Dining Room Sideboard: Serving, Storing and Showing Off
I own six dining room sideboards right now, if you count the one currently living in a storage unit in Daly City because I couldn’t bear to donate it and…
Sideboard Styling Rules of Thumb
My sister walked into my dining room last month, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, “Isla. Since when do you own a sideboard that doesn’t wobble.” Which, fair. For…
Kitchen Display Cabinet Ideas
I’m standing on a step stool at 9pm on a Tuesday, counting mugs. Not drinking out of one, counting them, out loud, like an actual inventory audit, because I have…
Vanity Drawer Organization
My dad opened the drawer under my bathroom sink last Thanksgiving looking for a nail clipper, got one look at what was inside, and said, “Owen, I taught you better…
Why a Wardrobe Smells and How to Fix It
A musty wardrobe has this reputation as an inevitability of old buildings, like uneven floors or a radiator that only works in July. You open the door, you get that…
Making Clothes Smell Nice in a Wardrobe Without Overdoing It
I own eleven shirts I wear on rotation and I probably open that closet door around fourteen times a week, more if laundry’s backed up, which it usually is. And…
Dining Room Display Cabinet Ideas
I was standing on a kitchen chair at seven this morning, in my robe, holding a gravy boat I hadn’t touched since Thanksgiving 2019, trying to figure out if it…
Dressing Table Drawer Organization
I counted for a week, actual tally, little tick marks on a Post it stuck to my mirror. Fourteen times a day, on average, I open the top drawer of…
Glass Display Cabinet Ideas
Glass display cabinets have a reputation problem, and I get it. Say the phrase out loud and most people picture their grandmother’s dining room, a locked cabinet full of Hummel…
Living Room Display Cabinet Ideas
I bought my first proper display cabinet in 1994, a monstrous oak thing with brass hardware that the delivery men hated me for, and I filled it, within about a…