I want to buy a new sofa

[jayswin]

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...896.html?piid=

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if this was a four piece, lock assembly couch either.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

You're making stuff up.
Here's a 650 lb, $43,000 sectional made in San Diego by a company that's been around over 35 years. 1 piece, zero assembly required.

I don't doubt there's plenty of crappy sofas on Wayfair, but the rest of your post is completely nonsense.

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...-elgy1431.html

$43,000 for a couch? I think you found one of their child trafficking products.

[lazypucker]

Why go for a $43,000 couch when you can buy one for $420,000??

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...?piid=23798498

[nfotiu]

I don't know if Calgary has similar shops, but we had a great experience buying from a small build to order place locally. It was a family owned shop, and the guy talked to us like a normal human. They had a bunch of choices of fabric and models to sit on, and price wasn't outrageous. It was more than a discount place, but in line with mid-level big stores. The quality of what we picked out was great, and one of the best things about buying from a place like this is they were able to quickly and cheaply replace the fabric on a couple cushions and the legs that our puppies decided were chew toys.

[Strange Brew]

I'll go against the grain and say that for a sofa, you want to pay for quality. You still are going to want to replace every 10 years or so, whether you move or tastes change, so don't go in assuming it's an heirloom purchase. But you want something that doesn't lose any firmness or starts looking worn so long as you own it IMO.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Yep, I've always felt this way, too. Everyone I know goes for life long lasting pieces because "furniture is something you spend money on". But have you ever seen a house where they clearly haven't changed the furniture/decor since 1999?

It looks ancient in terms of style, regardless of how great the quality is. I'm more of a "get something that looks nice and modern in decent quality and expect that your tastes and trends will change within ten years".

You'll replace it to look modern before you replace it for quality decline, unless you're shopping at JYSK.

I think a nice dining table or wardrobe can be a lifelong investment. But yeah, even then, if you're using the dinner table, it's going to, over time, get pretty hacked up.

Fashions on sofas, especially though, change pretty frequently. Higher end furniture, especially a sofa, is really just a status symbol. It projects that you have the money to waste $10k on a sofa every few years. A sofa is also a piece of furniture that gets a lot of use. No matter how high the quality, it's going to show wear after a few years.

Find something quality and comfy, as it is something you will very frequently, but don't fall into the trap of needing the highest end stuff.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

everything Wayfair sells has to be deliverable by one guy though which means their couches come in 4 pieces plus cushions and legs, the arms and seat and back all lock together with a slotting piece of hardware, their couches all have the instruction 'some assembly required' and they are all the lightest cheapest flimsiest things you have seen. I doubt a wayfair couch weighs more than 50 lbs, its just a function of their business model

I had a bedframe delivered to my house by Wayfair. They dropped it off on the front porch.....it was most certainly not moveable by one person. My property is on a hill, and there's no way a single person moved that box up the stairs that lead to my front porch.

There's a pretty great amount of variation between products at Wayfair, as they don't produce their own product and just resell. However, everything I've ever bought from Wayfair has been higher quality than IKEA. Both use a lot of particle board, but the particle board is much thicker and heavier with Wayfair. They also don't skimp on materials like screws the same way Ikea does.

Ikea furniture is typically of such low quality that it suffers severe damage anytime you move it.

Ikea furniture is also usually very Ikea looking in terms of styles. Some of it is okay looking, but you're pretty limited to what you can do with it in terms of styling, and anyone who sees it will know immediately that it's Ikea furniture.

Personally, I absolutely hate Ikea stuff, and think even students would be better off buying used stuff than spending any money on Ikea. With Wayfair, as long as you are vigilant about looking for third party reviews, you can find some deals on, not high end, but solid accessory pieces of furniture. Wayfair is slightly more expensive than Ikea, but has much better value than Ikea. For something like a TV stand, a bedframe, or a bedroom wardrobe, Wayfair hits that quality vs. price payoff that Ikea comes up short on.

[Fuzz]

The only furniture I have from Ikea that has lasted is the solid wood stuff, and most of it is pretty good. I have a couple of dressers that are 30+ years old. I bought my wife a solid birch table top for her desk(I had really good adjustable legs already) and the price was unbeatable. The particle board stuff can survive one move, any more than that and it's probably going to suck.

[monkeyman]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

Why go for a $43,000 couch when you can buy one for $420,000??

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...?piid=23798498

You can get $25.00 off if you use your wayfair credit card.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Torture

$43,000 for a couch? I think you found one of their child trafficking products.

I think the cushions are stuffed with cocaine

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by jayswin

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...896.html?piid=

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if this was a four piece, lock assembly couch either.

look carefully 'some assembly required'

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

You're making stuff up.
Here's a 650 lb, $43,000 sectional made in San Diego by a company that's been around over 35 years. 1 piece, zero assembly required.

I don't doubt there's plenty of crappy sofas on Wayfair, but the rest of your post is completely nonsense.

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...-elgy1431.html

does it occur to you that a 43,000 dollar couch made by a company named after a copyrighted Beatles song might not actually exist for purchase?

[blankall]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

does it occur to you that a 43,000 dollar couch made by a company named after a copyrighted Beatles song might not actually exist for purchase?

https://eleanorrigbyhome.com/

https://www.facebook.com/eleanorrigbyhome/

Can't comment on the Wayfair pricing.

[Enoch Root]

some of these things need a luxury tax

[lazypucker]

There isn't such thing called the most expensive, there's only more expensive:

https://www.wayfair.ca/furniture/pdp...3%252C23798498

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by blankall

https://eleanorrigbyhome.com/

https://www.facebook.com/eleanorrigbyhome/

Can't comment on the Wayfair pricing.

Strangely they just have websites and their website has no function to allow you to buy their couches or any pricing, but its on the internet so must be legit!!

[bomber317]

We hired an interior designer about 2-3 years into owning our house.

We spent 2-3 years of wandering in and out of furniture stores, trying to find pieces that we thought would fit the house and ended up with not much.

If you can find a good interior designer (someone that takes into account functionality of a room, and your budget requirements) - then they are well worth the money. We saved a lot of time / money, and we still have all of the major pieces after 8 years.

We've purchased couches, chairs, coffee tables, console tables, benches, through our designer. She had sourced through various types of places too depending on the budget and our needs. Some of was through HomeSense, Ikea on the lower end, and on the higher end, some of it was custom through various places in town (whittakker designs, maria thomas, etc).

Much easier for us to tell our designer what we are looking for, what we are trying to with the room and the piece and she just presents us with some options. Haven't had to talk to a salesperson since.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Strangely they just have websites and their website has no function to allow you to buy their couches or any pricing, but its on the internet so must be legit!!

Lol. They're facebook page has been up about 7 years. They make frequent updates. Including showing staff in branded apparel at the workshops where their couches are made. The couches can be found at all sorts of retailers.....this is one very elaborate scam.

It would appear they are a high end leather furniture producer known for their hand finishings.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by blankall

Lol. They're facebook page has been up about 7 years. They make frequent updates. Including showing staff in branded apparel at the workshops where their couches are made. The couches can be found at all sorts of retailers.....this is one very elaborate scam.

It would appear they are a high end leather furniture producer known for their hand finishings.

could you explain the price then? 43,000 bucks

[Enoch Root]

also, there is an entire page of pics of the staff, as well as a page about the owners - that is a hell of a lot of work, just to create a fake page about a furniture designer