Light Purple Walls Are Easier to Live With Than Youd Guess
People will argue about light purple walls like they’re arguing about school districts, real heat, genuine betrayal in their voice if you say the wrong thing, and then the actual…
Does a Large Decorative Vase Need Anything Inside?
I bought my first genuinely large vase from a home store outside Pooler, and I did everything wrong with it inside the first week. It was a floor vase, cream…
Big Vases and What to Fill Them With
I reach for the big vase in my front hall entryway roughly four times a week between October and December, which is a strange thing to know about yourself but…
Buying a Vase Just to Look At: What Fills It
Okay so the vase story. I bought a vase before I owned a single flower to put in it, which in retrospect was the first sign I had no plan.…
The Wall Above Your Headboard: What Deserves the Space
I was stripping the bed on a Tuesday, which is not a day that usually produces revelations, but there I was with the fitted sheet balled up under one arm…
Fire Pit on a Wooden Deck: What Goes Underneath
I scorched a two hundred dollar propane fire pit purchase down to a $40 embarrassment in under thirty minutes, and I want to be honest about exactly how it happened…
What to Keep in a Nightstand Drawer
I used to think a nightstand drawer was basically a filing cabinet for my whole personality. Old receipts, three different lip balms all dried to nothing, a phone charger that…
Olive Green Sofas and the Pillows That Suit Them
I saw someone on a Facebook furniture group declare, with real confidence, that olive green sofas should only ever get white or oatmeal pillows because “anything else fights it.” Scrolled…
Setting Up a Living Room Around a Cream Sofa
My colleague from two desks over came into a meeting last month holding a red Solo cup full of coffee, the kind you’d bring to a tailgate, not a Tuesday…
Teal Sofa Pillows That Make the Color Look Planned
I bought my teal sofa four years ago, in a fit of confidence I still can’t fully explain, and for three of those years I dressed it with whatever pillows…