Furnishing new home
 

We are in the process of building a new home, take possession early 2025. We are looking for recommendations for furniture stores since we have to furnish the entire house. Any feedback would be appreciated We started working with City Furniture ad the designer is awesome, but wondering about selection/options. Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the forum. I am not sure what you mean by selection/options? Another store would be Babette’s. Might also do a search on this forum as I am sure you’re not the first to ask.
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Look at the reviews for City, nothing but problems. When we bought our new home we furnished it completely via Babettes in Leesburg. No problems in finding what we wanted and no problems with the furnishings. They will include a professional decorated at no cost to help if you need it.

Babetts, not just Brownwood.......visit Leesburg, they have two much larger stores in Leesburg.


Pass on City.

If you will be in the area, you should do yourself a favor and start reviewing local estate sales. You can find a lot of good items.

Try going to estate sales, estate sales.com, for your tables and such. You can also buy bedroom suites, lanai furniture etc. . .

We did well with Hudson's in Ocala. Two Mattresses, one sofa. Excellent quality, great prices...

We struggled to find the right furniture at a reasonable price.
The prices are way cheaper on the same or better products in Ocala.
We bought most of the furniture from Blockers.
It’s convenient as Kanes is just across the parking lot which gives you all the selection you need.
We were under a time crunch when we were there and Blockers delivery was going to be after our flight left so they discounted the order enough to cover the guy they found and set up to deliver it all the next day.
Service at Blockers was amazing!

Furnishing a new house
 

We bought a "two bedroom" package from Babette's and furnished the 3rd bedroom from City Furniture and Wayfair.

City Furniture's delivery guys dropped the packaged large dresser in my living room and left - I had to unpack and move the dresser by myself.

Babette's furniture was almost perfect, with the problem items immediately taken care of. The guys on the delivery truck told us, as they were placing furniture in our house, if we didn't like the positioning, they'd move it around for us - their job was "to make us happy with Babette's furniture and service before they left".

And on the seemingly low end; check-out Rooms 2 Go. I have a friend that picked out an entire house full'a stuff in an hour. He (and wife) as still happy with it.
I'll have to admit; 'not bad,' but I did a facepalm at the time.

Let your fingers do the walking. Go online and check out inventory at several stores for style and pricing. That will narrow down your choices. Babbetts is on the high end.
As far as estate sales, usually you can see on web site. However, old furniture in a new house doesn't look so good. JMO

I would generally not trust guys from the bar to deliver or move my furniture. For what it is worth.

I furnished my house at a thrift store at a minimal cost. Some of the items were top quality, slightly used items. If you want to buy new, you will pay ten times more. Even the "discount furniture" stores seemed overpriced to me.

We had good luck at Kent Furniture in Belleview.

If you’re looking for good quality and customer service then run away from $hitty (City) furniture as fast as possible. We got some very nice lightly used furniture, at very reasonable prices, from Almost Perfect Furniture, but their selection is hit or miss. Good luck.