looking for cheap but half decent furniture

[shine166]

Random post here, but im looking for suggestions on places to buy cheap but half decent furniture ? I need to kit out my front room in my new flat. Ive never stepped into Ikea... would that probably be the best place to start ?

[brobt]

Kind of depends where you are located. There are lots of random furniture spots here in los Angeles. The Helms Bakery area has some spots that you can find the occasional sale item, but not too cheap normally.

I actually got some very nice and cheap end tables from urbanoutfitters.com. I associate Urbanoutfitters.com mostly with clothing, but they have a lot of furniture stuff online which goes on sale often.

there is also Urban Home (shopUrbanHome.com), they are remarkably less than other places and have some stuff that looks a little more eclectic than a chain store inventory.

[stukntrafk]

in LA, blueprint usually has a sale once or twice a year, and has some decent sofas competitively priced. modernica has a yearly warehouse sale that has good modern furniture knockoffs. seem to always sell kinda the same things every year (pseudo- noguchi tables, eames rockers, eames case study desks/bookcases...), but highly suggested to check out at least once.

[shine166]

cheers for the info guys, il check them out

[svenman]

depends what your tastes are of course, but this kind of stuff, i love! sale in dulwhich next month.
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