snorkmaiden

I want a new sofa for the kids games/tv room. I'm feeling impatient and I want to not have to wait for weeks. Does anyone know of anywhere you can just buy furniture and take it home - something like an IKEA which we don't yet have here yet.

I've seen one in Rooms to Go but it's going to take two weeks and I would like one now

Also if anyone has any furniture store recommendations I would very much appreciate them.

Cheers.

JeanDupont

I was in Sam's Club (not in DFW) the other day and they had sofas to carry out as well as other furniture, beds wardrobes dining tables and chairs etc.

Taffyles

Sams let you take away furniture but they don't have a lot of choice- how about one of those model home furniture stores? The furniture in there comes from model homes, so its not brand new but hardly used and good prices. They deliver but let you carry out what you can.

snorkmaiden

Our local Sams has only got one sofa in at the moment, it's actually a sofa, loveseat, chair and ottoman set for $1150 (which looks like a great deal) and it looks ok but a bit grown up for the kids.

I'm thinking removable covers, big and squashy and bomb-proof.

I hadn't thought about the model home type shops, I wonder if we have any of those around these parts.

NC Penguin

Waiting for a couple of weeks for a piece of furniture to be delivered is nothing. A friend, who lived in San Francisco for five years until Sept 02 ordered furniture about 2 months before she returned to her home country. At the time of ordering, she was told that it'd take four months for the furniture to be delivered. It was that Ethan Allen brand. I think the furniture must have been made to order (probably in Highpoint, NC, a city that claims to be the furniture capital of the US).

There was no way she was going to wait that long so picked out furniture that would only take a month to be delivered.

I remember when we ordered a sofa and matching armchair, we had to wait a couple of week for delivery and that was simply to furnish our bare flat that we'd moved into from the UK (we moved with no furniture other than a utility desk).

snorkmaiden

Oh I know it's nothing, one of the furniture shops here quoted 12 weeks but that was when you picked your own fabric etc and that is totally fine and understandable. When we first moved over we were six weeks on the bean bags in the living room while we shopped to stock up the house.

I have just re-decorated the play room and I'm just itching to get it finished off so I can see what it looks like Looks I'm going to have to go with the Rooms to Go one....

Rockgurl

I don't think I can survive much longer without an IKEA! Thank god they are opening one in New Haven, Connecticut. It should be opening by the time I move there. Nothing can compare to it, for value for money, design, choice and style.

DaveC

Next summer they're opening an Ikea in the North Metroplex. They've chosen the location carefully so as not to affect business of, wait for it, a potential 2 further Metroplex stores! No more trips to Houston.

For your imminent needs I remember seeing a commercial recently for a family run furniture store north of Dallas, I'll try and remember the name. The commercial sticks in my mind as they were opening another store and had a competition to win a Harley.

snorkmaiden

I saw the site this morning in my eagerness to find one, it's Frisco isn't it.

Thank the lord, I just love their cereal bowls. They are my favourite cereal bowls ever, I brought mine over from the UK I love them so much but we've broken and chipped a few lately.

Nothing like getting lost in the maze that is IKEA

Pulaski

Most probably not in High Point, or any where else in NC - Ethan Allen has manufacturing plants in numerous states, of which NC is only one.

JeanDupont

Don't know how it might reflect on quality and durability but Ethan-Allen in US is tied up with MFI in UK.

MFI was popularly reputed to stand for "Made for Idiots" but in fact was "Mullard Furniture Industries".

MFI at one time (no longer) was owned by ASDA which in turn now of course is owned by Walmart . Not relevant to the quality of the furniture or anything else much but still possibly an interesting fact for those Trivia games.

Has there ever been a time when MFI did NOT have a 50% (or more) sale going on?

dbj1000

Although they're by no means IKEA (how happy am I now you've told me IKEA's opening in the Metroplex?!?) we've found some nice un-finished furniture at "Nude Furniture".

Oh, and you can carry out the furniture you choose there and then if you have a truck.

There are a few around the North Metroplex, I think. One is on the NW corner of Parker and Custer in North Plano if I remember right.

I can't check the location with Google, because of the word "nude" bringing up 25M hits, but I'm pretty sure that's where it is

geordiegirl2

I'm sure i've just read somewhere IKEA was opening in Tempe AZ

Gross50

Dbj1000, you can search for nude furniture without having to get XXX results.

1. use www.smartpages.com, search for business names. its the equivalent of yell.co.uk

2. on google.com, go to preferences and select the safe search filter.

dbj1000

Great tip, thanks Gross50. Perhaps now I'll be able to search for info on "groynes" (my wife doesn't believe that those timber constructions in the sea on the UK coast are called this) without finding nothing but dyslexic porn!
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