ChairMan wrote:
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"ChairMan" wrote:

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news Smitty Two spewed forth:
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"ChairMan" wrote:

New is complete junk, is disposable and is not worth
reupholstering. Like the old saying goes, " You get what you pay
for"
Nonsense. There is a lot of junk furniture around, just like junk
tools and junk appliances. There is also a lot of high quality stuff
around.
???
I thought that's what I just said " You get what you pay for"
95% is junk, the other 5% you pay for and is mostly worth it, some
not and your just paying for a name
Thanks for clarifying. Apparently I misunderstood your statement "new
is complete junk."

for the most part it is, Roomstore, Rooms to go, Ashleys are complete junk
Ethan Allen, Bassett, Thomasville even Baker and Henredon are no where near
what they use to be.
Hell, even Lazy boy is ****. Most all is made in China. Even some of the
custom manufacturers are cutting corners just to compete.
People no longer see furniture as the investment that our parents did.
It's all disposible to this generation


Forget the chains- go to the small ma'n'pa dealers for brands you never
heard of, that still have some quality. There is an 'Amish' furniture
store up the street here that has some gorgeous stuff that is absurdly
expensive, but would easily last a century or more. I have maybe 30
years or so left if I am lucky, so I can't justify a $2k dining room
set, even if it is quarter-sawn oak a full 5/4 thick. with a base that
would make it strong enough to hold go-go dancers. Their couches have
exposed hardwood doweled frames, with fabric parts and cushion covers
that can be redone easily- no nasty dead spaces for monsters to grow.
IOW, the frame will last forever, and is well worth several hundred for
recovering every 30 years or so. If I were to hit the lottery, I could
easily drop 20 grand in there.

I did buy a decent couch and chair (quasi-mission style) for the other
living room, just so I could have one room nice enough for company. Not
at the Amish place, but another small store with prices a little closer
to my place on the food chain. On sale, they were $1500. Everything I
looked at elsewhere was either crap, and/or the oversize overstuffed
styles aimed at drywall McMansions. In my tiny (12x21) 1960 living room,
they would have overwhelmed the entire room. Anyway, if a SWMBO were to
move in here by some miracle, those are the only 2 furniture items I
would have any chance of keeping. Anyone with taste would burn or
Goodwill the rest in short order. For some reason, women don't seem to
like plywood bookcases and office-spec credenzas and desks and such.

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