- Karen Lau
Excited, Overwhelmed, and Now Fully Furnished
Monifa is a young professional venturing into her first mortgage and first home! She came to us with an excitement about her first adult apartment. She was rady with a colourful Pinterest board that expresses her style in a collage of looks. What’s difficult for many like Monifa is the design guidance to commit to one look that is personal to her and fitting to the space. More importantly, Monifa is keen on sticking toa $10k budget after getting a budget range from our handy furnishing cost calculator.
- Property type: One-bedroom apartment
- Budget: $10k
- Timeline: Furnished in 4 weeks
- Location: Miami, Florida
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The home furnishing journey
The vision
Monifa purchased a bright and spacious one-bedroom apartment that is perfect for living on her own. The previous homeowner had a boho glamorous style that is colourful but not modern enough for her. Monifa is drawn to modern and contemporary initially, but she’s willing to shift her style to match the interior decor that is already there. She wants to minimize the changes needed to her unit so she can move in as quickly as possible.
She told Furnishr that she likes the colour palette of this mood board, but the style can be less midcentury with more straight lines and forms.
With that in mind, we customized the mood board to fit her style and curated these products to fill the space. After all, Monifa enjoys the process of decorating but furniture moving is too labourous and overwhelming. Because of that, our focus on Monifa’s $10k budget was on the essential furniture pieces for each room.
The layout
To know what furniture pieces to include for each room of the apartment, it’s important to figure out the layout first. Based on the floor plan, we can quickly determine the sizes of the key furniture. For example, the living room is long enough for a sectional sofa and an accent chair. The width of the sectional also ditcates the size of the area rug which can create the living room area in the open living-dining space in the apartment. Remember that the size of the TV also needs to be suitable for the depth of the living room. Then, the remaining space between the living area and kitchen will give us the approximate size for the dining table and chairs.
Before photos
After photos
Cost breakdown for the one-bedroom apartment
In Monifa’s design proposal, we included 13 products that we thought would provide a strong cohesive style and make her apartment functional immediately after we furnish it. Within the $10k budget, we also include our service fee.
Price breakdown by room
