All essays — Peace Love Decor

● Living Room — May 02 · 6 min read

We sold the second armchair for forty euros and bought a floor cushion and a low pine bench instead. Total saved: six hundred euros and two …

● Living Room — May 02 · 3 min read

Our entryway was a corridor that ate keys, coats, and dignity. A jute mat, a brass coat hook, and a thrifted bench later, it lets us in and …

● Workshop — May 02 · 4 min read

A neighbour was throwing out an oak plank with a long crack. We took it. By Saturday morning it was a side table that the cat preferred over…

● Vintage Hunt — May 02 · 3 min read

We bought it because it was cheap and white. Three years and roughly two thousand washes later, the dish has become one of the small reasons…

● Reading Nook — May 02 · 4 min read

We bought five chairs and sent five chairs back. The sixth has not moved from the corner of the living room in two years. Here is what we le…

● Garden — May 02 · 3 min read

We tried six herbs in three pots. Three died, three lived through a forty-degree week and our forgetting. Here is what stayed and what we le…

● Small Spaces — May 02 · 3 min read

We changed every switch plate in the flat over a Saturday afternoon. Total cost: thirty-six euros. The flat now looks like ours instead of e…

● Color & Paint — May 02 · 4 min read

Limewash is the only paint that gets better as you make mistakes with it. After a Tuesday with a brush and a plastic tub, our hallway has th…

● Workshop — May 02 · 4 min read

We needed a place for the spices that did not look like a place for the spices. One plank of European beech, a Saturday's worth of dovetails…

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