Furniture

Impact of Furniture

Buying new furniture for your home can be very expensive. Young couples and people on low incomes setting up home for the first time, can find it particularly difficult on a limited budget.

You can buy furniture from reuse shops that is in good condition and a different style or colour to brand new furniture.

Buying furniture from a reuse shop is also quicker than waiting for delivery of a new item.

It’s surprisingly expensive to buy brand new furniture. When you have pets or kids who treat the sofa like a climbing frame the thought of paying over £500 for an item is particularly painful. If you’re setting up home for the first time furniture is probably the biggest cost you’ll have and on top of rent or a mortgage it can break the bank.

Many of the 10 million items of unwanted furniture thrown away every year are lovely and in good condition. When people generously donate these items to local furniture re-use projects you can buy them at a price you can afford – if you know where to look. In West London there are a few places you can buy gorgeous furniture at affordable prices because it’s pieces that other people don’t want

So what can you do to stop furniture going to waste?