How To Furnish A First Home

The past week has been hectic, with our slowly shifting our luggage over to the new place. The Mini is mini, and so can’t fit many things, so it has been one bag at a time.. starting with the winter clothes,.. non-essential stuff. Then there is the furniture shopping, which can be described in the diagram below. (I may not be the McKinsey one but I can still try. He shall make the next chart-thingy.)

Of course the World Cup is still No. 1 priority. Our timetable revolves around the matches we want to watch.

Only a very slight exaggeration from the truth.
But in reality, we got a little bit from the other shops as well, the nicest stuff on sale. We love sales!
Even with bargains everywhere, the bank account is, in major depression mode.

And so we did. Throwing all caution from our parents anyone and everyone including ourselves that IKEA items are poor-quality to the Arabian sandstorms, and lured by the seductive promise of cheap Scandinavian chic, our dining room looks like …

an IKEA showroom contender sans styling

But we have windows. Ha!

The rest of the apartment are still being delivered/shopped for.

PS. To the inventor of Pinterest, you are a genius.