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.
Home office
The Solid Wood Desk for the Home Office
This solid wood desk offers a substantial workspace with a timeless design.
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Reading corner
The Return of the Chaise Longue
The chaise longue offers a distinct seating option for a dedicated reading space.
Reading corner
The Return of the Rattan Chaise
A rattan chaise longue offers a relaxed seating option with natural texture and classic style.
Reading corner
The Green Armchair
A deep green armchair offers a comfortable and stylish seating option for a quiet corner.
Dining room
The Round Pedestal Dining Table
A round pedestal dining table offers both elegance and practical space-saving benefits in a dining room.
Dining room
The Pedestal Dining Table
A round pedestal dining table anchors this dining room.
Reading corner
The Mid-Century Modern Armchair
This armchair offers a classic mid-century profile, suitable for various interior schemes.
Reading corner
The Return of the Chaise Lounge
The chaise lounge offers a dedicated space for repose and quiet contemplation.
Bedroom
The Curved Upholstered Headboard in Bedroom Design
This bedroom features an upholstered bed with a distinctive curved headboard, set against a textured wall.
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.
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.
Home office
A desk with drawers is an admission that you own things
The drawerless desk is a beautiful promise most people cannot keep. Here is the honest version, and a rule for each drawer.
Dining room
The dining room is the right place for dark walls
Dining rooms live after dark, under one light. That is why grey-brown plaster works here and fails in the sitting room.
Small spaces
Where a daybed actually works
A backless daybed is a single bed doing sofa work. The rooms that suit it, the bolster that makes it sittable, and the depths that matter.
Reading corner
Take the wingback out of the library
The wings were draught-proofing for unheated halls. The job is gone; the shape still earns a corner, if you keep it out of the club.
Bedroom
The bench at the foot of the bed is furniture, not decoration
A foot-of-bed bench earns its place by width and height. Get either wrong and it becomes an obstacle you walk around.
Reading corner
The exposed frame is why the corner still breathes
A Danish wood-frame armchair carries half the visual weight of a fully upholstered one. In a small corner, that is the whole decision.
Bedroom
The rug under the bed is almost certainly too small
A rug under a bed must clear the sides by 450-600mm. Here is the sizing arithmetic, and why too small reads worse than none.
Reading corner
The slipcovered wingback is the only armchair you can wash
A loose linen cover keeps the wingback's architecture and discards the fuss. Off, washed at 30 degrees, back on damp.
Living room
The indoor olive tree, and the window it demands
An olive lives indoors on one condition — hours of direct sun. What it needs in light, pot and drainage, and why it still beats a fig.