Custom furniture was actually an emerging industry that had only taken off recently. When buying their own homes, many young people with some money to spare would consider having their furniture custom-made so their homes would look completely different from everyone else's, while others had to order custom furniture because their floor plans were simply too unusual.
After all, there were more and more people and less and less land these days, and the terrain in the Pokémon world could sometimes be very oddly shaped. This meant the houses here occasionally came in strange shapes too, such as triangles, ovals, and so on, giving them a distinctly local character. Back in Viridian City, Heath had seen a triangular house, and looking at it, he had really wondered what that floor plan looked like inside.
What could fit into that seemingly tiny corner? There probably wasn't even room for a single chopstick at the very back, was there?
Still, precisely because the terrain in the Pokémon world came in all sorts of strange shapes, the custom furniture industry here was quite well developed. Heath soon found the shop that made custom furniture. Although it wasn't open yet, after Heath made a phone call, the roller shutter was raised, and a friendly middle-aged man walked out in very casual clothes.
"Oh, good morning, sir! What sort of furniture would you like to have made?" The friendly middle-aged man shivered in the cold wind, and Heath apologized, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, it was only a little past six, not even six thirty yet. It wasn't that no shops opened this early, but most were breakfast places and the like. Shops like this generally didn't open until nine.
Heath's attitude made the middle-aged man even friendlier. He invited Heath into his shop,