Welcome to Schmatta’s Ultimate Home Shopping Guide. It’s your resource to everything you could ever need for your home. Click on a section for each specific guide.

FURNITURE/DECOR

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TABLEWARE, GLASSWARE, PLATES, TABLE LINENS

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PAINT, FABRIC & WALLPAPER

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RUGS

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LIGHTING

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TILE & FLOORING

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KIDS

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TOWELS & SHOWER CURTAINS

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SHEETS & BLANKETS

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BATHROOM & PLUMBING FIXTURES

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HARDWARE

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VINTAGE

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VINYL STORAGE

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CABINETRY

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Schmatta is written by Leonora Epstein, a former shelter pub editor-in-chief. Follow at @_leonoraepstein and/or @schmattamag. For consulting and collab requests, please visit my website.

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Caveat for this page: I can’t claim that these are all put in the perfect category; there’s overlap, etc. But I did my best to bucket things.

MASS

• Blu Dot

• Eq3

• Schoolhouse

• Ferm Living

• DWR

• Arhaus

• Sundays

• Industry West

• Lulu a…

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• Reform

• Very Simple: Kitchen

• deVOL

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FURNITURE

• Oeuf

• House of RoRo

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• 1stdibs

• Formas

• Live Auctioneers

• Rarify

• Vinterior

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TILE

• Fireclay Tile

• Popham Design

• Clé

• Tiles of Ezra

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• Morrow Soft Goods

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THE “BIG” SITES

• Lightology

• Lumens

• Rejuvenation

• Schoolhouse

“FANCY”/INDEPENDENT/ICONIC/DESIGNER

• Ladies & Gentlemen

• In Common With

• Flos

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• Ellis Works

• Petra

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PAINT

• Clare

• Farrow & Ball

• Alkemis

• Portola

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GLASSWARE

• Sophie Lou Jacobsen

• Maison Balzac

• Upstate

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Updated Aug. 2026.

• Inbani

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If you have a Crosley turntable, this guide isn’t for you.

If your record collection can be contained in a “cube,” this guide isn’t for.

If your husband is a massive audiophile who has “only” 3,000 records taking up every inch of your living room, all contained within multiple hideous IKEA Kallax units, THIS GUIDE IS FOR YOU.

Every time I complain about the abundance of records occupying opportune floor space in our rather small bungalow home, my husband, Drew, counters, “But records look nice! You don’t think they look nice?”

Yes. They look nice! I’m not saying they don’t! God! I just wish we had the budget to store them in something other than shelves that look like plastic ice cube trays.

The best, nicest-looking vinyl storage is…getting a designer to fabricate something custom for you.

Okay, so none of us are going to to that. Problem is, there isn’t a ton of vinyl-specific storage furniture out there — and the ones that are are like, it’s cool man, we all live a Nashville barn or like, it’s called mid-century mod, I’m a straight man with a woodshop.

But you can use normal shelving if:

• The depth and height (or the measurement of space from shelf to shelf) is at least 13 inches.

• The shelves are sturdy enough to support a lot of weight. Vinyl is so fucking heavy.

So here are some options…

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The categories I chose for the below rug sources — mass, independent(ish)/specialty, and vintage — aren’t hard and fast as some of these retailers can straddle two groups. Just know that much of the stuff in the independent category can be quite spendy (and some of them come from Europe).

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Schmatta’s Guide to Shopping for Towels & Shower Curtains & Bath Mats

Current Schmatta Favorite:

• Autumn Sonata

  • Schmatta Pick: Alma bath towel

Runner Up:

• Città

  • Schmatta Pick: Cabin towel

All the Rest!:

• Brooklinen

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BATHROOM & PLUMBING FIXTURES

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CABINETRY

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LIGHTING

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TILE & FLOORING

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HARDWARE (CABINETS, DECORATIVE)

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PAINT, FABRIC & WALLPAPER

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Schmatta is written by Leonora Epstein, a former shelter pub editor-in-chief. Follow at @_leonoraepstein and/or @schmattamag. For consulting and collab requests, please visit my website.