Console Table Behind a Couch: Sizing and What to Put on It
The reputation console tables have is that they’re furniture store filler. You know the vignette. Three matching books nobody’s ever going to read, a glass vase with two dried stems…
Lower Shelf of a Console Table: Baskets, Books and Beyond
I currently own eleven baskets whose entire job in life is to sit on the bottom shelf of my console table. Eleven. I counted them last week while my roommate…
Using the Lower Shelf of a Coffee Table
I was on my knees Tuesday morning, vacuum attachment in one hand, phone flashlight in the other, trying to work out what exactly had colonized the space under my coffee…
The Bottom Shelf of a Bookcase: Heavy, Hidden or Handy
I bought a full set of Encyclopedia Britannica off a woman on Facebook Marketplace for forty dollars, which felt like a genuine triumph at the time. Twenty six volumes, 1987…
Nightstand Styling: What You Reach for in the Dark
I counted them last Sunday, out of something between curiosity and dread, standing at my own nightstand at eleven at night instead of doing literally anything else with my evening.…
Protecting a Coffee Table Without Hiding It
My sister walked into the living room, looked at the ring already sitting on the coffee table from somebody’s iced tea, looked at me, and said, “You wrote a whole…
Coffee Table Styling Rules of Thumb
I counted last week, out of morbid curiosity, because I’d just rearranged my coffee table for the third time in four days and needed to know if that was a…
Bathroom Vanity Countertop: What Stays Out and What Goes Away
I checked my phone’s screen time app for something unrelated last week and it reminded me, weirdly, that I open my bathroom cabinet about eleven times a day. I didn’t…
Vanity Table: What to Leave Out and What to Put Away
Here’s the thing everyone says about vanity tables: they’re a Pinterest fantasy, not a real piece of furniture. A flat surface that exists purely so you can photograph a candle…
Small Side Table Ideas for Tight Rooms
I counted the other night, out of pure boredom slash procrastination, how many times I actually touch the side table next to my bed in one evening. Fourteen. FOURTEEN times,…