ŪMEI {you-may}

You are welcome here.  We are a little lifestyle & design boutique based out of Minneapolis MN.  Our shop name translates into place of dreams in Japanese. We hope it is a place where where you can dream with your eyes wide open.   

Our shop carries our favorite items for your home and life from around the world, primarily from Japan, but we couldn't resist our favorites from Denmark, Italy, even makers here in Mpls, NYC and Los Angeles.  Hopefully you will see that most everything we have could happily live together.  We have an eclectic sense of style with a need for splashes of color.  And if you have ever gone to Japan you will see that Japan is a lover of fine items from around the world too and they have figured out how to incorporate them into their lives.  We are not purist except in the sense that we believe you should buy what you love and it will work. But of course we do count ourself as lucky to stock some of Japan's very best brands.  We'd be happy to share with you why we we think so highly of them. 

We want to support you to TAKE TIME FOR LIVING, more time to live those moments imagined, more treasured experiences on your own or with family, friends. Maybe we take time to slow down and make a little more time for the simple parts of living, making a good meal, sitting down with family at the table, writing, journaling and more zooming, more phone calls. We know the day to day can be incredibly stressful for many of us.  We feel for you, we are stressed sometimes too.   We want to be a safe, happy place for you in this surreal time of immense change and uncertainty, we want to be an uplifiting place for all.  Maybe we are simply a distraction for you and we are good with that.  No need to buy anything with us, maybe we are a moment of visual distraction and we do think we have the nicest FOU's (Friends of UMEI) so you might enjoy seeing people in person. And we also have amazing neighbors you can browse too.  

Umei, is also about you-may.  It is about possibilities. We celebrate your endless positive possibilities, our own too.  If our style speaks to you and you are interested in remodeling or building talk to us about our design business.  

We know you have many choices to shop these days. We appreciate you visiting us and we hope you enjoy yourselves.  If you have a thought or need, please reach out to us.

with a grateful heart & xoxo's