We’re Taylor and Erin White. After our first child was born, we wanted to spend less time with phones in our hands without becoming harder to reach. We started Fen Home to make products that bring a little more calm to daily life at home.
Phone is our first product. It brings calls to a familiar receiver in the house while using the mobile numbers you already have. No new number or landline service is part of the design. When several mobiles are connected, each has its own ring so you can tell who a call is for before picking up. A physical quiet switch lets you silence the bell.
We like what a home phone asks of a room: when it rings, you know someone is calling. It doesn’t ask you to open an app to find out what else happened today. That’s a design choice, not a claim that a device can fix anyone’s relationship with technology.
We’re building toward four mobile connections, incoming and outgoing calls, and a mechanical bell. Our first bench prototype handles incoming calls from one mobile; the bell, multiple connections, and dialing still need hardware testing. See the design and hear the ring previews. The previews are digital, not recordings of the finished bell.
Orders aren’t open yet. You can join the email list to hear from us as the work progresses. For a closer look at the thinking behind Fen, read why we want calls back in the room, including the research that helped us put words to our own experience.