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I've never bought a bed before.

Tonight, however, I will walk into MUJI, the world's premiere home furnishings retailer (fuck IKEA), and spend a minimum of $800 on an oak bed.

I've measured my apartment and determined that, though I'll have plenty of room no matter how I situate the bed, it's geometrically improbable to have the headboard situated against the wall.

So what I'm going to end up doing is setting the bed so that one side of it sits against the wall (I will then sleep against the wall), which will leave me with a headboard standing against nothing.

Is this a feng shui faux pas? I just don't know. It doesn't feel right to me, no matter how otherwise earth-toney and harmonic my room will be.

I realized, walking back to the station (the apartment is a three-minute walk to the station, and a three-minute train ride from my new office), that perhaps I've been misunderstanding headboards my whole life. Why are headboards always situated against the wall? To keep us from touching the wall while we sleep? Or to merely present our imperfect souls with fleeting glimpses of symmetry?

For me, a headboard will have a function: it will keep my pillows from falling onto the floor.

It has been literally ten years since I've slept in a bed alone(, and too many weeks since I've had mildly violent sex in a bed).

My brothers, tell me your stories about headboards.

If my guilty feng shui is not assuaged in five hours, I will probably just buy this bed instead, which is still a really nice bed. (The legs are swappable, so I'll pay $10 extra to get legs that are 10cm longer.)
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you have to pay extra for the (extreme high quality) mattress!
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