Furnishing of your home?

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hi there,

usually the furnishing and so on of my home wasn't set up in a way, such that i could invite many people. It didn't have any impressive furnitures, rather a mix of old and new. However, it fitted my needs, i found the things i wanted, and yes, i still needed some more, but i didn't want to buy cheap and short-living things from IKEA, like most people do.

This changed, i bought my stuff there now too, it makes life less complicated, and now i also got some new furnitures which are cheap and made for looking more impressive as they actually are (just look like real wood). Yeah, i think it works better, thought of course thats not 100% perfect, but i think i can now invite people more to my home.

what about your home? can you invite many? impress them? will they come again?

also check out my blog ... i wrote a new article on that

thanks,
anton

My place is fairly spartan. I have 1 folding chair, I sleep on a futon, I have a "bookcase" for CDs and little knick-knacks. I have a TV, but I haven't used it in nearly 2 years. I have some artwork here and there. Books in various piles around the floor. Boxes of papers also scattered about.

I've only had 2 people visit me. Neither one returned. But that might have to do more with me than my home.

darrylzero wrote

I prefer old furniture, whether fine antiques or period pieces from three or four decades ago. Not only is this furniture sturdy, it's already been out of style once and can't go out again. Yet many people don't get it and see my carefully stalked pieces as "old junk". I did intend to impress, at least a little bit, but since that doesn't work, I've lost interest, let things go, and decided to keep the outside world literally outside.

My home is much too small for entertaining. I have 2 tiny bedrooms, one of which is my "office." Then there is an all-in-one room which has a corner big enough for a love seat, and a coffee table, and a television set. That is my living room. Then the middle part of this long room is the counter, with barely room for two counter stools. The sink, stove and fridge are there as well. There is enough room for me and my boyfriend. Once we had his nephew over for supper. My boyfriend had to bring another stool for his nephew. And the nephew never came back. (He is NT, and maybe dining with two Aspies was a bit unnerving!)

All my wood furniture is from Ikea (bookshelves, desk, end table, side table, etc.) It's the only way I could afford anything that matched. Bed's from there too. I think it looks good, and I hate to move anything around so they don't get much wear. I have more photographs than art, and they are in a collage on the wall in mismatched thrift-store frames. The only nice, 'fashionable' thing I own is the couch.

As for having people over, I always feel like I'm being judged/inspected anyway, so I don't know whether my furniture/artwork is a good thing or a bad thing. I just know it's me.

All my furniture is from second hand furniture stores. I then add some throw rugs and a few pillows (I move my pillows from my bed to the couch daily so i can lay down.

I also have LOTS of childrens toys everywhere.

I don't entertain, but my house can accommodate at least five guests comfortable. A leather couch, a leather recliner and a suede couch make up my Living room/current sleeping area, and in the dining room (Converted to a workshop and bicycle garage.) has A wooden workbench and a stainless steel food prep table.

All of my furniture is impressive, at least by my poor standards.

All of my furniture has also been salvaged and didn't cost me a dime. I live in, and around, apartment complexes. During the beginning/end of the month when people are getting paid, moving, getting kicked out, ect. That means lots of NICE furniture winds up parked next to the trash pickup, waiting for someone like me to clean them up and give them a nice home.

I wish I could shop in IKEA...but that place scares/confuses me
Although - this advert - made me less scared of IKEA

My home is scarcely decorated with a hodgepodge of poor quality cheap or second-hand furniture that can barely stand up on it's own, half of what I own in all seriousness came from scavenging from other people's skips. I'm petrified of moving as people will see my stuff or it will all fall apart, like my bookcase which is literally being held up by the books themselves - I've asked for a £35 bookcase for my birthday so I at least have something that will survive when I move.

This gives you an idea of how badly my home is furnished, I'd like to call it shabby sheek or student-looking, but my attempts to make it look better than it is just make it look pathetic rather than cool. My boyfriend is about the only person who has seen my home, he comes back because my awesomeness compensates for the bad furniture

Not nessecarily, it wouldn't be a huge concern of mine anyways.. granted it's just a cheapo apartment anyways I don't really need a whole lot of anything fancy nor new, I'm sure a friend could have an old couch lying around that they don't want.

My girlfriend and I live fairly spartanly. Most of our stuff is pretty old, asides for our appliances which are new. Our couch was probably made some time when Nixon was still president. Our living room table pisses me off, as it has this pebble-pattern of black, brown and white spots that makes it confusing as hell to find anything that falls on the table (to me at least, she seems to have no problem, but I'm not so good at finding stuff...) We have several bookcases that are stocked full of my very large book collection. I couldn't bring most of my personal library with me when I moved out so I'd say 3/4 of it is in boxes in my parent's crawlspace. I try and rotate what books I keep at our place at least every 6 months or so

My furniture is from all over. From what my parents gave me; sofa with a hide a bed, lazy boy for em to rock my baby, and another lazy boy for my husband to sit in, coffee table, chairs and a table, bookshelves and computer desk they bought me, my dresser my parents bought me when I was 16, bed and nightstands and dresser my parents gave us, and another small dresser that was given to me also when I was 16.

Then I have a dresser I bought from the folk shop I worked at, small coffee table from the same place, entertainment center I bought at a yard sale on my 24th birthday, and in the nursery is the wardrobe and the changing table that can convert to a bookshelf when the kid is older, I got those two at IKEA, and the crib my parents bought us because the crib they gave us was crap so they bought us a new crib for our baby. And there is the Amish fireplace I got for my husband one Christmas.

Only guests that have came is family and they do come again. We can maybe have at least three guests be comfortable since we have the sofa and the lazy boys and my husband and I would need a place to sit too. But if we minus it, that be five people we can accommodate. But the skinnier they are, the more that can fit on the sofa. And the skinnier you are, you can fit in the lazy boy with your skinny child. My baby and I can both sit in the lazy boy.

I seem to do fairly well with decorating. I've had the comment "I love what you've done with the place" in at least 3 places now, including a tiny bedroom I was renting from a friend. I'm best with small spaces, I can work out how to get a lot of functionality out of them.

I confess to owning a fair bit of Ikea furniture, along with various bits and pieces my partner and I have been given by family. I try only to shop there when I know it won't be crowded, but what I really love is building the stuff. All I need now is an electric screwdriver and I'll be able to build wardrobes in record time!

The everyday layout fits 4 people, either on the sofa or at the dining table, but we can fit about 8 if we find extra chairs (or they don't mind cushions on the floor). I don't have visitors very often, but that probably has more to do with me not inviting people over than the house. My favourite guests have newborn twins so it's a bit of an effort for them to come visit anymore . I'm planning to borrow some tables and host my family's Christmas lunch this year (about 16 people), because I'm sick of travelling across the city to visit them and want them to realise just how far away I live (and I can't just visit on short notice).

Much of my furniture is old stuff from my parents or from IKEA as my fiance is IKEA mad. In fact, we are taking another trip to IKEA in the next couple of days to get a filing cabinet. Fun times.

I live in a nordic country and I'm far from rich... which usually translates to... IKEA to the rescue!! ! It also helps that I love putting IKEA stuff together, it's like grownup legos that end up making your place look a bit less cluttered once assembled. Just follow the instructions and voila, even I can do something right that involves shelves. A few people have commented that I tend to solve these furniture problems more than some others in my family. If I really need a couch, I get a couch. I don't just wait for a couch to somehow magically happen or create some sort of makeshift seating while talking about how I could really use a couch.