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…
The Velvet Bed Frame We Still Have and Still Like
Nearly everyone in this office thinks the velvet bed frame was the right call, the exception being one person who still maintains, four years on, that we should have gone…
Is a White Kitchen Table Really Worth the Money?
If you go back through the archive on this site, there was a solid two year stretch where anyone who mentioned wanting a white kitchen table got quietly talked out…
Should You Buy a Wooden Planter? The Team Is Split
A delivery driver said it first, actually, dumping a wooden planter on the porch and going “oh that’s nice, that’ll look proper expensive once it’s grayed out a bit.” Which…