa or the bed. It is about whether guests are an event you…
Is a Walnut Coffee Table Overrated? We Argued About It
There’s a running joke in the office about the person who cannot walk past a walnut coffee table without touching the surface first, palm flat, like she’s checking a horse’s…