So our little outing today was to Calgary's one IKEA store. We ate the $1.00 breakfast (plus 50 cents for added bacon), then wandered through the enticing Swedish atmosphere. Unsentimental penny-pinchers who love imagining how to live more simply, yet like nice design: those are the sorts of people who love IKEA. Or at least one of the sorts.
I, for one, like looking at those mock apartments they decorate (like the one with 592 square feet we looked at today), imagining living in such a space--and as a result saving time and money. With more of both, I am able to pursue the finer things--writing, guitar strumming, visiting library branches, sitting in the backs of coffee shops, notebooks in hand. And so on. A modified Bohemian, Parisian-Left-Bank lifestyle (with Christian overtones). Or what have you
I've always tended towards frugality and simplicity, I might add, which is why I half-identified with the 1960's counterculture at the time. It's nice when what is "cool" meshes with one's personal preferences.
I, for one, like looking at those mock apartments they decorate (like the one with 592 square feet we looked at today), imagining living in such a space--and as a result saving time and money. With more of both, I am able to pursue the finer things--writing, guitar strumming, visiting library branches, sitting in the backs of coffee shops, notebooks in hand. And so on. A modified Bohemian, Parisian-Left-Bank lifestyle (with Christian overtones). Or what have you
I've always tended towards frugality and simplicity, I might add, which is why I half-identified with the 1960's counterculture at the time. It's nice when what is "cool" meshes with one's personal preferences.
posted by Ted | 2:31 PM
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Lodz will be getting Poland's largest Ikea next month. I am going to enjoy looking around when it opens. Those larger living spaces in North America require their owners or renters to work a lot harder to afford them...
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