Cool places for furniture?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by mu_agd

I like a lot of the stuff at West Elm.

I tend not to like contemporary furniture, but I've heard a lot of people are fans of West Elm. Somehow I'm on their email list; I think they're connected with some other chain store where I've bought furniture/etc.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

I tend not to like contemporary furniture, but I've heard a lot of people are fans of West Elm. Somehow I'm on their email list; I think they're connected with some other chain store where I've bought furniture/etc.

West Elm is the cheaper cousin of Pottery Barn...owned by the same company as PB and Williams-Sonoma. If you get one of their catalogs, you likely get them all.

[33girl]

Yeah, I was going to say try consignment shops or estate sales if you don't like contemporary stuff.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yeah, I was going to say try consignment shops or estate sales if you don't like contemporary stuff.

Actually, a lot of the consignment shops here in Seattle have a great deal of deco and contemporary stuff. Mostly stuff from the 1980s that is trendy again. And then they have the more traditional stuff too. But that's here...I don't know if that's true of other places.

Pottery Barn has good quality furniture, though, and they'll replace it if there are defects...they replaced my mom's couch two months after she got it because it started to "creeeeeek."

[shinerbock]

Just go to Pottery Barn and Ethan Allen and call it a day.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

West Elm is the cheaper cousin of Pottery Barn...owned by the same company as PB and Williams-Sonoma. If you get one of their catalogs, you likely get them all.

Ah, got it thanks. We've gotten stuff from both, which would explain the emails.

[blueangel]

Pottery Barn's furniture is cheaply made, overpriced particle board. I wouldn't touch their stuff with a ten foot pole.

Consumer Reports gave them a good flogging in a recent article for how poorly made their stuff is.

[GeekyPenguin]

I am sitting on a 10 y/o couch from Pottery Barn. It is delightful and made from fluffy fabric.

[valkyrie]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

I am sitting on a 10 y/o couch from Pottery Barn. It is delightful and made from fluffy fabric.

I got my dining room table and chairs from Pottery Barn maybe seven years ago or so and they're super and seem like they'll last forever. I'd love to get more modern furniture, but why spend money when I have something perfectly good blah blah blah.

[blueangel]

Exactly. Pottery Barn USED to have decent quality furniture.. if you like that style.. but now they've been using sub-standard material. It's mostly over-priced crap.

Read the Consumer Reports article.

[ISUKappa]

So, once, Consumer Reports did this test on infant carseats and rated a bunch as unsafe or subpar. And then it was discovered that CR outsourced these tests and they were run at a much higher rate of speed than stated, skewing the results and then CR later retracted their findings.

So yeah, I don't have much faith in CR.

And I like PB, they fit well with my Midwestern plebian tastes.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by valkyrie

I got my dining room table and chairs from Pottery Barn maybe seven years ago or so and they're super and seem like they'll last forever. I'd love to get more modern furniture, but why spend money when I have something perfectly good blah blah blah.

That's the way I feel - I have most of my furniture from local places (Jordan's in the Boston area is really good), but we have some Pottery Barn stuff that has lasted really well.

[HBADPi]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

West Elm is the cheaper cousin of Pottery Barn...owned by the same company as PB and Williams-Sonoma. If you get one of their catalogs, you likely get them all.

Thanks I was also wondering the same thing as KSigKid, I just started getting their catalogs one day and was wondering how they got my information. They just recently opened a store by my parents house and I've been meaning to go. There were definitely a few things in the catalog that I would like check out in person.