How many years do you expect a bedroom set to last?

[Anonymous]

Our current bedroom set is about 15 years old. It's your garden variety Ashley/LazyBoy type of sleigh bed set, dark brown, darkens up a room. The tops were starting to flake and peel, though some of it IS real wood. I sanded it down and painted it a matte grey

LazyBoy is cheap stuff. Sleigh bed is trendy. I also would not paint wood furniture (at least not sold hardwood that I wanted to keep a long time). Paint peels off and looks cruddy after a while. Your stuff is not the type that lasts hundreds of years. Real hardwood is what you want; it lasts and is meant to be enjoyed for its natural beauty. If we're going to cut down a tree, the tree should be honored by making something worthy. Natural wood grain is beautiful. Furniture should be made to last. IMHO.

Of course I'm talking about wood furniture. Upholstered furniture is different. The frame should be quality, but upholstery will not last forever. Couches and chairs have to be replaced or recovered, new cushions, etc.

[Anonymous]

My Ethan Allen bedroom furniture is 15 years old and still looks like new.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else find that furniture gets more damaged after each move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have Marlo furniture so I don't expect it to last. I hate it. I'm ready to switch and get good furniture.

I didn't realize Marlo furniture is bad, but my bedroom set that is only 3 years old is already having problems. The frame collapsed. I'm so mad because I spent a lot of money on this set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Ethan Allen bedroom furniture is 15 years old and still looks like new.

Ethan Allen does seem to last forever, I have a lot of their furnishings that are 15+ years old and still look new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Our current bedroom set is about 15 years old. It's your garden variety Ashley/LazyBoy type of sleigh bed set, dark brown, darkens up a room. The tops were starting to flake and peel, though some of it IS real wood. I sanded it down and painted it a matte grey

LazyBoy is cheap stuff. Sleigh bed is trendy. I also would not paint wood furniture (at least not sold hardwood that I wanted to keep a long time). Paint peels off and looks cruddy after a while. Your stuff is not the type that lasts hundreds of years. Real hardwood is what you want; it lasts and is meant to be enjoyed for its natural beauty. If we're going to cut down a tree, the tree should be honored by making something worthy. Natural wood grain is beautiful. Furniture should be made to last. IMHO.

Of course I'm talking about wood furniture. Upholstered furniture is different. The frame should be quality, but upholstery will not last forever. Couches and chairs have to be replaced or recovered, new cushions, etc.

1. You're smug and not everyone has the same taste as you. Get over it. I'm not sitting around admiring my dresser drawers and marveling at the woodiness of it.

2. Yes, a sleigh bed that I've had for 15 years is "trendy". You can walk into any furniture store and see it or something similar and you will continue to see that same style for at least the next decade. A design that lasts over 20 years is not a trend, sorry to say, it is part of decorating culture whether you like it or not.

3. The sleigh bed is actually in great shape and looks the exact same as when we bought it. The only way we will ever get rid of it is when we will decide to move up from a Queen to a King, and not a second before. It has been dismantled at least six times and moved across the country three times. It will probably look the same for another fifteen years, so you can take your judgment about its quality and go somewhere.

4. I don't need furniture to last hundreds years, and I wouldn't want a bedroom set in my house that was made fifty years ago.

5. Plenty of older, real wood furniture pieces are rescued from Craigslist or second hand store, stripped and painted. Apparently they're not as obsessed with preserving real wood the way you are. There are thriving internet groups devoted to this very practice. It is featured on HGTV and other design shows all the time. Surely you don't think that people are painting laminate furniture.

[Anonymous]

Nobody buys bedroom sets anymore. Check out a decorating magazine and you will see they are pretty out of style. Get matching end tables if you wish but don't have it match everything.

Most people who get them keep them forever. Even when they are dreadfully out of style.

[Anonymous]

Buy buy baby and PBTeen lasted 10 years only

[Anonymous]

My beautiful sleigh bed was my grandmothers- so 100 years plus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody buys bedroom sets anymore. Check out a decorating magazine and you will see they are pretty out of style. Get matching end tables if you wish but don't have it match everything.

Most people who get them keep them forever. Even when they are dreadfully out of style.

+1. I was an earlier PP who said i have no interest in a 40 year old bedroom set handed down from my parents. But the PP makes an even better point - bedroom sets themselves are dated.

[Anonymous]

Guests now sleep on and in the midst of my grandmother's bedroom furniture that was made around 1910. My mom's bedroom furniture was passed down from her in-laws in the 1950's; it is likely older than mine.
That said, when I finally put Gram's furniture in the guest room and bought something new for myself, I made a really bad choice of bed and after 5 years that thing is on its way out.

[Anonymous]

My bedroom set is some shitty Marlo-type stuff. I painted it after 12 years and it has lasted another 6. Paint modernized the style and I expect it to last until we retire in 20 years or so and move.

Kids have some fancy stuff that I just had to have and paid a fortune. Beds are falling apart after like 10 years. Hoping they both last through teen years and I'll replace when they move out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Our current bedroom set is about 15 years old. It's your garden variety Ashley/LazyBoy type of sleigh bed set, dark brown, darkens up a room. The tops were starting to flake and peel, though some of it IS real wood. I sanded it down and painted it a matte grey

LazyBoy is cheap stuff. Sleigh bed is trendy. I also would not paint wood furniture (at least not sold hardwood that I wanted to keep a long time). Paint peels off and looks cruddy after a while. Your stuff is not the type that lasts hundreds of years. Real hardwood is what you want; it lasts and is meant to be enjoyed for its natural beauty. If we're going to cut down a tree, the tree should be honored by making something worthy. Natural wood grain is beautiful. Furniture should be made to last. IMHO.

Of course I'm talking about wood furniture. Upholstered furniture is different. The frame should be quality, but upholstery will not last forever. Couches and chairs have to be replaced or recovered, new cushions, etc.

1. You're smug and not everyone has the same taste as you. Get over it. I'm not sitting around admiring my dresser drawers and marveling at the woodiness of it.

2. Yes, a sleigh bed that I've had for 15 years is "trendy". You can walk into any furniture store and see it or something similar and you will continue to see that same style for at least the next decade. A design that lasts over 20 years is not a trend, sorry to say, it is part of decorating culture whether you like it or not.

3. The sleigh bed is actually in great shape and looks the exact same as when we bought it. The only way we will ever get rid of it is when we will decide to move up from a Queen to a King, and not a second before. It has been dismantled at least six times and moved across the country three times. It will probably look the same for another fifteen years, so you can take your judgment about its quality and go somewhere.

4. I don't need furniture to last hundreds years, and I wouldn't want a bedroom set in my house that was made fifty years ago.

5. Plenty of older, real wood furniture pieces are rescued from Craigslist or second hand store, stripped and painted. Apparently they're not as obsessed with preserving real wood the way you are. There are thriving internet groups devoted to this very practice. It is featured on HGTV and other design shows all the time. Surely you don't think that people are painting laminate furniture.

Defensive much?