Foreword

Hello everyone, I am Dao Daojiang, a sophisticated lifestyler who is proficient in domestic and foreign household equipment. ?

We are getting married soon, and my girlfriend and I finally own our first house as young people. It is an 80-square-meter two-bedroom apartment 8 minutes' walk from the subway. It has a large living room, two just enough rooms, a living balcony and a main balcony. ?

With the efforts of my wife and I (yes, we have already received the certificate when I finished writing this article. It shows that my procrastination is really bad.), it was finally completed. Let me first give you some pictures of the common *** interval.

Entrance

Living room

Dining room

The decoration process was a bit twisty, and it took more than half a year from rough to completion. My wife, who is a UI designer, is mainly responsible for the matching of soft furnishings. She has integrated some popular Nordic elements into our home, and the effect is quite satisfactory. As a product manager, I plan and arrange the electrical appliances and microelectronics of the whole family, and design various intelligent linkage programs. We spent the most money on the electrical appliances in the house except for the hard furnishings. The contractor said that the planned electric potential was suitable for a house of five people. I think electrical appliances are the part that can best reduce duplication of work and improve your quality of life. In fact, the cost of equipping a whole house with the electrical appliances introduced in this article is 10,000-20,000, and you can also pay in installments, hahaha. If you're struggling with your wallet, please be kind to yourself, okay? ?

Now let’s get to the point. Please pay attention! This article is not about teaching you how to match soft furnishings. This article is mainly about various "Amway" electrical appliances that improve the sense of life, and the various scenarios they are applicable to. Below I will describe our home in different scenarios. (In order to avoid suspicion of advertising, this article will not display the brand or model we finally chose to buy. If you need a list, you can request it by private message)

Enter the door

Fingerprint door lock

I have forgotten my keys several times when I went out. The experience of squatting on the ground in the cold wind in the middle of the night waiting for the master to open the door made me unwilling to repeat this process again. The first thing I need for my new home is a fingerprint door lock. No more patting your pockets to check if you forgot your keys when you go out. It really reduces the psychological burden. The price of a smart door lock is about more than 1,000. Generally, it can be used for about a year after charging or replacing the battery. If the battery is out of power, you can use the power bank for emergency first aid without getting stuck at the door.

Mijia or Alibaba smart door locks can be linked with other devices. For example, our home has two automated switches.

- One is to open the door at night and automatically turn on the lights at home. ?

- The other is to open the door on hot days (linked to the temperature and humidity sensor in the living room) and automatically turn on the fan at home.

Drink water, make coffee, and make tea

RO pure water machine

Another thing I must add to my new home is a pure water machine. Because I really don’t want to drink bottled water anymore. Because the shortcomings of bottled water are too obvious:

- Bottled water requires someone to come to your door. There are times a month when the water delivery worker fails to arrive after being urged.

- The water dispenser will collect dirt after being used for a long time. ?

- Bottled water is more expensive than RO pure water. ?

- The quality of bottled water is not reassuring and the taste is average. ?

- Repeated boiling of bottled water dispensers wastes electricity and produces nitrite. And it cannot be boiled, as bacteria will still remain.

- The water dispenser is unsightly and the remaining empty buckets affect the look and feel of the home. For small apartments, it also takes up valuable space.

RO pure water machine, combined with the smart water dispenser mentioned below, completely overcomes these problems.

- The RO pure water machine does not need to wait for the water delivery worker, it immediately delivers water.

- RO pure water is very clean.

- Cheap.

- It can be drunk directly, no need to worry about safety issues and need to boil it and wait for it to cool down.

- The taste is very good, with almost no impurities.

- Can be hidden under the kitchen sink, beautiful.

Water purifiers are really easy to use. You should also get one. You can install it in your new or old home. If there is space under the kitchen sink, it can be installed. If not, it can also be installed on the countertop. The market price is more than a thousand yuan, and the consumable cost is 1 to 300 yuan a year.

Smart water dispenser

(Our sideboard: from left to right are: grinder, coffee machine, coffee tool set, smart water dispenser)

What should I do if I want to drink hot water at home? The traditional approach is to buy a water dispenser or a hot water kettle. But the problem of repeatedly heating hot water cannot be avoided. Now with smart water dispensers, you can turn your water from cold to hot in just a few seconds. And when you are not drinking, there is no electricity bill and no need to turn it off. You don’t have to worry about boiling the water again and again. Also, you can adjust the temperature of the water at will, such as making lemonade at 55 degrees, green tea at 85 degrees, and black tea at 100 degrees.

Other options

Two in one

Brands such as Yunmi and Haier have machines that can directly filter municipal tap water into pure water and then add heating. In other words, the two devices mentioned above are combined into one.

Friends who have not yet renovated or plan to renovate their house can consider this product.

Thermostat electric kettle

If you want to save money, or need a lot of hot water, you can consider a thermostat electric kettle, which is an ordinary kettle with a thermostat. One disadvantage of the above-mentioned smart water dispenser is that if you need a lot of water, for example, if you are drinking Kung Fu tea and need a lot of hot water, then the water dispenser needs to refill water repeatedly, which may be a troublesome process. Then paired with a constant temperature electric kettle, it can cover other usage scenarios. It can always maintain the water temperature you need. After boiling, you can pick up the water at the temperature you want at any time, which means you can always use a lot of hot water to make your Kung Fu tea.

Coffee machine, grinder and coffee bean scale Our family likes to drink Italian coffee and a hot latte in the morning to start a good day. Since not everyone is interested in coffee, I’ll leave this part out. Order freshly roasted coffee beans every month, weigh the beans with a kitchen scale accurate to 0.1 grams, grind the powder with a grinder and put it into a semi-automatic coffee machine for extraction...The espresso liquid obtained is far better than that of non-Luckin, Starbucks, etc. comparable.

Cooking

Pressure IH Rice Cooker

Some time ago, the Chinese brought Japanese rice cookers to China, which can even accept an oversized transformer. For what? For a better bite of rice. Good rice depends mainly on two factors: the rice cooker and the rice. The first is the rice cooker. The pressure to innovate modern rice cookers began in Japan. There is no way, people were prosperous in the 1980s and consumption upgraded. Japanese people like to eat rice as much as Chinese people. In order to cook rice well, I tried various methods. The first is IH, which is fully heated. Each bite of the cooked rice will be heated more evenly than the ordinary bottom. This is the same as firewood rice. And pressure will make the rice softer. ?

Another key thing is to use good rice, such as organic Northeast Wuchang rice, which costs about 6 or 7 yuan per pound. If conditions permit, you can also ask friends to bring rice back from Japan. Japanese rice is very delicious, soft and glutinous. ?

Nowadays, there are many rice cookers with apps. For people like me who don’t know when I will get home, I can cook remotely and simply stir-fry vegetables when I get home. Another one is to make reservations for cooking. You don’t need to worry about calculating how many hours you will start cooking. You just need to say what time you want to eat and it will automatically calculate it. ?

Later I moved into a new home and added some equipment that I might not have expected before, and they all worked very well. So just take advantage of it.

Some homemade cabinets and shelves in the corner of the kitchen

(Using a corner of the small kitchen, a special-shaped cabinet, a folding table and a bunch of shelves were stuffed in)

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This is not a smart part, but it is very practical. Because the kitchens of small and medium-sized apartments are generally not too big, the operating tabletop is usually very small. Don’t be afraid of trouble at this time and find every opportunity to create more storage space. And cabinets are just the beginning. ?

Take our kitchen as an example. After moving in, I drilled several holes with a hammer drill and installed folding tables and shelves. It is much easier to operate when cooking and has a lot more temporary storage. space. It feels like my big house in the countryside. Unprocessed vegetables, chopped vegetables, semi-finished products, and finished products all have their places.

Steaming and baking machine

(We transformed the living kitchen into this, and installed the steaming and baking machine, rice cooker, dishwasher, cabinet, and gas water heater)

I had no interest in this thing at first. But when I bought the range hood, I got a regular oven for heating bread, which is much better than a microwave oven. Later I learned that there was such a product as a steam oven. I originally wanted to buy the Bermuda one, but it was too expensive and the capacity was small, so I took advantage of the event and bought my current large-capacity steam oven. ?

With this thing, life is really much more convenient. I haven't had time to study the time-consuming thing of baking, so let me talk about other things:?

- To heat bread from the bakery, there is no need to use a microwave. Use the steam baking mode to wrap the bread with a layer of water vapor and prevent it from burning easily. It bakes like freshly baked bread. ?

- Steam fish and eggs, no need to boil a large pot of water anymore. ?

- Roasted chicken, a specialty dish is ready. ?

- Roast sweet potatoes, roast eggplant, roast everything.

After meals

Food waste disposer

Remember how you dispose of endless soups, boiled fish, stews and other juices Food? First use chopsticks to separate the residue, pour the juice into the sink first, and then throw the residue into the trash can. If the operation is not done properly during this period, some residue will fall into the sink and have to be picked up again. With a garbage disposal, all you need to do is turn on the sink faucet, pour leftovers into the sink hole, and turn on the garbage disposal. Very worry-free. ?

With the ease of disposing of food waste, your overnight trash cans will have fewer odors, bugs, and flies. Your home becomes a better place.

Dishwasher (with tips)

This big item is slowly becoming popular in China, and I believe many people are also familiar with it.

Here I will briefly explain: The principle of a dishwasher is to use high-temperature, high-pressure, detergent-containing water to spray your dirty dishes at 360 degrees, and use physical and chemical multi-flush effects to wash your dishes clean. Its cleanliness is far beyond what human hands can compare to. Including detergent and electricity, one wash costs about 2 yuan. If you choose a large-scale dishwasher, you can wash the dishes for 2-3 days at a time. It only costs 40-60 yuan a month, which can solve the problem today. "Who will wash the dishes later?" This is the first trigger of divorce, but it is still worth it. There are a few points to note:

- ?Buy a large number of sets, more than 9 sets, and you will not regret it. Because when you discover that it can even wash pots, the word "value" will be written on your face. ?

- Do not use iron pots, but use pots made of stainless steel, aluminum, ceramics, etc.

- Choose to use more flat plates rather than Chinese plates (high rims) Do not use wooden chopsticks (and other wooden products) to prevent damage from heat.

Video Entertainment

In 2018, 4K HDR film sources have gradually become popular. If you want to enjoy 4k videos, it is best to buy a 4k TV. Xiaomi is the minimum requirement. If you want a better experience, it is recommended to buy a mid-to-high-end model from Sony, Samsung, or LG. Now that you have a TV, you can pair it with a Blu-ray player and a set of 5.1-channel surround sound, and that's it. What did you say? Tencent iQiyi’s 4K? You can only watch variety shows with that kind of compressed picture. Want a cinema-like effect? There is also a wireless switch next to the sofa, which costs a few dozen yuan. It can control the lights in the living room, giving you the experience of turning off the lights when the movie starts and turning them on after the movie ends.

The last part is over

The coding is simple, but the pictures are not easy. I have already written the words for washing, toilet, clothing disposal, garbage disposal, bedtime and pet intelligence, but I just need pictures. ?

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