Tips Please for cheap bedroom furnishings?

julie777

We move to an unfurnished house soon and need to furnish 3 bedrooms cheaply but tastefully. We have beds but need light-coloured wardrobes/storage/drawers. We have a good Freecycle in Bournemouth but things go extremely quickly, in a matter of minutes! Also keeping an eye on Gumtree and Ebay. Can anyone recommend stores in this area which sell used items in good condition for a good price please? I'm hoping to find 4 wardrobes, 3 chests of drawers and a pair of bedside drawers from a budget of £250 AND not have the hassle of putting stuff together! Thanks in advance for any info.

chivers1977

what about buying and painting white. Then everything will match together

ormus

BQ do (or did do) a cheap bedroom set for 99 quid.
i think you will struggle for that amount of new stuff with your budget.

thepinkladez_2

i always find that ikea are quite good and have a wide range of designs to fit most budgets. i have the malm and pax bedroom range and its been great and wasn't very expensive.

Gangstabird

I think I would go with buying and painting white. I saw a beautiful wardrobe chest and ottoman in our local charity shop recently which was hideous orange pine. With a sand down and a lick of paint, they would have been lush. They wanted £20.

olias

What about the canvas wardobes and drawers etc. They sell them in argos, DIY sheds etc. I lasted for years with them when I first started out when I couldn't afford anything else. You should be able to buy everything new for your budget

Olias

red_bertie

Lot of on-line stores [Tesco, Argos, Littlewoods, etc.], do promotional packages, bed/wardrobe/chest or whatever they are trying to shift for an all-in price. You will hear quicker if you are on their e-mailing lists.

Poppy9

Look in the local paper small ads. You do have to be able to move them and make sure if you buy ready assembled that you can get them upstairs into your bedroom.

Also ask family/friends if they have anything they don't need. You'd be surprised. I gave away 2 sofa with plenty of life left in them in good condition, old style TV etc. just because I'd fancied a change.

Errata

Do you have a local hospice furniture store? Mine always has plenty of bargains.
If you want cheap and new, then Argos is probably your best bet.
Are there any second hand furniture shops in Bournemouth - they can be worth a look.

Kavanne

there's an ikea in southampton now. Also ikea online which does free delivery on orders over a certain amount (can't remember how much though but I ordered £500 worth of stuff last summer for my new flat and that was free delivery)

julie777

Thanks to everyone for their great tips. We found the second hand shops were expensive for anything which still looked decent and the rubbish was extremely overpriced. Have now got a £920 nearly new corner unit which is 2 double wardrobes plus a matching tallboy from Ebay. Quite a bargain. Got a 3-piece matching new set from https://www.cdiscount.co.uk for £107 inc delivery. A friend is giving us a good white wardrobe. That's enough to manage with so I'm quite pleased. If we can find an antique-finish pine wardrobe and bedside drawers for around £50 that will finish off my youngest son's room nicely and wil match his chest of drawers.

You've all been brilliant and I hope this thread will help others.