You can't buy a decent sofa for £500?

my 3 piece leatherette suite is holding up well from a high street store.

Purchased it over 6 years ago now too. 1 x 3 seater with 2 recliners, 1 x 2 seater with 2 recliners and 1 x 1 seater with one recliner.

Its a bit flat, but it still perfectly usuable and only cost £700 quid iirc.

I would like to buy a new one (non leather) but living in rented accommodation would mean buying for this house and now my own
 
al4x said:
i quite like our sofa, it wasnt cheap (still half price in one of them sales) but i really liked the colour and design, i doubt i would have got anything like it second hand

plus the potential for jizz
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Slightly reminds me of when I was living in a shared house and one of the neighbours had rather nice brown leather sofa outside that was gonna be chucked.
Me and a friend hauled it into the house and had to stand it on it's end to get it up the stairs when it started humming :eek:

Yep, you've guessed it... I ended up fishing out a vibrator that had gotten lost down the back :D
I was going to leave it on the neighbor's doorstep, but I just couldn't do it.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Slightly reminds me of when I was living in a shared house and one of the neighbours had rather nice brown leather sofa outside that was gonna be chucked.
Me and a friend hauled it into the house and had to stand it on it's end to get it up the stairs when it started humming :eek:

Yep, you've guessed it... I ended up fishing out a vibrator that had gotten lost down the back :D
I was going to leave it on the neighbor's doorstep, but I just couldn't do it.
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The sofa was definitely 'pre-loved' then.
 
I used to build Sofas/Chairs. We also repaired ones that had been bought elsewhere and the "quality" on some of them was absolutely shocking and Im not talking cheap tat either
 
kPATm said:
I used to build Sofas/Chairs. We also repaired ones that had been bought elsewhere and the "quality" on some of them was absolutely shocking and Im not talking cheap tat either
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So where's a good place to get a decently built one, would you say? I'm not looking for something that would grace a mansion, just a well built, comfy sofa.

Also important that it should be easy to get in and out of.
 
FoxEye said:
And this is everything that's wrong with our manufacturing sector.

We ought to be making quality goods in British factories, and I'd be happy to pay the price for the result.
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Why didn't you do this instead of spending a very small amount on an untested, unviewed and unreviewed piece of tat?
 
Me and the mrs bought a Parker & Farr sofa.

It's built like a tank, and weighs a tonne (not literally, but it took 4 of us to lift it into our living room).

I'd say £500 is pretty cheap for a sofa? Maybe I'm wrong but ours was much much more.

My parents got one from DFS for around £400 and it was dire, like the OP said, just bad bad bad quality.
 
[FnG]magnolia;24914750 said:
Why didn't you do this instead of spending a very small amount on an untested, unviewed and unreviewed piece of tat?
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1. It's not a very small amount. It's £500. That's two week's pay for me.
2. I didn't choose it.
3. It's for my Mum, whom I owe roughly £500 (and a bit more).
4. I (wrongly) assumed that anything £500 would be well made.

If I bought a £500 gfx card, I know it'd be good. I'm not a sofa expert. I have no idea what the material cost of a sofa is. None at all. I've never bought furniture of any kind before.
 
I spent ages looking for something cheap and decent for my new house last year. Have up and spent 2 grand on a lovely 4 +2 which I hope will last 10 years.
 
I managed to get a sofa in the Habitat sale for £300 (marked down from £700). It's lasted me pretty well sofa.
 
I bought a leather 3 seater sofa and armchair from a BHF charity shop that specializes in furniture last year for £200. It was piratically brand new. It had probably spent it's life unused in someones second living room or sun lounge. Or some old dear had just bought it before pegging it.

Either way I would not pay the prices the likes of DFS, CSL, etc want for a new suite.
 
Our current one is a cream suede 3 seater plus 1 chair, it cost £2500 ten years ago but is good today as the day we bought it.
Tbh with furniture you get what you pay for and if possible you should try and avoid superstore type places when buying it as they are just mass produced rubbish. Smaller high street retailers tend to sell far better quality.
 
We brought some IKEA sofas when we moved into our new house. Amazing value for money. I think we paid £350 each for our two seaters.

My old lady used to work for IKEA, and apparently they use the same people that make the sofas for M&S.
 
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