Decoration has gotten a bad rap, and so has the appellation “decorator” as opposed to “designer.” There is a very real distinction between the two terms, mostly in that some states license designers, but let decorators go willy-nilly into that great world of paint color and fabric swatches without state approval. This distinction has led [...]

Have you ever wondered about Thanksgiving décor? I am wondering about it right now myself. Not because I have any, thank god, but because my neighbors’ apartment door now has a bunch of corn, what we used to call “Indian Corn” tied in a little bouquet and somehow (duct tape? Crazy Glue?) attached to it, just below [...]

This is about the weirdest thing. 
No, that’s a tremendous exaggeration. There are many other weirder things. But really, going into a bed store in mid-town Manhattan, mid-day, and taking a nap in nearly-silent, windowless room, is right up there. 
Apparently not so weird, however, for the clerks at the Dux store. There, the clerk happily remembered my [...]

Well, it seems beds and bedding and mattress choice is on more minds than just Stylehound’s.
One reader writes in to report that after buying a Sealy, they brought it back within three months because it was sagging, then were happy with a latex mattress from Ikea.
And another reader, bless her critical little heart, writes in [...]

Once Sam and I had collected ourselves after our ill-fated Bedgate at Macy’s, I started noticing that indeed, I was waking up feeling tired and stiff and unhappy—the primary symptom of need a new bed.  
So I more seriously launched into the research on this whole question of buying a bed, and discovered something called [...]

So, Sam began bed shopping. 
One drawback to having a fully and happily employed boyfriend (okay, maybe the only drawback) is that he is busy a lot, and so Sam asked me, Stylehound that I am, to accompany her on her preliminary search for a new bed. The Bachelor would be brought in as necessary at [...]