Which Color Coffee Table Should You Get?
I own three coffee tables right now, spread across a two bedroom apartment in Boston that does not have three living rooms to put them in. One is doing its…
Fire Pit on Grass: Protecting the Lawn
I own six separate things whose entire job is to stop my fire pit from murdering my lawn. Six. A heat resistant mat that lives folded in the shed for…
Coffee Tables for a Room Full of Black Furniture
My friend Marguerite walked into my living room in October, looked at the black leather sofa, the black bookshelf, the black metal lamp I’d been very pleased with myself for…
Floating TV Stand: What Goes Underneath
I own three floating TV stands. Three. Across two houses and one truly regrettable rental in between, I have mounted three separate slabs of wood to three separate walls, and…
Comforters for a Blue Headboard
I was on my knees on a drop sheet in my bedroom at eleven on a Sunday morning, sanding the top rail of a headboard I’d bought off Facebook Marketplace…
Protecting a Wood Table From a Vase
My dad picked up the vase off my kitchen table last week, turned it over like he was checking a weld, and said, “You got nothing under this.” Not a…
Comforters for a Brown Headboard
I used to think brown headboards were a design dead end. The kind of thing you inherit from a rental or buy in a hurry at a warehouse store and…
Dressers That Go With a Pax Wardrobe
I bought a dresser off Facebook Marketplace once, seventy dollars, drove forty minutes each way to get it, absolutely thrilled with myself, and got it home to stand next to…
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…
Area Rugs for Light Hardwood Floors
I bought a rug once that I genuinely thought made my living room look like a hospital waiting area. Light gray wool, chunky loop pile, looked incredible online sitting on…