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Originally Posted by JMEZARIC3
Have you considered used furniture?The area has many very good used furniture stores and if you have a pickup truck you can shop Craiglist and TOTV.The used furniture market in FL is not like up north were family and friends pick out the good stuff and only junk make it to the used stores.We furnished a 2 BR Patio Villa for under $2,500.Everything we purchase was a brand name and mid to high mid in the product line.A lot of the used furniture come out of seasonal homes only used 2 to 6 months a year.
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Thank you for your input. Nope, we do not have a pickup truck and are selling our S.U.V..........just bringing a sedan down. Selling the boat too.
Sounds like you've been a wise shopper and found some pretty good deals.
Our daughter loves to browse the used and antique furniture, but I'd like to just buy all new soft leather.......and minimal furnishings at that.
I was thinking of two leather sofas, each having two recliners in them.
So that would be an "L" with four recliners........we are bringing down our newish 60 inch thin screen t.v. for the living room.........plus other such t.v.s for the two extra guest rooms.....so I'd also get recliners and sofa beds for those two rooms.......after I do some research on the comfort of the sofa beds for our family and guests.
Just found Southern Living on Canal St. in The Villages....
Website has a "room planner" feature......which is great.
First we would have to sell this house; buy the new home in TV.
Not bringing our dining room set nor china cabinet, etc........so will think about that.....
I'm just in the frame of mind that now at our age "less is more" so am trying to think of furniture to do double duty......
Our entire northern home is set up for ultra comfort no matter which room you are in........but it's lots of big heavy duty furniture and "entertainment type bookcase units, etc.........want to do away with all of that. Even our desks and try to figure out ways to put our laptops (since I got rid of my tower and desktop setup.....am all wireless now, even the new printer is wireless)..........just thinking ahead.
First on the agenda.....keep downsizing......and list next spring.
I think I'd just like to choose new stuff, simple stuff but comfy, in soft leather, that serves multiple purposes........
Plus the master bedroom of course.......and lanai furniture.
Just downsizing is exhausting up here........so hope to not have too much to pack up and unpack on the other end.........
I do appreciate your thoughts........it wouldn't hurt for us to look.
Thank you.