Home has always been “where the heart is,” but in the last year it’s been the place where everything else is, too. Your living room became a movie theater. Your kitchen became a restaurant. Your couch turned into an office, then back into a couch, and your bed became the center of your social life. (Best FaceTime lighting, of course.) Every single piece of furniture you own has had to do double (or triple) duty, every kitchen appliance has worked overtime, every slightly scratchy set of sheets or bathroom product without a good home has become ten times more aggravating. We’ve spent months on end becoming intimately aware of our spaces—their hidden benefits, and their imperfections.
That’s why, over those same months, we here at GQ have been trying to find those design upgrades, smart home gadgets, and home improvements that could make our days feel a little less absurd. We’ve spent days (and nights) reviewing mattresses and sheets, hours cooking roast chicken while comparing skillets. We learned how to install a bidet ourselves. After all that work, we’re excited to present the first ever GQ Home Awards. These are the 72 things that have improved our homes, and we think will improve yours, too. Especially once you can start having people in them again.
The Bedroom
Since you last shopped for a mail-order mattress, there’s been an evolution. Now the best are marrying high-tech foam layered over old-school inner springs to dial in support, comfort, and coolness. After years of testing—and retesting—beds (more involved than it sounds, but we’re still not complaining), we’ve found that the absolute best mattress is the Helix Midnight Luxe mattress. The hybrid construction works for most sleepers: it’s a real Goldilocks choice that’s soft and supportive in all the right ways. For side sleepers in need of more nuanced support, we recommend another hybrid mattress, the slightly firmer Casper Wave. Neither the Helix nor the Casper is cheap, though. When testing through the growing list of surprisingly affordable mail-order mattresses, Walmart’s $375 Allswell Hybrid mattress—also a hybrid—punches way above its weight. It’s a thinner mattress, and ultimately may not last as long as the better-built Casper or Helix—but until then, you’ll get a great night’s sleep.
These days, the sheets game is split by heritage brands with sneaky-good sets and upstart brands hoping to take over your linen closet. If you’re looking for the crisp, shirt-like feeling of percale, the L.L. Bean Pima Percale sheets absolutely nail the blend of light, sturdy, and soft you’d expect. If you’re looking for something a little bit silkier, opt for the Brooklinen Luxe Sateen set. And if you’re a hot sleeper that wants the breathability of linen, Riley Home Linen sheets are pre-broken in—and only even softer the more you use them.
As with mattresses, the world of comforters is vast and requires lots of squinting at screens to compare details: fill powers and baffle boxes and down versus down alternatives. And while we have a 20-long, exhaustively specific list of the best comforters and duvet inserts, let us save you some time. The Snowe Down Duvet Insert has topped our list of comforters three years running, and for one unimpeachable reason: no other comforter we’ve tested strikes as good a balance between maximum fluffiness and heat retention. Its luxurious down swaddles you, but won’t have you waking up in a puddle of sweat. And thanks to its smart construction, the fill doesn’t clump in odd corners to create random hot spots.
More than anything else, what makes hotel beds so freaking comfortable are the high-end pillows. Implausibly fluffy, but still solid enough to support your head, they make sleeping in a hotel feel like a treat. Well, treat yourself. The oversized Saatva Latex pillow captures that hotel plushness better than almost any other pillow we’ve tried. It’s large size make it a bit intimidating, but once you’ve saddled it with a king size pillowcase, you’ll find that its hybrid construction—a shredded latex core inside a down-like fiber-filled pillow—makes it feel like your head is being gently hugged. The Parachute Down pillow doesn’t boast the hybrid construction or massive size, but still cradles softly. If you’re a side sleeper in need of a denser, more supportive pillow, get the Coop Home Goods pillow. It isn’t as upscale as the Saatva, but you know what’s truly luxurious? Not having neck pain.
In a year where our collective anxiety took off like a SpaceX rocket, plenty of people turned to weighted blankets—with their history of being used to help PTSD sufferers—with hopes of finding a few minutes of calm. We tried a slew, and the Bearaby Cotton Napper won out by being the best made option in a sea of cheap fleece and scratchy fabrics. That’s because the Napper is constructed from colorful loops of tightly woven fabric, which make it both soft and breathable—a rarity for weighted blankets, which can quickly go from swaddling to sweltering.
There exists an axiom that applies to many fields, but especially to design. “High quality, easy to assemble, cheap. You can only have two.” The Thuma Bed, star of everyone’s targeted Instagram ads, somehow hits all three. The bed frame itself is nice: well-stained solid wood with a lightly padded fabric headboard. And unlike, say, an IKEA frame, the Thuma assembles as easily as promised—one GQ staffer about half an hour to put the bed together himself, no tools required. (Though his painter’s pants certainly could have carried them.) And the finished product is flop-onto-the-bed, lean-against-the-headboard sturdy. All for a very reasonable price, considering the going rate of handsome wooden bedframes $1,000. Paradigm, broken.
First, you need a decent lamp that provides enough light for reading, has an easily movable shade, but doesn’t have a space-hogging base—or make your bedside feel like your (other) home office. The playful Sonneman Quattro LED task lamp—dimmable and touch-operated—actually could work on a desk, but it’s more fun to sleep next to. You’ll also need to charge your phone. Bonus points to the new Braun BC21–an update of a classic design—for tucking a wireless charger behind the (automatically dimming) clock screen in a vain attempt to keep you from hitting your feeds at 3 a.m. Speaking of taking things down a notch, the handsome Vitruvi Stay diffuser will take your bed from doomscroll central to aromatherapy heaven. Paired with your favorite scent of Saje essential oil and a good book, you might just go to sleep refreshed instead of stressed.
The Bathroom
If, for some arbitrary reason, you were allowed only one towel, make it a shroud-sized bath sheet—specifically, the Coyuchi Air Weight bath sheet. It’s thin and light, with a spa-like, ever-so-slightly rough texture so you know it’s working. Each square inch of the towel—of which there are plenty, because it’s a bath sheet—absorbs water instantaneously. The Boll and Branch towel is smaller, but more plush, if that’s more your style. Both brands offer a fine selection of low-key colors, but if you demand a better bathroom design flex, try a Dusen Dusen Daisy Stripe towel. And no matter which of the three ends up blessing your towel racks, be sure to put a Goshi towel in your shower. The super tight weave exfoliates as you soap up, like a loofah, but without all the gross bacteria-nurturing nooks and crannies.
No one’s going to stop you from putting down another soft-but-boring off-gray bath mat. But know that there are alternatives. Wild, fun, put-a-smile-on-your-just-scrubbed-face alternatives. Aelfie’s Checkmate Cotton Green bath mat works for Boston Celtics fans and anyone who binged The Queen’s Gambit. The abstract Quiet Town Arco Desert will evoke the serenity of taking an edible and strolling around Joshua Tree. And the Missoni Giacomo brings all the trippy, technicolor drip of its cardigans to your bathroom. Which is a great reminder: when you’re looking for home upgrades, you can always start with the brands in your closet.
Branch out beyond your bathroom mirror cabinet. The Yamakazi Slim Bathroom Cart, slim bathroom cart let’s you tuck away everything from toilet paper to your growing collection of eye serums and face masks —just spin the shelf around on its wheels so everything faces the wall. And even if you’ve pared your hair routine, you might still need shower storage. The Simplehuman Shower Caddy, with a locking mechanism at the top and suction cups at the bottom, will hold whatever you and your housemates—related or otherwise—need to stash.
The great Covid toilet paper shortage of 2020 never quite materialized, but in that moment when the country feared for its butts, the Tushy Spa bidet made a big, um, splash. We tested one for ourselves, and after a breezy 20 minute installation requiring only a screwdriver and a wrench, the Spa had us enjoying bidet life (including temperature-adjustable water!) with the turn of a knob. It converted us into believers. We’re never going back.
Plants bring a welcome glow to every room, but what if your bathroom isn’t blessed with streaming rays of sunlight? There are plants that will easily survive in the relatively dark, humid conditions of a bathroom. Exhibit A: the ZZ plant, which, like all of us in the past year, practically thrives when neglected. Even if you forget to water it or show it some sun on your living room sill regularly, it’ll grow and sprout new stems before you can say “compatible attachment style.”
Kitchen
In order to cook well, you can get away with one excellent chef’s knife. But in order to cook with ease, add the Made In Santoku knife to your tool kit. Because of its relatively straight, scalloped blade, a Santoku knife lets you cut thinner slices out of any meat, fish, or vegetables—making it the perfect finesse-focused counterpart to the butchering, peeling, chopping chef’s knife. Another immediate level up? Kitchen shears. Americans think they’re only for cutting open packaging, but across the world they’re the no-duh tool for cutting into a whole chicken, roughly cutting up herbs, and turning out chopped veggies. Our favorites can do a little more. The (admittedly expensive, but beautiful) Ernest Wright & Sons Turton shears has a jar and bottle opener built in, while the futuristically angular Material Shears separate for easy cleaning (and, you know, slicing opening packaging).
We’re living in a golden age for kitchen minimalists. If you truly just want One Great Tool, you can find endless companies that will sell you superlative versions. But the more you work in your kitchen, the more you’ll find cooking becomes a hell of a lot easier when you have well-engineered tools for the most important tasks. At the very least: a skillet, a pot, a Dutch oven, and a couple sheet pans. The skillet has to handle a wide range of essential tasks, from the delicate (scrambling eggs) to the high-heat (searing steaks). Little does that better than the Blanc Creatives Pro Skillet, which brings all the invincible, high-heat, big-char glory of a cast-iron skillet without the wrist-fracturing heft. For pasta, rice, or sauces, we like the colorful Caraway Home Sauce Pan. Its ceramic non-stick coating—safer for you than Teflon-based coatings—actually holds up with use.
For bigger curries, stews, chilis, and bread-making, you’ll want a Dutch oven. We regret to report that while you can find solid options that are cheaper than the gleaming Le Creuset Signature Round Dutch Oven. Nothing’s better at delivering consistent hot-spot-free heat (and surviving long enough to include in your will). That said, in the last few years, quick sheet pan recipes, which encourage more passive cooking, have started to take the world (or Instagram, at least) by storm. Almost any sheet pan will do the trick, but the Great Jones Holy Sheet, which now comes in two sizes, is the only one that rivals the lip-smacking allure of whatever you decide to cook with it.
Still boiling your water on the stove? A dedicated electric kettle will boil water faster than any kind of cooktop (or microwave), and uses a lot less energy, too. Few look as cool as the Alessi Plissé, though. It’s perfect for tea. Literal hot tip: after the water boils, flip off the kettle and wait a few seconds before saturating the leaves so you don’t burn ’em. If you’re more particular about your hot water temp, the OXO Adjustable Temperature Pour-Over Kettle will—spoiler alert—let you adjust the temperature, and maintain that exact temp as long as needed. Combined with that snaky spout, that makes the OXO the best possible option for pour-over snobs who have opinions on the age-old Chemex versus Hario V60 debate.
For the majority of us, “cooking” means “following hastily googled Internet recipes”—but the last place you want your fragile, expensive phone or laptop is in the kitchen. The Google Nest Hub puts the web’s food brilliance a voice command away. You can use it to call up recipes, check measurement conversions, and set timers on the fly. And if you’re not exactly sure how to do something—how the hell do you julienne a carrot?—the Hub can pull up the YouTube tutorial you need. And when the meal’s ready, you can set the mood with some tunes thanks to the Nest Hub’s surprisingly punchy speakers.
Listen, we’d love to tell you that there’s a cheaper blender to get—and there are a few that aren’t too bad. For a while. But for the long term, a Vitamix pays off. In particular, the happy-medium Vitamix 5200 Professional Grade blender. It’s an investment, for sure, but there’s no better option for home cooks seeking silky smoothies, creamy sauces, and we-finished-the-pitcher frozen cocktails. Credit goes to the powerful motor and the perfect tapered jar design—the blades create a powerful vortex that pulls whatever’s in the blender downward. You might eventually have to replace a Vitamix’s blades, but even if you’ve had your machine for a decade, it’s perfect design is still going to serve you food and drinks you’ll actually want to put in your body.
Though Our Place is largely known for its Always Pan (perhaps named for how much it shows up in targeted ads), by far the best thing the company makes are drinking glasses. The straightforwardly named Our Place Drinking Glasses are handmade 12 oz glasses with a throwback, handily stackable two-tier shape, with the heft of something inherited from your great-grandma. That they come in so many lovely hues—sunset and dawn are particularly good—doesn’t hurt, either. But if your love of big trippy lava lamp colors is matched by your budget, go nuts with a set of Original Murano Glass tumblers. The company’s been glassblowing for, oh, eight centuries or so, and pioneered a technique that employs a mixture of minerals to create downright psychotropic glassware.
Hasami Porcelain, the product line, is the brainchild of Takushiro Shinomoto and Emma Tsuchida, of Los Angeles’s Tortoise General Store. The pair spent years working with several regional artisans to slowly bring a full line of sturdy, quietly handsome Hasami tableware—made in the eponymous Japanese town with a 400-year ceramic legacy—stateside. Shinomoto’s design is heavy on clean lines, muted colors, and a characteristic unglazed bottom. It’s practical, too: basically everything in the line, even the teapot, is stackable. Which means you can always find space for another piece. By way of contrast, the plates, bowls and mugs by Departo turn a similarly quiet color palette glitzier with a glossy glaze and some fun details, like this little bowl with its asymmetric half-lip edge. What does it do? Look cool.
A good drip coffee machine does two things: deliver a delicious cup...and never challenge your uncaffeinated morning brain. Despite looking like it was developed by NASA—a part of its charm, to be sure—the Technivorm Moccamaster makes one of the most full-bodied, flavorful pots of coffee you’ll ever pour, all with the flip of a switch. It commands plenty of counter space, though, so if you need something more compact, try the new OXO 8-Cup Coffee Maker. As respectful of the specialty beans you have delivered monthly as the Technivorm, and you can brew directly into your favorite Peanuts mug (instead of the pot), too.
Instant Pot fever has quieted down, but that’s not a referendum on the brilliance of the little barrel-shaped chef-bots. The Instant Pot Duo Evo Plus upgrades the all-in-one functions of the line—steaming, sautéing, pressure cooking—with a large screen and fairly intuitive dial-driven interface that’s simpler to use than the cheaper models. The first time you churn out a fairly hands-off stew or curry, timed to finish just as you the hunger hits, you’ll be hooked. And that’s before you realize the Instant Pot can make excellent yogurt, serviceable rice, and a banging steamed cake. Don’t @ us until you’ve tried it.
We’re big fans of the Breville Smart Oven Pro, partly because it’s dumb in all the right ways. Rather than relying on an annoying app or an A.I.-addled system that works worse than your eyes, the Breville optimizes cooking for the foods you’d most likely cook in a countertop oven. The result is exquisitely browned-all-over toast, crispy reheated pizza that tastes like it just came out of a brick over, and golden-crusted roasted meats. Every time. Plus, when you open the door, the rack automatically comes out of the oven a little bit, so you don’t burn your fingers when you go to flip your bagel—the exact right level of “smart.”
Home Tech
There are two kinds of people: those with smart lights and those who haven’t yet recognized the genius of smart bulbs. The ability to create timed lighting routines in your bedroom can do more good for your sleep hygiene than any homeopathic medicine. And, frankly, being able to change the mood of a room just by swiping around a color wheel in an app is a blast, especially once we can all get buzzed with friends at home again. The other bonus: it’s 2021, and good smart bulbs aren’t expensive—the WiZ A19 60W smart bulbs give off bold colors and room-filling (but not hospital-hygienic) white lighting, work with all the major voice assistants, don’t require a separate hub, and have a fast, smooth app. All for less than $10 a bulb.
For years, we’ve relied on WeMo smart plugs to put our dumb AC units and space heaters on a schedule, to make sure our dumb coffee makers begin brewing the moment we wake up, and, yes, once, to program a (no fault of its own) dumb diffuser to scenting the air at the same time as our smart bulbs went into Chill Out mode. The new WeMo Mini plug is redesigned to take up up less space on your outlet or surge protector, so you can pile them on and make your whole dumb house more intelligent.
Sonos has been holding down the fort as the easy-to-use (if slightly expensive) leaders in wireless home audio—but everyone from Amazon and Apple (with a smart speaker barrage) to UE (affordable portable audio) is coming for the crown. The new Sonos Roam, the first actually portable Sonos speaker, is why the company’s still sitting on the throne. Sonos die-hards finally get a tote-bag-able, water-resistant, battery-powered wonder that works over Bluetooth, AirPlay, or WiFi, and can shift music to any nearby Sonos speaker by holding a button. Sonos skeptics get, in our estimation, the best-sounding portable speaker on the market—and a gateway drug into a Sonos speaker lineup that includes the voice-capable One, beefy Play Five, and high-def Arc soundbar.
The journey to becoming a clean-house person begins with recognizing that vacuuming is tedious, and it’s best outsourced. In particular, to a robot. Any good robo-vac can be scheduled to suck up dust and crumbs while you’re out. The eufy RoboVac 15C Max is our favorite affordable vac, thanks to its powerful motor and furniture-avoiding array of sensors. But if you have the budget, stretching to the iRobot Roomba i3+ will require even less vac-sitting—it’s the robo-vacuum in its price range with the hottest feature in robo-vac technology: automatic dirt disposal. When it’s full, it’ll return to homebase to offload its crud (and recharge, too, when needed.)
Unfortunately, no matter how brilliant the robot vacuum, it still can’t replace a human-held vacuum, necessary for handling deep-pile rugs, sudden messes, and slapdash cleanings before your in-laws arrive. We’re big fans of Dyson’s handheld V models, which are easy to grab, cord-free, and agile. None more so than the new, top-of-the-line Dyson V15. It’s powerful as hell and uses a laser to reveal dirt and dust in its path. It’s also expensive, at $700 or $900, depending on which version you buy.
The three-year-old third-generation Nest Learning Thermostat—with a bigger screen than its predecessors—continues to be our choice. Other options might offer a more smart-home integrations or value-for-dollars. But frankly, they don’t look as good on your wall. Or feel as satisfying to use—spinning the Nest’s tactile control wheel kind of makes cooling your apartment feel like cracking the code to an impregnable safe. Inside that safe are the savings you get from a thermostat that, over-time, understands when you’re around and adjusts the temperature to maximize efficiency.
Home Office
Step two in your great home office upgrade: the chair. One that wasn’t stolen from your kitchen table. All of our favorites have the absolute necessities: plush but supportive seats, height adjustability, and contoured backrests. From here, it becomes a matter of budget and personality. The Laura Davidson SOHO checks a lot of boxes—including, “doesn’t look like it was bought at Staples”—at a surprisingly affordable price. If, however, you’re okay sacrificing some subtlety to the ergonomic bells and whistles of your chiropractor dreams, we wholeheartedly stan the Herman Miller Sayl chair. You get adjustable arms, added lumbar support, and its signature design element: a comfy, futuristic mesh back that cradles and keeps you from sweating through your WFH polo. True extroverts can also look to gaming chairs—because who sits longer and stresses more than gamers? If you squint right, the AKRacing California in its electric blue Tahoe color brings a real ’70s Italian vibe to the weekdays, even if your job is more working-extra-at-night than Fortnite.
If this whole working-from-home thing looks long-term for you (by choice or otherwise), then do yourself and your spine a favor by building a thoughtful home office. The cornerstone of this space will be your new desk. Ideally, your new height-adjustable standing desk. Even if you’ve never worked while standing up, trust us when we say that, when given the opportunity, you’ll see the light. The Fully Jarvis Bamboo desk offers an almost dizzying array of options, from desktop shapes to integrated power outlets. (If you can swing it, we highly recommend the OLED controls that have customizable “presets” you can tap to switch between perfect-for-you heights.) If you’re not swayed by the ergonomic benefits of the Jarvis, we like the helpful touches and simplicity of the solid white oak Akron Street Reader desk, with its under-the-desktop stash spot and rear ledge.
There are millions of laptop stands. There are hundreds you can adjust—a crucial feature given you might want your screen higher or lower on any given day, if only to find your best angle on Zoom. And of all those laptop stands, the Rain Design iLevel adjustable laptop stand wins because tweaking its height is as easy as sliding a little knob on the front. As a bonus, it’s incredibly sturdy—unlike with cheaper stands, you won’t have to worry about it tipping your work computer onto the cup of coffee on the floor of your office (bedroom).
The best desk lamps pair functional simplicity with their own creative energy—and though we’ve looked far and wide, the classic Anglepoise Type 75 Lamp (a.k.a., the Pixar lamp) delivers more of both than anything else we’ve tried. The combination of a lightweight aluminum arm and cleverly implemented springs not only make it easy to shift light to where you need it most, but also gives the lamp its signature “alive” proportion. Special colorways designed by fashion designers Paul Stuart and Margaret Howell (along with the usual silver and black) mean your space will feel more alive, too.
Working from home has drastically impeded our ability to surreptitiously print personal documents while hovering nervously over the office printer. If you can’t go any longer, know this: all personal printers suck, and should be relied upon as little as possible. For our money, the new Canon PIXMA TR150 is the best of a tough situation. It’s a fully functional wireless printer the size of a tie box, radically smaller than the all-in-one contraptions cluttering the shelves of your local Staples. That means you can tuck the Pixma away when you don’t need it—which, in 2021, is going to be the majority of your days.
Subtract one more dangling cable from your home office setup with the Nomad Base Station charging stand. A wireless charging stand is a double blessing: it makes topping off the battery as easy as setting it down, and keeps your phone close at hand. There are (much) cheaper charging stands, like the 10W Anker stand, but they’re covered in janky logos and UFO-ready charging lights. Meanwhile the Nomad brings angled aluminum and black leather padding. If someone like Dieter Rams made a wireless charging stand, this is what it’d look like.
The desk mat was a staple of the Mad Men-era, when it was somehow possible for even mid-level managers to have offices with doors and desks the weight of small elephants. Back then, a desk mat existed to keep fountain pen ink from staining the mahogany. Today, the desk mat’s value is a little more mental, corralling clutter by outlining your workspace—and, yes, covering your ass in case of a spill or errant Sharpie mark. Our favorite is the Grovemade Desk Mat and Protector Pad, available in a range of shapes and sizes, in wool or black leather. As one GQ staffer wrote: “This marled grey wool mat was certainly no substitute for a commute, co-workers, and an actual office, but it helped a little bit—I had a real desk, even amidst the chaos of my kitchen.”
Furniture
No pressure, but a couch defines your living room’s vibe. And if you’re like us, you want that vibe to be “comfy as hell.” At the top of our wishlist is the Ligne Roset Pukka, a sofa that translates the coziness of the “ugly” vintage furniture into its softest, most inviting evolution. If you want your poofiness to look less Juvederm-enhanced, try the Hem Kumo sofa and its beignet-shaped pillowy backs wrapped around a stark frame. Even the exploding mail-order-only sofa world is being pulled into the fluff party with the Burrow Range, an infinitely customizable couch-slash-sectional system with a convention-busting enticing, extremely nappable softness. Long live the blob.
While a rug might tie a room together, a cozy armchair actually makes you want to stay awhile. The Hem Hai reshapes the stuffy silhouette of a high-back armchair into something clean and cool and extremely comfortable. If you can peel yourself out of the Hai for dinner time, the HAY Palissade (no relation) is, technically, an outdoor chair. But it’s delicate—and obviously robust enough—to live at your kitchen table. For bonus points, mix and match the Palissade line’s lounge chairs, dining chairs, and benches as much as you possibly can. And if you’ve got space for a stool, the NORR11 LeRoi stool rephrases the tactile caning of vintage furniture grails like the Cesca and Jeanneret chairs to bring seating—or an impromptu side table—anywhere in the house.
Assembled, the Russet Champ coffee table looks pleasantly basic, all rectilinear shapes and straightforward lines. But the process of putting it together is the real fun. There are no tools necessary to assemble. No 12-page manuals packed with nine-dimensional diagrams. Absolutely no drilling. Just a bunch of flat-packed pieces that wedge together like an easy puzzle. Russet sells a rubber mallet to help, we had the table set up in 10 minutes, hammer-free. While everyone else is sorting screws, you’ll have already kicked your feet up.
Ozeki & Co Akari Light Sculpture lamps have been manufactured by the same team of Japanese artisans Japan since 1951 using bamboo ribbing and washi paper, made from the bark of mulberry trees. The lamps range in sizes and shapes, but whether they’re more globular or angular, every model seems to radiate with life. The colorful dyed ones used to be extremely difficult to buy stateside, but they appeared in the MoMA Design Store last year. Get one before they’re gone for another 70 years or so.
We respect the IKEA Billy. We’ve owned the Billy. We have, painfully, moved with the Billy. We’re ready for life after Billy. The Floyd Shelving System is a modular shelving system that looks anything but Billy-esque, and lets you create the setup of your dreams—or awkward apartment needs—using a raft of plug-and-play sections centered around the six-tier bookcase. If your needs are simpler, then join us in appreciating the HAY Shelving Unit, which gives the metal utility rack a colorful overhaul. Miss u, Billy.