Sofa Beds: Two Jobs Done Well or Badly?
I’m on my knees on the floor of what my mortgage paperwork optimistically calls a “second bedroom,” measuring the gap between the window and the closet door with a tape…
Nesting Tables: Sizing Them Around Your Sofa
I’ve measured the arm of my sofa eleven times since March. I know that because I started keeping a tally on a sticky note stuck to the fridge, next to…
Footstool Colors for a Teal Sofa
Everyone told me a teal sofa was going to be the hardest piece of furniture I’d ever own to build a room around. My sister in law said it, my…
End Tables for a Dark Gray Couch
I did a rough count of drink rings on the current end tables in this living room last month, purely out of curiosity, and got to fourteen across three tables…
Coffee Tables for a Leather Sofa
I reach for my coffee table roughly fourteen times a day. I know that number because I counted for a week last spring, out of boredom, while I was supposed…
Console Table Behind a Couch: Sizing and What to Put on It
The reputation console tables have is that they’re furniture store filler. You know the vignette. Three matching books nobody’s ever going to read, a glass vase with two dried stems…
Pink Sofa Pillows for a Grown Up Room
Everybody thinks a pink sofa is a phase. A twenty five year old’s first apartment purchase, something you grow out of the way you grow out of fairy lights strung…
Matching Pillows to a Gray Sofa Without Playing It Safe
The received wisdom on gray sofa pillows is that you play it safe: white, ivory, maybe a “brave” charcoal if you’re feeling reckless, and you call the room finished. I…
Maroon Sofa Pillows for a Living Room With a Retro Streak
My dad walked into my living room last month, took one look at the maroon sofa I’d just reupholstered myself, then clocked the pile of pillows I’d dumped on it…
Mocha Sofa Pillows: Warm Neutrals That Play Well Together
I counted them once, on a Sunday afternoon when I should have been reconciling my own budget spreadsheet instead of my throw pillow inventory. Fourteen. Fourteen pillows, rotating through one…