For as long as we’ve had this house and probably even before that Joe and I have followed the Salt Lake City based blog, GrassrootsModern. It was created by Creede Fitch and his wife to document their modern house renovation (on a budget) as well as super-cool products for home and baby. We admired their speed and agility in remodeling (did I mention they are already on their second home), not to mention all the great products featured.
Here’s a video of a demo in their kitchen. This is the kind of stuff we relate to, especially the mess. Keep up the great work, Mr. & Mrs. Fitch.
Recently, I had the pleasure of photographing Maxine Siu’s store called Stem in the Mission District of San Francisco. Ruby, Maxine’s daughter was the perfect photo assistant, making the shoot easy and fun. Thanks, Ruby!
If you’ve never been to Stem, go now. Maxine has an incredibly well designed store, with lovely and unique flower arrangements, as well as all the best gifts for the home and baby (plus big kids, too). Better yet, they are right next door to Bi-rite creamery. Get some salted caramel ice cream on your way home.
I love typing ‘renovation’ into the flickr search to see what I can find. I haven’t done it for a while and was delightfully surprised to see this seriously mini kitchen being renovated by icklemissus. I’m not sure if it was ever finished since the last image was posted nearly a year ago. Nonetheless, the attempt was very sweet. The original was made by her Grandad 24 years ago.
Well I guess that’s not true. I wanted my driver’s license so badly that I was convinced I would die some tragic death just before my 16th birthday. Did I mention I was a dramatic kid?
Seriously though, it’s been a while since I’ve truly yearned for something in my kitchen and now I can’t stop daydreaming about the new line of Slate dutch ovens, exclusive to Williams Sonoma. Perhaps, it’s the fact that I constantly use my Le Creuset pot. I’ll lie and say that knowing I would get a Le Creuset pot on my wedding registry was half the reason I got married. Ok not half. More like 1/10 the reason. I cook with my pot all of the time (and Joe you benefit so no complaints for my last comment). If you love to cook, it’s hard to imagine a kitchen without one.
Le Creuset has always had great colors. I was conservative choosing my first color; Dune. Nothing really wowed me at the time. However, my never-ending fetish with the color gray prevents me from getting this dutch oven out of my mind. It’s just so damn beautiful and useful at the same time.
Alas, our priorities lie with building a real, working kitchen and I’ll have to pass on the dutch oven for now. Instead I’ll just thank my brother and sister-in-law for getting us the first one. Thank you MB & Richie! For the rest of you, get yours here.
House & Fig is Sarah Wert & Joe Hebenstreit. Joe is a ‘Maker’ in all meanings of the word as well as a Product Design Lead. Sarah spends most of her time photographing very cute kids Modern Kids Photography. We got hitched in July of 2007 and about a month later found ourselves tearing down walls in our new home. You could say we're newlyweds living in a construction zone.
