The Black Coffee Table We Bought on a Whim
It was meant to fill a gap for about a fortnight, a stopgap until someone made a proper decision, and instead it has been sitting there for the better part…
The Black TV Stand We Live With Every Single Day
The black TV stand in the front room has been there long enough that nobody remembers who actually chose it, only that it arrived, got put in place, and quietly…
“Small Room
The argument that keeps coming back in this office isn’t really about the chair. It’s about what kind of person folds a chair away the second they’re finished with it,…
The Gold Pendant Light That Looks Better in Real Life
There’s a brass dome pendant that lived over the kitchen island in one of our old flats for three years, and there’s the newer one, brushed gold with a slightly…
The Gold Side Table That Looked Better Online
The gold side table that lives in the corner of the office got compared, out loud, in the group chat, to the one someone else has holding up a lamp…
Living With a Round Dining Table: The Honest Version
Half of us think a round table is the single best decision you can make in a dining room, the other half think it’s a shape that only works if…
The Day We Finally Replaced the Taper Candle Holder
The old candle holder had been sitting on the dining table for so long that nobody actually looked at it anymore, which is exactly how a brass pair that had…
The Day We Finally Replaced the Gold Wall Sconce
The old sconce came down on a Tuesday, which nobody planned, it just finally happened, the way these things do after someone’s said “we should really sort that” for about…
The Height Adjustable Coffee Table We Keep Buying for Friends
We have bought this table four times now as a gift and it has revealed something none of us particularly wanted revealed, which is that half of this team eats…
A Leather Footstool Six Months In
Six months is exactly the point where a footstool stops being furniture you photographed for the group chat and starts being furniture you actually put your feet on, spill things…