The Gray Sofa We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
The argument about whether gray counts as a real color choice or just the sofa equivalent of saying “I don’t mind, you choose” went on for the better part of…
The Gray TV Stand We’d Skip Next Time
There’s a gray TV stand that lived in the group chat for a solid week, mostly because it got compared, unfavorably, to a different gray TV stand that one of…
Do You Actually Need an Industrial Coffee Table?
A delivery driver said it best, actually, hauling the thing up two flights and setting it down like he was retiring from something. “That’s not a coffee table,” he said,…
The Gray Armchair That Survived the Kids and the Dog
There was a solid two months where this armchair was the single most argued about object in the building, not because anyone disliked it, everyone wanted it, the argument was…
The Gray Coffee Table That Earned Its Place at Home
Nobody voted for the gray coffee table. It arrived as a compromise nobody remembers agreeing to, a middle ground between someone who wanted glass and someone who wanted “literally anything…
A Fabric Sofa Six Months In
Someone on the team owned up to it first, unprompted, which never happens: the pale grey was a mistake, and everyone knew it within about three weeks but nobody wanted…
The Folding Patio Lounger We’d Skip Next Time
The comparison that keeps coming up is the green sling one from a few summers back against the newer gray textilene version currently annoying somebody on the back patio, and…
The Full Sofa Bed We Almost Sent Back
The argument about whether the full sofa bed was a mistake ran for exactly nine days, which we know because that’s how long it sat there before anyone actually slept…
Two Floor Lamps in the Living Room
I bought one floor lamp in 2011, decided it looked lonely on its own next to the armchair, and solved the problem by buying a second one three years later…
Outdoor String Lights in the Living Room
My mom walked into my living room in February, took one look at the ceiling, and said, “Are those the lights from the porch?” Not a question, really. More like…