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The Heartwarming Origin Story Behind the Coolest Store In the Midwest

Elevating daily living to something more beautiful.

Step inside The Foundry Home Goods , and you'll instantly notice a lift in spirit—from the exposed brick walls to natural sunlight pouring in during the day and the warm glow in the evening, it’s an atmosphere that’s both approachable and elegant , almost mystical. And while almost all beautiful shops have interesting and special origin stories, The Foundry Home Good's is particularly so.

"I started to make-believe the idea of a shop in my head when I was living in New York, working for Holly Hunt, which was an amazing high-end, perfectly executed design showroom open only to the trade. It was this very elevated environment; a lot of polish and a lot of glamour," founder and owner Anna Hillegass tells us. "The spaces we were working with were just the most gorgeous apartments you can imagine. It was a strange experience to be in these shiny perfect penthouses that had this hush and then take the elevator down to the street and all of a sudden be surrounded by the rhythm and noise" of the city, she explains.

And while she felt nourished and excited by both of those world's, Hillegass was also compelled to reconcile their distinct and stark contrast with something that captured the beauty of those apartments but felt as alive as the city and spoke to a wider spectrum of humanity. Meanwhile, at the same serendipitous moment back in her hometown of Minneapolis, her father's foundry in the warehouse district had a vacancy. "I basically grew up toddling around that building and always loved the feeling of it. I spent a lot of time visualizing what this world could be. A place for staples, a place for making everyday living easier and more beautiful," says Hillegass . The timing could not have been better, though it all happened very fast from there.

When she heard the foundry was available for rent, she packed up her life in New York and headed to Minneapolis with six months to actualize her dream career. "It was a huge leap. That feeling in your throat where you just have no idea what's going to happen," she says. The quick turnaround and tight budget ended up working in Hillegass's favor. For example, the signature branding came out of necessity, so The Foundry's organic and bare packaging is as genuine as it is unplanned.

"I found a bunch of index cards and loose-leaf paper around, and I figured out a way to print receipts on notebook paper so I didn't need to buy a receipt printer. And there were a few rolls of brown paper and one giant spool of packing twine left over from the old shipping center that used to be in the space leaning in a corner in a back room. That's what started the brown paper and twine. We still have that spool, it's amazing how long it lasted," she explains.

And while The Foundry has since moved from the North Loop to South Minneapolis, the atmosphere and the goods are the same (and Hillegass chose a spot that she feels equally as connected to—this one reminds her of living in the West Village, where she'd be comforted by the lives quietly unfolding in brownstones and apartments while she walked through the heartbeat of the neighborhood). Like the found objects used for the packaging, the items in stock are also staples and everyday essentials. You’ll find everything from utilitarian cleaning products, office supplies, and kitchen tools to decorative objects, textiles, and furniture, but they’re all artisanal and simply pretty to look at.

"I wanted the shop to be filled with staples, things that people would use every day. Like how in France everyone buys a single baguette from the bakery every day, I wanted people to come by to get beeswax for their dinner table that night from us in the afternoon," she tells us. At the Foundry, you’ll find well-made versions of staples like dishware and cleaning tools, all meant to elevate daily living to something more beautiful and intentional. It’s pretty impossible to visit this glowing little store without finding something you suddenly can’t live without.

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Nothing tops the feeling of walking down the aisles of your local HomeGoods, hunting for an assortment of treasures and trinkets to spruce up your space. It's become a beloved one-stop-shop for many: You can find splurge-worthy items (think: statement rugs , living room furniture and floor-length mirrors), hidden gems and practical staples all at a fraction of their original retail cost.

But we don't need to convince you that HomeGoods is the place to be — if you're reading this, then you already know just how magical it is. That's why the latest HomeGoods news is so exciting: The TJX Companies, Inc, that also own Marshalls, Sierra, and TJ Maxx, just launched a HomeGoods online store .

In an official statement, HomeGoods President John Ricciuti expressed his excitement about the retailer's e-commerce efforts, making it possible for customers to shop 24/7, 365 days a year: “We are thrilled to bring a second way for our passionate shoppers to discover and shop an assortment they know and love. We hope our customers find the same excitement shopping HomeGoods online as they do exploring the aisles of our stores.”

Mark DeOliveira, President, TJX Digital US, shares this sentiment: “HomeGoods.com will provide a complementary experience to our stores, allowing shoppers to pair in-store purchases with online finds to bring their vision to life.”

Like many other businesses, HomeGoods had to shut down stores and distribution centers in response to COVID-19, and currently faces uncertainty about what lies ahead. Currently, there are 820 HomeGoods stores nationwide, and the company remains confident that adding an online shopping experience will only enhance the brand in the long-run. "Longer term, when we are past this health crisis, we are very confident that we will continue to gain more customers and drive the successful growth of TJX well into the future," they wrote .

Right now, you can check out HomeGoods.com to shop the latest and greatest in home furnishings and decor without even leaving your couch. Plus, you can get the latest on store hours and closings, as well as information about return policies and safety precautions. Best news ever? We think so!

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Amanda Garrity is a lifestyle writer and editor with over seven years of experience, including five years on staff at Good Housekeeping , where she covered all things home and holiday, including the latest interior design trends, inspiring DIY ideas and gift guides for any (and every) occasion. She also has a soft spot for feel-good TV, so you can catch her writing about popular shows like Virgin River , Sweet Magnolias, Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart and more. 

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The Humble Home Emerges as the Power Market’s Big Untapped Opportunity

(Bloomberg Markets) -- A short drive away from the gleaming glass skyscrapers of downtown Houston, in a leafy neighborhood known for good schools, biking trails and hipster bars, sits a home of the future, at least as far as energy is concerned.

Its roof is festooned with solar panels, its garage replete with lithium-ion batteries and bidirectional charging equipment, which can enable an electric vehicle to send power back into the house or the grid. It features the latest in energy-saving appliances, such as electric stovetops, front-loading washing machines and heat pumps. And at its center are the electronics and software that control it all, known as power management systems.

Such controls generally aren’t sold to consumers as standalone gadgets. Instead they’re based on capabilities embedded into storage batteries, solar system components, thermostats and more. An app on a phone or tablet connects wirelessly and lets the homeowner set preferences for how the home energy system works—letting the utility, for example, remotely turn up the thermostat by 1F (0.6C) during periods of high demand for air conditioning in the summer. For a home with solar and batteries, the system can also enable the homeowner to sell power into the grid, earning utility bill credits or even payments from some service providers. The app may also tie in a constellation of smart appliances as well as a smart breaker panel, which tracks and controls how much power is used by different circuits, as on a smart-home tour presented by Houston utility NRG Energy Inc. in March. 

Why is power management important? Consider the effects of a homeowner installing a heat pump and a charger for an electric vehicle: good for the planet in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but a household that does this may double the amount of electricity it needs. If such homes manage their use of power more efficiently, they can save hundreds of dollars a year on utility bills. In aggregate, though, it may also avoid billions of dollars of infrastructure investment in the grid that might otherwise be required. “It’s boring utility stuff, but there’s a lot of money to be made,” says Evan Caron, a former US power trader turned venture capitalist. “Ultimately the home is this big, large, untapped opportunity.”

The easiest way to understand how one of these systems works is to think of it as a trader buying and selling electricity for an individual house. It takes in data including power prices, weather forecasts and the homeowner’s preferences, which it uses to optimize multiple sources of supply and demand for electricity. On a sunny afternoon when nobody is home and rates are low, the system might use solar panels to charge the home battery. During an evening when you go out for dinner instead of cooking at home, it might discharge that battery back into the grid for a profit. When you load up the dryer with wet clothes before bedtime, it might offer to start a few hours later, saving you money running one of the most power-hungry appliances in any house.

The race to get energy tech inside the home is luring everyone from industrial stalwarts such as Siemens to tech giants Amazon.com and Alphabet, along with traditional consumer-electronics companies like LG Electronics. Rooftop solar seller and installer Sunrun as well as battery and equipment makers Enphase Energy, SolarEdge Technologies and Tesla are layering the software on top of their products. And utilities that have spent decades selling electricity to homes are pouring money into the market.

“Anyone who has a recurring relationship with a homeowner is probably interested in this space,” says Jeff Osborne, a cleantech analyst with TD Cowen. “The question is how you give homeowners the tools to manage their electricity use. And that’s an area that I would call the Wild Wild West.”

To see why the market is developing now, it helps to understand just how rapidly the electricity sector is changing. For decades the industry in most parts of the world followed the same model: Large central plants fed electrons over power lines to customers who had a passive relationship with their utility—receive bill, pay bill. Consumption could vary based on the time of day and year, with more demand on a hot summer afternoon when air conditioning needs soared, less at night when lights turned off. Supply would adjust to meet demand, with power plants burning more or less fossil fuels to keep the system in balance.

Utilities that ran these systems usually operated as state-sanctioned monopolies. The system kept the cost of capital low but created no incentive to operate efficiently. When power markets started to deregulate in the 1990s, however, the new regime forced generators to compete to offer electrons to grids at the lowest cost. That created dynamic power markets with prices rising and falling during the day, as demand required progressively more-expensive generators to be switched on.

A new element was thrown into the mix as falling costs of wind turbines and solar panels brought vast amounts of new but intermittent capacity to the market. Wind and solar power is cheap when it’s available, but it appears and disappears based on time of day and weather conditions. Suddenly the once-staid power market was filled with multiple peaks and valleys of prices on any given day.

That frenzied activity creates opportunity, and power markets have been among the fastest-growing sectors for commodity traders in recent years. Power management systems offer the promise of bringing some of the benefit to homeowners.

“There is a lot of change afoot in the energy business,” says Aaron Jagdfeld, chief executive officer of Generac Holdings Inc., which sells backup generators and batteries and has been investing in energy management. “The classic utility model is changing, and I think homeowners have either willingly or unwillingly pushed ahead to take more control over their energy needs.”

In places such as Texas, California and parts of the US Northeast, consumers are used to seeing requests to conserve power for free. What’s changing now is that increasingly user-friendly technology can reward homeowners for providing flexibility to the grid. And consumers are also sitting atop a swelling source of supply. US power plants had a capacity of about 1,200 gigawatts at the end of last year, according to the Energy Information Administration. By 2030, EVs will have more power stored in their batteries than that, says Jon Wellinghoff, a former federal energy regulator who’s chief regulatory officer at Voltus Inc., which manages energy usage for businesses. “It’s a huge opportunity, and that’s why we have to get the rules straight.”

Already, Texas households have been able to earn money when power prices spike. Tesla Inc. compensated its retail customers 90% of the spot power price for supplying the grid from their home solar and battery installations, Jesse Aragon de Galvez, staff technical program manager, said at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ Ercot Innovation Summit in May. That meant some people who may buy power at about 10 cents a kilowatt-hour received $2 to $3 per kWh for power they exported to the grid when prices surged, he said.

So-called virtual power plants, which network small resources such as batteries in homes to scales similar to actual generation facilities, could add as much as 162GW of capacity by 2030, the US Department of Energy said in an analysis last year. About 70GW of that could come from pairing US homes with heating and air conditioning with smart thermostats, according to a study by Renew Home, a company created by the spinoff of the energy-services unit of the Google Nest thermostat business and a merger with rival OhmConnect.

For homeowners there are also resiliency benefits. As increasing bouts of extreme weather test aging grids, blackouts such as those that hit Houston after a hurricane in July are becoming more common. A house decked out with solar panels, batteries and a power management system can keep the lights on when the grid fails. If the system factors in weather reports that suggest grid trouble might be coming, it could even prepare, says Paul Dickson, chief revenue officer at Sunrun Inc. “As the utility ages and more people experience blackouts, there are a growing amount of people who are willing to pay for resiliency,” he says.

The benefits extend beyond households. Power grids are made up of millions of transformers that help step down voltage from massive transmission lines to smaller distribution lines, right down to the neighborhood level. As electrification increases household power consumption, those transformers will need to be replaced for the grid to keep feeding the same number of houses. Already there’s a shortage of transformers and other electrical components in the US, driving up imports of equipment from China in recent years.

Power management systems offer an alternate solution, says Raghu Belur, one of the founders of Enphase Energy Inc. Imagine a cul-de-sac with a dozen homes, each equipped with a power management system, some with solar panels and some with batteries. The systems could talk to one another, trading power among houses and recording payments. These micro-grids would be connected to the main power system but wouldn’t need an influx of new supply requiring an equipment upgrade. “So what are you going to do?” Belur asks. “Go in and replace 5 million transformers and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to do that? Or think about a world where the home is this highly resilient, self-reliant micro-grid?”

For all the forces working in favor of power management systems, challenges linger. At present, the market is nascent. In the US less than 5% of homes have solar panels, often the first technology that makes people consider more actively managing their energy use. And in many parts of the world, power prices don’t change depending on the time of day, leaving little incentive to optimize electricity usage.

The short-term costs can also be significant. In addition to solar panels and batteries, customers who live in older homes have to make significant investments to upgrade their electrical system for the new technology.

Companies in the power management market will essentially need to persuade people to spend money on an investment with questionable returns. That’s why TD Cowen’s Osborne says much of the adoption in the US will depend on federal, state and local incentives.

In any case, the power system is due for an update. “If Thomas Edison were to walk down the streets of Fremont, California, and he looked up at the energy infrastructure, he would recognize pretty much every element—centralized generation, transmission lines, substations, distribution lines, everything that was there 125 years ago,” Belur says. “The business has to transform.”

Murtaugh, Malik and Chediak cover energy for Bloomberg News; Murtaugh in Beijing, Malik in New York and Chediak in San Francisco.

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The Truth About HomeGoods

February 1, 2016 by Bee Filed Under: Decor Sources , Deep Thoughts , HomeGoods , Shopping

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There are several truths about HomeGoods that I think we all need to acknowledge.  Feelings that transpire just before, during, and after a shopping trip there are real and it’s time we just get it all out there!

Let’s just walk through the whole experience.  As you make the drive to HomeGoods you go over what you are looking for and vow to only look for said items.  Curtains… that’s it… you need curtains.

You pull in to park and the anxiety starts to build immediately.  You see them.  People are coming out with big bags and you instantly fear that they have gotten all the amazing things!

Now your blood is pumping and you gotta get in there before one more fabulous thing is gone!  But all that excitement and the fact that you’ve had children makes you realize that you need a potty break before you can start shopping.  Your brain is on overload… you’ve got to go in and force yourself past all the isles because if you start finding things and put them in your cart, you face the reality that while you are in the restroom someone could grab them!

Okay, you had your potty break and have attained a cart that does not have a squeaky wheel.  That would be too distracting.  It’s go time- time to focus! Knowing the map of the store in your head will be key and prioritizing those sections will help keep you from getting distracted and possibly missing an isle.  Lamps, Household Accessories, Pillows, Furniture, Bedding, and Kitchen.

Everything you see will cause you to question your home decor and style.  EVERYTHING.  You will suddenly feel compelled to possibly decorate monochromatic…

Or add in more metallic pieces…

Should we be going more nautical?! My head is spinning.

Lucite.  Lucite Lamps.  Lucite Letters.  Lucite Chairs ( got some recently… couldn’t help it ).  Where can we put all the Lucite?!

The sidetracking (that’s a word) can get pretty serious.  Oh are those Moscow Mule cups? Oprah loves those… I love Oprah… I must love and need Moscow Mule cups.

There are going to be times during the trip that can throw you.  Sometimes it’s the sheer amount of people in there who seem to be blocking your path to cute things at every turn… stay strong.  Sometimes this happens…

Just breath.  You will never know what was there and you’ve got to just move on.

And don’t even get me started on the pillows.  I’m not gonna tell you that you don’t need more pillows.  I would be the biggest hypocrite of all time.  Buy ALL the pillows!

Your cart is now filled with All The Things and as you casually stroll through the isles just one more time to be safe, you realize that 5hrs has just passed and it is time to pick up your children!

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It’s time to get in line.  This is going to cause a rush of emotions:  Excitement, Regret, Fear.  There are going to be more things up front… things that you never even knew you needed.  Notebooks, wrapping paper, new iPhone cases, yoga mats, mugs with cute words on them, snacks!

At this point you are also trying to decide which item or items you can part with should the total already be over your extended limit.  It’s usually the last minute grabs that you can let go with out having too much anxiety.  I like to call them… 2nd Dessert.  Everyone wants one but do you really need it? Notice I didn’t just call it dessert… momma ain’t givin that up.

You determine which credit card to use and justify any monetary amount by saying… Well at least it wasn’t $200! Meaning you round up to the next hundred and congratulate yourself on saving so much money.  And just like that… the whole day is over and it’s time to go home.

What did I get on this particular trip?  Well check them out here and I’ll show you how I’m sprucing things up for Valentine’s Day… all completely necessary purchases of course.

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Ok….bwahahah! Even my husband laughed out loud at this! Funniest thing I have read in ages…and after Downton last night I needed funny. “Life is short, death is sure.” So get shopping at Home Goods and live it up!

I am cracking up girl! this is hilarious and so friggin accurate!

This just made my day! LOL Happens EVERY time. 😉

Hilarious…and ALL true!

And don’t even get me started on if your run into your friend {who is a bad influence} at home good. Go ahead and make a phone call to American Express to get that credit line extended……

Hilarious and as always, you seem to tap into every woman’s REAL inner monologue.

I’m a need to borrow that American Express… thanks.

Good one and SOOO true! Your Home Goods looks bigger than ours. See me pouting…. We must go when I visit!

Could not have said it more precise and perfect! OMG, It was as if you were in my brain on one of those shopping sprees!!! Home Goods – the best addiction!

Lol Also, I always feel this nervous sense of competition when I walk in the store! It’s so silly!

Hilarious! and True!

Just got back from shopping, sitting in my chair and skimming Pintrest..What is this? Home Goods story? OMG! It is too true! I don’t shop there I take a trip. So good to know others have the HG addiction. Is there anyone who ends with a cart full and by time you reach the register you have two or three items? I call it the “what was I thinking moment”. To much fun and a great posting!

I know. This even happens to my HUSBAND! In the kitchen aisles! There is true power to HomeGoods if it affects husbands.

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