OT: Any furniture recommendations?

Without being racist, which of course I'm not. Avoid any Asian outfits. My wife bought a 3 piece suite from the Asians for ?1k. It was f***ed 5 years later. The chest of drawers she got from some Asian outfit is looking past it's best after 7 years. As a contractor I've seen Asians using a hair drier on "leather" furniture.

Not surprising with a couple of lard arses sitting on it 24/7.

I've been pleased with Harveys.

There's a moderately famous Swedish brand :-)

The "leather" started to split. This was not good enough for us, but would have been quite acceptable to some piss poor spark living on a scum council estate in Yorkshire. Have you ever thought of growing a pair and buying your own house?

Look for a G plan retailer and see what else they sell.

No experience, and not nationwide in the showrooms sense, but Thomas Lloyd / SofaSofa claim to make all their own stuff in the UK (in Wales, actually, look you) for 35 years. 2 year / 5 year frame guarantees.

Owain

IKEA flat pack is the mutts nuts,

Which bit of "I own my own house outright and I have had no mortgage since I was 30 years old " do you not understand?

Is your wife really as fat as you?

You really need to see what you are buying. Much of it is made abroad. I could suggest a shop near Bangor.

Forget about modern stuff; it's s**te. Buy something solid from say the

The one thing I found that let DFS down are the quality of their zig zag springs. Their actual build quality and service was fine, but I think we must have replaced all the spings in under five years, whereas some never seem to break. Brian

Some of the bigger department stores seem to be able to source things from smaller outfits, I went to Bentalls to source a replacement for the DFS one and they even made it with detachable arms for easy ingress into difficult houses. It all depends what you call reasonable, price wise, and often its onlafter living with it for some time that the problems crop up as I mentioned earlier about DFS. Might well have just been a bad batch of springs, but I bet they do source things as cheaply as they can, and some things must slip through that you would hopefully not get from a good well known department trying to protect their reputation. Brian

To be honest, the DFS leather sofa I'm sitting on has been pretty good, I can't remember when we bought it, but but it's at least 14 years ago and it still looks OK and is pretty comfortable.

I'd second that. Have a pair of leather Chesterfields which have lasted well - especially given the reasonable price.

German company 'Himolla'make good stuff, but not cheap. Their 'zero stress' chair is far better than the Norwegian 'StressLess' that some people rave about.

The cheap furniture is s*it. Looks awful after a year. The foam permanently deforms and the covers look scruffy. Better to go second hand and get some quality stuff. It can be really cheap, especially if there's a minor damage you can fix yourself.

So, you actually bought that council house????!!!! Please tell us that you did not buy that shithole. I've watched the videos that you posted here. Shithole. Stupid is as stupid does. My wife is not fat, neither am I. I have something that a pikey such as yourself will never have. A wife, a nice home and money in the bank.

I have found one of the three is possible,m but not all three together.

Well; done!