Do you know the type of effect that your furniture has on people in your life? Do you remember going to your grandparent’s house when you were a little kid and sitting in their outdoor rocking chairs and other chairs and feeling peaceful, happy, and a little silly? Do you remember going into your first big job interview and the person interviewing you was sitting behind a black l shaped desk, and all you could think about was that you hoped the person wasn’t going to eat you alive.
Looking back on it, you realize they were just a lowly HR department person with almost no clout above the position you were being hired for, but the value of them behind their scary desk made all the difference. If you’re going to be buying furniture, whether it is for a home or an office or any other sort of thing, you should figure out what your value of your furniture is in relation to everything else. The furniture you have in your house can make the difference between your neighbors liking you and your neighbors thinking you don’t belong.
Imagine a neighborhood where there is one house that has a yellow lawn, and everyone else’s lawns are green. When you walk into the house, they have mismatched furniture that doesn’t look very good compared to other furniture. Your opinion of that person drops. When you take that exact same house and drop it into a neighborhood where everyone has dead, dirt for lawns, and then you walk in, and the same furniture is there, but the rest of the neighborhood’s carpets are stained and have dog poop on them, the house doesn’t look so bad. Furniture is like fashion–always know what you’re up against and who will be watching and who won’t be.