Enjoy the space

If there's one thing I learned from mother (because I happen to listen to my dad a whole lot more) is that once you get your own place, hold on to your wallets first before getting furniture. I know, I know, it's like trying to stop an itchy finger from pulling the trigger.

"Bang! Sofa goes there! Bang! Bookshelves go there! Bang, bang, bang!"

If it's your first time moving into a place of your own then I am assuming that you don't have any furniture as of yet. That's good. The first piece of furniture that I ever got was a bed and it took me almost two weeks to find the perfect bed frame, which was reconfigured to my specs. Yes, there are furniture shops that will allow a change of specs of the design providing you wait and pay for it. Sometimes it becomes a tad more expensive than the original price, but hey, it's your bed (or furniture) and you're going to sleep, relax, have sex, etc. - you get the picture, right? :D

Anyway, going back to holding off on buying new stuff in the beginning: try to spend a few days without the furniture you've always been dying to have. Let yourself grow into it and try to imagine all the stuff you're bringing from your parent's house into the place you now call your own.

Now, can you imagine where the sofa will be? What size it has to be? The color? Once you ask these questions, hunt for the answers in several furniture shops around the city. Or you can also bring whatever it is you need to bring from your old house and position them in an empty wall - which I did when I didn't have my bookshelves yet.

I can still remember placing my television on top of a cardboard box full of books and using my laptop on the kitchen table for a couple of weeks before finding the right furniture for my place. I miss those times myself and sometimes wish that I was still in the process of moving in. Now, my place is just full of stuff and sometimes I have to keep reminding myself not to look a furniture stores.

But for you, lucky bastards, it's just the beginning.