You want to find just the proper apartment, of course, and
then you want to decorate and furnish it. Let me beg of you to demand
only the actual essentials: a decent neighborhood, good light and air,
and at least one reasonably large room. Don't demand perfection, for
you won't find it. Make up your mind just what will make for your
happiness and comfort, and demand that. You can make any place livable
by furnishing it wisely. And, oh, let me beg of you, don't buy your
furniture until you have found and engaged your apartment! It is bad
enough to buy furniture for a house you haven't seen, but an apartment
is a place of limitations, and you can so easily mar the place by buying
things that will not fit in. An apartment is so dependent upon proper
fittings, skilfully placed, that you may ruin your chances of a real
home if you go ahead blindly.
Before you sign your lease, be sure that the neighborhood is not too
noisy. Be sure that you will have plenty of light and air and heat. You
can interview the other tenants, and find out about many things you
haven't time or the experience to anticipate. Be sure that your landlord
is a reasonable human being who will consent to certain changes, if
necessary, who will be willing for you to build in certain things, who
will co-operate with you in improving his property, if you go about it
tactfully.
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