Friday, August 22, 2008

The Look For Less

Furniture is very important in the artistic and visual effects of our home. The pieces of furniture that we choose to put in our homes create distinction. It distinguishes our homes from others. It generates uniqueness. We have this notion that in order for our home to look striking and classy, we have to buy pieces of furniture that are expensive. But that's a complete oversight. If we are just resourceful enough, we can find different websites or furniture stores that offer inexpensive but stylish and classy fixtures. We can even go as far as recycling things but it needs creativity and resourcefulness like turning a jammed electric fan into an elegant lamp shade, or anything of that sort.

Being resourceful is what we need these days considering the sluggish way our economy is moving. Or is it moving at all? Probably, but moving backwards. Hahaha. Buying these expensive and luxurious pieces of furniture is impractical and unreasonable. Sensibility will allow us to save more money and use them for something more realistic and rational. I know many people won't appreciate the importance of having the perfect furniture for our homes and some even won't bother buying pieces of furniture at all, they just spend their hard-earned money to rational things like food, clothing or medicine which I agree is even more important.

Practicality and sensibility toward choosing or buying pieces of furniture for your home sound intensive, alright, but results are worth it. In fact, you will eventually find yourself saving more money and not going over budget.