“Breaking” News: H&M Is Doing Home Decor

This iron…tray? Dish? …Decorative…thing? is a perfect example of what I said up there about H&M’s pieces feeling substantial: It’s heavy and detailed, and totally the kind of thing that you could have just stumbled across in an antique shop and fallen in love with. It’s also seventeen dollars. WHAT.

These mirrors come in a few different styles, and are the perfect size: big enough to be striking on a wall, but small enough to hang in groups in an entryway or on a bathroom wall.

I have a bit of a picture-frame conundrum, in that my family shots are housed in a mishmash of styles that I’ve collected or inherited over the past couple of decades. Most of them are ugly and/or broken.

Solution: A gallery wall consisting entirely of these brushed gold hanging frames, please.

(Check out my video on how to create a gallery wall.) 

I figured that the curtains would be kinda flimsy or otherwise cheap-feeling, but nope: they’re lovely and luxe, and come in unexpected designs. (My favorite is pictured above, but please also take a look at this grey pompom-trimmed style and this insane floral-tropical design that looks straight out of a 1960s Caribbean hotel room. I mean that in a good way.)

All the candles at H&M are good – I mean that; they smell amazing and come in the most adorable assortment of containers – but I can’t resist this green ceramic one.

One for the bathroom, one for the bedside table, one for the living room, one for the entryway. ZEBRA TRAYS EVERYWHERE!

(Check out my post on how to style your coffee table like a real person, as opposed to a person who is about to take a photo of your coffee table to put on Instagram.) 

This bathmat is perfect for a guest bathroom – simple and classic, but with a sense of humor. (This design comes in a shower curtain, too.)

H&M has tons of gorgeous metal baskets in a variety of colors and sizes, but this asymmetrical one is my favorite. Fill it with magazines, throw blankets, bathroom supplies, whatever: it’ll make even a stack of toilet paper rolls look glamorous.

I’m not entirely sure what this is, exactly – the website says it’s a “jar,” so fine, it’s a jar…but come on, it’s so much cooler than a regular old container. It’s heavy, and beautiful – I love the stoneware thing they’re doing – and I can see it working as a catchall next to the bed, or storing cotton balls and such in the bathroom, or even holding spices or sugar in the kitchen.

(Click here for my post on how to organize your unforgivably messy kitchen drawers.)

Speaking of the stoneware thing they’re doing: this pitcher is perfect. Perfect size, perfect weight, perfect color (the spots are deep navy-blue, if you can’t tell from the photo), and completely classic.

Give it a couple of weeks, and you’ll start seeing photos of my dining room table with the iron leaf tray sitting in the middle of it, flanked by a couple of these beauties.

…With one of these mixed in, perhaps. (If you think they might look cheap in person, trust me: they look like gorgeous antiques.)

(Click here for the easiest centerpiece idea ever.) 

This is so Joanna Gaines I can’t even stand it. That doesn’t mean I don’t want it, though.

(Click here for my favorite picks from the Magnolia line for Target.)

These heavy glass jars also come in pale green and clear, and are basically made for holding all the bathroom things.

Remember what I said about all of their candles being amazing?

Here’s some more evidence. (It smells amazing, but obviously you’d be buying this so that you can keep the container to use afterwards.)

This is a total ripoff of Ikea’s roadmap kids’ rug, but it’s also so much better. Love the colors, and the round shape, and the fact that it also comes in black-and-white, in case you happen to be a parent who’s not into pastels.

(If you’re in the market for a rug for a kid’s room, please also look at this hopscotch design.)

(Click here for my daughters amazing-if-I-do-say-so-myself bedroom makeover.) 

Eeeeeeeeee these stoneware vases are too cute, and are all a tiny bit different, so they have an “oh this old thing? I just picked it up at a street market on my worldly travels” vibe.

Have you ever seen a mirror with a woven, fringed frame before?!?!?

I have not.

(It comes in a smaller hanging version, too.)

The cuteness of these bookends (which also come in pink) is almost too much to handle.

And finally – I get a lot of questions about what duvet cover I use on my Buffy comforter (which, as an aside, you need to own if you don’t already), and the answer is that I don’t use a duvet cover: I leave the comforter as-is, and just throw a coverlet on top.

Which coverlet, you ask?

As of today, this one.