
Michelle Slatalla
Writer and Columnist at Freelance
Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
Columnist @wsjoffduty
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Michelle Slatalla
Reluctant just now to spend money on seasonal updates, our décor columnist found ways to usher in the warm weather with stuff she already ownsI’m as nervous as anybody these days about the uncertain economy, the seesaw stock exchange and on-off-on-again tariffs. I get it: This is not the time to spend money on seasonal decor. But that doesn’t mean I don’t yearn to summer-ize my house and garden.
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1 week ago |
gardenista.com | Michelle Slatalla
Tiny bistro tables and and compact chairs are eminently more practical for outdoors than big hulking monster pieces, because you can easily carry them from patio to lawn and back, to follow the sun. And if you don’t have much room? Even the smallest sliver of a balcony will try to accommodate a table for two.
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4 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Michelle Slatalla
Our decor columnist set out to learn whether an AI tool could suggest tasteful interior-design ideas she wouldn’t think of herself. Then it started getting weird. There’s nothing really wrong with my living room—except that it’s been a month since I spent what some hysteric in my family would describe as “way more than we can afford” on decor.
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2 months ago |
kanebridgenews.com | Michelle Slatalla
Why are we willing to spend that much for, say, nice boots, yet consider bed linens that cost that much unconscionably indulgent? Our columnist fights her way past this double standard.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Michelle Slatalla
The other day I threw open the windows, ready to spring-clean and flip the mattress. Then I started to strip my bed only to see…sheets shredded by my husband’s toenails. How long has this situation been developing? I spend eight hours a day physically interacting with my bedsheets, so how did I miss this? We all have private, recurring bedroom fantasies. Mine is that every night I tuck myself into crisp, unwrinkled, lavender-smelling sheets.
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