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I can’t recommend amish furniture enough. Solid wood, highly customizable, built to pass down. In terms of cost, you can look at getting a queen mattress Fro

I can’t recommend amish furniture enough. Solid wood, highly customizable, built to pass down. In terms of cost, you can look at getting a queen mattress From mattress firm most people will be spending $500 - $1800 https://www.mattressfirm.com/search?q=Queen https://www.mattressfirm.com/search?q=Queen From ikea your probably going to get a decent frame $500 https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-bed-frame-black-brown-loenset-s29129620/ https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-bed-frame-black-brown-lo... Neither of those include shipping, so let’s assume another $200 Total: $1200 - $2300 If you get the Amish bedrame you’re talking maybe $1000 - $1600 https://www.dutchcrafters.com/Bed-Headboards/cat/776#1-731 https://www.dutchcrafters.com/Bed-Headboards/cat/776#1-731 I went to a local Amish shop and it was $1000 for a beautiful queen frame. Let’s just assume same shipping Total: $1700 - $3600 Yes there’s increased cost, but if you’re already over the absolute base (mattress + frame) it’s worth it. For most people, I suspect spending the extra few hundred for very good quality is worth it. Often these can be resold and keep a decent margin (I mostly buy furniture used, but quality is expensive)

jbellis 4y ago
More generally, searching for solid wood furniture should turn up some high quality local options in most places. Here in Austin, that includes Amish Furniture, Furniture in the Raw, and a couple other places that I'm less familiar with.
yamtaddle 4y ago
I was really surprised, when we re-designed our kitchen, that the price tiers for cabinets were basically, lowest to highest: 1) Very-bad premade, 2) mid-range custom made(!!!), 3) mid-range premade (worse than tier 2 on quality), 4) high-end custom made, 5) high-end premade. You'd think the mass-manufactured stuff could win on price, but it only did at a quality level so low that nobody bothers having anything that bad custom-made. Ended up going with some local shop, paid the tier-2 pricing, easily the best bang for the buck. The custom stuff we bought was barely more expensive than getting Ikea cabinets! And it fit perfectly to our floorplan, allowed some custom extras to make better use of space, was exactly the color we wanted, et c.

jbellis 4y ago

More generally, searching for solid wood furniture should turn up some high quality local options in most places. Here in Austin, that includes Amish Furniture, Furniture in the Raw, and a couple other places that I'm less familiar with.

yamtaddle 4y ago

I was really surprised, when we re-designed our kitchen, that the price tiers for cabinets were basically, lowest to highest: 1) Very-bad premade, 2) mid-range custom made(!!!), 3) mid-range premade (worse than tier 2 on quality), 4) high-end custom made, 5) high-end premade. You'd think the mass-manufactured stuff could win on price, but it only did at a quality level so low that nobody bothers having anything that bad custom-made. Ended up going with some local shop, paid the tier-2 pricing, easily the best bang for the buck. The custom stuff we bought was barely more expensive than getting Ikea cabinets! And it fit perfectly to our floorplan, allowed some custom extras to make better use of space, was exactly the color we wanted, et c.