Two of Us. One Cat. A Small Kitchen.
HomebodyPlus is a slow-travel home brand run from a small kitchen counter. We're Ethan and Mia — and Jimbo, the cat who supervises everything. We met at the crossroads of numbers and narrative. Days ran fast; dinners ran slow.
Between deadlines we cooked our way through warm European afternoons, flour-dusted pasta boards, and the quiet ritual of Japanese tea. Then we sketched Steady on this same counter — sixteen iterations, every clever flourish thrown out, until what stayed was what works at 9pm.
Boring is a design choice.
Slow-travel inspirations, crafted into tools that make every dinner feel like a gentle journey.
HomebodyPlus began as a notebook. Sketches from a kitchen in Lisbon. A Kyoto teahouse margin. The corner of a Bologna trattoria tablecloth. We didn't want souvenirs — we wanted the feeling of those rooms back at home, on a Tuesday.
So we started building the tools. The first three generations of the chef knife taught us what restraint looks like at the kitchen counter. The Steady Chef Knife is the third — and the one we'll stand behind.
The core is steel; the shield is titanium.
One counter. One cat. One dinner that feels, for a moment, like somewhere else. That's the kitchen we build for — boring in the best way.
Three values, one workbench.
Material Honesty.
The handle is the same metal as the blade. The finish reads matte silver because that's what titanium nitride looks like in daylight — no paint, no plating, no decorative inlay. We tell you what a thing is made of, in numbers, on the spec column.
Ritual over novelty.
A kitchen tool earns its place by what it asks of you on a Tuesday. Steady asks ten seconds: rinse, wipe clean, stow. We design for that minute — not for the unboxing.
Restraint as design.
We threw out every clever flourish. No logo on the blade face. No hardware. No decorative bolster. What stayed is the silhouette that's barely changed since 1909, finished in the surface chemistry that protects turbine blades. Boring in the best way.
From notebook to fulfilment.
First sketches at a small kitchen counter.
A Solingen reference profile, a brass caliper, a cat on the windowsill. Sixteen drafts in three months.
Two short hardware runs.
They taught us what restraint looks like in metal. We learned what to keep and what to throw out.
Prototype lock.
German 1.4116 core. PVD Titanium Nitride shield. 15° edge. Seamless one-piece build. 380g. Walnut presentation box.
Kickstarter launch.
Super Early Bird tier · $99 · 300 slots. Standard tier · $139. Founder's Edition · hand-numbered, 25 slots.
First production run from the Solingen line.
Friday letters every week — even the slow ones — until the last box ships.
TWO HUMANS · ONE CAT · ONE COUNTER
We build slowly, on purpose.
Slow-travel inspirations, crafted into tools that stay.
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