Interiors, considered
Rooms worth
sitting in.
Room studies and furniture notes for people building a home slowly. Every study starts with one piece of furniture and works outward — what sits beside it, what light it needs, what it costs to get the look.
Kitchen & dining
The banquette is the best small-kitchen decision you can make
A built-in bench turns an awkward corner into four seats and storage. Here is how the proportions actually work.
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Home office
A cane-back chair is the cheapest way to make a desk look considered
Solid-back office chairs make a room feel like an office. Woven cane does the opposite, and costs less.
Reading corner
Where to put a chaise longue so it gets used
Most chaises end up as expensive laundry shelves. The fix is light, and it is not decorative.
Reading corner
Buy the leather chair used
New leather looks new for about a decade. The patina you actually want takes twenty years, and someone else has already done it.
Dining room
Round tables seat more people than you think
A 120cm round top seats six. The same footprint as a rectangle that seats four.
Bedroom
The spindle bed, and why it suits a small bedroom
A solid headboard is a wall. A spindle frame lets the room continue behind it.