The kitchen rugs: true, "more" false good idea or design?

tapis-de-cuisine-umbra

I admit, this time I am confused and not sure what to think of kitchen rugs. A priori, one would have assumed they are cheaply (though) able to radically improve this piece, for example hiding the imperfections of a tired linoleum tiles or warming a bit too cold ...

Certainly, however, and without being an a neat freak, I question the validity of a decorative accessory toilet at first interesting ... Having lived a few months in a kitchen in black tile, I saw with astonishment mingled with terror a kitchen floor is nothing less than a bottomless pit with dirt.

tapis-de-cuisine-umbra

I would never certainly not question the obvious comfort of padded model - a trend right now! - In the Umbra , but I fear it is, like other of its congeners, an additional opportunity to spend more time dusting, sweeping and cleaning to enjoy a tasteful interior!

Twig: a wooden chair that leaves no marble

Taken recently by a furious desire to renew furniture, and given the advanced state of decrepitude of my chairs, I would start out by offering more fitting to my brave foundation.

I have a certain appetite for wood chairs, although it is not always easy to find a model that is beyond the rustic style, not always the best effect.

No risk with Twig chair and structure of beech - a pledge of strength! It is in the elegance and sobriety, without departing from the original by giving a bedchamber in two colors. I like the clean side of the set, which fits both around a kitchen table as at a desk.

chaise Twig bicolore en hêtre

Balances in full swing, it may be time to invest!

The Saint of the Day

At the Saint Judicaël, give your kitchen a hundred times more beautiful

For example in adorning it with chairs and design practices, like the Wave home Scab , a very pretty Italian brand necessarily, specializing in the seat in all its forms.

chaise Wave by Scab

The model plays with figures and contrasts by opting for a tracery drawn in gray and transparent ovoid forms are soft.

Small problem, I'm less of a fan base wire, which may augur delightful uproar on the floor, as long as your kitchen is equipped with tiled panels ... but the foam pads can still be an expedient.

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"Fa-fa-fa large family ..."

You may have noticed that I am currently in the throes of post-initiation adjustment to life with many children, what is not, to my chagrin, not affecting my business bloguesque.

History does not sink into depression postpartum, or simply give in burnout facing a pile of ironing that is not without making me think, version housewife, in a bottomless pit, I entertained as I can imagining what our future will look like meal, when all our girls will be able to sit down to eat with us ...

Although not as aware of the news on Scandinavian design that Yippee , I have quite a taste approaching and also scored for the manufacturing came from the northern part of Europe. It is only natural in such a safe bet that Normann Copenhagen that I have found joy and inspiration of the day.

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The only child that I am holding his hand with her ​​three children, and with them the pleasure of GameCafé be worthy of the Friend's Breakfast, which will find their perfect seated on the wooden bench Claus I especially appreciate black.

I will however still resolve the question of space, as with all good intentions, my tiny Parisian kitchen will never allow to host this bench ... we can always dream!

Brush stroke

Voilààààààà is finiiiiii ...

Back in the office, I spent my day complete demotivation return to work to clean as it should be all that my computer contained useless things, starting with 153 of my spam mail, a real treat ...

With this start up, I got off to repeat the operation in version slightly messy once back in my sweet home, which had the good taste to remind me that I had inappropriately failed to release the refrigerator of food a week of rest in the fridge had turned into joyful culture broth.

I will spare you the details of the most sordid horror film that food played in my kitchen, which allowed me once again thank the sky Brabantia for the quality of their garbage, I never get tired of mine ...

In Paris, I suppose, in many cities, the throwing its waste is a brainstorming session to itself alone, especially when one considers the question of whether such packaging has its place in the yellow bin (recyclables, trash to give a boost!) in the container or green (containing vulgar foul-run) ...

Le tri sélectif à Paris ou l'imbroglio au quotidien

Let's face it though, this practice also play a citizen has a significant collateral damage: the propensity to multiply the trash or what can take its place. (I'm a big fan of paper bags for packaging, despite their total lack of glamor).

Fortunately, the sorting bins to grow more and more, even though I continue to wonder why they usually have only two compartments while no less than four would be needed:

1 for alkalines (the mire of our waste),
2 for recyclable waste (those we proudly lay as we had better think about their outrageous expansion),
3 for the glass (HIPS),
4 for compost (to suggest to your condo / caretaker as a natural fertilizer for plants in the subdivision, you tell me the news).

Suppose they disregard it, yet not very common in urban public habitats, there are only a few FotoDesk practicing three-in-one:

The American Rubbermaid , with its plastic model that should probably do some cosmetic work but is still rather with its original shape corole opening, by foot, three-colored compartments and removable, all for a capacity total of 40 liters Hon.

The German Hailo with his model Trento öko trio available in several versions. Geometrically perfect, this does not trash Teutonic jealous and reveals, again by pressing the pedal, three rectangular buckets, too always removable and colorful, each containing 11 liters.


Obviously, if your space allows, you can also join several large garbage "classic" and differentiate them by color!

Small pleasure regressive

Is the approach of spring and the rebirth of nature? I feel these days full of nostalgia for the petty feelings of our childhood, those who, year after year, we continue to invade overturn without warning, in a Striptease Carambar or inhaling the smell of new books ...

My old memories to me is more on the side of lunch in the canteen, much to the succulence of the meal, but for everlasting covered that, in kindergarten primary, primary to secondary, have become indestructible travel companions.

Needless to say, therefore, that I almost felt a tear in his eye when, enticed by the name, I contemplated the French carafe (sic) proposed by Royal VKB . At first sight, nothing but very basic, so a pitcher, who besides being rather pretty clever wants, since it allows the top to hold stacked four glasses ....

And these glasses in reincarnation unexpected Duralex national obviously did not fail to vibrate a chord in me waking up in the buried memories of breakfasts past to compare our ages deep in our cups ... I do not know if Royal VKB has pushed the number up tribute funds, but this detail does not however prevent me from applauding wildly ...

(Dis) Order in my kitchen

Storage and organization is to program this January, I did not have prevented me from making a fast inventory of tasks to do for my interior can appear on the cover of Homes & Gardens .

That's assuming my kitchen that I realized the character fundamentally utopian aspiration.

Like any self-respecting Parisian cuisine, ours is an area that most small ... The inventive genius that lies within me tries to overcome this narrowness to large reinforcements amoncèlements more or less daring. Movement because of my interest in things culinary, I has a real passion for small kitchen utensils, which gives me a reason to continue to accumulate in the room above a jumble unlikely, which reinforces my idea that the kitchen definitely has strong upside.

Today is the cutting board intelligent English designers Joseph Joseph , past masters in the art of ergonomic kitchen gadgets and fun. Amateur - in all humility - cooking, I argue quite regularly with my chopped vegetables that either:

    - Flee to the work plan
    - Fall everywhere except in the pot

Joseph Joseph was thought to clumsy (s) of my kind and designed with Mark Sanders polyproylene a board which resembles that of a little snow shovel. Lightness is the least of the qualities of the utensil: its edges are folded flexible to allow us to safely transport our julienned vegetables to suitable container. He had to think!

préposé aux cuisines propres

attendant own kitchens

And since I'm on the gastronomic secrets, I can not resist the pleasure to introduce my future pan, with my ancient finally!! made the handle the soul, allowing me to begin the renewal of long fantasized my cookware.

Alléluia

Hallelujah

There is certainly nothing in this very basic model of Medusa in Beka , but I am the eye in a long time already.

I love the rivets that hold the handle and lid - can only hope they are as solid as pleasant to look at, it was the black point of his dead congener. The good news with Beka - apart from its Germanic origins :) - Is that the brand has established a few months a green label, very strangely named Eco-logic . Although I am not completely fooled by the marketing dimension of this type of name that certainly means that the product is without any impact to the environment, I can only praise the initiative, which attests - until something better ? - that the jig does not contain perfluoro-octanoic acid (do not worry, it is usually known by its abbreviation often Anglophone PFOA), a chemical commonly used in the manufacture of household products and that could prove harmful for our health as well as for nature.

And to complete this exciting acquisition in beauty, I offer this little creation, the result of my learning graphico-digital. Enjoy!

La cuisine est un art

Cooking is an art

The final countdown: only 34 days before Christmas

What I like most during the holidays, it's Advent (and also the front ...), these generous first 4 weeks of Christmas well known for our little chocolate calendars bearing his name. Our cousins ​​- and some of our compatriots in the East - which are definitely very nice people celebrate Advent in a way that has always welcomed me and I always imposes a tradition to everyone around me Paris region: they concoct cupcakes (the Plätzchen) offered and eaten with family, friends or office. And when I say concoct I weigh my words, this tradition is a virtual institution that can address the whole weekend and mobilize the whole family. You may say that all this is far removed from considerations decorative, well think again ... All of my mouth too soon to indulge in the simple joys, I propose today an exclusive selection of utensils and culinary equipment that will allow you to detonate even in the kitchen, and why not glean here and there a few gift ideas "useful" and yet pleasing.

The brilliant designers Joseph Joseph have imagined and, with Nest8 , a set consisting of a bowl, a beaker, a strainer and spoons of different measures that fit into each other.

mastrioschka de cuisine

mastrioschka kitchen

Here's a clever and stylish all-in-one that will fit in most kitchens cramped and you will have on hand all the basics needed for everyday meals.

Cooking rhymes with bake, and I have often learned to my cost that it was difficult to reconcile aesthetics and functionality with regard to rags, and other cooking gloves. Anyone who like me have one day burned his hands trying to get out with cloths or pot holder fabric made during the sixth and technology which is part of our first bunch of grown-up, share my enthusiasm for this oven mitt Hotheads Americans inventive Fred shaped frog, designed to withstand heat and facilitate the handling of all your small and large dishes.

Though not able to sublimate the erotic fiber lying dormant within us, the apron is indispensable to guard against all projections ups. Some years ago, I received a gift of a linen apron matches this model Stonehenge home Libeco which has since ceased to satisfy me. Home cooks or clumsy unrepentant, this message to you: flax is resistant, easy care - it does not require to be ironed and washed at high temperature - and is the fabric of choice for all haute sewing of extra time ... little advice: if you like you definitely stain, prefer strong covering dark colors ...

But let us return to the heart of the matter of our culinary preparations: I would like to pay tribute to two fundamentally dispensable accessories, but we can not yet too boast ... provided they fulfill their primary function: to shine and brighten our interiors, be they an ordinary work plan.

LA balance qu'il vous (me) faut

THE balance that you (me) must

I am among those who each year promise to finally buy a kitchen scale that will supplement my measuring cup and I do not have to slash my pat of butter in me indulging in scholarly subtractions during the preparation of my pastries. And like every year I tell myself that there is finally a real poetry to customize a recipe according to my memories of elementary school. Nevertheless, the electronic scale chrome metal Uma here that could make me change my mind: first, by its very original design, very characteristic of Casa Bugatti , with its large curved and removable bowl, then, for its technology including its sprinkler system, ideal for all distracted and scattered my mothers ...

In a similar way, I'm still breaking walnuts and hazelnuts with a hammer, which allows me to indulge in long games of hide and seek with the shells or and kernels, which never fail to take the moment of impact their flight to the most unlikely corners of the kitchen. If I should no longer enjoy these little amusements, I'd certainly for Drosselmeyer nutcracker , who inherited his Swedish-born strength, functionality and sophistication. It is so perfect that it should be almost the sole purpose of decoration, but it would be silly to give up one of its strengths: it was specifically designed to fit all shapes and all sizes of nuts.

I hope this quick overview of commercial kitchen design will awake your fiber as well as your culinary inspiration ... See you soon for a new Christmas special appointment.

I Want the Sun (1): get up and walk

Climate and time change fall, that's not necessarily the desire to give cheerfully to leave his nest cozy bed to survey chilly corridors, kitchens and bathrooms frozen chilling .... If some (s) of you have ideas to bring good humor and warmth in our cubicles, they make themselves known!

I obviously did not wait for my advanced age and the adventure of this blog to try to make up my most pleasant rest ... that my efforts have not always been successful, I mean I do not necessarily jump my bed singing a song in praise of "waking up beauty" ...

However, I am working to make this morning when the delicate prelude to a successful day, which here, mood and decorating ideas to support the various crucial stages

déco du matin, tout va bien

Deco in the morning, so good

First step: breakfast, not always easy when everything is dark and cold ... so try to get warm as quickly as possible, and to do that, nothing like a good tea.

Ah, the tea ceremony by itself, fans will not contradict me ... and for a successful tea, of course, an ideal warm water (between 70 and 95 ° C for different types of tea) is mandatory

I discovered with amazement the cordless kettle from Morphy Richards Americans. In this case, nothing revolutionary in the mechanism, but what refinement in appearance ... I do not dwell on its sleek, minimalist design and functionality of its handle and its wide wireless system, no; This changes everything with this kettle is its transparency illuminated ... let me explain: it is not only transparent colored glass that allows for once, to accurately measure the water level of the device, but especially she has a sublime and clever lighting system that switches on when the water boils, and the envelope part of a bluish halo to the hypnotic power incomparable.

Nothing better to imagine lagoons and warm even in the most polar kitchens

For the drink itself, I'm quite a purist, smoked tea kind remaining my optimum ... Fortunately, the growing enthusiasm for this type of beverage has greatly raise the level and quality of these leaves to brew. For anyone wanting to discover the incredible richness of tea, like wine, has an infinite number of wines and flavors, Tea Forté offers a pretty good introduction. The packaging is attractive and original, with varied selections - "natures" or flavored, though I owned the category of purists who consider a flavored tea is no longer a tea - presented in beautiful pyramids, and boxes really successful ... so many good gift ideas in anticipation of an approaching Christmas

There is also a great invention in the field of receptacles of our hot or cold liquids. I like the design nicely retro mugs and bowls Menu , their geometric decoration and tart is a tribute to the Danish designer Verner Panton. Little more, making thermos avoiding burns while keeping our beverages warm.

If you're more likely on coffee, know that my friends (see the first section of this blog) from Bosch , always at the forefront, have developed a coffee worthy of the most glittering of zincs, which provides a snap the quintessential coffee frankly ground ... I know we are here a thousand miles of beautiful aluminum pods that bloom in coffee section of our supermarkets and machinery suitable perforating them with love, but without taking into account the environmental issues raised by these capsules, Is there really a comparison possible - no offense to fans of George - between a quasi-professional coffee machine and a pseudo-overused gadget?

Remains a major concern for the least of us in the morning: that of the pale light that often lack not to blind our little tired eyes. It is always difficult to find a balance between soft lighting tricky but not very powerful and dazzling power of a neon ... A valiant heart, nothing is impossible, Laurent Baule created a suspension whose shape reminds me a little of that a butane camping, and acts as a filter for saving to the gaiety of our disco lights and a pleasing effect in our kitchens.

Farewell bleak revivals, a successful day can only begin!

Appointment very soon on this blog following my adventures Deco morning ... next episode: the art of living in my bathroom.