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xaarman posted:Profit off of other's misfortunes, IE craigslist Seriously, Craigslist is teeming with good stuff that people are unloading for peanuts if you have the patience to wait for a good deal. My roommate and I got sick of our ugly college junk furniture and wanted a nice dining set, so we trawled Craigslist for a couple weeks and came away with an amazing antique set - table with leaf, four matching chairs, and a really nice sideboard for a hundred bucks. Granted, that was a freakishly good deal, but other very nice sets made out of solid wood and stuff, were going for only a few hundred. If you go the new route, you'll pay as much or more for furniture that is made out of particleboard and/or MDF and covered with veneer. Roomie also picked up a solid oak desk for $60 on Craigslist. Can't get solid oak desks at Ikea for any price. So yeah, if you want a nice dining set, go antique, either through Craigslist (look for solid wood, good jointing, that sort of stuff - and remember that chairs can always be re-upholstered and re-glued) or if you have a 3k budget, go check out the antique dealers in your area. On the subject of couches, I'd probably just buy new couches, but I don't know much about buying couches.
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