Things we chose carefully, and still use every day.
Real stories about the things we've saved up for and lived with for years, why we bought them, and whether we'd choose them again.
Real stories about the things we've saved up for and lived with for years, why we bought them, and whether we'd choose them again.
Never worn out or broken, only ever replaced after being lost.
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Six sets of BiGDUG garage shelving, five and a half years in, and two house moves survived.
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A Numatic Henry 200, seven years in, with the gran who swore by it first.
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An Anglepoise Type 75 floor lamp in Paul Smith's Edition Four, next to a desk lamp that's already lasted twenty.
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An Aarke Carbonator 3 sparkling water maker, a week in.
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Two Bialetti moka pots we still use daily, and the one before them that gave over twenty years.
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A Heal's Lars chest of drawers in olive green, and the side each we didn't expect.
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A Cornilleau 200X Sport table tennis table, bought after a memorable game on holiday.
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A Fermob Luxembourg table and chairs, upsized once already and coming with us again.
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A Pow Pots plant pot, hand-painted in the Lake District, bought after getting fed up with traditional terracotta.
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A Vitsœ 606 shelving system, four years on, no gloss.
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Three Hachiman buckets, an odd birthday present that turned out to be one of the most useful things we own.
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A made-to-measure Tylko unit, built for an awkward vaulted landing.
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A Maruni Lightwood table and six chairs, after two dining tables got it wrong.
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A Dualit toaster and kettle, bought after too many cheap ones broke.
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A Lamino armchair, built for one person and nobody else.
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Falcon enamelware, one chip, thousands of dinners.
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A String system, reconfigured once already, with more planned.
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A Robin Day Forum sofa, two years into daily kitchen-diner life.
Read the story →“Not a publication about beautiful things. A publication about the things that are still earning their place, years later.”
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