Did you bring your furniture with you?

12.08.05, 22:47
I wonder how many foreigners actually did a full scale furniture removal. I
understand there's a tendency not to do that so much these days, but rather
to keep your own in storage and rent furnished places.

When I finally decided to stay for good here I brought over the furniture I
had in the UK - I used Allied Pickfords, and I was pleased with them and used
them again when I did a removal inside Warsaw to my own place.

Anybody got any other experiences?

I started thinking about furniture having been to that place near to the MDM
Hotel - between that and rondo Jazdo Polskich, which has the most fantastic
furniture. Once you have been there, you will not bother with the likes of
Agata, Meble Polonia, IKEA and all that second rate stuff.

It may cost a fortune, but I can't think of much that I'd rather spend that
kind of money on than truly beautiful furniture.
    • nasza_maggie Re: Did you bring your furniture with you? 13.08.05, 01:55
      Davey do I KNOW about furnituresmile
      To be honest,that is just a rip off place to me. There are second hand
      furniture stores with renovated furniture at very good prices. To be honest
      many nice furniture places are outside of Warsawsmile
      Moving?
      • usenetposts Re: Did you bring your furniture with you? 13.08.05, 02:07
        nasza_maggie napisała:

        > Davey do I KNOW about furnituresmile
        > To be honest,that is just a rip off place to me. There are second hand
        > furniture stores with renovated furniture at very good prices. To be honest
        > many nice furniture places are outside of Warsawsmile
        > Moving?

        I'm not planning any more moves, but I have to buy the furniture I don't have
        and didn't need earlier because I rented part furnished.

        If you can recommend places that have got renovated furniture of the quality of
        that place, I'd be delighted to hear about them.

        Some of the carved oak cabinets and desks were out of this world.

        And the prices were not bad at all by UK standards...
    • asia9111 Re: Did you bring your furniture with you? 13.08.05, 01:56
      Hi Uncle Davey!
      what a great topic for me...smile Food for thought for the future. I actually
      probably will bring very liitle of what I have here, because the pieces are too
      large for a typical Polish apartment. I also have a lot of plain bookshelves
      from Ikea, and will probably just replace these (with Ikea product, for sure).
      I think that a lot may depend on the cost of the moving service, and whether
      one plans to go back to the country of origin or not. In that case, usinf a
      storage facility in the home country may make sense.
      • usenetposts Re: Did you bring your furniture with you? 13.08.05, 02:17
        I think you are absolutely right not to ship IKEA furnioture from Florida to
        Poland.

        Anything that you could see yourself handing over with pride to a grandchild,
        yes, Mr Kamprad's cryptocommunist trashy Swedish efforts, definitely not.

        Transporting them will cost more than repurchasing them, and there's hardly an
        item that will last more than 10-12 years.
        • asia9111 Re: Did you bring your furniture with you? 13.08.05, 03:19
          IKEA is not coming, naturally. And my Ethan Allen stuff is too big for a Polish
          apartment sad It would last through generations, but I have no kids, so there...
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