Yes, you can put an electric fireplace in an apartment. They are vent-free, need no chimney, gas line, or permit, and run off a normal 120V outlet, which makes the best electric fireplaces for apartments the only real fireplace option most renters will ever have. We compared 12 of them over six weeks, weighing heat … Read more
The best bookcase for a living room is usually the VASAGLE Ladder Shelf if you want a small footprint and serious load capacity, or the Furinno LUDER 5-Cube if your wall is short and awkward. That is the short answer. The longer answer is that the best bookcases for living rooms are the ones that … Read more
A bedroom office only works if the desk respects the room. That means depth you can walk past, a width that stops before it blocks the doorway, and a frame that does not wobble when you type at 11pm. After six weeks of measuring bedrooms and living with these desks side by side, the best … Read more
Bar stools with backs are counter-height stools with a backrest, usually built with a 24 to 26 inch seat height, and they are the seating most kitchens actually want at an island. The back supports your lower back during a long sit, it gives you something to push against when you climb up, and it … Read more
The best dining tables for small apartments are round pedestal tables around 31.5 inches across, drop-leaf tables that collapse to a console, and narrow rectangles that slide against a wall. Our pick for most studios is the 31.5-inch tulip round table, which seats two to four at a 29-inch dining height and takes up barely … Read more
Stair carpet takes the dirt from every room in the house and rarely gets cleaned properly, because hauling a full-size upright up a flight of steps is awkward and risky. The machines that work on stairs are the compact extraction units you can set at the bottom of the staircase and carry up step by … Read more
A good canister vacuum changes the way you clean bare wood. It pulls grit straight off the boards instead of pushing it around, keeps fine dust sealed away from your floor finish, and rolls over sealed hardwood without leaving a scratch behind. Those three qualities matter far more on wood than anywhere else in the … Read more
Two dogs and a wall-to-wall carpet is a combination that breaks most cheap robots in about three months. The roller wraps, the suction drops, and you are back to a full-size upright twice a week. After running these ten machines through shedding season in a two-dog, one-cat home, I can tell you exactly which ones … Read more
If you want one cordless vacuum that does almost everything well and still clears the budget ceiling, the Shark Vertex Pro IZ682H is the one I keep recommending. It is the only model in this lineup that pairs a self-cleaning brushroll, HEPA filtration, two swappable batteries and a display that tells you the remaining runtime. … Read more
I spent the last two months sleeping on all ten of the pillows in this guide, in the position that matters most for this topic: flat on my back, arms at my sides, no knee bolster, no extra pillows stacked behind me. That last part is deliberate. Most pillow roundups quietly test a pillow on … Read more