The Day We Finally Replaced the Rattan Dining Chair
It was a guest who said it, not one of us, which is honestly the only reason anyone in the office listened. She sat down at the table, shifted twice,…
The Rattan Egg Chair We Wish We Had Measured For
The delivery driver said it before any of us did, standing in the doorway with the box on a trolley going “you know that’s not actually going to fit through…
“The Rattan End Table We Regret
There is one person on this team who cannot walk past a rattan anything without touching it first, palm flat, like she’s checking a loaf of bread for doneness. We’ve…
The Rattan Patio Chair We Keep Buying for Friends
Almost everyone on this team has bought this chair as a gift at least once, and almost everyone will tell you it’s the correct move. There’s one holdout who thinks…
The Rattan Patio Table That Looked Better Online
There is a running joke in this group chat that has outlived three house moves, one breakup, and at least two different rattan tables, and it is this: someone always…
Living With a Leather Recliner Chair: The Honest Version
The argument was about whether a recliner counts as a real piece of furniture or just a large beige apology for not owning a sofa. It ran for months. It…
The Leather Sofa That Earned Its Place at Home
Whoever sits down last gets the arm rest, and whoever gets the arm rest has to actually get up if anyone needs a glass of water, and nobody ever volunteers,…
The LED Desk Lamp We’d Happily Buy Secondhand
Someone brought a secondhand LED desk lamp back from a car boot sale for four pounds, held it up like a trophy, and caused a proper argument that lasted the…
The Plug in Wall Sconce We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
We keep coming back to the same two lamps whenever this argument starts up again, the brass swing arm one that lived in the room with the reading chair for…
Thinking About an LED Mirror Cabinet? Read This First
There was a running argument in this team for the better part of a year about warm light versus cold light in a mirror cabinet, the kind of argument that…