The home decor market is enormous and genuinely uneven in quality. The brands with the most marketing presence are not always the brands producing ...

Most people's approach to bedding is pragmatic to the point of thoughtlessness — the duvet was bought because a duvet was needed, the sheets ...

The home coffee machine market generates a significant amount of wishful thinking. The machine that will produce cafe-quality espresso with no learning curve. The ...

The home decor conversation has a tendency toward the aspirational and the expensive — the renovation that transforms everything, the furniture investment that changes ...

The wall is the largest surface in any room and the one that most homes treat as the last priority. Furniture gets deliberated over. ...

The cookware market has a specific credibility problem. Marketing has become so sophisticated in this category that beautiful photography, compelling brand stories, and influencer ...

There is a specific category of home improvement that costs a fraction of what it appears to have cost and produces an immediate visible ...

Lighting is the home improvement that produces the most dramatic change per pound or dollar spent, and consistently the one that gets the least ...

Introduction Small living rooms have a way of making you question every piece of furniture you own. The sofa looks fine in one corner, but then ...

Introduction A rental living room can feel a bit strange at first. You bring in your sofa, set up the TV, put the coffee table somewhere ...