Living
The best coffee makers under $200, six weeks in
Five drip coffee makers tested as primary household machines, ranked by brew quality, durability, and the small frustrations that surface only after the second month of use.
Imani Boateng
Living Editor · Home, family, and lifestyle
Imani Boateng is the living editor for The Curated Weekly. She covers the home and family beat — household products, parenting tools, organization systems, and the soft furniture of daily life. Her reviews tend to favor durability over novelty.
Expertise
- Home and household products
- Family and parenting tools
- Long-term durability testing
Bylines have appeared at
- Real Simple (contributor)
- Apartment Therapy (former)
- The Spruce (freelance)
Recent reporting
Living
The best air purifiers of 2026
Five HEPA-grade air purifiers tested over eight weeks across rooms of various sizes, ranked by particulate-removal efficiency, sound, filter cost, and how they hold up to the kind of dust and dander a real household produces.
Living
The best mattresses of 2026: ten weeks on each, ranked
Five mattresses tested as primary sleeping surfaces over a long-form review window, with attention to the failure modes — sag, edge collapse, heat retention — that show up only after the honeymoon.
Living
Meal-planning systems that survive a busy household
Three weeks each with five meal-planning approaches, ranked by how often they actually produced dinner on weeknights and how often they collapsed by Wednesday.
Living
Closet organization systems, tested in actual lived-in closets
Five closet-organization solutions installed in real household closets, evaluated three months after the initial enthusiasm faded.
Health
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Living
Screen-time rules for kids: what the research actually supports
The pediatric guidance on screen time has shifted meaningfully in the last few years as the evidence has gotten less alarmist and more nuanced. A working parent's read of where the recommendations have settled and what the open questions still are.