Things I Want But Don’t Need

Let’s be honest: none of these are essentials. My house runs fine without them, my coffee gets made either way, and my sheets are perfectly good sheets. But every so often I let myself window-shop the “someday” list – the pieces that are less about function and more about how they’d make a random day feel. Here are the five higher-end pieces currently living rent-free in my head.

1. The HigherDOSE Infrared Sauna Blanket

A spa-grade infrared sauna you zip yourself into, right at home. Instead of heating the air around you like a traditional sauna, it warms your body directly with far-infrared heat, layered with charcoal, clay, magnets, and crystals for good measure. Nine heat levels, up to 175°F, and it folds away when you’re done. Basically: a legit detox-and-recover session on your own schedule, no studio membership required.

2. The JURA E6 Fully Automatic Espresso Machine

Swiss-made since 1931, and the E6 is the sweet spot in JURA’s lineup – more capable than their entry-level machine, without going overboard. It’s fully automatic: grinds, brews, froths, all from whole beans at the push of a button, with eleven drinks programmed in and a grinder engineered to pull more flavor out of every bean. Café-quality coffee without turning your kitchen into a barista station.

3. Matouk Amara Bedding, Triple Pearl

If you know linens, you know Matouk. Amara is their silky cotton sateen – the kind of smooth, almost liquid hand-feel you’d expect at a five-star hotel – and the Triple Pearl pattern adds a delicate ombré embroidery on top, taking it from “nice sheets” to “the ones you want to show off.” It comes in a range of colorways, so building a full, coordinated bed is easy.

4. A Hotel-Quality Scent Diffuser (The Ritz-Carlton Edition)

Nothing says “I have my life together” like a house that smells intentional. The Ritz-Carlton actually licenses its signature hotel scents for home diffusers, using dry-air technology to disperse a clean, consistent mist instead of oils or water. Truthfully, this category is bigger than one brand – but the goal is always the same: a house that smells like a five-star lobby the second you walk in.

5. The Westman Atelier Full Face Set

Founded by Gucci Westman, the makeup artist behind Hollywood’s most iconic red-carpet faces. Her whole philosophy is “second skin” makeup – skin-loving, clean formulas that still perform at an editorial level. A full set means the essentials: a skin-focused base, her cult-favorite cream contour and blush sticks, a highlighter, and a setting powder. Less about more makeup, more about better makeup.

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None of these are going to change my life. That’s kind of the point – they’re not fixing a problem, they’re just really, really nice to have. If you had to pick just one off this list, which one would it be?