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Originally Posted by merrymini
People do not buy quality furniture but stuff from rooms to go and ikea. Falls apart and they complain. All this junk from overseas has driven our own furniture building companies into bankruptcy because they were not supported. Yes, they were expensive to buy but I have my Stickley furniture for over thirty years. It is solid wood and can be refinished and recovered. The culture has changed and now we have to live with it.
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Oh my! Such a conversation we could have!
Back home, I have “Leopold’s Chair” and its ottoman by Stickley, along with a couple of other Stickley pieces. I had the chair done in leather and I think it looks like a beloved baseball glove. It is well into its second decade with us. It’s my favorite piece of furniture.
I have loved good furniture since my dollhouse days.
When we bought in TV, 10 years ago, we bought a turnkey. It was our second house and I did not want to try to furnish a whole house where I did not know the territory.
The house we bought had been built in 2007 and was from the days when the developer had a furniture store in Sumter Landing and offered decent mid-line furniture, coordinated from room to room. When the house was new, the first owner had it nicely furnished by the developer’s furniture store…..that I can’t remember the name of. (sigh) Anyway, the furniture definitely was not junk. It was not Stickley, but it was nice stuff.
It was not long after that when the developer sold out to the existing furniture store and got out of the furniture business.
You are so right that the good American-made furniture companies have been driven out of the market.
Boomer