My Shopping Adventure For A New Home - On A Market Friday

Hello! Welcome to the first edition of my post under the new community Market Friday brought to us by Denise of @dswigle. Denise is the lovely and very generous lady behind the fun #marketfriday challenge. Today, I will be taking you to a Furniture Store called Ludwig in the 22nd Viennese District which is just next to our area.

We are currently window shopping for furnitures because we are moving to a new apartment, the building of which is still under construction. The key turnover is sometime mid May... so we still have time to shop around. We are retirees and after almost three decades of living in our present house, we wanted some changes.

The daughter has long been gone to lead her own life and so we wanted to have a space with no garden. The garden work has become too much since we have to prepare the backyard before we leave for Andalucia, our winter refuge to escape cold Central Europe. I will have a bigger balcony tho than our top terrace at present, so I can still do container gardening.

Ludwig is a superstore where you can get all the things you need for your home, be it furnitures, household items, kitchen. etc...they have it all.

They have a huge parking space that could accommodate to I think thousand of cars. They also have a restaurant that caters to the hungry visitors serving delicious food. It´s more of a canteen with super low priced-food .... just to make visitors comfortable while shopping.

My favorite area is this corner full of moroccan lights. I have similar lights in my andalucian home and I love them because they give oriental flair with their colorful glasses and ornaments.

They also have a wonderful arrays of carpets from oriental to modern ones. I saw a wonderful Kelim that I like a lot, but the walls of the apartment we are moving into are limited. On the other hand, I have my self-made Lone Star Quilt that I will be hanging in the guest bedroom instead.

We concentrated on the kitchen and the bedroom furnitures. And so, we have chosen this model, it is a complete set of bed, night tables and the wardrobe. I think they are a good buy. So the bedroom part is solved. I have already seen a kitchen I like and next week we will come again for a session to have it planned.

The night tables are sturdy, but it is too low for me so I will be doing a DIY platform to elevate both... not a hard task since I do all the woodworks when I design a room.

The headboard of the bed is part wood and leather. I love the offwhite color.

In Austria, the style of the beds are low, but I will be using 2 mattresses to make the bed higher. I have ordered the basic furnitures already but I will hack the design of the room to turn it into an english style bedroom as in the guest bedroom I designed in my andalucian home below. I will surely post an update when we have moved in to the new apartment. It will be an exciting experience and I am crossing my fingers that everything will be fine.

TGIF....Wishing you all a lovely weekend ahead!