The Honest Story of Our Ergonomic Office Chair
Someone in this office bought a chair described as “editorial grade” and then spent three weeks adjusting the lumbar dial like it owed them money, and the rest of us…
The Executive Office Chair We’d Happily Buy Secondhand
There is a chair in the office that arrived secondhand from someone’s dad’s dental practice, allegedly, and it has outlasted three laptops and one entire operating system. Nobody remembers who…
The Extendable Dining Table Nobody Talks About Enough
Nobody on this team actually argues about the table itself. What we argue about is what kind of person needs twelve seats twice a year and keeps the leaves in…
The Ones Who Love the Extendable Kitchen Table and the Ones Who Don’t
Someone on this team admitted last week, completely unprompted, that they spent two years telling anyone who’d listen that extendable tables were a scam for people who couldn’t commit to…
The Grommet Curtains That Won Over the Skeptics
A guest at one of our gatherings, standing in front of the window with a wine glass, said “oh, I didn’t know anyone still did the metal ring thing” in…
The Fabric Bed Frame We’d Happily Buy Twice
Someone on the team finally admitted, unprompted, that the first fabric bed frame we bought was chosen entirely because it looked good in a photo taken from a flattering angle,…
The Fabric Office Chair Our Guests Always Comment On
Nobody in this office visits without saying something about the chair, which we didn’t ask for and honestly can’t explain anymore, we’ve stopped bracing for it. One of us thinks…
“The Fabric Recliner Chair We Regret
There is a fabric recliner in the corner of the shared living room that has caused more low grade tension than the thermostat, and that is saying something in this…
The Full Headboard That Survived the Kids and the Dog
The argument was about whether a full sized headboard could survive a household with two kids under nine and a dog who treats the bed as a launch pad. One…
“The Full Mattress We Talked Ourselves Out Of
The delivery driver was the one who said it, dumping the mattress in the hallway and asking if this was going in a spare room, because “nobody buys a full…