Tips for furnishing a new apartment (Tokyo tower mansion, higher floors)

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1. Most TVs have a place where you can attach a strap which you can then bolt to your TV stand.

   For larger bookshelves, you can by extendable padded poles (like the extendable poles people use to hang curtains / use in their closets) used to provide tension between the ceiling and the furniture.

   Also a lot of those tower mansions have pretty amazing counter-earthquake dampers.

2. These high rises will sway a lot but not necessarily shake violently.

   There are a good few products being sold for securing against earthquakes including strong double sided tape and various jamming devices you can put in between the furniture and roof and then extend

3. No holes in the wall makes it harder…but.

   Choose a deep TV stand. Fix TV to TV stand.

   Put heaviest items at the bottom of draws/cabinets etc.

   Simply avoid buying anything too tall, like a big heavy bookcase, if there is no way of fixing it to the wall.

   Look for screws in door frames, window fittings, etc. You can’t make your own holes of course but you can always remove an existing screw from a window fitting, fit a metal strap and then put the screw back in. I’ve done this many times in my renting days.

   And there are ways of making holes undetectable. Use a small punch to remove a circular patch of wallpaper, Keep the patches in an envelope somewhere safe. Make your fixing. When you move out feel the hole and put the patch back. It is a little bit of work but you can get away with it if you’re careful.