What We’d Tell a Friend Buying a Round Rug
If a friend asked us about round rugs, the first thing we’d have to admit is that half the office thinks a circle in a square room looks deliberate and…
The Full Comforter We Keep Talking About
This one comes up in the office more than almost anything else we stock opinions on, and the actual argument is never about the comforter itself. Nobody’s fighting over fill…
The Wood Plant Stand We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
One of us has three plants on this stand and treats it like a shrine, dusted, rotated toward the window every few days, nothing allowed to droop on its watch.…
The Wooden Bed Frame We’d Skip Next Time
There is a wooden bed frame currently disassembling itself in slow motion in a spare room, and it keeps getting compared, unfavorably, to a frame that got thrown out four…
The White Hallway Shoe Storage We Almost Sent Back
It arrived, went up against the wall, and within about four minutes the group chat had already decided it was going straight back. White gloss, hallway, seventy centimetres wide, and…
The Wooden Patio Bench That Earned Its Place at Home
There is a running joke in this group chat about the person who wiped down the patio bench before every single use for an entire summer, like it owed them…
Is a White Kids Desk Overrated? We Argued About It
Nearly everyone here has landed on the same conclusion: the white kids desk is a bit of a con, a nice looking promise that lasts about four months before it…
The Wooden Patio Chair We Overthought
If you go back through everything this account has said about wooden garden chairs over the years, you can actually watch the opinion drift, like a slow argument nobody remembers…
“We Bought a White Kitchen Island
The comparison that keeps coming up in the office is the old butcher block cart one of us had in a rental for years versus the white island that eventually…
The Wooden Patio Table Nobody Warned Us About
The argument that never quite ends around here is the teak table versus the acacia one, and honestly it should have been settled years ago. The teak table lived outside…