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Furnish your home without spending loads
Furnishing a home using platforms like Gumtree, Freecycle, and Facebook free stuff groups can be a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to acquire furniture. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you make the most of these resources:
- Assess your needs:
- Before you start looking for free furniture, make a list of the essential items you need for each room in your home.
- Prioritise the items based on urgency and importance.
- Join local groups:
- Join local Freecycle groups, Facebook free stuff groups, and check out listings on Gumtree for your area. I’ve got sofas, beds, desks, lamps and so much more from these groups. Keeping it local means that you don’t have far to pick up. Sometimes you may need to get a man with a van…I got two leather sofas for nothing and paid
- Assess your needs:
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Ikea to buy back used furniture in return for vouchers
The Swedish homewares giant is going to launch a scheme to buy back your unwanted IKEA furniture items in return for vouchers. It goes live next month.
Under the plan, it will offer vouchers worth up to 50% of the original price, to be spent at its stores – the value of the vouchers will depend on the condition of the items they are returning
The “Buy Back” initiative will launch to coincide with Black Friday.
“By making sustainable living more simple and accessible, Ikea hopes that the initiative will help its customers take a stand against excessive consumption this Black Friday and in the years to come,” it said in reference to 27 November, when lots of retailers offer discounts on their products.
Customers must log the item they wish to return and will …
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New cupboard doors made to size
It’s taken four years, but we finally have cupboard doors for one of our bedrooms.
Basically we have a in-built cupboard and needed doors to be made and fitted. We spoke to some carpenters and we looking at about £500 – £600 for a carcass and doors.
So I went online and looked for doors made to size. I found three sites and they were all very helpful giving me information on getting dimensions to them for a quote.
After my research, we had two options: build a carcass and doors or build a frame and doors. We decided on the latter and Mr BH measured up, bought some strip wood and made the frame himself. The wood cost about £20 from B&Q. It really wasn’t hard and I reckon I could have done …
