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These Are the 21 Apartment Essentials Every Guy Needs
It's time to move on from sleeping on air mattresses and getting dressed out of storage bins.
BEFORE YOU move into an apartment, you have a crucial question to ask yourself: Is this somewhere you'll sleep and eat, or is this somewhere you'll want to live your best life? If it's the former, grab a few chairs, an air mattress, and some groceries and enjoy your monthly payments on a glorified pitstop. But, if you want to curate the space you'll likely be spending most of your time in to reflect your style sensibilities, comfort you on stressful days, and be an inviting space for guests, then these apartment essentials should be in your cart by the end of your scroll.
You have to be honest with yourself about a few factors, the first being your style. The simplistic style of Sabai's The Essential Sectional might not be the best fit if you want a jungle-themed living room replete with animal print designs. The cream color and minimalistic beauty of the ZINUS Debi Upholstered Platform Bed Frame would fit perfectly for a bedroom designed around neutral colors or meant to look like it was pulled out of a Wes Anderson movie. The style theme of your apartment is critical but not something to stress too much about. We have plenty of options to complement almost any apartment aesthetic.
Once the style vision in your head fits in the space you’ll be calling home, it’s time to figure out how much it’ll cost to bring it to life. Before you start sacrificing your Starbucks Coffee in the morning or scouring Instagram for yard sales, you should recalibrate how you perceive price. When it comes to furnishing an apartment, expensive doesn’t always mean the best fit, and budget-friendly isn’t always convenient. You have to establish and determine what parts of your apartment you value the most and price it accordingly. If you can’t function without a great night’s sleep, don’t shy away from spending a little extra to snag a [quality bed with sheets that drift you off into Lala land and keep you there for as long as you want. At the same time, if you’re barely home long enough to commit to an [eight-hour binge], maybe you don’t need a 70” inch 4K TV worth two months of rent.
These 19 apartment essentials are a good start for you to begin mapping out your dream home oasis.
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Keith Nelson is a writer by fate and journalist by passion, who has connected dots to form the bigger picture for Men’s Health, Vibe Magazine, LEVEL MAG, REVOLT TV, Complex, Grammys.com, Red Bull, Okayplayer, and Mic, to name a few.
As Men's Health's Deputy Editor, Commerce, Christian Gollayan oversees all shopping content on menshealth.com. He relocated back to New York by way of Portland, where he was the Associate Managing Editor at TheManual.com. Christian's work has also been featured in InStyle, Food & Wine, the New York Post, and Tatler Asia.
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