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Offline Ioanna

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« on: November 02, 2009, 10:24:54 am »
so I recently moved a few months ago and so far have a bed in the bedroom and another room with a desk, chair, and bookcase. the living room and connecting dining room are completely empty except for a lamp, and my dog and I use this space for indoor soccer on rainy days/dark evenings. I think it's far more fun than the conventional, though I'm not sure what my mom is going to think when she visits at the holidays, lol.

Your thoughts on furnishings?

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Re: Furniture
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2009, 11:27:19 am »
Good question. I'm probably going to be buying a condo soon, and my preference, other than my computer desk, would be to use floor cushions, Japanese low tables, etc. but I don't think anyone else would care for it. I find that squatting or lotus-sitting are easier on my back than dangblasted modern chairs (is it that way for anyone else here?), but I know it would piss off some of my relatives and friends and possibly make my neighbors think I'm a wacko. Sometimes stuff like that makes me wish I lived in Mongolia or Japan or South Dakota where it would fit in more or people might not care or I might not have many neighbors or visitors to deal with. Right now I'm leaning toward saying "Screw 'em all." It's likely, though, that if I don't buy standard furniture my relatives will buy it for me and then I'd have to insult them (in their eyes) by refusing it.

I love how Inuit eat right on the floor even today. They became even cooler in my eyes when I saw that. Why can't everyone be more like them? Confound these modern INconveniences of torture like chairs and high tables.

My mother used to scold me endlessly for squatting or kneeling on the floor instead of "sitting straight" up in a chair. She said it must be hard on my knees and back, but I found it just the opposite, which was why I did it. It baffles me why people think sitting up on a chair with the legs dangling is more comfortable than squatting, kneeling or lotus. Most kids seem to know this instinctively. Luckily, the raw carnivore diet makes Western chairs more bearable, but it's still even more uncomfortable as an adult to sit in them than it was as a kid. I've just been conditioned more to conform at this point.
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Re: Furniture
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2009, 11:35:07 am »
I like what Paleo Phils saying but have a tiled floor and live near the beach so sand gets everywhere.

I've got a  leather couch but would lie on the floor if I could with a few cushions.



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Re: Furniture
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2009, 11:37:10 am »
Oh well, at least you can sit out on the soft, dry sand. I guess the one benefit of modern furniture is the reclining chair that lets you basically lie down in the living room without causing people to yell at you for doing it.
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Re: Furniture
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2009, 12:00:57 pm »
so I recently moved a few months ago and so far have a bed in the bedroom and another room with a desk, chair, and bookcase. the living room and connecting dining room are completely empty except for a lamp, and my dog and I use this space for indoor soccer on rainy days/dark evenings. I think it's far more fun than the conventional, though I'm not sure what my mom is going to think when she visits at the holidays, lol.

Your thoughts on furnishings?

    I've pretty much always preferred to sit and sleep on the floor (no carpet).  Thanks for bringing this up.  It's a good way to help establish health and just feels right. 

    Hopefully your mom will like running around playing indoor soccer with your dog!  After a time, my mom liked sleeping on the floor better than me.  Incredible, as she used to scold me for it.  She always made sure there were nice linens, etc, but a floor just seemed better to me.
   
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Re: Furniture
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2009, 07:14:04 pm »
You use your dining room and living room to play football? That is ridiculously cool.


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Re: Furniture
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2009, 05:15:10 am »
I gotta get furniture too. It's so much to think about, is this stuff made of toxic stuff, is it bad for posture, etc...

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Re: Furniture
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2009, 10:15:05 pm »
The coolest house ever (in a movie, that is) was David Duchovny in the 1992 Zalman King movie "Red Shoe Diaries".

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