Accent decor is what takes a room from functional to finished. These are the pieces that add personality, texture, and visual interest without requiring a full redesign. Here you’ll find our guides and picks for rugs, wall art, coffee tables, side tables, TV stands, curtains, and other accent pieces. Each post covers what to look for and includes our honest recommendations.
Living Room
Lighting is one of the most overlooked elements of interior design, yet it’s one of the most impactful. Good lighting…
Living Room
The sofa is the most expensive piece of furniture most people buy for a living room, and it is the…
Living Room
What is on the wall above your sofa right now? In most living rooms the answer is either nothing or…
Living Room
The rug is the piece of living-room furniture that decides whether the rest of the room reads as a single…
Living Room
Sit down on almost any sofa and reach for the drink beside you. The glass sits two inches below the…
Living Room
Most coffee table mistakes are size mistakes. The wrong length, the wrong height, the wrong proportion to the sofa: these…
Living Room
The TV stand is the piece of furniture customers spent the most time agonizing over at Hower Furniture, and the…
Accent Decor
The hall tree is the most undervalued piece of furniture in most homes. It is also the only one that…
Accent Decor
The best entryway console tables are rarely the ones that photograph best. A console is the most public piece of…
Accent Decor
The storage bench was the piece customers most often underestimated at Hower Furniture. They’d shop it as decoration, expect it…