Should You Buy a Small Coffee Table? The Team Is Split
One of us has a small coffee table and thinks it is the single best decision made in that living room in a decade. Another has one too, in a…
A Small Footstool in Real Life: Love It or Leave It
Someone brought a small footstool into the office, plonked it under a desk “just to try it,” and by Thursday it had caused a proper argument, the kind that involved…
The Round Coffee Table Our Guests Always Comment On
Every single person who comes through the door says the same thing about this table within about four minutes of sitting down, which is “oh, I like that it’s round,”…
What Owning a Rattan Patio Lounger Is Really Like
A delivery driver said something last spring that we still bring up. He was hauling the second lounger out of the van, took one look at the first one already…
The Ones Who Love the Round Footstool and the Ones Who Don’t
The round footstool causes less argument as an object than as a question of what it was actually bought for. Someone in the group swears theirs earns its keep daily,…
A Rattan Armchair in Real Life: Love It or Leave It
The rattan armchair was bought, by consensus, as a reading chair. It sits by the window, catches the light beautifully in photos, and has been sat in for actual reading…
The Rattan Coffee Table Nobody Talks About Enough
Nearly everyone here will tell you the rattan coffee table is the most underrated thing we own, the one that gets no attention in any conversation about the living room…
The Rattan Outdoor Sofa We Overthought
We spent about six weeks on this decision, which for a sofa is a genuinely unhinged amount of time, and now half of us think that research paid off while…
The Leather Sofa That Earned Its Place at Home
Whoever sits down last gets the arm rest, and whoever gets the arm rest has to actually get up if anyone needs a glass of water, and nobody ever volunteers,…
The Marble Coffee Table Our Guests Always Comment On
There is a specific evening we keep coming back to, the one where somebody said, out loud, in front of everyone, that the marble looked “a bit municipal”, like we’d…