Thinking About a Blue Sofa? Here Is What Goes With It
There’s a specific moment this question stops being interesting and starts being urgent, and it’s not in the showroom. It’s the moment the delivery guys have gone, the plastic wrap…
Gray Bed Frames Are Easy to Buy and Surprisingly Fussy to Dress
“Gray goes with everything, just throw whatever bedding you’ve got on it.” That’s what the guy at the furniture store told me while I was standing there with my card…
One Console Table, Five Different Jobs
I was elbow deep in a bag of frozen peas, trying to get the last one off the kitchen floor before the dog found it, when my mom texted a…
Sideboard in the Hallway: What Goes On It, Over It and Beside It
“Rule of three, big mirror above it, lamp on each end.” That’s the sentence every interiors article says about a hallway sideboard, and it gets repeated so often that people…
Pairing Things With Light Blue Walls: Bedding, Rugs, Curtains and Floors
“That’s a nursery color, Aisha, you’re painting your bedroom like a nursery.” That was the guy I was seeing for about four months last year, standing in my bedroom doorway…
Beige Sofas Arent Boring, Theyre Just Under Styled
I saw a beige sofa once that made me want to apologize to it on behalf of whoever bought it. Flat, low pile, the exact same tone as the wall…
Living With a Brown Leather Sofa: What Sits Well Around It
My roommate had literally just set a mug of tea directly on the arm of my brown leather sofa, no coaster, nothing, and before I could even get the words…
Light Gray Walls Look Easy Until the Carpet and Curtains Show Up
A woman going through the same bin of drawer pulls as me at an estate sale off Waters Road leaned over, completely unprompted, and said “gray’s such a safe choice,…
Coffee Table Trial and Error: What Stayed and What Got Moved
What do you actually think a coffee table is for? Because I spent about three years furnishing mine like the answer was “displaying a single orchid and a stack of…
Brown Sofas Are Making a Quiet Return: How to Style One Now
A woman at the fabric counter, maybe thirty years old, tanned the way people who ski a lot are tanned, told me brown sofas were “having a moment.” She said…