Where to buy small/apartment sized furniture?

[FreshTressa]

I'm trying to find furniture to 'stage' my house...but everything is so BIG!!

Any ideas where to look for smaller sized furniture?

 

[ducklite]

I was able to find a smaller sofa--larger than a love seat but smaller than a typical sofa--at LA-Z-BOY. It's comfy and the price was right. It's the perfect size for my den, a regular sized sofa would have been much too large.

Anne

 

[Barb D]

Ikea. Some of their stuff is very compact (I guess for small European homes!)

 

[debabe723]

Ikea. Some of their stuff is very compact (I guess for small European homes!)

This is where I was going to suggest too. Just went yesterday and it's amazing how much furniture they can fit in a small space. And it's not too expensive either.

 

[RitaZ.]

I'm trying to find furniture to 'stage' my house...but everything is so BIG!!

Any ideas where to look for smaller sized furniture?

Wouldn't it be better to remove some of the larger pieces of furniture (put in storage) to make the house look bigger? I mean, I see no point in spending money on furniture that you probably aren't going to keep or use again. Just an idea.

 

[bride03]

I just looked at Ikea as well...LOVE IT! But I found my small sylish sofa at walmart. It's the kind where the sides fold up and so you can make it into an even smaller sofa. It's great.

 

[MoniqueU]

I was also going to suggest Ikea.

 

[RachaelRol]

We furnished our dirst apartment with stuff from Ikea. Affordable and nice.

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

We have a tiny house, and we've found some great smaller sized furniture at Asian focused furniture stores. There's a great Korean furniture store near DH's work where we found our living room set, and we found our bed and dressers at a Japanese furniture store. It's all great quality, inexpensive, and arrived within 2 weeks of our order.

I'll also add my vote for Ikea - especially if you're looking for something inexpensive and short-term. Just be careful if you have to order the furniture - I've had some really bad experiences with getting stuff from Ikea that I've ordered, as have a couple of my friends. If you can walk out of the store with it, great; but ask about arrival/delivery time if you have to order the items. Sometimes it can take a couple months before the furniture arrives. Our longest trek was 6 months from date of order to getting the final item from our order.

 

[FreshTressa]

Wouldn't it be better to remove some of the larger pieces of furniture (put in storage) to make the house look bigger? I mean, I see no point in spending money on furniture that you probably aren't going to keep or use again. Just an idea.

The problem is that ALL of my furniture is too big...I don't have too much, it is just too big.

I moved to this house from a larger house and the dining room table takes up the whole dining room....if I take it out, there is NO table.

And the sofa sticks out past where the wall ends, and if I take it out, again, there is NO sofa.

So, I was going to put my stuff in storage, since I love it and want it for my next house, and then buy smaller stuff.

The new house is HUGE (at least compared to this one!!), and I will have a new formal living room, which I don't have now, so I can put the new little sofa in the formal living room. As for the table, my current table will go in my new dining room, and the the little table in my new kitchen, since there is space.

So..it is not JUST for staging...I'll get to use it in my new house too. I just am having trouble finding small stuff that goes with my pottery barn/cream/dark wood style house.

Ikea's stuff is too modern for my decor (it has chrome legs, etc.) except maybe the "Ektorp" sofa...which is just as big as a regular couch!

 

[MsLeFever]

Well, I'm just chiming in with the majority for Ikea. I'm lucky enough to live about 5 minutes from a store and since it has a free playroom for the kiddos we window shop at least 2-3 times a month!

 

[FreshTressa]

Yah...Ikea was the first place I thought of too.

Any suggestions for a particular couch?

I have all greens and browns with dark cherry or mahogany furniture.

 

[ducklite]

Two points-

When we put our house on the market, we actually got ride of the living room, dining room, and den furniture before we started to show it. (Some wen't to Sally's, and some went to the curb.) Those rooms were completely bare, and with fresh paint and new carpeting, they looked HUGE! I had thought about getting some inexpensive staging furniture, and then decided against it. We did still have furniture in the family room and bedrooms, although had scaled a lot of that back as well.

We really think having the rooms empty helped sell the house, because it made it look so much bigger than it really was. In fact that was a comment almost everyone had--"it's so spacious!"

You might also want to look into renting furniture from Cort or Aaron's or someplace like that. Some of their furniture is a little smaller in scale. That way when you get into your next place you can start fresh and get exactly what you want.

Anne

 

[disykat]

Have you tried Fred Meyer for the table? I've noticed lately that they have quite a bit of furniture - the smaller type that people first starting out would use.