None-Kitchen Tea Station

So I think I’ve taken the tea obsession to another level since I’ve just done this http://instagram.com/p/juXsetguGm/

Out of pure laziness really. In the wintertime by family turns the downstairs heat reeeaally low and turns off all the downstairs lights while I’m still up and going. When I’m finally ready for my final cup of tea of the night, I can’t bare the thought of going down there having to get the heat going again, waiting TEN MINUTES for my glass kettle to boil, etc etc etc. So I usually just go to bed with a glass of water (booooo!)

Anyway, now with an electric kettle in my room a nice little selection of bagged teas, that will no longer be a problem :)

Does anyone else have a full-blown tea area set up in their room? I can’t be alone on this. lol

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I used to have my whole tea setup in the bedroom but after my noisy kettle kept waking up my boyfriend at all hours of the night I was shuffled to the basement. Now I have an official Tea Lair where I also do my crafts.

It is a bit cold down here in the winter though.

Tea Lair! Awesome! I love hearing the different names. Tea corner, tea den, etc. :)

I know, right? I hope one day to have a whole room devoted to it…I will have to come up with an awesome name for it of course.

Jen said
I hope you have a little sign for the Lair. What a great name. :)

Hmmm, I don’t, but I am going to make one…I am thinking perler beads so it has an 8-bit style! Thank you for the idea!

Lynxiebrat said

Would love to see a picture of it when you finish:)

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ifjuly said

Such funny timing because just this week I did the same thing in our apartment living room, spurred on by the fact cold evenings make me want to spend my time in there (it’s much warmer than the kitchen or breakfast nook as it’s centered in the apartment as opposed to on the edge of the perimeter) drinking tea endlessly and watching TV or reading! Also because our wiring is wonky and if I’m running the dishwasher after dinner using a kettle in the kitchen was impossible as it shorted everything.

My set up’s on an end table next to the couch and fireplace mantel. It’s a Zoji variable temp water heater (I’m madly in love with it…I like it more the Breville One Touch even, by a lot), a tea tray, digital timer, tea scoop, forlife infuser with lid caddy, and bowl for dumping leftover leaves in to dispose of at the end of the night. My favorite evening teas—oolongs, greens, and no cafs mostly—are in a wheeled pull-out triple drawer thing in the room, and my favorite teaware vessels for enjoying those kinds of tea (gaiwan, kyusu, glass teapot, favorite special tea cups) are on the mantel (bonus, that means now they’re on display for me to enjoy looking at!). Now I can drink tea all night long without even getting up to go into the kitchen at all. At the end of the night I just take my used teaware and leaf bowl to the kitchen sink to clean up and refill the water heater if needed (I set the timer for it to be ready the next afternoon too). I LOVE it. Has changed my tea drinking game considerably.

I was ordering Lupicia’s Chestnut Green tea the other night—been out of stock forever—and picked up one of their pretty towel things to hang on the wall over the station too. If I can remember, after it comes and I put it up I’ll snap a pic. Yay tea stations!

Lupicia has pretty towel things?! Do they sell them online?

ifjuly said

Yeah, under teawares they have a kind of odd section called “Japanese modern” or something like that, with its own completely distinct web design. They’ve got some cute 1×3foot towels, and some are meant to be hung as wall art.

This one’s pretty: http://www.lupiciausa.com/product_p/22950203.html

Oh my gosh! Those are wonderful! Thank you so much!

ifjuly said

there’s also a pretty great tenugui seller on etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/kyotocollection?ref=l2-shopheader-name

glad you like them too! so pretty.

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moraiwe said

I have a tea station downstairs in the kitchen and a less thorough one upstairs in the bedroom. Both places have an variable temp electric kettle and two teapots, but downstairs has all of my gong fu things, and my kyusu as well. :) I’d love a full room with a library and dedicated to all things tea though.

ifjuly said

oooh, a library tea room! i have a fantasy about using a big old card catalog to house and label all my tea, and it would be even more fitting in such a room. dreamy.

I think I would prefer a yarn tea room to a library tea room, but maybe thats just me being a Kindle user. lol

moraiwe said

I adore my Kindle too, but there’s something really romantic about the smell and feel of books. And having a window nook and lots of pillows in a room surrounded by tea and books is insanely high on my wishlist.

A tea room and library combined would be amazing, I don’t think I would ever want to leave! Have a little corner devoted to crafty things and it would be a dream come true!

Kamyria said

Uh oh… a library tea room with a window nook and lots of pillows… I can already see it.. You couldn’t get me out of there…

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AnnaEA select said

I had a little tea station set up in my bedroom, until I realized that it made it way to easy for me to stay in bed all day! Now tea making stays on the main floor of the house, and is my reward for getting up, especially on freezing days like this. Only tea can beat out an electric blanket — when they were both conspiring to make the bedroom the best place in the house, I didn’t stand a chance.

Kamyria said

aha ha ha!! I totally see this happening. :D

But that’s the magic of it all!! lol

K S said

You gotta pee some time.

exactly, KS! lol

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Angrboda said

We used to have Tea Corner in the dining room in our old flat. It had the kettle and three narrow shelves and a table. All the tins and pouches on the shelves, kettle and pots and things on the table. I even bought a cute melamine tray from Roy Kirkham with butterflies on it, to put the pots on while brewing as we quickly discovered that the table wasn’t happy with tea and water spillages. (It’s an old cheap dining table, but the surface is wood and it’s a bit damaged now.)

There wasn’t any good places to do a similar setup in our new house (MY HOUSE! ♥), so tea making arrangements are a bit fluid at the moment, as we’ve still not worked out a good system. It’s lovely to have the kettle right next to the sink, though! Presently we’ve got our Most Used/Consider This First teas in the kitchen cupboard and the rest I’ve got in my old dresser in my room. I tried to make everything fit in the kitchen cupboard, but it was hopeless, because it was impossible to see what was actually in there. So the arrangements aren’t optimal at the moment, but the fact that it’s my own house and that I can have kettles and pots near the sink makes up for that. :)

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Brent said

We have a separate countertop and cabinet that houses our immediate tea selection (those teas that we keep on-hand), two full tea trays and a range of pots and tools. On the other side, we have seating for company and a couple of places set so that we have tea for guests right away. It’s the first thing you see when you walk in the house. Right next to it, we have a water cooler that is dedicated to tea.

The tea counter is about 15 sq ft, but if we move, our next house will need a bigger one. Just last week, we were trying to figure out a better way to arrange things, because it is quite crowded as it is. Elsewhere, I have my pu-erh collection in what is becoming known as the “tea room”.

I have to admit that the idea of putting a tea table in the bedroom has occurred to me. I would have to go out of the room to get fresh water, though, so it would be a wash, really.

On the other hand, we spend most of our summers on our sailboat, and the lack of a dedicated tea space has been a matter of recurring dissent. When we want to make tea, we have to drag everything out, make the tea, and put everything away. Add 4-6 foot waves, and it makes some hazardous duty for whoever loses that particular coin toss.

Cheers.

I just use a gallon bottle of distilled water so I don’t need to leave the room

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If I had a house, I would absolutely do this! Even if I had a library, or tea area all decked out somewhere in the house, I’d love having a cozy chair, a bookshelf (with my kindle), and a small tea making station in the bedroom for those times you don’t want to putter around the house to compile all the things you want. As I live in an apartment now, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to do this (and I only have about 10% of my books here, enough to fill up one 5-shelf bookshelf). But one day!

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K S said

In the living room I have an end table with a kettle, press, water bottle, a few loose teas, and my evening decaf bagged teas. My wife has her own set up in the kitchen as she likes using the microwave (eeewww). In the den I have an adjustable kettle, press, Finum basket, water jugs, assorted cups, gaiwan, and pots. A tower of drawers full of loose tea. I also have a fridge for ice and milk along with a blender for frapps. We may be a little obsessed.

You win. lol

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Uniquity said

Tomorrow night we are officially moved from our apartment to our first house. For now, we are renting with an eye to buy if the location works out for us.

Now I am thinking WAY TOO MUCH about how to do my tea setup. I think I don’t have room in the kitchen, as there is a lot of tea. There is a downstairs living room where it would be nice to do a display but there is no water down there and it is all windows, so quality would be compromised. The upstairs living room is much darker, but that is earmarked for tv and video games. Maybe the guest room…We shall see!

Sil select said

sooo exciting!

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So, I live in a two bedroom basement suite with a roommate. Our kitchen is actually relatively large – about the same size as the two floor house I lived in prior to moving here, and I (the sole household tea drinker) have on top of the dishwasher staked out as where I keep a lot of my tea tools for the actual brewing of my tea (except for cups/mugs/pots).

Then there’s the living room closet where my tea is stored other than a couple tins in the kitchen cupboard which I rotate between. And, a drawer for small samples next to the dishwasher. Our kettle is plugged in right next to the dishwasher and I just prepare everything on top of the kettle. However, it’d be unnecessary for me to “set up shop”, if you will, in my bedroom because, despite 95% of my belongings and my bed being located there, I actually sleep and spend 95% of my time in the living room attached to the kitchen.

…My bed is super uncomfortable and the living room couch is just so cozy. The only time I actually sleep in my room, now, is when there’s company (typically family) over.

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