Living With a Chrome Bar Stool: The Honest Version
Someone on the team admitted last week, unprompted, that they spent two years defending the first chrome stools we bought, the really cheap ones, purely because they didn’t want to…
The Ceramic Vase Nobody Talks About Enough
Someone on the team admitted last week, completely unprompted, that they spent four years buying vases for the flowers they thought they’d have rather than the flowers they actually bring…
“We Bought a Double Hammock
The trouble started before it even arrived, over a photo in a group chat, someone had sent round a picture of the exact one we were about to order and…
Thinking About a Full Bedding Set? Read This First
Someone on the team finally admitted, apropos of nothing, over lunch, that they spent four years buying whichever full set was cheapest and closest to the till, and that this…
A Full Bed Frame in Real Life: Love It or Leave It
One of us stood in the shop three years ago, ran a hand across a full frame headboard, and said “this is plenty of bed for two adults,” and we’re…
A Distressed Rug Six Months In
One person on this team has walked muddy boots straight across the distressed rug four separate times since it arrived and shown no remorse about a single one of them.…
The Cube Storage Unit We Almost Sent Back
The box arrived and one faction took one look and said it looked like a beehive that had given up. The other faction thought the honeycomb front was the entire…
Is a Counter Height Bar Stool Overrated? We Argued About It
Counter height bar stools get talked about like they’re furniture for people who peaked in 2015 and never left the kitchen island phase, and honestly we came into this piece…
Thinking About a Cotton Throw? Read This First
Whoever is on sofa duty at the end of the night is expected to fold the throw. Nobody assigned this. It just became true, the way a lot of things…
The Cotton Table Runner That Looked Simple and Wasn’t
The argument was about whether a runner needed to match the tablecloth at all, and it got settled the day someone turned up to dinner with a photo on their…