Furniture Shopping for Our New Place

Shopping Resources — By Shopping Blogs on September 9, 2009 6:35 am

When my roommate and I decided to move in together, the only places we could find that we liked were unfurnished. We fell in love with a particular place, but we did not have the furniture to furnish it. We agreed that we did not want to settle on a place that was furnished just because it had furniture. Instead, we would go furniture shopping and furnish it ourselves.

The first place we decided to start furniture shopping was online. There are a lot of websites now that people can use to sell things they do not want and we figured this was probably the cheapest way to start furniture shopping. We did raise our flags about scams and rip offs, but all the online buying and selling experiences I had had in the past were always positive with both parties happy with the outcome of the sale. We religiously combed through the listings on these websites for unwanted couches, tables, chairs, and beds. We knew that we would not be able to do all our furniture shopping online, and we also had a limited budget, so we knew we had to think each decision through before we made a commitment.

Eventually, our online furniture shopping was successful and we purchased a kitchen table and chairs and two bed sets off of a website for a very decent price. Now, we still had to piece together our living room and the rest of our bedrooms, so we decided to take our furniture shopping to the stores.

The first thing we decided to look for was our living room couch. We both wanted our living room to look nice, considering it was where we would be spending most of our time and it would be the first things people would see when they walked into our house. We wanted to make a good impression. Furniture shopping for our couch, however, ended up being challenging. It was frustrating when we realized that most of the decent looking couches were a little bit out of our price range. We also could not agree on what we liked. We went from store to store, furniture shopping for these couches until we came to a furniture outlet store. Finally we were in a store that we could afford to be in! Many of the couches they offered were in our price range and we felt, sat on, looked at, and contemplated each of the different couches we came to.

Finally, our furniture shopping for the day was successful. We came upon a couch and loveseat set that were grey, fluffy, attractive, and in our price range. We went home that night feeling like we had accomplished something.

The rest of our furniture shopping happened slowly over the next couple of weeks. We went back to the outlet furniture store and found some pieces for our bedroom. We then combed the online sites again until we found some cute end tables that matched our new couches. Finally, though, we reaped the benefits of all our furniture shopping; we had a cute new place with furniture we actually liked. Our house had character and it was just what we wanted. Furniture shopping for an entire place took a while, but ended up being worth it in the end. We are very happy that we did not settle on a place we did not like, just because it already had the furniture.

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