The Best Home Accessories Our Editors Bought This Year

We already shared our wish list with you, but that was of products we hope to one day be able to personally recommend from experience. This list, on the other hand, is a round-up of the home goods—some for the kitchen, some for the living room—that we spent our own hard-earned money on this year and heartily endorse. Read on for our editors’ favourite home purchases of the year.

The Home Accessories That Our Editors Personally Recommend

Fredricks and Mae Chopping Board, $75

Allow me to type the most Millennial sentence you have ever read: I was influenced to buy this cutting board by Molly Baz. But I’m not ashamed of that fact—I love the festive, confetti-like colours, I like the handy black handle and I appreciate having my own, private ode to my Bon Appetit-circa-2020-fangirl past. Oh, and it’s great for both chopping and serving. —Stacey McLachlan, senior editor

Carafe from Fable, $56

I’m not not a little obsessed with just about everything from Fable—the wobbly-edged plates, the perfect pasta bowls that are really just my all-the-meals bowls, the snack bowls that are the perfect size for everything from M&Ms to Bugles. (I even own their tiniest bowls, though full disclosure, they were tinier than I thought they’d be when I ordered them online. But so damn cute.) But this pink carafe holds a special place in my heart. I picked it up this past Spring not long after my longtime love Zoe passed away, the excellently chatty cat who had been my bud for more than 15 years. A weekly treat of fresh flowers was my grief therapy, and this carafe became the lovely vase on my entry console that welcomed me home every day. —Anicka Quin, VP content  

Olive Gingham Tablecloth, $30-$40

I recently became a tablecloth person, because I realized it’s an easy way to change up the look and feel of your tablescapes with very little effort. I particularly like patterned and bright ones, like this green gingham one from Simons, to make my dining room table the statement piece of the room. —Rebekah Ho, digital marketing manager

Ninja FrostVault, $230

It might be cold and rainy right now, but that doesn’t mean summer isn’t on the horizon. Or at least, that’s how I—a beach bum through and through—survive the grey winters of Vancouver. Summers in B.C. are truly my favourite in the world so in honour of my most-loved season (and because I spend at least four days a week oceanside) I leveled-up my beach setup hard this year with the Ninja FrostVault. What’s a frost vault, you ask? It’s a drawer. But it does some major heavy lifting: no longer are my dips, sandwiches or snacks inevitably floating in semi-melted ice. They remain chilled, but not water logged. And the cooler itself is pretty great, too, with the ice remaining solid for days at a time.—Dani Wright, managing editor 

Fable’s Crystal Wine Glasses, $150

It’s the second Fable entry on this list but that’s because all their home dinnerware is both deeply whimsical and impressively functional. Case in point: Their shatter-resistant crystal wine glasses. Coming in at $150 for a set of four (read: not cheap), they’re light as a feather but stiff as a board—as in they won’t break (and for someone like me, that is a need not a want). They withstand the wear and tear of nights spent yapping over overflowing bottles of merlot and didn’t even break up during my own wine-soaked break-up. These stem-forwarded elegant goblets will be the toast of your glassware cabinet, a shining addition to your bar cart accoutrement or a gasp-worthy flex when your friend inevitably drops it on your hardwood floor to no mess (save for the wasted red). Now I’ll drink to that!— Kerri Donaldson, assistant editor