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If you’re canny about how you furnish a first apartment, those early dollars will still be paying off when you are gray and downsizing.
Treat every cubic inch of home as the expensive luxury it is. Even if you live in a roomy structure, do a little research: the literature of small space design is deep, old, and sophisticated. Nineteenth century Japan and post World War Two northern Europe are the mother lodes. France is a reliable source of food-related designs that serve the working hand.
Small-space design is not all high-tech from a big box retailer. Georgian style is very kind to small rooms and not hard to find as a bargain in reproduction.
Should you end up living in thousands of square feet, soft seating, beds, and tables may scale up, but the human-scale furnishings that enable comfortable daily life won’t change.
Choose multi-purpose items, things that knock down, are modular, things on wheels, high-tech designs that go from stove to table, and things that stack or nest.
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