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Moving Into Your First Place...

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Sunday, August 31

by Shaynna


What are the best pieces to buy when I move out?

It really doesn’t seem that long ago when I first moved out of home, all and my girlfriends and I had with us were the contents of our bedroom and boxes full of all the stuff our parents were glad to get rid of. We were so happy to have couches we could throw rugs over, as they were so ugly, but they were ours (even though they were our parent’s hand-me-downs). It was all about freedom as opposed to ‘of-the-minute’ furniture. Hard to believe seeing as though I had graduated in design and started up my own business in interiors. I feel like I’m talking as though I lived through the depression but the late eighties and early nineties was boom and bust in a modern kind of way. So where am I going on this?
Moving out of home is about learning who you are and the transition to the real you. This also means your style will grow and change. In these times of affordable mass reproduction, limitless credit options, a throw away mentality and moving out of home later (mid twenties to late twenties now is becoming the average) means the market is cashed up, mature and more particular about what they want. But it’s also easy to make some very expensive mistakes.

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