Perking Up a Plain Gray Couch With Pillows
I ran the numbers on this once, out of genuine curiosity rather than any need to justify it to anyone, and worked out that I reach for a throw pillow…
Best Pillow Colors to Pair With a Gray Sofa
My sister walked into my condo in December, looked at the gray sofa with its brand new blush pink pillows on it, picked one up, turned it over like she…
Charcoal Gray Sofa Pillows That Soften a Dark Couch
I was rearranging my own couch pillows for a video call last Tuesday, the kind where you can see your own square in the corner and start obsessing over what’s…
Kitchen Wall Colors to Try With Light Gray Cabinets
My sister Marina stood in my kitchen doorway last month, still had her coat on, looked at my walls and said, “Did you paint this yourself, or did the gray…
Do Gray Pillows Work on a Brown Sofa?
I’d like to have a word with the woman who spent forty dollars on two pillows in a shade the catalog called “storm cloud” back in 2011, brought them home…
Area Rug Colors for a Room Full of Gray Furniture
I bought a rug once specifically because it was the exact same gray as my sofa. Not similar. The same. I brought a fabric swatch into the rug store, held…
Bedding That Works With a Cream Headboard
I count laundry days now, not because I’m precious about it but because I’ve got a spreadsheet habit left over from quoting jobs, and the number that came out of…
Bedding Ideas for a Light Gray Headboard
Light gray headboards have a reputation for being the furniture equivalent of a beige rental wall, the safe choice you make when you’ve run out of decision making energy and…
White Headboard Bedding, Plus How to Keep It Clean
I was stripping the bed on a Saturday morning, the way you do when you’ve finally noticed the pillowcases have gone a bit gray and you can’t remember the last…
Navy Blue Sofa Pairings for People Tired of Neutral Rooms
Okay so every single navy sofa post I’ve ever read says “navy is the new neutral” like that’s a fact and not just a sentence someone typed to make you…