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How to Shop for Furniture on Instagram

 Business is booming for the city’s vintage-store owners and amateur thrifters who are using their Instagram accounts to sell secondhand housewares. By Hilary Reid
  1. What Are the Best Cloth Napkins? A simple way to elevate your at-home dining experience.
    By Lauren Ro
  2. 23 Floor Lamps, Vetted 23 Ways Including an elegant vertical LED light and a circular lamp that looks like the many Charli XCX has.
    By Louis Cheslaw and Lauren Ro
  3. This Etsy Shop Sells Some Extremely Nice Lamps At a fraction of the price they would be anywhere else.
    By Hilary Reid
  4. The Best Winter Houseplants (and How to Care for Them), According to Experts Keep your indoor tropical garden lush, even when it’s dark and dreary outside.
    By Karen Iorio Adelson
  5. Chess Forum’s Imad Khachan Talks 25 Years on Thompson Street With @NewYorkNico “It’s something that time forgot, I feel like — the place — and me in it.”
    By Nicolas Heller
  6. What’s the Best Doormat? “They are, hands down, the coolest doormats you’ll find right now.”
    By Leah Muncy
  7. The Holiday Gifts Regular Visitors Founder Daniel Sorg Would Stock in His Store The shop owner who shuttered his beloved corner spot this fall shares the products from small businesses he would carry this season.
    By Daniel Sorg
  8. The Beauty-Supply Store Run by a 16-Year-Old In September, just as her Zoom classes were starting, high-school senior Paris McKenzie held the grand opening of Paris Beauty Supplyz.
    By Sydney Gore
  9. The Best Gifts for Minimalists, According to Minimalists What to get the person who wants for nothing … literally.
    By Dominique Pariso
  10. My ‘Very De Stijl’ Yellow Dining Table Cost Less Than A Fancy Dinner For Two “Something out of The Jetsons,” “ingeniously minimalist,” and “very De Stijl” are just three ways people have described the affordable furniture.
    By Eric Margulies
  11. The Best Housewarming Gifts, According to Cool Homeowners (and Renters) From sleek security cameras to fancy salt.
    By Louis Cheslaw
  12. The Giant Rug My Instagram Followers Always Ask Me About Only Costs $80 I spent weeks frustratedly hunting through $1,000 pieces the size of a bath mat before I found it.
    By Rio Viera-Newton
  13. How to Hang Pictures, Mirrors, and Plates, According to an Expert “If you follow those steps, you’ll have a straight painting, picture, photograph, anything.”
    By Hilary Reid
  14. How to Iron a Sheet, According to Maira Kalman “Getting into bed is one of the great moments of life.”
    By Maira Kalman and Hilary Reid
  15. The Best Mattresses You Can Buy Online, As Tested by Strategist Editors Our editors and writers slept on each of these for at least one week.
    By The Editors
  16. The Best Refrigerators, According to People Who Sell and Repair Them Top freezers, side-by-sides, and some that have little bonus drawers you can access without wasting energy.
    By James Lynch
  17. How to Protect Fabric Furniture From Stains and Dirt So you can sit on your couch stress free.
    By Lori Keong and Liza Corsillo
  18. The 5 Best Vans for Your DIY Camper Conversion Your #VanLife dreams start here.
    By Megan Barber
  19. 5 Shipping Container Homes You Can Order Right Now Repurposed with style.
    By Megan Barber
  20. 5 Teardrop Trailers You Can Buy Right Now The iconic shape gets a reboot.
    By Megan Barber
  21. 5 Affordable Camper Vans for Sale #VanLife on a budget.
    By Megan Barber
  22. DIY Camper Van: 5 Affordable Conversion Kits for Sale Make #VanLife happen without breaking the bank.
    By Megan Barber
  23. 25 Desks, Vetted 25 Ways Including the desk used by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a bunch of Strategist picks, and some of the best-rated desks on Wayfair and Amazon.
    By Kayla Levy
  24. The Best Desk Lamps, According to Architects and Interior Designers From tried-and-true classic task lamps to contemporary light sculptures.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov and Lauren Ro
  25. The Best Duvet Covers, According to Interior Designers From luxurious hotel-style duvet covers to relaxed linen options and more.
    By Lauren Ro
  26. We Slept on Lots of Linen Sheets and Found Ones for Every Type of Sleeper They range from favorite-chambray-shirt-soft to hefty as burlap.
    By The Editors
  27. The Best Small-Apartment Ideas, According to Professional Organizers How to make the most of your cramped living space.
    By Lori Keong and Louis Cheslaw
  28. From Tiny Trailers to Huge RVs, a Definitive Guide to Every Type of Camper We break down RV classes and more.
    By Megan Barber