We all know how much we love the look and feel of a piece of furniture when it is in its home. But what we may not realize is that when we decorate it, we are also making a statement about ourselves and our personality. After all, if we are not comfortable being ourselves, we won’t let ourselves enjoy our furniture.
Yes, that is true. But what is also true is that we shouldnt let the furniture define us. No one is going to want to come over and see our living room, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have it. Our real home, our real furniture, our real possessions is actually all the stuff we enjoy. The couch is a sofa, the room is our home. It is all the things that we consider the things that we love and are proud of.
While we would love to create a life that was a blank slate, we do not need to create one that is blank. No matter how much we love our home we should not let it define us. The right furniture can be just as important to us as the right music or the right recipes or the right clothes. We should enjoy what we enjoy.
Well, I guess that’s the problem with the human species. We are always looking for a reason to justify our existence. We want to know why we are here on this earth. So we go out and build things in our own image and take these things with us when we leave. But we should realize that this is not good for us in the long run. We are like the rest of the animals. We do not need to create our own lives.
There are a few things we can all agree on: we all need to stop looking for the why and start looking for the how. If we knew what we were working with, we wouldn’t need to go out and build things.
We are all in the same boat when it comes to furniture. No one has a perfect home. Each one of us is probably going to need a certain type of furniture. But we should realize that furniture is a commodity. We don’t need to build it to the highest standards, or to the exact specifications we think we want it. If we don’t want to spend too much money on it, we should buy quality furniture.
Furniture is often just a fancy word for a way of storing things. But it is a commodity. Like anything else, it’s just a material you choose to use to create a product. So when you find yourself with a bunch of old furniture, you should find a way to reuse it, instead of throwing it away.
That is a problem of overconsumption. When you buy new furniture that is not of your liking you should choose to only use it for the purpose you decided it would be used for. In this case that might be to store it.
When we bought our current house, we were so excited to put a new kitchen in that we decided to put all the rooms into one giant laundry room. We were so pleased with how everything fit together, but we didn’t have the skills to make it a great room. We took out the laundry room, and put in a new kitchen and a new office. We put the laundry room back in and bought a sofa and a chair to put in it.
We were so thrilled with the new look that we decided to take it to a furniture store and get it for free. They told us that they didnt stock the big-box stores, so we spent all our money on the cheapest thing we could find and got a cheap couch and a chair to put in it.
