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Looking for the best shoe storage cabinets to tame your entryway clutter? Our team spent 60 days testing eight enclosed cabinets across three homes — a city apartment with a 4-foot hallway, a suburban mudroom, and a small bedroom closet. We assembled each one, loaded it with boots, heels, and toddler sneakers, and tracked wobble, … Read more

The best pantry cabinets are freestanding 67 to 72 inch tall storage units with adjustable shelves, anti-tip hardware, and 150 to 180 lb per-shelf load ratings, in engineered wood, powder-coated steel, or solid hardwood constructions designed for kitchens and adjacent rooms. After spending three months rotating nine models through our test kitchen, our team found … Read more

I spent the last three months rotating through 10 of the best egg chairs on the market, sitting in each one for everything from a slow Sunday with a book to a rainy afternoon nap with my cat curled on the cushion. Some wobbled in the wind, one took two hours to assemble solo, and … Read more

After three months of testing, rotating through hammock chairs on the porch, an egg chair on the patio, and a 3-seat glider under a pergola, I can tell you the best outdoor swing chair for most people is the Y-STOP Hammock Chair — a 500-lb rated cotton-rope swing that hangs from a single beam and … Read more

Last February I stood at a trailhead in the Adirondacks at 6°F with a wind that cut through my jeans like a knife. I had two jackets in my pack – a heavy fleece and a friend’s borrowed down puffy – and the down puffy is what saved the morning. That moment is the reason … Read more

Oxford shoes are the most formal style of men’s dress shoes, defined by their closed lacing system where the eyelet panels stitch underneath the vamp to create a tight, sleek silhouette. After our team tested 10 of the strongest pairs sold today, the best Oxford shoes for men deliver a combination of full-grain leather uppers, … Read more

I’ve spent the last three months wearing, walking, and yes, occasionally cursing at ten different pairs of loafers to bring you what I think are the best loafers for men you can buy right now. Loafers occupy a strange middle ground in menswear, more polished than sneakers, more relaxed than oxfords, and yet somehow the … Read more

Finding the best boat shoes for men means balancing three things that often pull in opposite directions: grip on wet decks, breathability in summer heat, and enough polish to wear to dinner afterward. I have owned at least six pairs over the past decade, and I keep coming back to the same handful of brands … Read more

I have been wearing steel toe boots on job sites for the better part of two decades, and I can tell you within the first hour whether a pair is going to make it through a 12-hour shift. After our team spent the past four months putting 23 different pairs through real framing, warehouse, and … Read more

I spent the last 90 days rotating eight pairs of desert boots through jeans, chinos, and a couple of wool trousers to figure out which ones actually deserve your money in . I walked roughly 4 miles a day, tested them in light rain, on pavement and gravel, and swapped insoles to see which stock … Read more