{"id":47604,"date":"2025-12-06T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=47604"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:57:18","slug":"where-to-throw-a-throw-pillow-on-the-bedroom-floor-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/where-to-throw-a-throw-pillow-on-the-bedroom-floor-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Throw a Throw Pillow? On the Bedroom Floor, of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where to throw a throw pillow? On the bedroom floor, of course. Three pillows decorate my bed. I don’t use any of them. My real pillow — a homely ergonomic affair — is kept out of sight. (And, yes, that 1970s vintage phone still works.) Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love a good trend. I like going places in my yoga pants and tennies. I love skinny jeans. Ditto leopard prints, polka dots and Mary Janes. I’m glad that brown has been declared the new black.<\/p>\n

I don’t fall for every new trend, mind you. To me, for example, subway tile looks like — subway tile.<\/p>\n

Alas, those glossy white rectangles everybody’s cementing to their kitchen and bathroom walls remind me of the subways of my New York City days, when subway stations were lit with grim florescent light bulbs, the walls were covered with greasy white — subway — tiles, and the underground air was acrid with the residue of wheels braking<\/a> and grinding against steel rails.<\/p>\n

Not a look and feel I wanted for my new bathroom.<\/p>\n

Trends Are Trendy<\/strong><\/h5>\n

My personal pique with subway tiles aside, keeping up with the trends can be risky: trends are trendy. They come and go. This year’s hot item could be next year’s pathetic.<\/p>\n

Which is why, for my new bathroom<\/a>, I avoided all the newest tiles on offer around the Bay Area — the subway tiles, but also the quartz, the ceramic, the marble.<\/p>\n

Trading in a pair of shoes or skinny jeans every few years will not break the budget. But trading in a bathroom that’s up to date in 2025 and out of date by 2035 can cost you.<\/p>\n

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This –grimy — subway tile in a Budapest train station is of the same turn-of-the-20th-century vintage as New York City’s subway tile. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Where to Throw a Throw Pillow? On the Bedroom Floor, of Course<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Which brings me to my bed pillows. Not the ones I sleep with — the ones that style<\/em> the bedrooms of my house.<\/p>\n

Yes. I fell for that poofy, pillowy, boudoir look.<\/p>\n

I bought the duvets. I bought the shams. I bought the decorator pillows.<\/p>\n

I bought seventeen of those danged non-pillow pillows. Every bedroom in the house has a herd of them.<\/p>\n

And what if someone wants to go to bed at my house? What happens to my fancy-dan throw pillows?<\/p>\n

They get thrown, of course.<\/p>\n

On the floor.<\/p>\n

And on the floor they stay.<\/p>\n

For days.<\/p>\n

Until somebody comes around to vacuum the floor and throws them back on the bed.<\/p>\n

Thoughts on trends at “Those Wild and Wooly Pandemic Hairstyles.”<\/a>\u00a0 And, “For China’s Young Fashionistas, the Cultural Revolution Is Oh, So Over.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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At my house, throw pillows are thrown on the bedroom floor. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Where to throw those fancy decorator throw pillows? At my house, if you’re getting into bed, you throw them on the floor.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,221],"tags":[3065,566,1188,82,3066,3067,3068,3069,3070],"class_list":["post-47604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-house-and-garden","tag-bedrooms","tag-fashion","tag-house","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-pillows","tag-style","tag-throw-pillows","tag-trends","tag-trendy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48422,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47604\/revisions\/48422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}