Buying Furniture

MrsBSaver

Hi,

Any recommendations on the best affordable place to buy good quality sofas and a dining set?

SailorSam

Wherever you go and buy your furniture soon, i saw an advert on Tv saying the DFS sale ends in 7 days.

MrsBSaver

Anyone know of any good high street suppliers apart from the usual SFS and furniture village ?? Or should I just stick to one of these stores?

leveller2911

We Like Furniture Village and they don't try and pressure you at all. They also sell some decent ,well constructed dining sets by companies such as Ercol......

EssexExile

I like the local furniture shop, or at least I did until it closed down. Now I go to Leekes. As you've not given any hint of where you are I've no idea whether that will help much.

rach_k

We have one sofa from DFS and another in a similar style from Tesco Direct. The DFS one cost something like 5 times as much as the Tesco one but I can't see or feel any difference in quality and we've had them a couple of years so I'd hope any real problems would have shown themselves by now. The problem with Tesco is that it's online so you can't try things out - it's more of a gamble.

For dining sets, I like Ikea!

bellaboo86

Have you looked on eb*y for dining furniture. I have mango wood furniture and wanted a table and chairs to match. I had a look on eb*y, expecting to only be able to afford a 2nd hand one, and found a solid wood table and 4 chairs for 320 quid including deliver. Really good quality stuff. It took 2 men to lift it in.

Biggles

Junk or antique shops. Made far sturdier than the carp that most shops sell for new these days and at an absolute fraction of the price. Usually looks more attractive, too, but depends on your taste and what's available.

rosie383

I agree with the above couple of posters. We got a beautiful solid oak table and six real leather chairs from ebay for £62 a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful and there was no way I could afford anything of that quality from a store.
Got our sofas from Ikea on a 0% finance deal. They come in bits and you have to assemble them yourself. Quality is far superior to high street chain sofas which don't seem to be made very well these days, when you take one apart!

J_B

EssexExile wrote: »

I like the local furniture shop, or at least I did until it closed down. Now I go to Leekes. As you've not given any hint of where you are I've no idea whether that will help much.

You don't say which side of Staffycher you are, but 'Supermarket Surplus' near here often has some good deals.

Ebe_Scrooge

Ikea are pretty good. But even better, if you have a local second-hand furniture place, they can be really good.