The pandemic has worsened this issue, not only for West Elm but for a legion of furniture retailers. Three years after I wrote my original West Elm story, in which I revealed the company was enraging countless young shoppers by seemingly refusing to deliver anything in a timely manner, the situation does not seem to be much better. It’s nice to start adding some larger pieces to help anchor the spaces.“It’s been an existential nightmare, as confounding as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” From living in small city apartments, most everything we have is like very petite versions of regular furniture. Same thing for the floor lamp, it’s so big it’s really awesome. Plus, they don’t take up precious space on our bedside tables, but are still big and help match the size of the room a little. I think the sconces are so cute and a little different. We both really liked this one and it was the cheapest one we found anywhere ($40!). The blanket was perfect because we had been looking for something much lighter than what we had now that we’re back to summertime in the south. It still blows my mind when I think about it. The best part is everything was such a steal! The sconces were $80 each. We were only specifically looking for the bedside table lighting because it was the most urgent, but we also had a mental list of other things we needed in case we found them there and that’s how we wound up with the bedding and the floor lamp. We ended up with these sconces for next to our bed, this floor lamp (probably for the living room), and the blanket and shams you see in the photos (couldn’t find them online). The store is really messy and there are lots of things that are still packaged up. One of the bedside sconces that we got had a note on the packing slip that said, “I didn’t order this.” So someone got the wrong order, didn’t even take it out of the box and it was still sent to the outlet because it was a return. We learned that some of the stuff is damaged, but some of it is returned and just doesn’t go back into regular circulation. So let me just tell you – the store has SO MUCH STUFF and the prices are insane. Once you’re ready to get in bed you have to go ahead and turn the light off because there’s nothing worse than getting all cozy and dozing off a little and then remembering you have to get up and walk across the room to turn the light off. Not to mention it’s an all or nothing situation. I was so over turning on the insanely bright overhead light and it made me so cranky every night (well, it feels like it’s super bright when you’ve already fallen asleep on the couch and it’s all you can do to get yourself upstairs and in the bed, maybe in reality not so much). We went knowing we needed one thing: lamps for our bedside tables. Well, skip ahead about two months and we finally took a trip back. I didn’t have a lot of time, but felt like it was probably worth a trip back when we were more settled and knew more about what we needed. They have a ton of stuff there and it’s almost all stuff that they actually sell in their regular stores. Well, I wandered around trying to take it all in and was pretty pleasantly surprised.
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