Siouxie

I don't call saving potentially $3,000+ by not shipping everything an expensive waste of time, nor would most.

beckiwoo

Tried to give you karma points for this but apparently I’ve given you too much and I’ve got to spend the love

Will_PA

Ship as much as you can. Particularly if you have older, quality stuff. Most furniture here is from China or Vietnam, or ikea. It’s fine, but I miss older, inherited things.

Leave electrics behind obviously

bats

How much does it cost to ship now? Certainly when we moved it waa cheaper to ship than to buy new here. I made a start upthread of adding up some costs but I've found this tgat says $16K fioor a 2000 square foot house. .https://homearise.com/cost-furnish-house/ One problem we had was knowing where to shop, which stores sold what and I'd rather buy the right thing than something that "would do for now".

scilly

May not be seeing much furniture from China, at least for the next little while.

Canada has slapped some VERY high tariffs on many of the companies that ship over here ................. almost 300% in at least 3 cases. That's because they've been found to have way undercutting, so much as to look like "dumping". There's been as much as almost $2,000 difference between what the Chinese company was charging and what a Canadian (or Italian, or any other country) could do.

If you buy a Natuzzi leather sofa for example, it will now come from Italy NOT from China.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7870710/s...-tariffs-cbsa/

BristolUK

On previous discussions like this I've always considered that prices in Canada compare favourably to the UK price at the quality of the stuff I'd have bought there.
Fridge, dishwasher and cooker came with the house in 2005 and we had one bed. I found this from a previous post
Looking at that pricing list I see bedside table/nightstand.
Luxury is $1000, Moderate cost is $300 and budget is listed as $150.
Is something wrong with $18 from Ikea?


Or $40 if you want something with drawers?



$30 budget pillow? Those inflated bamboo things are cheaper.

Siouxie

I furnished my 3 bedroom house for less than $3,000 - including the washer and dryer ($800 for the pair). Some furniture I bought 2nd hand.. which I don't see as a problem, often you can buy good 2nd hand quality items, sometimes people are giving them away! A head and footboard and 8ft long chest of drawers (with mirror) cost $70 (delivered) and are solid wood, made in Canada. A desk (with undermount keyboard and mouse tray) and a 6ft bookshelf was purchased at a 'scratch and dent' Staples event for less than $100. It doesn't have to cost a fortune. Nothing wrong with Ikea furniture either

scilly

I agree ............. we have several pieces of Ikea furniture, all bought from their "scratch and dent" area, which also included last year's models without a mark on them.

Over the last 5 years I have also bought about 3 sets of sheets and pillow cases from there, 100% cotton, as well as having bought Ikea duvet covers 20 or more years ago. I don't buy sheet sets, I like to get the sheets individually, and Ikea's $19.99 or $29.99 per sheets last at least as long as some much more expensive ones bought previously.

Everything is mixed ........ teak furniture and birch pieces.

We even have some hand made pieces that OH built, painted white ............... needed urgently but no money to buy at that time, and they're still in use.

beckiwoo

I purchased 2 dressers second hand - $30 - they were laminate but heavy laminate - one was stamped with 1982 on the back.

Anyway after clean, priming, repainting and putting some beautiful hand painted drawer knobs from HomeSense, they look amazing and I feel proud to have ‘upcycled’

I have brought quite a bit from Ikea for the new home. I especially love their Ribba photo frames and I’ve had some bargains in their ‘as is’ section. Generally the furniture I buy from there lasts awhile as I look after it but I understand that not everyone feels that way about ikea. Some of it does feel cheap and nasty but it’s functional!

My MIL really don’t like ikea furniture but then her taste in furniture is old fashioned and not for me. I don’t think she is impressed with some of renovations of furniture she has given us lol

bats

Next we will be hearing about how little it costs to furnish a shoe box on the M1.

BristolUK

Cardboard box?

dbd33

If you already have a cardboard box and are used to living in it, why go through the hassle of sourcing a new one? Simply bring the old one with you.

Note that all these urban sophisticates with their IKEA stores don't consider that IKEA is a shop for immigrants, most of Canada doesn't have enough immigrants for IKEA so the viability of that idea depends on where the OP is going.

Former Lancastrian

For those interested there are only 14 IKEA stores in Canada.

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/stores/

Lichisadave

I wish we didn’t bring our kitchen stuff plates pans cutlery etc it wasn’t valuable but we sill brought it, but of course we had to buy it when we got here anyway as we had to wait 6 weeks for the container to arrive TVs we probably should have left as both have now gone Kerput after only a year and we had to buy new ones.

bats

​​​​​​Say you decide to get a new cardboard box from Ikea and you live in Peterborough you'll have to buy a car, or better still an SUV or a truck to bring the boxes home in. You'll need to drive for 90minutes including part of the 401 and a tricky exit at Leslie. If you bring your family with you then your new boxes won't fit in your vehicle, if you leave the fam at home then you'll have to make big decisions without them and have the almost inevitable Ikea breakdown sooner than at the tills.
So you have to shop in Peterborough. Your choices are Leon's or The Brick, or the pricier but better quality and, imho, taste individual stores. Second hand boxes? That's for the young who don't mind duct tape.