Is it just me, or is most furniture really ugly? While spending time at a furniture store today (mostly to kill time) I was struck by the realization that most of the stuff in the store (not a small store) was really ugly. It was not only ugly it was expensive and ugly. Itâ??s the kind of furniture that seems to be in bad furniture advertisements (and stores) but never in peopleâ??s homes. This is obviously wrong since the stores seem to stock and sell the stuff.
Furniture is also a true sign of growing up. The first apartment is usually filled with furniture collected from everywhere from donations to cheap second hand stuff (some of which should have been thrown away long ago). Buying new furniture is a painful and expensive experience.
Therefore the first real sign of maturity or rather the real sign that a person is becoming a responsible adult is when he or she takes a large pile of hard earned cash and buys and expensive sofa â?? instead of a new stereo, car or holiday abroad.
The definitive sign of maturity (bordering on old age) is when one takes a large pile of hard earned cash and buys matching cutlery and platesâ?¦
This still does not explain why most furniture is so uglyâ?¦