Good furniture places?

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Hi

I am buying a house soon and am just looking around at some places to buy real nice furniture.

John Lewis is nice, but a lot of the nice stuff is very very expensive (I mean £850 for a dining table?!!). Ikea- well some stuff is nice but lots of it looks cheap, and I am not massively keen on the 'look' of all Ikea's stuff.

What places do people reccommend for cool, batchelor-pad-esque, reasonably priced furniture?

Thanks
 
Try Next they have some nice looking stuff.

My sister ordered some wardrobes and drawers from them totalling nearly £1k.

They had a few problems with no delivery, only one chest of drawers came and when everything did arrive the drawers had a different finish to the rest of the stuff they bought. My brother in-law was on the phone to them every time something went wrong and they were told they wouldn't have to pay anything other than the £80 deposit they put down!
 
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Might sound stupid, but for quality furniture try charity shops. They get a lot of house clearances in and some fine furnituer (along with the rubbish...). Auctions can be good as well. If you want seriously nice wood etc, you either need to spend serious wedge or go 2nd hand. We just got a 6 seat mahogony dining suite for £70 of my aunt, that cost over a grand a few years back.

Brand new, next is a good bet for middle of the road stuff.
 
Flibster said:
www.pinesolutions.co.uk

Some of the stuff is really nice...and very heavy..

Simon/~Flibster
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Wow some gorgeous stuff there- I could probably kit half the house out with that! thanks! :) All I need now is somewhere doing some cool looking leather sofas and stuff :)
 
Try and avoid flat packed chipboard type furniture as it might look ok but wont last that long. Id also avoid most pine furniture as IMO it looks rubbish, it goes a horrible yellow color after a while and dents far too easily. Saying that if you can find old pine furniture, that can look nice, if you like the rustic look. My mum found a really old pine cupboard in a second hand shop, it was bare wood and really rough but was solid and pine hardens after years so it was more like hardwood than pine. I sanded it down so that it was fairly smooth then gave it 4 coats of danish oil and it now looks amazing, she has put loads of soft teddies along the top so its a mix of soft and rough. When i get my own place ill look for furniture with a bit of character instead of the generic MFI IKEA stuff that everybody goes for, but then its probably because I'm a cabinet maker.

Mark
 
hey sorry to drag this thread back up again but does anyone have more suggestions?

Thanks
 
Bes said:
Wow some gorgeous stuff there- I could probably kit half the house out with that! thanks! :) All I need now is somewhere doing some cool looking leather sofas and stuff :)
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DFS have a mega sale (do sofa stores ALWAYS have a mega sale on?!) if there is one near you...
 
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