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Apartment decor ideas and home gifts to start with. Shop pieces that make decorating your first place feel easy.
Read EditorialApartment decor ideas and home gifts to start with. Shop pieces that make decorating your first place feel easy.
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The pots, pie dishes and table pieces that make slow weekends of baking and braising feel special.
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Home gifts for mom should suit the house everyone already wants to spend holidays in. Scented terracotta from Santa Maria Novella, animal motif pillows and a table set with painted porcelain all fit the bill. This edit is for the mother who lights candles at the same hour every evening and notices when a pillow is new.

Diptyque opened in Paris in 1961 as a shop for fabric and travel finds, then made its first three candles in 1963 and its first eau de toilette in 1968. A guide to the classic candles, from Baies and Figuier to Feu de Bois and Santal, plus how to choose between a candle, a diffuser and a scent for skin.

Colorful blankets, pillows, silk sleep gear and glass for a bedroom that feels like you. It is for anyone who wants more color around the bed.

12 candles, diffusers and candle holders from Taith, Cire Trudon, Venus et Fleur and Hotel Collection, priced $44 to $140.
Vases, candles and decorative objects: 12 pieces for the home, priced from 30 to 325 dollars. I picked them from The Favorites, and all are in stock now.

The average price of a candle worth buying runs fifty to a hundred and thirty dollars in a small format, roughly a dollar a gram of wax. I go from small formats to the large pours and holders, and where the money really goes.
Read EditorialThe average price of a candle worth buying runs fifty to a hundred and thirty dollars in a small format, roughly a dollar a gram of wax. I go from small formats to the large pours and holders, and where the money really goes.
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Loveseat sleepers are how you host overnight guests in a home with no guest room. These are the ones I would look at, plus the bedding that makes a pull-out feel like a real bed.

Paddywax is a candle company that started in an Atlanta kitchen in 1996 and still treats the jar as half the point. I like the way a candle here turns into a little object for the room long after the wax is gone.

Round, drum or nesting: the shape of a side table decides whether it works next to your sofa. Start with the arm height, then pick the outline.

Boucle looks delicate and behaves like a loop pile. Shop 18 boucle ottomans and chairs from Wayfair and Lulu and Georgia.
An accent chair has to do a job before it does anything decorative. Shop 18 accent chairs from Wayfair and TOV Furniture.

Cane and rattan furniture is made of two different materials, and they age in very different ways.

Console table height behind a sofa should sit level with the back. Shop 19 console tables from Wayfair and TOV Furniture.

Porcelain, crystal, silver plate and cast iron, and how to tell which is worth the money.

How many dinner plates, side plates and serving pieces a household actually uses, and the honest number to buy before you run out of cupboard.

A 2 seater sofa takes three cushions, and a standard three seater takes more. Shop 30 cushions and throws from Pratesi and Nordic Knots.

What actually goes on an empty console table, in what order, and how to fill a surface with three objects instead of ten.

What vintage furniture actually holds in value, bracket by bracket, and which pieces are bought as furniture rather than as an investment.

How to layer glassware on a table without buying a matching set, starting with the water glass and ending with a decanter.