Hulsta Furniture
8 June 2010
“A Thing of Beauty”
Adjacent to the glorious master bathrooms I am forever writing about is a room I rarely mention, the master bedroom, not from lack of interest so much, as simply lack of opportunity. My interests when I am surfing the Internet looking for blog ideas tend to take me mostly to bathrooms and kitchens, so that’s what I write about, but the master bedroom is another room that can, and really should, be made into a sanctuary. In fact during the first sixteen years of our marriage, my wife and I were always looking for a home we could call our own. What made it such a long quest was that we were determined that we would not plunk down a down payment until we had found the “perfect home,” and this despite the many realtors who assured us that such a quest was impossible. “Buy cheap, keep it to build equity, let us sell it for you in a few years,” was always the advice, but it just always struck us as so, um, self-serving? In any case we stuck to our guns and eventually got the home of our dreams.
Part of what we wanted-and eventually got-was a master bedroom suite, a serene place all our own. Since then I have made elaborate his and her closets and done quite a bit of custom work, including a walnut entertainment center, and my wife ends almost every evening, all snug in her bed, watching her favorite TV shows. And she does this despite the fact that our 65″ TV is normally available by then, as I
tend to read in my study before retiring. But the reason I bring that up is because it is what we set out to achieve with our master bedroom. It is a serene room all our own, and she loves simply being in it to relax, to regroup, perhaps even dream a bit of something glorious. Although at our age, that list tends to get shorter and shorter. Time for each other and a little glad money pretty much covers it! But I digress.
I started out to explore the subject of making of one’s master bedroom a serene haven, a goal that can be accomplished in a number of ways. One of the quickest ways to achieve it, though, is with the furnishings. And with that can turn to the subject of today’s blog.
Hulsta, as their name would indicate, is a German company that makes an incredible number of furniture items for the home. I’m not sure of their availability in the USA, but I have every confidence that a few blogs like this 
one is all it’s going to take for them to be here in force. Not, I hasten to add, because of any brilliance on my part, but on theirs. I mean, look at them!
Hulsta manufactures some sixty different lines of furniture for seven different areas of the home. Their product lines include classic, country house, and urban living, but I tend to focus on the modern in these blogs because I find it so endlessly stimulating.
The picture at the top of this blog states a lot of what I find interesting about minimalist designs in general and Hulsta in particular. As I said earlier the bedroom can be a wonderfully serene place to retire to for a few hours before actually going to sleep; ask my wife! The top picture is clearly of a room that has been rearranged to get optimum exposure of this particular line of furniture. In real life, the TV cabinet would be somewhere beyond the foot of the bed. I especially like what they did with this cabinet, though, which is why I ran the second photo
graph to illustrate what Hulsta has created with a seemingly plain TV cabinet. It’s a storage cabinet that has been dressed up in a chic, minimalist sheath, the better to make it timeless.
There are a handful of people who get new furniture on a pretty regular basis because they’ve grown bored with the old stuff. For most of us, though, nothing new is purchased until something old has fallen apart. If it’s a piece you’ve grown to hate, you almost feel like a vulture in a tree, waiting for the damned thing to die. But that means, in turn, that if you buy well-made furniture, you better choose wisely, because even if you get bored with it, your spouse is sure to put the ixnay on buying new, right? But if it is still a thing of beauty, then it’s a joy you can keep forever.
Joseph
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