A love affair with the domesticated.

I’ve had this love affair with Ikea’s cow hide and sheepskin rug; and most recently, their goat skin rug.

Everytime I’m in the Ikea store I’ll spend a good twenty minutes feeling the texture of the animal rugs and pondering if I should acquire one. I would love to buy the white sheep skin rug and put it right smack in the middle of my room. And there after purchase lots of vintage frames to dramatise the effect.

But the furriness of it all gently nudge me to the other side - after all, I do sneeze when I’m in the Ikea carpet department.

There in the other corner, lies the cow hide. Subtly smooth and I just love the screaming prints. But it’s a freaking $399 and I always leave with a if-only-it-was-$100. But it’s a cow we’re talking about. And if milk costs $3 a litre, I’m pretty sure a big lady is more expensive than that.

So now, Ikea introduces miss goat skin rug. A smaller version of the cow hide and at a friendlier price of $79. I had my eyes on one of it at the Queensway shop - the spotted black prints was calling my name - and as I reach out to get it. Oh dang, the goat skin rug is softer in look than it feels. It felt like I was touching a straw brush.

So slightly dishearten I left.

I’m pretty certain the next time I step into the Ikea shop again, I’ll spend a good 20 minutes re-doing the entire thinking process all over again.

And who knows, I might really get myself that goat skin rug the next time round.