Since we moved in to this homey one-bedroom apartment, I’ve never dreamed (too much) about decorating it in such way that an interior designer would do his or her house.
Why, you ask? Because first and foremost, it’s a rental unit. We’re not allowed to make any hole on the walls, let alone mount a set of shelves or cover it up with a retro-pattern wallcovering. *Picturing it all in my mind and weeping*
And secondly, because we don’t want to get in the rush of buying (pricey) things that we will regret later. Afterall, we won’t be able to carry the furnitures we buy here to Indonesia anyway.
So what we did was listing the essential furniture and purchasing few of them at a time. I picked them out at the store, my husband swiped his card, we hauled them home and we assembled them together (yes, they’re Ikea’s).
So far, our apartment is already livable. We have bedroom filled with most of what should be there.
The kitchen is pretty much all set from the beginning. The supposedly-dining area (which is a tiny hallway to the kitchen) is still an empty spot. It will take a dining set with perfect proportion to make this spot neat and uncluttered.
In the meantime, we dine in the living room. This particular space is less planned than the others, if I can say those are planned at all. At first, we just wanted a TV and TV bench. The carpet floor is our hassle-free seating area. But then, I spotted this small beanbag at a department store, thought it was cute for the TV set. So we went ahead and bought one–it was quite pricey for us–and ended up bought an expensive big cushion to make it a couple. *Doh*
Few weeks and  several backache later, my husband finally decided to buy a sofa! At last! We spent half of the day browsing for the perfect model and price, and went to store still with an undecided-feeling.
Fortunately for us–not for a particular sofa–there was a sale on some occasional chair that day. So, instead, we bought one armchair and one occasional sofa. Haha. And just this morning, we purchased a simple sidetable with very low price. Yey.
So this is what the seating group look like right now.
the unplanned seating group
Yup, that cushion was the first batch of our living room seating. Now, that cushion and the beanbag are placed in front of the chair, on the spot that I think would make a nice reading niche. Well, in future perhaps. My husband thinks our books here are not that many yet to deserve a book rack.
Well, this is the reading niche-wannabe. My oh-so-ugly-doodle explains the design-sketch I have in mind. And, yes, the ghostly-dwarf creature is supposed to be me.
my reading niche in doodle
If that reading niche never becomes reality, great then, because that means we had a children play area instead. 🙂
And that’s a wrap. Our home in the making ends here, for now.
shita hapsari 