The Gray Armchair That Survived the Kids and the Dog
There was a solid two months where this armchair was the single most argued about object in the building, not because anyone disliked it, everyone wanted it, the argument was…
Is a Gold Table Lamp Overrated? We Argued About It
One of us thinks the gold table lamp is the single most overrated object in a soft furnishings shop, a brass shaped apology for not having any actual ideas about…
The Gold Sideboard We Didn’t Expect to Love
The gold sideboard caused a proper argument the day it arrived, before it had even been unwrapped properly. Someone had ordered it off the back of one photo, no discussion,…
The Gold Mirror We Wish We Had Measured For
There was a proper argument the week someone turned up with a mirror that had been measured, apparently, “by eye.” Full width of a hallway wall gone, and not in…
Why We Keep Coming Back to a Gold Floor Lamp
There’s a gold floor lamp in the corner of the office that has been dusted so many times the shade has gone slightly matte where the cloth catches it, and…
The Ones Who Love the Gold Vanity Table and the Ones Who Don’t
One of us thinks the gold vanity table is the single best piece of furniture the office has ever bought. Another looks at it every morning like it personally wronged…
The Gold Wall Clock We Almost Sent Back
The box sat unopened in the hallway for four days, which tells you almost everything about the hesitation before we’d even got the tape off it. Gold wall clocks look…
“We Bought a Glass Lamp Table
There is one person on this team who cannot walk past a lamp shop without a receipt in her hand within four minutes, and the glass lamp table is technically…
The Glass Patio Table We Keep Talking About
The glass patio table comes up in the office more than any other single object we own between us, which is strange for something that just sits outside and holds…
The Glass Vanity Table We’d Happily Buy Twice
We keep coming back to the same comparison whenever this comes up, which is the old black glass one with the gold trim that someone bought in 2019 versus the…