Detail your latest furniture and homeware related purchases

[quimcunx]

Bought myself a memory foam pillow today, was half price but still pricey for a pillow. It's lovely to lie on I just hope it helps my stiff neck and shoulders.

which one? I'm still on the search for the perfect pillow. I've worked my way through lots.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I'm going to get the box out of the recycling bag just for you. Hang about.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

It's an Ultrafresh antibacterial memory foam sensation pillow. Supposedly reduced from £50 to £25 in Morleys. They had plenty of them left. I bought it because they're not too firm and they feel a bit squishy like proper pillows.

 

[quimcunx]

Cheers. The ones I've got are part memory foam part normal pillow. Best so far but I find I swap them round after a couple of nights to use one while the other recovers. (although if I plumped them up like a proper housewife I maybe wouldn't need to)

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

This one has a layer of foam, then memory foam and then and antibacterial covering Whig is supposed to help with allergies and rhinitis.
It was really nice last night, my neck wasn't stiff this morning for a change. I might buy one for shiftyjunior

 

[Ron Merlin]

Got a nice Brassaï print for the hall:

Just been on holiday to Belgium where we spent a lot of time sitting outside bars. I must now have a barrel table for the garden. Found a good one:

I love salvage yards!

 

[scifisam]

They're lovely, Ron.

I just made a mirror (with a mosaic section you can't see properly in this picture) and sticker thing in my hallway:

 

[Ron Merlin]

They're lovely, Ron.

I just made a mirror (with a mosaic section you can't see properly in this picture) and sticker thing in my hallway:

Nice! I hadn't thought of using stickers. We're still on the coving/deciding-what-colour-paint-to-use stage, so I've been focussing on art. Those walls need hiding!

Here's an art card I scanned and magnified. Now framed and on a wall. Bit dark though.



It's Vilnius old town btw.

 

[oliviawil]

I also want wall stickers for my room.....
<snip - FM>

 

[Biddlybee]

LMAO, stickers from your own shop?

 

[sheothebudworths]

Fucking hell, lol......*somebody* didn't quite think it through.......

 

[maya]

I love this, it's so sweet yet silently disturbing (are the animals aboard the ship depicted among the cargo because the chef intend them as food? Hmm... I'd rather not think about that)

The very 70's orangey-and-green colours don't fit my other more sober retro/quasi 50's theme, but a beautiful little tile it is, and I constantly catch myself staring at it, smiling because looking at it makes me happy (IMO, that's what defines a good fleamarket find: the happy high you get for hours and days afterwards... very few things can beat that)

 

[Cid]

The chef is clearly a baker/patissier, he is holding his chicken because she gives him the best eggs. His sheep provide milk for a lovely cheese and wool for his happy friends. The crated pig is a slightly different story mind you.

 

[maya]

The crated pig is a slightly different story mind you.

... No! Nooooooooo- *sad veggie cry* Can't you see it's a shepherd pig? They need it to guard the sheep, 'cos the sheep are super stupid like, and will happily follow their leader and walk the plank any second of the day, baah baah baah *PLOP!*, overboard they went- but not with Shepherd Pig! (And when they reach land, it can nose around and look for delicious truffles... But only in France)

 

[ringo]

Coveting an Artemide tolomeo mega floor lamp, a beautiful bit of mechanical engineering. Pricey at around £450 but might be doable with this months extra overtime.

 

[Ron Merlin]

Fancy lamp, ringo. Very nice indeed.

These chunky monkey bedside cabinets came recently. I was lucky enough to get them on eBay at a knock-down price. "Pick-up only" goods tend to be cheap. Fortunately they were local. The vendor even delivered them! Positive feedback guaranteed, cheers matey

 

[ringo]

Fancy lamp, ringo. Very nice indeed.

I just found a place doing genuine products (there are replicas on Ebay etc for £220) for £350 so I've gone for it. If its as beautiful and useful as I think it will be I'll be enjoying it for decades.

 

[plurker]

Just got this g-plan(esque) writing bureau off ebay, been after one for ages but kept getting sniped. £50 from a fella who's mother passed, so he's seling off her furniture, looks in great nick and will match up perfectly to the rest of the living room:

(ps that pic of me moves round the room at times - i don't have multiple portraits of myself eveywhere

 

[ringo]

Coveting an Artemide tolomeo mega floor lamp, a beautiful bit of mechanical engineering. Pricey at around £450 but might be doable with this months extra overtime

What a drama. The ones on Ebay for £250 are Chinese fakes so I decided against those. I found a website www.findalight.com doing them for £350. No shop, seems they just order them direct from the manufacturer so can charge less. Ordered and paid for it 9th March via Paypal. Delivery was stated as 2-4 weeks.

After 4 1/2 weeks they still hadn't changed the status on my account on their site from 'new', but finally answered my emails. They reckoned it would arrive the following Tuesday from the factory in Italy. It didn't, so I emailed them again. A very polite lady rang me up to tell me I didn't need to worry, just a delay from the manufacturer.

It didn't turn up. Paypal require any claim to be made with 45 days of payment, so I made sure I raised one just in case to protect my money. Incredibly, the vendor then sent me a very snotty email saying how disappointed they were with me. At this point it became clear customer service was not their strong point.

Eventually last week they told me it had arrived and I'd have it that week. Received the tracking info and delivery set for Friday 20th April. On the day I got two tracking numbers, one for the base, another for the body of the lamp. They then emailed me to tell me the factory sent the wrong lampshade, but the manufacturer (Artemide) have one at their London office and would send it direct.

The shade and the body arrived Friday, but the base got sent by Parcelforce to the wrong depot, who returned it to the central hub in Coventry. The base finally got delivered yesterday. I received a peeved message from the vendor telling me to mark the Paypal dispute as delivered so that they can get their money. I unpack it all and put the thing together and discover that the lamp shade is damaged, so when you turn it on it has a number of large dark blemishes on it. I imagine it's something they'd already had returned as faulty, but just tried to palm me off with it as they retail at £100.

I've now requested a replacement shade from the vendor and emailed them photos of the damage, but haven't heard anything back from them. The Paypal dispute says if I don't progress the dispute to a claim by 9:55am on Monday 1st May the seller will automatically win the dispute and my money will be lost.

So now whether they tell me they're going to replace it or not I have to make a claim against them by Monday morning if the new shade hasn't been delivered by then.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Oh ffs! FUCKING ANNOYING!
Have you tried contacting the London office direct....saying you'll obv need a new one delivering by Friday, or some absolute guarantee that you WILL get a new one, otherwise?

 

[ringo]

Innit, shame 'cos its gorgeous.

I think I have to deal with the seller direct, I'd have thought only they can tell the manufacturer to send me a new one.

Still, the shade did come direct from them so worth a go isn't it? I'll do that too, ta.

 

[ringo]

Just rang the London office of the manufacturer. Turns out the seller has been in touch with them, he just hadn't bothered telling me. Artemide have ordered a new one from their Italian factory and will send it directly to me free of charge. They'll be in touch when they hear from the factory when the despatch date is.

Phew, cheers Sheo, that's stopped me raging. In the mean time I've turned the lamp round so you can't see the damage

 

[sheothebudworths]

WOOHOOOOO!

Then you could ebay the dodgy one, eh? Even with defects you might get a few quid for a shade that's £100 new!?!

 

[ringo]

Yeah, I thought of that, got to be worth a few squid, last month there were two of them on Ebay with mullered shades

 

[ringo]

New shade has arrived in England but the manufacturers office here in London put the wrong address on it and sent it to the vendor up north.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Fucking hell ....you shoulda just gone to IKEA, maybe, ringo?

 

[quimcunx]

Just bought this:

Woo!

also bought this a few weeks ago but not put it up yet.

 

[sheothebudworths]

 

[Mogden]

I haz been to Ikea today. Last week when researching buses to my icing course I found out there is now a bus going direct to Nottingham Ikea from Derby So today I went and purchased a laptop stand thing so I don't fry the leather on my pedestal desk, a sarong which I intend to convert to cushion covers or a wall hanging, ummm some magazine file box things, some arty postcards which reminded me of wayward bob, magnetic photo frames for the fridge, nice tea towels and lots of foodie bits from the shop at the end. BUT I also found ME at Ikea

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40197622/

There's a whole range of me! I did want that jar only to discover I am everso popular and the only one left was the display one

I also popped into TK Maxx when I got back to Derby cos it closes tonight to move to another location. 50% off all purchases Got another Sigg bottle to add to my bargain one I snapped up last week. A pretty cream wirework butterfly and flower letter tray, an Emma Bridgewater mug for £3.50 which was for a work colleague, a wooden trug and a cookbook. Should have been 30 quid and of course it came to 15 quid. The Sigg bottle alone would be that much.

And this weekend just gone I bagged a Bel Cream Maker from a charity shop in Brum for a very reasonable £3.99. I may use it but it looks so very retro and cool, I just want it for a shelf

It is this base:

With a similar mottled Bakelite top:

I luffs it

 

[Shirl]

I have just (10 minutes ago) bought a 1970's Beautility sideboard from eBay.
I'm planning to add some 70's furniture to our living room and get rid of the old pine.