Home desk
The Home desk reads the retailers who furnish rooms: sofas and beds, lamps and linen, flowers by post and the small decorative objects that arrive in tissue paper. We are interested in how a thing is made, what it costs to send back, and whether the pictures are telling the truth.
Simba, read closely: clever springs, a long trial and a price that is forever being cleared
Well-reviewed hybrid mattresses on a long trial, let down by an aftercare desk that is hard to reach. Read
Solid, quietly handsome furniture with a serious guarantee, sold by a firm with patchy logistics. Read
Loaf, read closely: lovely sofas, kind shop staff and a delivery calendar written in pencil
Squashy made-to-order sofas worth sitting on first, with delivery dates best treated as a hopeful estimate. Read
Heal’s, read closely: handsome furniture, honest small print, and a returns policy that bites
Design-led furniture with a lifetime frame guarantee, sold on terms that reward certainty and punish second thoughts. Read
A sensible hybrid mattress on a long trial, best bought refurbished and with the returns rules read first. Read
Clever letterbox flowers and a sound freshness promise, let down by deliveries that sometimes slip. Read
6 pieces on this desk