How To Buy Solid Oak Bedroom Furniture On A Tight Budget
Solid oak bedroom furniture is usually restricted to the rich and wealthy due to its high price. This is due to the beauty of the oak wood and its hardness which allows it to survive many generations of use. If your income is in the middle class bracket, oak furniture would normally be out of your budget.
Fortunately, there are four different ways you can buy either modern or antique oak bedroom furniture on a budget. The easiest is to look for the end-of-season sales from your local furniture shops. Because they need to get rid of old stock fast (which includes their oak wood furniture), they will often put up 20% to 30% discounts. You could probably bargain down the price further if you are willing to accept a showroom display set.
A second popular alternative is to shop online. Targets and Amazon are well-known online retailers. But many large furniture stores and manufacturers have also started publishing their catalogs on the internet and offer discounts for direct sales. However, unlike buying from a warehouse sale, there is no way you can see or touch the bed or wardrobe beforehand. All you can rely on is the picture. You also need to verify beforehand that what you are buying is a real solid oak bed and wardrobe rather than just an oak veneer pasted over cheap fiberboard.
Your third choice is to buy unfinished oak furniture. That means the manufacturer left the oak bedroom furniture unpainted, unwaxed and unvarnished. They may even have left it unpolished, i.e. the surfaces have not been sanded smooth. Polishing this kind of furniture is a good weekend project, and not too difficult with modern power tools. For example, a Dremel Rotary Tool with its built-in sanding attachment is pretty cheap and can be purchased for under $50 in many places. Spend another $10 for extra sandpaper, and you should be able to complete the job in one day even without any experience.
Your fourth and final option is to buy used bedroom furniture made from oak. Look for garage sales in your neighborhood, on Craigslist, or on eBay. You may not be able to get a complete bedroom furniture package and what’s there may be damaged, but this is not a bad situation. Such “problems” allow you to really press the price down, and can be one of the cheapest ways of owning your own oak bedroom furniture. Of course, you will need to repair and refinish what you bought, but a real man ought to at least pick up some skill in woodworking, don’t you agree?
Buying real oak bedroom furniture sets can be expensive. But if you really want high quality beds and wardrobes, there are ways you can buy them even on a budget.
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