Has anyone brought bedroom Furnitiure form argos?

Hourglass

I brought a wardrobe and besdie chest of drawers from Argos and they were awful to put together and not the nest quality - the stuck on wood chip effect is coming away at the corner on the top of the chest of drawers and the holes for the shelves in the wardrobe were drilled too much soo all the supports fell through and we had to make some. IKEA in contrast were fantasically easy to put together and look so much better. I managed to put together one of their Beddinge sofa beds by myself!

finallydebtfree!!

Ive had my argos bedroom furniture for nearly a year now and have had no problems so far! My bed also came from there and I have had it for 6 years and moved house twice!

cobbingstones

I'm going to have to agree with many others on here and say thatI too found Argos bedroom rubbish and Ikea fantastic.

MM

judderman62

I burst out laughing when I read this post - in my,I accept, very limited experience of both stores Argos's quality is way, way, way beyond the !!!!!! that IKEA sells.

Indeed the CD storage unit I bought from Argos quire recently left me VERY surprised at the quality of it :beer:

Additionally the coffee table in my lounge(Argos) is way sturdier than the sorry excuse for a piece of furniture that the IKEA version before it actually was.

I think with IKEA the quality varies massively from quite decent if you pay rather a lot of money to pathetic joke at the lower end of the scale - still I guess the same would be true of Argos - but as I say my last two purchases from Argos have pleasantly surprised me.

Alleycat wrote:

IKEA!!!

We have found much better priced furniture at Ikea than in Argos/Littlewoods (RIP) and it lasts really well.

They unfortunately don't have in stock the furniture we bought for our dd's nursery, but surfice to say we got real wooden chest of drawers and wardrobe for £120ish.

Timmne

judderman62 wrote:

I burst out laughing when I read this post - in my,I accept, very limited experience of both stores Argos's quality is way, way, way beyond the !!!!!! that IKEA sells.

Indeed the CD storage unit I bought from Argos quire recently left me VERY surprised at the quality of it :beer:

Additionally the coffee table in my lounge(Argos) is way sturdier than the sorry excuse for a piece of furniture that the IKEA version before it actually was.

I think with IKEA the quality varies massively from quite decent if you pay rather a lot of money to pathetic joke at the lower end of the scale - still I guess the same would be true of Argos - but as I say my last two purchases from Argos have pleasantly surprised me.

Are you Argos staff?! No one has had the same view so far....

My Apt. is coated in IKEA furniture - it's our first place and it cost us no less than a couple of grand to furnish. Most of our visitors comment on how nice the place looks too...

On the sturdiness (possibly not a word!) front, IKEA furniture is great compared to Ar-gash, having had experience of both (although Ar-gash only for a few weeks!)

judderman62

1) No I'm not

2) It's about opinions

thanks for reading

Timmne wrote:

Are you Argos staff?! No one has had the same view so far....

My Apt. is coated in IKEA furniture - it's our first place and it cost us no less than a couple of grand to furnish. Most of our visitors comment on how nice the place looks too...

On the sturdiness (possibly not a word!) front, IKEA furniture is great compared to Ar-gash, having had experience of both (although Ar-gash only for a few weeks!)

MORPH3US

Just had a sideboard from Argos and it was terrible. Admittedly it was only £90 so didn't expect much, but it was awful.

2 Draw fronts out of 4 were scratched / damaged.

2 draw bottoms missing

Rubbish instructions

Handles and legs in pic looked metal but were silver plastic and looked TACKY!!

The round silver things that turn to lock onto screws fell apart as I tightened them...

Needless to say it has gone back.

Ikea isn't great, but we have some Ikea bedroom stuff and its very nice and solid pine!!!

M

Glitterari

We kitted my boyfriend's room in argos furniture about 2 and a half years ago - on the whole it's still going strong though some of the drawers bottoms have come out which is always useful(!) - the drawers imo are way too small. And you can tell they're not going to stand up to being moved to another house, whether or not they get dismantled. Their solid pine stuff is quite good though (we've got a tv stand which has got tv, vcr, dvd player, xbox 360, ps2 and who knows what else on it and a book shelf).

I would recommend taking a look at ikea or you could go down the tip! No joke - i picked up a chest of drawers for about £5 and sanded them down and revarnished them - they look great and they're not flatpacked ones - good solid drawers. Bargain

amyandoli

everything ive ever bought furniture wise from argos has let me down. ikea i think are great, go instore and give thinks a good shove! you can test them out and as most of the items have been set up and messed with by hundreds of people, you can see for yourself how it wears and tears. x

Jo_D_4

I had a bad experience with Argos when I tried to fit out a bedroom for a lodger. I ended up taking three days off work waiting for things to be delivered (if they felt like it) and things to be collected because they were faulty. In the end I had a refund on the whole lot. The customer service was appalling; they couldn't even apologise just thank me for pointing out my problems and they constantly spelt my name wrong in letters and e-mails just to add fuel to the fire.

I guess it's just a personal experience though. Others may have had good service from them.

I think it does pay to be able to see the furniture made up rather than a catalogue picture. As previously suggested you can go and pull the IKEA stuff around before deciding if it's for you.