Bought a Bedroom Set

I wrote the other day that Bird and I were furniture shopping and that I would follow-up with our opinions after polling all of you and a few of our friends.  So let’s jump into it.

Option A:

On sale for $1,599 down from $1,999 for the bed, dresser, mirror, and nightstand.  Extra nightstand for $299.  This one received a couple of votes but it was the most expensive option and it was Bird’s least favorite.

Option B:

The clear runaway winner in the voting.  This package was on sale for $799 marked down from $1,700 for the 4-piece set.  Extra nightstand for $200.  I really liked this one and not just because it was the cheapest.  Thank you all for validating my opinion!!!

Option C:

This one received few votes but most importantly it got Bird’s.  The 4-piece package was on sale for $1,299 down from $1,799 and an extra nightstand would be $249.  However, the store had a floor sample package of bed, dresser and mirror all for $556.  The dresser alone usually retails for $649.

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That was all on Tuesday night.  The sale runs through Sunday but I’m out of town this weekend and Bird was going to be busy Thursday so I felt like we needed to make a decision.  FYI – I realize furniture stores have sales all the time, so it wasn’t like life or death, but I spent Wednesday thinking about furniture and that night, Bird and I were back at the store to do a more thorough comparison.  I was leaning towards Option B and I think Bird was in love with Option C.  By this point we had kind of thrown out Option A because it was Bird’s least favorite and also the most expensive.

After comparing B and C, we concluded a few things.  B looks amazing in the picture, but not-so-much in real life.  It was lower quality and just kind of cheapy-looking (maybe that explains the price!)  The drawers didn’t slide very well and the wood/veneer looked really fake.  C was made of a harder wood (higher quality) and would hold up longer according to the salesman.  I told him I was concerned it might be too-orangey for our house (I felt like the lighting in the store was deceptive) and he said we could have 30 days with it in the house and return it for a full refund if we didn’t like it.  That went a long way toward helping our decision.  Being a floor sample, it had a few nicks here and there, but we gave it a good going over and there was nothing we couldn’t live with.

So we bought Option C!  The salesman went to write it up and told us we were getting a great deal.  He looked at the price tag and wrote down $556 for the dresser and mirror, then asked if we wanted the bed too.  We pointed out that the price tag actually said the bed was included for the price.  He did a double-take and was like, Wow, that’s a really good deal!  We thought so too.  We added two nightstands at full price but we still paid less than all the other options.

Retail price:  $2,325
Sale price:  $1,650
We paid:  $1,226

Total savings of over $1,000

ps.  Yesterday I was digging through our coupon drawer (what?  doesn’t everyone have a coupon drawer?) looking for a Best Buy coupon (separate post) and I came across a coupon for the furniture store that was set to expire this Sunday!  10% off any item under $399.  Of course the small print said floor samples were ineligible nor was it good for previous purchases.  Our nightstands were not floor samples and I figured surely the night before shouldn’t count as a previous purchase.  I buzzed over to the store after work and presented the coupon.  Five minutes later I was walking out with an additional $56 in savings!  Huzzah!  Now we move on to mattress shopping…