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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know about wayfair but I’ll just say we have bought furniture from west elm, pottery barn, crate and barrel and it’s all absolute garbage despite being a lot more expensive than wayfair. I think majority of furniture these days is just crap and meant to basically be replaced every few years despite the high price tags. [/quote]

I have been looking for new bedroom furniture for months. DH wants to get things that we've seen in person because of a lot of the issues mentioned in this thread. But even relatively expensive things in the section for real wood furniture at, say, Belfort, feel like a major step down in quality from the used Basset bedroom set that we got from a thrift store more than 15 years ago. Things we've consistently noticed across brands, even "Amish made": The drawer slides are lower quality and the drawer motion is wobbly, the exterior finish feels cheaper, the wood of the drawers feels thinner but the drawers are also smaller and not as deep, on a piece of furniture that takes up as much space or more than our current pieces. If we went with a new set, the reality is that we would have noticeably less storage space as well as lower quality furniture.

I would really like to update the style of our set, and I've looked at everything from Arhaus to Ethan Allen to Stickley to Hooker, Tommy Bahama, Williams Sonoma Home, etc. Obviously not all in person. But the sets I've seen that would likely meet our standards for quality and the color of finish we want, all look very similar to the traditional set we have.

At some point, we basically gave up and decided that we'd rather update our old set than buy a new set that we wouldn't like as well. So we're working with a local guy to refinish the set we have and change the hardware, and that will have to be enough of an update. By the time we pay for transportation of the pieces, the new hardware + the labor involved, it will probably cost as much as a "high quality" new set -- but not as much as something like a new Stickley or Basset set.

Re: the "Wayfair mindset," I remember trying to buy quality, non-Ikea furniture when DH and I first got married and had a much smaller budget. We needed a full bedroom set, we went to Stickley not knowing anything about the brand and the saleslady tried to convince us that we should "invest" in what we could afford there because it would last. That would've meant buying one small dresser ... when we needed two + night stands + a bedframe. It was such a turnoff, like, it would have been less out of touch for her to just tell us honestly that we should look elsewhere and aspire to Stickley someday. We ended up at a thrift store and found the Basset set that we've used ever since. Expensive furniture is not in the cards for most people, and even if you WANT to buy better quality you don't always get it just by paying more.[/quote]

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