Kitchen Counter Decor: What Earns a Place
A kitchen counter is a work surface that happens to be on display. Every object left on it is competing with the job the surface…
A kitchen counter is a work surface that happens to be on display. Every object left on it is competing with the job the surface…
A small room does not need to look bigger. It needs to stop looking crowded, which is a different problem with different solutions. Most advice…
There are only a few things a chair can do. Everything else — the wings, the barrels, the bentwood, the names — is variation on…
A Thanksgiving table has to hold more food than any other meal of the year, and most tablescapes are designed as though it won’t. This…
A bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the one asked to hold the most. Something has to give, and usually it is…
A wall is the largest surface in any room and the last one anybody decides about. It usually shows. Floors get chosen, furniture gets agonized…
A mantel is the only shelf in the house with an audience. It gets looked at whether or not anything has been done to it.…
Autumn does not arrive in a box of decorations. It arrives at four in the afternoon, when the light turns gold and then goes out.…
Everything else in a living room sits on the rug. It decides what the room is before anything else gets a say. A living room…
A coffee table sits at the center of the room, and every object in it eventually passes across its surface. Choosing the right coffee table…
A good book deserves better light than a phone flashlight propped against a pillow. For most of the twentieth century, the reading lamp was an…