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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a lot of hand-me-down furniture. Some is over 100 years old and doing fine. It's built so much better than most of the new stuff.  :D [/quote]

Same.  I call my decorating style Vintage Swedish Fusion (a/k/a, we're about 1/2 family antiques, 1/3 Ikea, and 1/6 other). My great-grandfather is from a small town that had a handmade furniture factory for yeas, and then my granddad's best friend owned a high-quality furniture store and sold to him at cost... so we run a furniture exchange in the family when someone moves or redecorates.  When we moved into our current home, we got an extra bedroom, and I just emailed a couple family members to see who was ready for a change or wanted to offload a solid wood bed.  We swapped - my mom gave me a bed from her house, and she took one that she'd always liked better from my aunt's collection.  My aunt has my good coffee table for now because the Ikea one  is better for the kids, and I gave my mom back my small, eat-in sized pedestal table when we needed a larger, rectangular one for the space in our new house.

My daughter has solid wood furniture that belonged to my mom and then me, so it was free.  My son's set is more modern but still higher quality (30-year-old Stanley/NC) - we got that from craigslist.  I did splurge and get myself a brand new, handmade wooden bed and dresser a few years ago because no one had an antique king and I couldn't find anything I really liked at estate/antique/craigslist sales.

Couches are the problem, for us.  My spouse tall, Midwestern farm stock who is rough on upholstery, and we have two tweens and two cats (also rough on upholstry).  Right now, we're sourcing those from Ikea and Costco rather than spending a lot on them.[/quote]

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