YAY! I can finally say that I’m a (pretend) adult because I have a dining room! As a kid, I had so many dreams about what my home would look like, most of them were modern and tacky with crazy colors and zebra print everywhere. But, I must say I was really excited to own my home, not because of the financials and that it was ‘the smart thing to do’ but because I wanted to decorate every room, paint the walls and drill holes in the walls, change the tile etc. Well, what my parents didn’t tell me was that decorating and furniture are crazy expensive, and you have to find studs in order to drill holes in the walls. All these technicalities make decorating that much harder. For me, it was the crazy cost of furniture, I know understand why my parents let furniture be handed down to them by their parents and why they bought furniture once every 20 years. You’re spending all this money on items that you have to live with for the next X number of years, and that’s a lot of pressure.