Mummy in the foothills

Theres some lovely couches on those sites.

Mummy in the foothills

Congrats on setting the goal. I was hoping for 2012 by Christmas, but likely will be Spring/summer of 2013 too by the time we sell up, can't start that till the big kid graduates and moves.
I really want to take my Dh home by the QM2 He has been in the boat business his whole life and would absolutely love the experience. I would be hopped up on Dramamine, the whole trip, but would do it just for him.
I even planned the trip in my head with some internet searching.
Plane from Sacramento to NYC
QM2 to Southampton
Train from the docks to South Wales, (Newport I think)
Change trains and head north to North Wales and home He loves trains too LOL.
I better start saving my money to do all this.

between two worlds

sally this is fantastic!!!!! the dream begins to become reality. Setting a date is so important.....


Tina

dontheturner

Do have a look, at the offerings locally for us. www.thesuiteexchange.co.uk - which originally did swop stuff, for people - but now only sells new. First class items. - and such a wide range. love Mom, from Don xx

judes

yeah, exactly like a swiss knife but sturdier I believe. I always think of a swiss knife as kinda dainty, a leatherman is far from dainty ! doesnt matter much, the customs police have it !!

judes

Oh dear, I think I bin robbed !! Lovely sofas and cheaper then mine ! But I like mine so no point in worrying

judes

Brilliant! But listen to Jasper, when I was fluffing around my son said " Mum, just buy the tickets and let the rest fall in place " so we did and it worked

aries_bird

You haven't been robbed trust me! I bought 2 sofa's (as did various friends) years ago from one of these companies (I won't say which for fear of being sued!) and without exception within a few months all of them were baggy, saggy and limp, the cushions were about 2 inches thick. One afternoon after the other half watched a particularly exciting football game on the TV and threw himself back down the whole thing collapsed.

OK for rooms that get occasional use but not for every day furniture. Meanwhile the M&S sofas are going strong 7 years later.

aries_bird

I would recommend mattressman http://www.mattressman.co.uk for mattresses, they do keep super king in stock. I ordered ours Friday and came the following week. Getting it up the stairs was another matter We ordered the bedstead from one supplier and the mattress from the above. Both arrived within 10 days.

DDL

If you want to categorize smoked gray glass and gold plastic [fake] brass as 'trendy design' ... be my guest! LOL I thought that stuff went out in the 60s. LOL

DDL

Don't think they are here in the London area, but that's a good resource for people up in your area.

We found a good deal on a super-king headboard from an independent shop on the high street. £100 - upholstered, cream coloured fabric. The super-king headboards in the furniture shops [besides being hideously ugly] were also super-expensive.

Beedubya

When I lived here in my previous life I bought my bed off an eBay clearance shop site - it is the most comfortable bed I ever slept on in my whole life, it was only about £150.00 for a double, this time I will get the next size up, can't remember if it's called a queen size here or was that in Australia? Anyway I have it bookmarked.

This is the only furniture shop in my town, lovely stuff but some of it expensive, might be cheap to all those footballer's and Corrie stars though.

http://www.multiyork.co.uk/

Englishmum

Oddly enough I was going to post a link to Multiyork, but I thought it best not to as there were posts about sofas being so expensive!

When I was in England last month I picked up a Marks & Spencer furniture catalogue but it was so heavy that I left it at my mum's, but I did like a lot of their items.

The larger 'Next' shops have furniture on display too (they also have a catalogue) but I thought that some of the prices were on the steep side....I would imagine that for a good indicator of quality it would be better to go for furniture from places like M&S, Multiyork, John Lewis etc. but as we all know budgets are usually tight after making an international move.

The apartment in Switzerland is mostly fitted out with furniture from IKEA (apart from our beds, patio set, barbie and dining table and chairs which we shipped from Singapore). The HR department from my spouse's company asked us to choose which items we wanted to fit out the apartment....all from the IKEA catalogue lol!

Now over here in New Jersey our sofa definitely needs replacing - however I can't find anywhere which combines a fair price with decent quality. Many of the furniture retailers (including Domain) have gone out of business and I don't really want to pay for a sofa from Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel or Restoration Hardware (they're all at our local mall) and other than IKEA, Pier 1 or Bob's Furniture I'm scratching my head trying to think of where to look lol!

sallysimmons

Oh no, I didn't know Domain had gone out of business. (I stopped looking at furniture when we got cats ).

The stuff we bought from them 13 years ago is still going as strong as ever. I had to get new slipcovers because the cats made a mess of the original ones, but the actual sofas and chairs underneath are as good as new. They were a fantastic company.

jasper123

Thanks Englishmum,
Yes the good old swiss army knife, Ive seen many of them over the years and was thinking of buying one for myself many times but never did, they normally I think come only in red, havent seen any other colors, its a very hansom knife made of fine good quality steel, ---- I sound like a TV add dont I