Paint Your Furniture?

From time to time, the Furniture Guy likes to give you a heads up on something weird or interesting in the furniture industry. The video below represents one of those times.

This upholstry spray paint is apparently available in Australia. I will be emailing this to some of my furniture friends, though, to find out if there is any chance of it coming to the US. Sure, I have questions just like any other furniture shopper, but if it works well at all it would be a great way to refresh the look of an old sofa. I also envision this as being particularly popular in frat houses on college campuses; can you imagine? Painting your furniture a new color for each party?

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video...I found it fascinating (mainly because the finished product looks pretty even and makes the sofa look nice). Let me know what you think...feel free to comment or to contact the furniture guy at the link on the right side of the page.



Enjoy it!
The Furniture Guy

Cool Modern Furniture

As you probably know by now, I spend more time than most people surfing the internet for everything furniture. I look for cool furniture, cheap furniture, furniture sites, and furniture stores. Basically, I make nice with google and various furniture words. One of the furniture searches I most enjoy is when I occasionally check out what furniture youtube has going on. There is often video of new and innovative furniture pieces from around the world. In this case, it is basically a convertable furniture piece that appears to be fully automated. I have no idea if this furniture is available for sale in the US, or even in Europe, but it sure does look like one heck of a conversation piece to put in a guest room or kids bedroom. Check out the video and if anyone has seen this in any US stores, let me know!



Im still seeking out more online furniture stores to check out. Stay tuned for more furniture .com reviews. Also, if anyone has a good or bad experience with any online furniture stores, be sure to let me know!

Hope this helps (or is at least cool looking),
The Furniture Guy

Almost Free Furniture?

Okay, so I mentioned this place before on a tip from a buddy. However, at that time I had not looked into it as much. Turns out that while the furniture at Almost Free Furniture is not necessarily almost free, there are some great prices. Almost Free furniture basically is a site on which you get access fromt he same suppliers that consignment shops and professional furniture resellers do.

This means that you get good prices and avoid the markup that the same furniture found on almost free furniture would have in a store. Don't worry, there are local listings so that you can get your used furniture close to home or have it delivered to you. Either way, you save.

Finally, and I think as importantly as anything, this site allows you to sell furniture as well. Have a piece to sell and need a new piece, this would be the way to go. There is a fee to access the site for a year, and while I don't love that I do love the fact that the site takes no money for the sales...only that monthly fee. Not a bad deal for the consumer.

So if you do think you may look to buy online, then go ahead and consider Almost Free Furniture.

Not interested in paying for the site? There is always Ebay and Craigslist. Just make sure you work with someone local and if I were you I would use some sort of escrow to protect yourself from furniture fraude. Good luck, and next time I hope to take a look at a couple of new furniture retailers on the internet.