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…
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 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…
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 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…
A Topper on a Sofa Bed: The Cheap Comfort Fix
I bought my first sofa bed in 1979, the year my husband and I moved into the house I still live in now, and for a solid decade I operated…
Reclining Sofa Meets Coffee Table
My brother Danny stopped in the doorway of my living room in March, looked at the eighteen inches between my coffee table and my sofa, and said, “Priya, is this…
Washing Couch Cushion Covers Without Shrinking Them
I ruined a cushion cover so badly that my wife walked into the living room, looked at the couch, and said “did we get a cat that likes to nest…