If you are someone who has spent many years traveling around the country and have stayed, rented, and owned a myriad of different apartments and properties, then you may well have forgotten what it means to furnish a home from the beginning.

Moreover, if you have recently, or indeed are just about to, buy your first property, it can be overwhelming when making a list of everything you need. So, with this in mind, here are the top four essential items of furniture to buy for your new home and the pieces you need to prioritize.

1.    A Bed

Naturally and quite obviously, perhaps the most important item of furniture of them all, unless you intend on camping in your own backyard, you need to buy for a new house is a bed.

The most important factors to consider, aside from affordability, of course, when looking for the right bed for you involve the following:

• Either spring support or foam support for your body
• Natural fibers for both longevity and temperature regulation
• Either a one-sided or two-sided (the latter usually lasting longer)
• Divan, slatted, or a wooden frame for the base

2.    A Coffee Table

Even though this next essential item of furniture may not seem that necessary upon first thought, the reason why you need a coffee table is a multi-faceted one.

Not only will your new coffee table serve as a place to set down your various, likely borrowed, dining implements and cutlery, not to mentionhave a place to lay paint tins, brushes, and complete paperwork, but it will also, crucially, make you feel as if the space is your own.

3.    A Couch

Even though in movies, usually of the romantic variety, there is always a guy or girl who has just moved into their soon-to-be love interest’s neighborhood and is currently using upturned cardboard boxes as chairs and eating their cereal out of a pedal bin.

However, in the real world, you will soon find yourself unable to properly relax and learn your own rhythms in your new home if the only comfortable place to sit is your bed, so start looking for a beautiful, fashionable, durable, and sustainable couch such as one from the iconic togo sofas range.

4.    A Closet

Unless you are very much the type of person who works from home, socializes at home, or mainly lives in their pajamas, especially if you wear formal clothes for your job, a closet is the fourth most important investment for a new and unfurnished home.

Now, you essentially have two different options when approaching the issue of what to do with your boxes of clothes; buy a closet or buy a temporary solution. The former is an expense that you could probably currently do without after just buying a house. The latter consists of a sturdy metal rail or two arranged in the corner of your new bedroom.