What We’d Tell a Friend Buying a Black Filing Cabinet
One of us has kept the same black filing cabinet for eleven years and treats it like a small filing shrine, everything alphabetized, everything labelled, the drawer glides open with…
The Black End Table We Keep Buying for Friends
We are, as a group, nearly unanimous that this thing is the correct answer whenever somebody’s moving in together, turning thirty, or getting divorced and furnishing a sad new flat…
Our Long Running Black Vanity Table Argument
One of us thinks a black vanity table is the single best piece of furniture a bedroom can own, and another has been quietly campaigning to have hers removed for…
The Black Dining Table Debate in Our Group Chat
Someone dropped a photo into the group chat of a black table with chunky pedestal legs and the words “this one, non negotiable” and honestly it has not settled since.…
The Black Dining Chair We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
Someone on this team admitted, unprompted and slightly ashamed, that they spent three years telling people black dining chairs “show everything.” Dust, crumbs, the ghost outline of every dog that’s…
Outdoor Cushions Living Outdoors: Is the Label Telling the Truth?
Outdoor cushions have a reputation, and it’s not a good one. Everyone I know treats the word “outdoor” on a cushion tag the way you’d treat a stranger’s promise to…
Pairing Floor Lamps: Matched or Mixed?
I was vacuuming around the arc lamp in my living room on a Sunday afternoon, the kind of Sunday where you tell yourself you’re just tidying and then four hours…
Pendant Lights and Low Ceilings: The Head Bump Test
I bought a pendant light for my dining nook that looked exactly right in the photo. Black metal, this big sculptural cage shape, hanging low over a little round table…
A Mirror in the Bedroom: Superstition Versus Sense
I was on my knees in my own bedroom last Tuesday with a stud finder running along the wall behind where my bed sits, trying to figure out where I…
An Open Fire Pit in the Backyard: Who Decides?
Okay so backyard fire pits have this reputation of being the easiest, most “just go outside and do it” purchase in the whole outdoor category. You see one on someone’s…