My fiancé and I recently bought a house together and had the daunting task of merging our belongings from two apartments into our new home.
Both of us had been married before and neither one of us had anything that was very good, so quite a few pieces of furniture ended up in the trash or being donated to Goodwill or the Salvation Army.
So when we finally moved into our new house, we were in need of two reclining chairs, an area rug and two bookcases. Since we were on a budget, we scoured newspaper ads for sales and went into some of the higher end stores just to get an idea of what they were selling and their overall prices.
We also were able to rule out certain styles of furniture, since they were not suitable for our new home. I had been listening to the radio and kept hearing commercials for a store called “The Dump.”
It touted itself as a furniture shopper’s bargain paradise, with closeouts and one-of-a-kind deals at unbelievable prices. It was located in an area of town I didn’t normally travel to and it was also only open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Read more »
I recently went to Royal Furniture, in Key West, Florida USA, to purchase a Christmas gift for my best friend.
She has a lot of books and magazines which she has scattered around her apartment and I decided that she could use a bookcase or cabinet in order to store them away from view.
The store is in a shopping center next to where I do my grocery shopping so it is convenient. I was greeted by a woman sales clerk as soon as I entered the store.
There were signs saying that they were having a special sale and, indeed, there were sale prices on almost all of the furniture tags that were attached to the pieces.
I explained to her what I was looking for but said I would like to look around myself to see what was available. The store is rather large and it took me quite a while to check all the cabinets and their sale prices.
I did find two that were in my price range of $300 to $500 and were the right size. One was brown rattan but I did not think it was pretty and I thought it would be difficult to remove dust from in between the rattan. It cost $399. Read more »
My living room, as well as my entire one-bedroom apartment, is furnished around the fact that I have two little pug dogs that shed their beige hair a lot!
In order to camophlage this, I have furnished my entire living room in the color beige! Color can be found in the pillows and the wall hangings. In order to read my morning newspaper in comfort, with one pug dog on either side of me, I purchased a large Bergere chair, with a matching ottoman, in beige leather which I found advertised in a newspaper by the well-known department store, Bloomingdale’s.
I had it shipped about 1500 miles. Alongside it there is a metal floor lamp and a small chest made of rattan that I use as a place to put a phone and the coffee cup.
My living room has two sections, each about ten feet long and ten feet wide. One section has the Bergere chair, lamp and chest, along with two beige “easy” chairs. Although the dogs are not allowed on either of these, they are upholstered in a beige cotton material. Read more »
Our living room is on the small size for a living room but about average for the duplex style on our block. It has a strange layout that limits how you place the furniture.
One wall has sliding glass doors. Another is long enough to put almost anything against it. The third wall is fairly short due to the doorway leading into the hall to the bedrooms. And the forth “wall” won’t even fit a loveseat.
What I would suggest to anyone with these issues is to find a way to maximize the space you have in the room by using the furniture to define where the room starts and ends. We only rent and brought our furniture in with us, which consists of a love seat and a chair with an ottoman. Read more »
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December 20, 2008 11:25 pm | 
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