The Cotton Placemat We’d Happily Buy Twice
We have bought this cotton placemat set three separate times now, which for an item that costs less than a round of drinks is either a ringing endorsement or proof…
The Day We Finally Replaced the Cotton Blanket
The old cotton blanket finally got binned after someone staying over asked, very politely, if we had “a spare one that wasn’t see through.” That was the whole review, really,…
The Ones Who Love the Ceramic Table Lamp and the Ones Who Don’t
Nearly all of us agree the ceramic table lamp is the best looking thing in most rooms it sits in and also, somehow, the most useless at doing the one…
Our Long Running Ceramic Planter Argument
A delivery driver once stood in the doorway holding a box marked FRAGILE in three languages and said, completely unprompted, “you lot really do love your pots, don’t you,” and…
What Owning a Black Vase Is Really Like
Someone brought a black vase into the office to settle a debate about whether the matte finish shows dust more than gloss, and it caused a proper argument that ran…
The Black Umbrella Stand Our Guests Always Comment On
Nobody puts their umbrella in it properly and it is genuinely exhausting to watch. There is a black umbrella stand sitting by the door, doing its one job, and instead…
The Black Toilet We Still Have and Still Like
The black toilet has been in the downstairs bathroom for four years now and it still gets a comment from anyone using it for the first time, usually somewhere between…
Where We Landed on a Black Faucet
Someone on this team touches the black faucet with wet hands, dries it with whatever towel is nearest, and then acts personally wounded when it shows a mark, and nobody…
“The Black Table Lamp We Regret
Whoever put the black lamp on the shelving order should have to be the one who dusts it, and yet somehow that has never once happened in three years. That…
The Ceramic Plant Pot We Overthought
Someone on the team put in eleven hours of research on a plant pot. Eleven. There is a spreadsheet, we have seen the spreadsheet, it has tabs. Drainage hole diameter,…