Today, I want to share with you some pits I stepped on when buying furniture from the perspective of small apartment.
Some furniture seems to solve some design pain points of small apartment, so we will start, but when we buy it back, we will actually find that for a house with little space, the existence of some furniture may be a disaster.
You will only use it once at most, the treadmill or the walking machine.
Friends who want to buy a large treadmill at home, I advise you to calm down.
Really, before buying a treadmill, think about whether you love running very much, that is, the kind that you feel uncomfortable without running for three days.
If you are a hardcore runner, you don't need a treadmill at all.
It is not difficult for you to go out and find a park to run. Treadmill takes up space, which can't satisfy your demands for outdoor running. Why buy it? Go downstairs and run in the morning run.
If you hate running and just want to spend a sum of money to force yourself to exercise, then don't buy a treadmill, because people like me who don't like sports as much as you won't change their ways because of two thousand dollars.
Well, some people will say that we don't like running, but we have a desire to exercise at home. How about buying a walking machine, a rock climbing machine and a rowing machine? They are all foldable. ...
If you have such an idea, I advise you to go to the idle fish to see how many people are selling sports equipment that have only been used once.
What's more, if it's just the two of us now, this big and useless furniture will be the first thing abandoned at home after the baby is born.
That's a nice sentence. No treadmill can escape the fate of being used to dry clothes and pile up sundries. So is the walking machine.
Most people who buy walkers don't want to run. Since they don't like sports, why should they force themselves to walk on the machine?
Not if you buy it. Once bought, it depreciates. It's heavy and expensive, and it covers a large area. Don't overestimate your self-control on impulse. People who really like sports don't need any large sports equipment at home.
I bought it and found it difficult to sit on the couch.
I believe many people, like me, have planted grass for this lazy sofa of Muji.
Every time I visit Muji, I will see a very conspicuous couch in the corner, where I can sit, lie and collapse.
Every time I think of sitting on the sofa after work, completely relaxing, drinking drinks and watching TV, how enjoyable it is! I even want to replace the ordinary sofa with two lazy sofas.
However, when you finally buy it back, you will find that this kind of furniture, lazy sofa, is really tasteless. First of all, its design does not conform to human mechanics, and it seems that the whole upper body can be completely relaxed.
But in fact, it didn't take long. Because the upper body is not stressed, your lumbar spine will be very sore and uncomfortable after half an hour, which is very unfriendly to the spine. It's a lazy sofa, but it doesn't feel easy. There will be a feeling of neck pain and low back pain.
Moreover, the couch for lazy people is too low, and it is particularly difficult to get up, especially for people with high waist pressure who have been working for a long time. They have to be supported by others when they are connected, and their posture is ugly and their bodies are uncomfortable.
If you buy a lazy sofa with poor quality, it won't be long before the whole sofa will sag, and soon you won't feel comfortable sitting in the store.
If you want to sit on the sofa, play with your mobile phone, read books and catch up with the drama, you can insist on 1 hour and I will lose.
Of course, if your home is a super-large mansion, a lazy sofa won't take up much space, and it will be used as an ornament.
However, it is still necessary to persuade small huxing not to blindly follow the trend to buy lazy sofas.
To sum up, it is still an ordinary sofa, which does not take up space!
Never enlarge the coffee table in the living room, that's the dining table.
In the living room, everyone should want a big coffee table.
But now many of us buy small apartments, and the living room area itself is very small. In many cases, the living room and dining room are connected. If you put a big coffee table in the middle of the living room, the dining table will basically be idle.
Some big coffee tables look gorgeous, but in fact they only have several functions: putting remote control, fruits, paper towels and flowers ..... Nobody really makes tea with coffee tables.
So in fact, it is not impossible to eat with it. You can choose a small coffee table, which not only realizes the function of the coffee table, but also does not waste the space of the dining table.
It is best to have a small coffee table that can be folded and moved, which can be put aside, taken out when needed, and put away when not needed. It is simply a small living room artifact.
If you don't have strict storage awareness, don't buy an open storage cabinet with a whole wall.
Many friends who live in small apartments will feel very excited when they see such a storage cabinet. First of all, the storage space of small apartment itself is insufficient, and furniture needs to increase a lot of storage space.
With such a whole wall, I imagine that famous wines, photo albums, books and other things will be put on it in the future, and the home will be in good order and full of style.
But the premise is that you like storage very much and are good at it, otherwise you will find that after you buy it, your storage cabinet looks completely different from that in the IKEA model room.
The messy little things on it, home keys, cosmetics, even food, umbrellas and other sundries, are even more chaotic because they are open.
Moreover, there is no shelter and it is easy to accumulate dust, so it should be cleaned regularly. Before buying, ask yourself if you have that determination, or develop a good habit of sorting and storing.
If not, try to make a powerful storage cabinet that can be hidden. If we are lazy, we will be lazy. At least we can hide something.
In addition, there are all kinds of small kitchen appliances that are particularly popular in recent years.
Such as air fryer, yogurt machine, small oven, small steamer, egg steamer dedicated to boiling eggs, waffle maker dedicated to making waffles. .....
It is these things that will make your small kitchen explode and finally find no place to cut vegetables. This is the consequence of buying small household appliances indiscriminately.
You can order takeout if you want pancakes. If you want to exercise, you can go to the gym or the park. People who know that they don't like sports have to buy treadmills. Those who don't like cleaning bought a bunch of furniture that is difficult to clean. Isn't this the disaster of the small house?
Therefore, it is precisely because the apartment is small, not a mansion, not a big flat building, so we should plan every square meter well.
Before you buy furniture next time, you can ask yourself, do you really need this thing? Is there no substitute for it? Is it clean? Is it easy to sell it on idle fish?
Therefore, I advise you who live in a small apartment to think about it early and use every inch of space in your home for more practical purposes, instead of accumulating idle items bought on a whim.