5 Things I’m Obsessed with Right Now
My favorite kind of stuff is stuff that looks beautiful and serves a purpose. A blanket that’s equally cozy as it is elegant. A candle that looks as good as it smells. A home gadget that improves your life without looking so “gadgety.”
For the sake of refreshing your space for fall, I’m sharing home items that I’m currently obsessed with. The kinds of things that not only make your space look better, but operate better as well:
The Electric Kettle. I’m a full-blown tea freak, mostly of the Earl Grey variety. Until relatively recently, I relied heavily on my Alessi kettle, which always looked sleek on my stovetop. However, I recently had the pleasure of organizing a highly chic person’s kitchen. A tea freak herself, she kept popping over to the kettle to brew herself another cup of tea in record time. “You’ll never use a tea kettle again,” she warned.
The kettle in question: the Stagg EKG Electric Kettle by Fellow. It’s marketed as a pour-over kettle for coffee people, but I simply use it to boil water for my morning cup(s) of tea. It’s more energy efficient than a stovetop kettle, and takes far less time to boil water (one minute to be exact!).
The Humidifier. I truly believe that my humidifier helps me sleep better. As someone who routinely breathes through their mouth while asleep, I always used to wake up with a dry, scratchy throat. Enter the Cloud Humidifier, which sits comfortably on my nightstand and emits a cloud-like mist in my general direction. It’s less bulky than other humidifiers, and WAY easier to clean. I used to haul my older versions to the sink, and scrub laboriously with soap and water, but now I just pop the water bucket in the dishwasher. Easy. Misty.
The Chic Duster. Vacuuming is all well and good, but my home never looks *fully* clean without a dose of dusting (don’t forget the floorboards!). That’s where this game-changing Goat Hair duster comes in. It’s basically softer than a makeup brush, and I use it to swiftly skim the tops of my TV, floorboards, coffee table books, and tops of artwork. It takes up little to no space in my utility closet, and it looks like a fantastical cleaning device right out of Lord of the Rings.
The Pet & Lint Brush. It’s no secret that I live and breathe for my cat Sweetie, but I’d rather not live and breathe in her cat hair at all times. I’ve been on the lookout for a more sustainable option outside the sticky lint roller, and finally found this supremely useful one by Redecker. It looks like a tiny nail brush, except made with rubber bristles. I swipe it along all of Sweetie’s usual spots (AKA the white sofa and arm chair), and it neatly gathers up all pet hair at once. To remove excess pet hair from the brush, I simply rinse it under cold water.
The Composter. Tossing food scraps in the garbage not only smells bad, but it’s also bad for the environment (food waste trapped in landfills produces methane, which has 86 times the global warming effect of carbon dioxide). I’ve used compost bins in the past, but they were always either too small or didn’t adequately mask food odors.
The Lomi definitely costs more than your average compost bin, but here’s why. It easily turns food waste into soil for my plants with the press of a button, and even better, it smells like ABSOLUTELY NOTHING along the way. There’s a bit of a learning curve involved with initial use, but once you get the hang of it, the process is as easy as trash-tossing.