Furnishing/decorating new house
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We're about to move into a significantly larger home than we're in now, and I'm going to need to decorate it and fill it with new furniture. I do not have a large budget for this, so I'm feeling pretty nervous about it. I don't know that I can afford to hire an interior decorator to help me, so I'm going to be on my own looking for dining room, living room, guest bedroom, and office furniture, wall art, and rugs. I know of the following mid-range stores, but please offer suggestions of places to look that are moderately priced. Thank you.
Crate & Barrel Ballard Designs Arhaus Pottery Barn Room & Board West Elm (although a little too modern for my style) What else is there? |
Anonymous
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Belfort
this is our go to place. Huge selection and ability to order from catalogues if they don't have exactly what you want on floor. Still works for us even as our taste has changed. |
Anonymous
| Look on craigslist, seriously. You can always upgrade later if you want. |
Anonymous
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OP, whatever you do, do NOT buy from one place. Design your own rooms with what you like, not any salesperson. Nothing worse than going into a house that looks like all the others 
Furniture isn't cheap, so unless you are a Rockefeller, the rule is one room at a time! Anyone who has been through it themselves won't be rude enough to comment on what you have and what you don't. |
Anonymous
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If you don't have much of a budget, go to Belfort and use their in house designers. They have decent stuff there. It's not the best quality, but their designers are free. Any paint store will help you with colors.
You could also check out Spendalla home designs. Their girls are great. Very reasonable, and they will give you lots of ideas for two billing hours of work. Melissa is awesome. |
Anonymous
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Ethan Allen will help you design too - no fee.
But don't feel you have to fill up the space all at once. Surely you have some things from your current residence. You can make do. I've been in my house two years and the living room is finally getting a sofa - just had chairs in there for a while. Old sofa was in the family room. |
Anonymous
+1 I'm sitting on my barely used crate and barrel slipcover couch that we picked up on CL for $300. The sellers were retiring military and downsizing. This was (and a ton of similarly lightly used furniture) had been in their storage unit. |
Anonymous
| Buy just the essentials and furnish as you go once you have moved in and lived there for a bit. |
Anonymous
| I would also look at CB2, because although it might largely be too modern/contemporary for you, there are some pieces here and there can fit in any decor, and the prices and quality tend to be great imo for a modest budget. I've bought TONS of stuff from them over the years and don't have a very modern style by any means. |
Anonymous
| Also flash sale sites like Joss and Main, One Kings Lane, etc. can be really helpful, especially for smaller accent pieces of furniture. |
Anonymous
+1 You can't take the plunge right away and not regret it. Go slow. |
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| Thomasville |
Anonymous
| If Room and Board is within your budget then you are sitting pretty! |
Anonymous
Damn. Someone beat me to it but this is exactly what I was thinking. We aren't on a budget and yet, Room and Board is way too pricey for us. I'm shocked no one said Ikea. Seriously. |
Anonymous
I would furnish my house with almost any used item off craigslist before I bought something from ikea. IKEA is good for students and apartments and apparently their kitchens are ok but I would never go with more than an expedit bookcase from them as far as furniture in a permanent house. |