Apartment Finder: Furniture is Key to a Good Move
Posted on December 28, 2007
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Looking for an apartment can be a very tedious and time consuming task. Not to mention the stress involved of making sure that the apartment has everything that you want. However, your worries don’t end there. Once you have gotten your perfect apartment, next comes fitting it with furniture and making it into a home.
If you are lucky, you already have furniture, and won’t need to worry about outfitting your apartment and spending your precious budget. But, if you are some of those unlucky few who has nothing but a few items to bring to their new apartment there are different ways to cut corners and save yourself some money in the process of turning your apartment into a home.
If you don’t mind used items, there are a couple of great ways to get the things you need at affordable prices. One way would be to spend a Saturday or two going to yard/garage sales. This is a great way to find awesome items at very affordable prices—and don’t be afraid to haggle prices. Haggling prices is one of the fun aspects of yard sales. Going to yard sales to look for the items you need allows you to get all the essentials you need and still have money left over to buy other things to add personal touches to your new apartment. Another way would be to go to places such as the Salvation Army or a Good Will.
These places have used items that people have donated, and are at very affordable prices. Shopping at either these two places also has the added benefit of helping those in need, because they are non-profit organizations.
If you just can’t stand the thought of having used furniture in your home and have a tight budget, then stick with the essentials on your first shopping spree to outfit your apartment. There are a handful of “essential” items that you will need within the first days of apartment living. A bed, but remember to check the size of your bedroom and see how big of a bed it will hold, as well as keeping in mind that you will need the sheets, pillows and comforter to go with it. A kitchen table or desk and a chair is essential because you have to eat and if you are in school, you’ll need a place to study. If you can’t afford a real table, you can always look into getting a card table; and a card table has the added perk that a lot times it comes with 4 chairs. Dishes and cookware are extremely important items to get as it is a lot cheaper to eat at home and buy groceries than it is to go out to eat every meal. And you can be picky about what you get, just start with the basics. Other things that you need to consider are the number of trash cans you need, taking into consideration the number of bathrooms and whether or not you will be recycling, a shower curtain and rings, curtains and blinds if they don’t come with the apartment, a chest of drawers or hanging closet organizer if you don’t have much closet space and a sofa or futon for when you have company.
All in all, buying and obtaining the things that you need to turn your perfect apartment into a home can be a very fun task. With an apartment being a small space, you don’t need a lot to turn it into a home. There are also numerous ways to save money in getting the items that you need, you just need to know where to look.
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What colors should the furniture in my living room be.. it is an apartment and not that big..???wall colors are white. [apartment issued..]
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Zack Fair is writes for Apartmentlinks.com, an apartment finder site in the US to guide people into finding the apartments”>http://www.apartmentlinks.com/resources/findGreatApartments.aspx””>apartments for rent thru our online search facility to give sound information on the apartments available for rent.
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There are some great water based gloss paints to do the paint job, but stripping may be a problem unless you can open some windows to get ventilation. If you can get a waterbased stripper, that would be best. Hand sanding after removing the old paint would work. You will need some sort of scraper to remove the stripper and paint.
what color are your walls? That's going to make a big difference in how large your room will appear.
First of all make sure you are able to paint your walls any color you want. I'd hate for you to paint and then get in trouble and be evicted for something so easily fixed or not done in the first place.
Even with just white walls, you can create a spanish flair with all the accessories, pictures and decorating.
First off, where are your heat and a/c ducts, (vents)?
We bought a sectional and relized after the fact, that the sofa was now going to be over the vents.
Second, sectionals are difficult to rearrange if you want to change the decor around.
I love ours, but we should have stuck with the traditional sofa and love seat.
Now when we put the tree up for Christmas, I am very limited to where I can put it.
Light color will show dirt and if you should have children, you will thank me later.
Darker is better to hide dirt and ooopppssses.
You don't have to go real dark, stay on the tan side or mixed colors.
You are going to have to set it by the dumpster anyways but you can call your city department of public works and ask the refuse department to pick it up. I think they may have to have a special truck or something to come and get it.
if u'r looking for artwork.. like prints… try http://www.art.com
for decor… try http://www.overstock.com OR
http://www.target.com
if u'r looking for ideas try http://www.hgtv.com OR http://www.diynetwork.com
Depending on the color I absolutely love the color brown. I have brown carpet and I plan on buying some couches with different browns and dark colors in them. Then I plan on painting the walls a coordinating color to match. I think that browns are warm and inviting. So just go with the brown and mix it up with the different types of brown and kaki.
Ooooo… Ikea has fun things and they're priced reasonably. My entire place is furnished from there. I love it!