Renting A Pre-Furnished House
Before I moved to this country, I lived in many houses in different countries, but we always took our furniture with us. Then we moved here, where it is normal to rent a house or apartment that is fully furnished. In fact, getting a property for rent that is unfurnished is almost unheard of here.
This has certain advantages. It means we did not have to pay a huge bill to have all our furniture moved across the water. It also meant that we had ‘new’ furniture to look at. That proved to be a double-edged sword. We sold some of our old furniture and gave the rest away, but when we arrived in our first apartment the furniture that was in place was, to say the least, dire. It had obviously been put together at a garage sale and showed signs of not being clean. Bit of a nightmare that. Luckily, we soon found a house that was more to our liking and we moved in here. The house is lovely and big, and the furniture, although not what we would have chosen ourselves, is clean and big.
We have just been given a four year rent on the house (which in this country is pretty rare, as it gives a lot of protection to the tenant and most landlords prefer a yearly renewable contract) and so now the time has come to start acquiring some pieces of furniture of our own. If we are going to be here long-term then there are certain things I want to be mine, such as a bed and a comfortable settee. I can feel a shopping attack coming on!
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