How to Save Money on Refurnishing Your Home
Every now and then your home needs a little sprucing up that a thorough cleaning just doesn’t quite accomplish by itself. Research shows that most people redecorate one room in their home at least every five years, with some stretching to a room per year or more. Obviously this could just refer to a quick lick of paint, or a change of curtains, though it could refer to much more extensive refurbishment. It’s worth remembering that even something as rudimentary as a tin of paint can end up being very expensive indeed.
Refurnishing your home can cost a fortune if you pay full price. In these tough economic times it can be difficult to afford things like beds, sofas, wardrobes and fireplaces, although in many homes they are viewed as essential furnishings, so when it comes down to it, they’re purchases that just have to be made. Some of the larger furniture stores seem to have sales on all year round, so if you’re prepared to just rock up to a business park with the intention of coming home with a sofa or bed, you can end up paying full price without ever realising it.
Furniture stores advertise their sales perennially on TV. Usually the sale will end on Boxing Day, and then start again the day after, so it can often seem like there are just a few stores with the monopoly on advertising their goods, but this simply isn’t the case. Almost any town and city in the UK will have at least one local merchant; chances are there will be several competing companies, all of whom are interested in offering you a better price in order to attract your custom.
The question is, then, how do you get hold of these deals? If you’re not sure where the local furniture stores are, or whether it’s worth you going to visit them, then your computer could be your friend. Most companies nowadays have an online presence in some form, whether it’s a website of their own, a social networking page, or a listing in one of the many online directories, so you can get hold of the store that way. Alternatively there has recently been a boom in the number of online discount sites; websites that exist purely to collect and distribute offers to their subscribers. Many discount sites will feature local stores as well as national ones, so what have you got to lose when all the great deals can be found in one place?
Discount services such as JungleDrum have large collections of discount vouchers on everything from sofas and beds to fireplaces and kitchens, which means that you could save a large amount of money if you check them out before you refurnish your home.
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