As unassuming as it is amongst a catalog of big, fancy, plush living room and accent chair designs, we weren’t sure how we’d feel about the Slope Leather Lounge Chair. It has a good look to it, but doesn’t appear particularly comfortable or well built. Well, as I like to tell my wife, appearances aren’t […]

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Finally, a West Elm item where the images don’t actually do it any justice. In person, this rug has both style & class and looks sharp to boot. The rug wears well. It has some light shedding issues but nothing major and it doesn’t create a shaggy appearance at any point. It cleans easily. The […]

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This is our favorite of the mid-century “cabinet” line, which includes the cabinets, bar cabinet, and buffets. The entire line is build simply and sturdily, but the buffet happens to be a real eye catcher, especially in person. What we like about the build in the buffet as is the same in the rest of […]

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A real eye catcher in the store, the West Elm Lenox Dining Chair unfortunately doesn’t seem quite as pleasing on closer inspection. The lines & general style, velvet fabric and relative elegance make this the kind of chair you want to love. Unfortunately, we found several issues with it which we simply couldn’t let pass. For […]

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Quality: The classic café upholstered chairs are constructed with a solid wood frame. The leg supports are attached with biscuit joints and the seat base is screwed on, making it altogether a pretty sturdy piece of furniture likely to hold up under all but the weightiest conditions. If you buy the upholstered version, there’s a […]

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The West Elm Vines Wool Rug caught our attention in photos but when we went to check it out in the store we were quite a bit less enthused about it. Nevertheless, we brought it home as it met the specs of what we were looking for regarding style, color (we chose the neutral), and […]

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The Mid-Century bar car has been our favorite West Elm bar cart if for nothing else the pure stability it provides from it’s better-than-the-others build quality. This is a bar cart you actually could roll across a carpet without having to make sure you’ve tightened the screws first, whereas most West Elm bar carts get […]

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The Valentina Chair by West Elm comes in both a swivel and non-swivel version, priced $799 and $699 accordingly. It photographs pretty well with its soft looking “velvet” upholstery, slanted back and deep seat. So how does it far in the real life test? To start with, it looks kind of small. It is kind […]

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The distressed foliage rug by West Elm is incredibly photogenic, especially in the “Moonstone” color which offers hues of blue interspersed with white. From a design perspective, we appreciate how the rug adds texture and optional color while staying muted enough to blend in with any variance of furniture or stylistic settings. Construction quality seems […]

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