Ceri

Depends what they are, things like carved camphor wood blanket boxes like meg has said you can get here cheap, but they are not as good quality as some of the ones in Asia. I bought a blanket box in an importers warehouse in Singapore - very heavily carved, I think it cost me $50 at the time, I have also bought one in Aus $100 - but the difference between the quality is huge. The Aus one is very rough, the one from Singapore the wood is thicker and more delicately carved - you can spot the difference a mile off. The one I bought in Aus looks cheap compared to the one I bought in Sing.

It's a hard question, there used be some beautiful furniture in Sing from heavily carved cabinets, screens etc, beautiful dining tables - and I haven't seen the like here. Wish I'd stocked up on a few items. I don't want to advise you on this, because there are carved pieces - then there are carved pieces! if you know what I mean. If you love your furniture - bring them with you, to replace things will cost you a fortune anyway.

Maybe if you do a search for Asian furniture shops/web sites in Aus - you can compare your furniture with what is here and the prices.

Here's a few search engines - this one below is a list of worldwide engines, there's an Australian list there too.
http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/search.html

http://search66.com/

cheers

mr mover

Just aword of caution ,to any one moving to the dryer parts of oz,i,e ADELAIDE , PERTH , etc the furniture coming in from s,e asia tends to have a very high moisture content, due to it being from rain forests, the first 40deg plus summer,this timber will dry out and crack, we see it all the time, antique furniture from europe also can suffer if loaded near the top of the container, were summer temps can reach 60deg c, because h.hg [house hold goods] containers are light the are generally top loaded,thus up tp 12 weeks of intense heat, while cross the ocean...hope this has been helpful....MM

NinaU

thanks MM. will take note of this.

Nina