Where to Buy Quality Furniture

shwetaa

I would also suggest going for such auctions as many we do get some good stuff at really better price (in our budget).

knightstyle

I have noticed that over the past year the price of decent brown furniture is going up. A year ago a nice chest of drawers would go for £10 or less but now they are over £25. This is at our local weekly auction where boxes of house clearances go for around £1 each.

kangoora

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Check out your local auction houses. 'Brown furniture' isn't a great seller and it's possible to pick up some real bargains that way.

I'd second this, near to me we have a very good auction house, probably in (or near) the top 10% in the country. It's certainly the best appointed of any I have been to within a large radius.

Example: Mahogany, turn of the century, good quality dining/living room furniture can be picked up starting at a few hundred quid - obviously the sky is the limit sometimes.

When we move into our 'final' house we don't intend to buy any 'brand new' furniture unless for a specific reason, such as a TV/entertainment unit maybe.

Obviously at an auction it is caveat emptor but guess where those antique shops you intend to browse buy their stock from, then add a profit margin/markup to?