Should You Buy an Industrial Bookcase? The Team Is Split
There was a proper argument in the office the week someone turned up with a photo of an industrial bookcase they’d found secondhand, all black scaffold pipe and reclaimed boards,…
The Gold Sideboard We Didn’t Expect to Love
The gold sideboard caused a proper argument the day it arrived, before it had even been unwrapped properly. Someone had ordered it off the back of one photo, no discussion,…
The Gray Wardrobe We Live With Every Single Day
Half of us think the gray wardrobe is the best thing this office has ever bought. The other half think it’s just a beige wardrobe that lied about what it…
The Double Door Wardrobe We Wish We Had Measured For
We keep coming back to the same two wardrobes when this argument starts up again, which it does, roughly every time someone moves house. There was the one in the…
A Glass Display Cabinet in Real Life: Love It or Leave It
Nearly everyone here thinks a glass display cabinet is one of the great honest pieces of furniture, in that it tells the truth about you within about four seconds of…
Our Long Running Full Storage Bed Argument
If you go back through everything the office has ever written about full storage beds, you can watch the opinion drift in real time, like a slow argument nobody actually…
The Cube Storage Unit We Almost Sent Back
The box arrived and one faction took one look and said it looked like a beehive that had given up. The other faction thought the honeycomb front was the entire…
Is a Black Bookcase Overrated? We Argued About It
The argument that finally cracked this one open wasn’t about the bookcase at all. It was about what kind of person owns things. Half the group treats a bookcase as…
The Black Wardrobe We Bought on a Whim
Whoever walked past the shop window that Saturday and decided the office needed a black wardrobe, with no discussion, no group chat vote, nothing, still hasn’t owned up to it.…
The Hallway Shoe Storage Cabinet That Survived the Kids and the Dog
The argument about whether the hallway cabinet should have doors or open cubbies ran for about a year and a half, on and off, whenever someone stubbed a toe or…