Furniture Shopping Anxiety
We’ve been remodeling a guest house on our ranch—called “The Lodge—since last February…and I’m just now realizing we’re actually going to have to buy furniture for the place. Well, I suppose we don’t HAVE to put furniture in there. We could just go the bean bag route, drape beads in the doorways, and act like we’re trying to recreate Greg Brady’s room.
Think anyone would buy it? Probably not on a cattle ranch. Cattle ranches, as everyone knows, aren’t very groovy.
I don’t know how to buy furniture. I’ve never really had to outfit a house all at once as we’re having to do with The Lodge. Aside from being a little overwhelming from a financial perspective, it’s also intimidating to think the decisions I’ll make over the next couple of weeks—what I’ve deemed the “furniture buying weeks‗will be with us for a long, long time. The last thing I want to do is go on a big splurge over a two-week period…and regret half of my decisions later.
So I’ve decided to make The Lodge very, very sparse, at least for now. And when I say sparse, I mean it: in the bedrooms, beds. Maybe a nightstand. In the dining room, a long dining table with benches. In the living room, comfortable sofas and enough end tables to allow guests to set down a drink. Maybe a lamp here and there for light. And that’s it, I tell you—IT! (Remind me I’m saying this, okay?) Read the rest »
