Lights. Must get lights.
I’ve never been one to make a cozy feeling at home, what with furniture and curtains and stuff. My place has been decorated in a kind of classy, comfortable way with a heavy bachelor tone. Sometimes I wish I had that homely touch, but the cleaning-up spirit always disintegrates shortly after I sit down at the piano to just “brush off some of these old songs I found”.
Now, it’s the lights. I don’t have any lamps. The few ones that come preinstalled with the apartment are far too garish and crude, and only sit in the kitchen anyhow. And during the summer, it’s so light outside anyway that I hardly need lights. So the two lamps I had in the living room, well, one kind of developed an electrical fault (!) and in the other, the lightbulb went and I forgot (repeatedly) to buy spares.
But now that fall is upon us, and it gets really dark, I suddenly realize that I’m all out of light! It kind of gets bad when I have to turn on the TV set and set the channel to some light entertainment (pun intended) so I can see what I’m doing in my living-room.
The ironic thing is that I feel so … cliché. I have laptops. I have a home theatre entertainment system. I have wireless broadband, a Linux server in the basement that hosts my PHP development projects, and am connected with all the knowledge of the entire world at my fingertips.
But I sure don’t have any lamps.
Sometimes I really think my life could use a bit of a female touch.
Hi! My best tip is that you visit IKEA for cool spotlights etc. But if you want a real bargain (?) just take a walk across the street from your job on a monday afternoon to the church second hand-shop. It´s a real nice and tidy place with sweet old church ladies smiling and serving fika to everyone.