Small Coffee Table: Making a Little Surface Work Hard
Small coffee tables have a reputation for being the consolation prize of furniture, the thing you buy when you couldn’t fit the real coffee table, the one with the ottoman…
Sideboard Styling Rules of Thumb
My sister walked into my dining room last month, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, “Isla. Since when do you own a sideboard that doesn’t wobble.” Which, fair. For…
Living Room Side Table: What Should Be Within Reach
Side tables have a reputation as the furniture equivalent of an afterthought. You buy the sofa first, you agonize over the rug, you spend actual weeks deciding on curtains, and…
Round Coffee Tables: Why Styling Them Is Easier Than It Looks
I was on my knees in my own living room on a Tuesday night, moving the rug for the fourth time that month, when I caught my shin on the…
Glass Coffee Tables: Living With the Fingerprints
I wipe down my coffee table somewhere between six and ten times a day. I know this because I started counting one particularly bad week in February, mostly out of…
Dining Room Sideboard: Serving, Storing and Showing Off
I own six dining room sideboards right now, if you count the one currently living in a storage unit in Daly City because I couldn’t bear to donate it and…
Hallway Console Table Ideas That Set the Tone at the Door
I currently own four console tables, which is objectively too many for one person living alone in half of a triple-decker, and I want to be upfront about that number…
Coffee Table Styling for a Living Room: How Much Is Too Much
I bought an entire coffee table’s worth of decor in one trip to a big box store once, and I mean the whole thing, tray, three “coordinating” candles, a stack…
Styling a Bedroom Dresser Top
I once spent forty one dollars on a “vignette.” That’s the word the caption used, some interiors account showing a dresser with a leaning round mirror, three ceramic objects, a…
Bedroom Side Tables: More Than a Lamp and a Phone
For years I figured the bedroom side table was the one piece of furniture in the house you didn’t need to think about. Bed’s the main event, dresser’s got a…