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[kantoi09]

Did anyone decorate their apartment while in Korea? If so, what did you do, what was your budget, and was it easy/hard to do like gather the stuff?

[Steelrails]

I've spent about 350,000 so far on a few items. Mostly house plants and water fountains (easy to find), as well as curtains to put around my bed. The school paid for most of my tacky furniture, and I've tried to cover it up with said plants and fountains.

The lack of space and the potential short time is one major holdout to serious decorating.

[kantoi09]

[Steelrails]

3 Large plants- 120,000; 2 small plants 40,000; Curtains 50,000; 2 Elaborate Fountains 90,000.

Bought what I'd pay back in the states if I bought it new, course back in the states I got most of that 2nd hand/ebay and it was FAR cheaper.

I bet if shopped smart, asked around you could do it for half.

I live out in the stix so it's hard to shop around.

[Aelric]

I did the plant thing too, although they are all going to die when I go on vacation next week. I live in a place that just has old wallpaper on sheetrock or something, so I can't really pin anything to the wall. As such, I would a fabric store and hung a large 10'x8' bolt of fabric with an acceptable design over my biggest bare wall. I had to hang it from the ceiling, which means it falls down every now and again, but it beats the crackhouse look that the mysteriously stained and torn up wall had before finally, I got some puzzles and glued them to a backboard then taped them to the wall. It's fairly ghetto, but it still beats nothing. all together, I spent about 200K. Finally, while they are available for the summer, get a Mosquito net. They actually make the room a bit better looking and trust me, you'll want one very soon if you aren't already getting bitten.

[Kenny Kimchee]

I painted the trim throughout the apartment and put new flooring and wallpaper in the bedroom and living room. Cost me about 600k but it was money well spent. I'm staying in this place for at least two years. I've been doing the esl thing for a long time and am fed up with feeling like I live in a hospital waiting room.

[Emeliu]