OFFTOPIC: where to buy furniture?

Sorry for being totally offtopic, but it's the first time I want to buy
normal furniture - chest of drawers and bookshelf, and I only know
about ikea and Argos. Ikea hasn't got anything that would interest me,
and Argos asks me to wait 35 days.

Are there any other not-so-expensive online shops I can choose
something? Thanks a lot!

Morris

 

<fx: resists bait>

 

Ikea 10 out of 10 for quality/price.
Argos fucking shite.

Ikea 1 out of 10 for style.
Argos fucking shite.

 

Buy secondhand, furniture depreciates really really fast.

 

Indeed...And check out EBAY auctions - managed to pick up mahogany
cupboard + table + wardrobe for £5...still not sure how

 

There are those cancer charity shops (or something) that specialise in
used furniture. There's one down the road, and I unremember the name.
Brilliant. As someone else said, furniture depreciates worse than an old
R1.

 

What a load of bollox. Ikea stuff has dropped drastically in quality
over the last few years.

I quite like their stuff.

 

Our first couple of places were decked out in Ikea stuff
because its cheap, look ok and convenient to buy [1].

When we did the "proper" furniture thing, we had a look
round quite a few of those "pine warehouse" places
that you can find at most retail parks. They still sell
it as flat-pack, but at least it is real wood and not
flimsy chipboard like the shite Argos sell. You may
pay more than Ikea, but again it will be of better
quality.

These are the people we used, but they are only in
Essex. You may be able to find something similar:
http://www.dansk.co.uk/

I tried, but its very hard to visualise the furniture
from photos. Ok so you'll know if it fits but you don't
get to play with the drawers or doors and see how
good the hinges and runners are, that kind of thing.

[1] obviously depending on your location and whether you
like spending your saturday morning queuing...

 

http://www.furniture123.co.uk/
http://www.sofasandfurniture.co.uk/
http://www.greatuniversal.com/

If you go to Habitat I've got a 25% discount voucher you can use.
http://www.habitat.net

 

Indeed...And check out EBAY auctions - managed to pick up mahogany
cupboard + table + wardrobe for £5...still not sure how

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And freecycle, and some charity shops.

Ali

 

Local auction rooms. I got a first class three piece suite in exactly the
style and colour I wanted for £300. And it was 'run in' for me.

 

Tunku says...

By Whinging Courier.

 

Well...it seems that they supplied the wrong ones...my battered £5
ones must have gone down a treat with the person who paid for the
antique mahogany

 

****, never thought of that. Where's my Flit gun?

 

Well...it seems that they supplied the wrong ones...my battered £5
ones must have gone down a treat with the person who paid for the
antique mahogany


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Oops. Did they ask for them back?

Ali

 

Yes...but I'm a law student, and told them where to stick their
demands, based on the relevant laws

 

Twice a ****, then.

 

I'd agree. Not a nice thing to do at all.

Ali

 

Uhm...true, but then, we were slightly unsure about whether they were
the right ones or not, asked three times, were assured that they were,
only to get a phone call later saying that he would be on his way to
fetch them tonight (after they had been fitted). Having fended him off
then, he became abusive and even threatening before giving up.

 

Uhm...true, but then, we were slightly unsure about whether they were
the right ones or not, asked three times, were assured that they were,
only to get a phone call later saying that he would be on his way to
fetch them tonight (after they had been fitted). Having fended him off
then, he became abusive and even threatening before giving up.

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Ah, OK, that makes more sense of it.

Ali