Ronnie Furniturewala
The furniture became a necessity due to costs.
Hala sleeps on our old bed from Aligarh, dating back to 2006.
Daniyaal sleeps on my old bed, dating back to 1996.
We polished and painted and repaired them for the kids.
Then we were left with no bed, so we have slept on a floor mattress since November. It's not very comfortable, trust me.
The bed was needed because there weren't any good choices available here, and the prices were double that of Delhi - hence it became a necessity!
Also - we needed sofas. We have no sofas at home. :-(. Whenever guests come, they would sit on the floor, or on two cane chairs which belonged to Mom, and which I found in the attic, covered with dust and history, I dusted them, and kept the history, and moved them to our new place. They are the only respite for anyone with bad knees.
Also - some mosaic glasses to cover the bulbs. What do you call them? They're not chandeliers. I don't like chandeliers, too ostentatious and loud and unnecessary in an era of profile lighting. A few external lights, because we didn't like the one we got here.
Add to that two chairs for the bedroom, to replace the broken easy chair from Ikea Online which we assembled and broke in the process.
And if you add it all up, you have a decent, 16 foot truck, without Naila or Firoze, with a Himachal number plate, that is chugging along the National Highway, heading North, somewhere between Jalandhar in Punjab, and Jammu in Jammu, carrying our goods, after we paid 56k for transport, and 50k for GST.
#deathtax and maths!
Have a super evening!
P.S That's a lovely wood carving table from Woodlands! I want to run my fingers on it to feel the carving... I wonder where and when was it done! When you're here, I will take you to the place where the woodcarvers work on this stuff. It smells of walnut and polish and is a kind of museum and crime scene rolled into one.