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Where to buy ex-bulk furniture from 'designer' hotels/student accommodation?
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tehriddler
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The furniture featured in posh, luxury student accommodation must be bought in bulk somewhere right? They're IKEA-like but not exactly IKEA. IKEA furniture are too instantly recognisable. Where might one buy second-hand furniture of this style?
Examples: telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11643965/Luxury-student-accommodation-Try-not-to-be-sick-in-the-sink.html?frame=3325671
(The catalogue ones look too standard issue, where are the 'designer' ones?)
davidphillips-contract.com/pages/Student.php
Where do they sell their used/ex-catalogue furniture?
jtcfurnituregroup.com/products/JTC-student-accomodation
student-furniture.co.uk
sublimefurnishings.co.uk
Not this kind (they look too 1970's):
cityfurnitureclearance.co.uk/category.php?category=987&name=Bedroom%20Sets%20Complete
Examples: telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11643965/Luxury-student-accommodation-Try-not-to-be-sick-in-the-sink.html?frame=3325671
(The catalogue ones look too standard issue, where are the 'designer' ones?)
davidphillips-contract.com/pages/Student.php
Where do they sell their used/ex-catalogue furniture?
jtcfurnituregroup.com/products/JTC-student-accomodation
student-furniture.co.uk
sublimefurnishings.co.uk
Not this kind (they look too 1970's):
cityfurnitureclearance.co.uk/category.php?category=987&name=Bedroom%20Sets%20Complete
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A lot of these places either have skilled graphic designers who can create furniture quite easily (ever see the sped up video of a slice of pizza turned into a 'super-model').
Or of course, there are room dressers who will come in, supply the furniture and make it look luxury, then when you turn up, it's a £10 desk from IKEA and a £5 lamp from Argos that doesn't work.
When i was younger and looked at renting a room from a large-ish company that owned lots of houses in/around Docklands/Surrey Quays etc, they did exactly the same. The pics made the rooms look very appealing, but on physical viewing they were filthy and poorly maintained.0 -
tehriddler wrote: »Examples: telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11643965/Luxury-student-accommodation-Try-not-to-be-sick-in-the-sink.html?frame=3325671
Not furniture but the fox cushions in picture 14 and 15 are from John Lewis, perhaps some other pieces are from there too?
johnlewis.com/scion-mr-fox-cushion/p324789?colour=Beige%20/%20Orange
They're made by Scion, I love foxes but £40? :eek:"Meow meow meow? Meow meow-meow meow!" - Minkybob0
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