Enjoying fall days filled with brisk walks, warm drinks and the smell of wood burning fires in the air. Baking pies, breads and gearing up for Thanksgiving with these awesome finds under $50:
- Soup Tureen with Ladle – West Elm ($34.99 sale!)
- Notched Bowel – Pigeon Toe Ceramics ($46.00)
- Gourd with Lid – Crate & Barrel ($14.95)
- French Bread Tray- West Elm ($29.00)
- Reclaimed Wood Tray – Terrain ($38.00)
- French Pepper Mill – Brook Farm General Store ($29.00)
- Curious Deciduous Dinnerware – Anthropologie ($16-$24)
- Invierno Table Runner – Anthropologie ($48.00)
- Handled Ceramic Serving Bowl – Pottery Barn ($35.00)
- Mercury Owls – West Elm ($14-$19)
It’s not often that you see new products come out for the home that are radically different than their predecessors. A garbage disposal is a garbage disposal – usually the new ones are a little more quiet than the old ones. Dishwashers, for the most part, look the same today as they did 10 years ago.
The utilitarian devices we use around our houses have yet to go through any sort of dramatic change in form or function.
So when The Husband sent me a link to Nest, a digital thermostat, earlier this week, the first thing I thought was: This device is beautiful. And then I thought, Steve Jobs would have been proud. It’s a connection that makes sense, because one of the people behind the company is a former Apple Exec. who had a hand in developing both the iPod and iPhone.
But Nest is more than just a pretty face:
Linked into the internet and to your life, Nest can be scheduled and can learn – in it’s first week, it watches how you control your heat and cooling and creates rules based off of what you do. Since it can go online, you can also control it from your computer or by their mobile app. Cool.
Since it’s not out yet, we haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but if our system is compatible, I probably will – especially at a reasonable cost of just at $250.
The site’s in dutch, which makes reading the instructions for making this magazine holder pretty impossible. But fortunately pictures say just as much as words could:
Step 1: Find lovely old vintage wooden crate.
Step 2: Attach wheels (preferably the locking kind) to base.
I may just have to make this one.
The husband and I have spent the last few weekends de-cluttering our house. We’re not pack-rats, but it’s amazing how much you can accumulate over a fear years without even trying. We packed up a lot of books to give to the library (thanks to the Kindle, we’re buying less paper books these days) and threw out 5 bags of random things we didn’t need or want anymore.
You see, when we decided we wanted to move to France and bought our house over there, one thing we knew was that we were making a conscious choice to value experience and a way of life over things. We know that when we move overseas, it will be easiest to do if we don’t have much to take with us, and we’ve found that we love the sparseness of our home there.
Which is why this video of a simple and stripped down life speaks so much to me:
COFFER from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo.
Via the lovely folks at Three Potato Four.
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