Furniture & Accessories

Buying furniture for a real home means navigating frame quality, cushion construction, fabric durability, scale, and delivery quirks long after the showroom photo has done its job. Our furniture and accessories coverage focuses on the unglamorous decisions that determine whether a piece looks the way you hoped six months in: sofa seat depth versus arm height, the difference between solid hardwood and engineered ply at a given price, why some rugs shed for two years and others not at all.

Accessory pieces — table lamps, throws, ceramics, mirrors, side tables — get the same treatment. We pick out the items that actually move a room (a 2700 K bulb in a wall sconce; a heavyweight linen throw with weight that drapes; a ceramic vessel sized to its plinth) and skip the ones that fill a shelf without doing visual work.

Use the archive below to compare specific products, learn the buying criteria for a given category, or find the room context where a piece earns its keep. Every recommendation is editorially selected; affiliate links never influence selection.