First home furnishing is an exciting process of shaping the inside of your new home to suit your lifestyle requirements. No matter what you need from your first home the wonderful thing about owning your house/apartment is that you don’t have a landlord breathing down your neck telling you that there is NO WAY you’re painting the living room THAT colour!
When you furnish your first home you can make it stylish and elegant, modern and minimal or sumptuous and magnificent. In this article we are going to discuss the basics and break this down into smaller manageable steps as home furnishing is too huge a subject to cover in a couple of lines.
Let’s start with what
rooms you need to furnish and the main items you are going to need:
Living Room
- sofa
- armchairs
- coffee table
- TV/video stand
Dining Room
- Dining room table
- Dining room chairs
Kitchen
- Cooker
- Fridge freezer
- Dishwasher
- Washing machine
- Microwave
Bedroom
- Bed
- Mattress
- Wardrobe/closet
- Bedside tables
- Chest of drawers
Of course this is only the large items that you need but because they are the largest they are also the most expensive so you really want to get it right the first time and avoid any costly mistakes. From the lists above you really want to work out what you can live without for now.
To help work out what the cost of everything is going to be we have a free Home Furnishing Calculator simply download the file HERE you will need some kind of spreadsheet program as this is an excel file. I have prefilled some costs but you can do your own research and fill in the numbers the form will add everything up and although the prices might look scary it can really help with deciding what is needed right now and what can wait.
If you don’t have excel and can’t afford to purchase it then Open Office offer a free solution which is compatible with excel and can be found at www.openoffice.org.