EN blogger finalist Yvette Seger is back with more Tips for Eventers Living in Itty-Bitty Apartments in the City. Yvette will always be remembered for the famous Insane Walmart Ride, and we welcome her contributions to Eventing Nation.
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From Yvette:
Tips for Eventers Living in Itty-Bitty Apartments in the City: Interior Design 101
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What looks comfy to us might just look plain weird to our guests.
Just go to Ikea and get some Flügelgögelspringøm chairs already, will ya?
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Hey there Eventing Nation! I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to getting two days off from work and consuming an insane amount of calories celebrating the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, mainly because I like it when my parents visit and pay for my meals, all petty gripes aside, I have a lot to be thankful for this year. I mean, I live and work in the capital of the free world, I have friends and family that are very forgiving when they get stood up because “the pony really needs a flat school,” and shyeah, my horses are the bomb-dot-com! But, even with all this awesomeness, I’m not infallible to the stresses of the holiday season. Thanksgiving is a particularly stressful as it is the holiday for which I (and my itty-bitty apartment) play hostess to…MY PARENTS.
Please…somebody SAVE ME!
Don’t get me wrong – I love my genetic contributors parents, but my itty-bitty apartment is basically a walk in closet/tack room with a bed. This works 99.9% of the time because…well, let’s face it…I’m either at the barn or at the office (or en route to one of those locations). But, no matter how many times I tell my parents that they should probably should wear a helmet and/or sign a hold-harmless waiver before entering my apartment, they still insist on usurping my cable to watch hours upon hours of HGTV spending “quality time” with their only daughter (and two guinea pig grandsons).
The big problem with having the fam chill in the apartment is the distinct lack of seating. I mean, I guess seating isn’t a problem if you’re all about throwing saddle pads on the floor and calling them “seating squares” like back in kindergarten. Similarly, seating wouldn’t be a problem if non-horse people could just appreciate that sitting in a chair with a saddle propped on it is sort of the equestrian Snuggie. And don’t even get me started on the custom wool cooler that they refuse to acknowledge as a high class throw blanket…if it’s good enough for my horse, it’s darn well good enough for you, you…human! Which brings me to this week’s tip…
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Tip for Eventers Living in Itty-Bitty Apartments in the City #16:
Although equestrian motifs are a perennial favorite among interior designers, eventers in metropolitan areas should take precautions to ensure that they do not take this trend too literally. For instance, while most eventers would find a Devoucoux to be the best seat in the house, guests not accustomed to straddling a slab of leather (or wearing a pencil skirt) might not find it to be a suitable seating option. Similarly, they probably won’t buy your story that that jumping bat in the corner is for “reaching cobwebs.” If you can’t suitably “de-horse” your apartment, you should probably stick to entertaining at the local coffee shop/restaurant/bar/
