It's good we have a theme for our new home as it helps us to focus on design of furnishing. Unfortunately we chose an expensive theme that caused our expenses to rise like the Yen.
Zen/Japanese theme. Think tatami mats, sliding doors, dark carpentry works, minimal furniture, platform areas, blinds. We checked out tatami mats and the prices scared us off. Out goes our dream of a tatami living/bedroom. Same for the platform areas. Due to the flat layout, sliding door isn't possible. Changing the existing sliding door at the bomb shelter and kitchen meant additional unnecesary expenses. With the amount of things we have, minimal furniture is quite impossible. We wanted curtains to cut cost but it didn't seem to fit our theme. To us, Zen equals bamboo / wooden blinds. The quotation almost caused a heart attack but we took it because it's Zen looking.
Our choice of furnitures are limited to teak wood designs and they are expensive compared to the modern fabric/leather designs. Choice of lightings limited too. Nowadays it seems like modern chic and resort feel are the "in" thing so it's very difficult for us to find something suitable. We kept stretching our budget to purchase these items.
I've temporarily stopped checking our budget. Just looking at our bank account balance diminishing at an exponential rate is enough. We seriously need to strike Toto soon.
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