Looking for some help from the HiveMind(TM), we're moving to near Congleton in few weeks and we don't know the area at all. We're also moving from a furnished house to an un-furnished house so need to acquire certain things fairly quickly but we have spent too much of our lives surrounded by IKEA, MFI and junk!
Some stuff we will buy new, like a sofa but for things like desks, tables, bedside tables chest of drawers, I would like to get some more interesting stuff whether it's secondhand, salvaged or antique. Where should we look?
There's a habitat 2nds warehouse near there. Not 2nd-hand/niche etc, but can be good for cheap(er) big items.
Edit - it's in Wythenshawe in an industrial estate. M23 9DS
in response to the person below who suggested Arigghi Bianchi, don't. It's overpriced tat.
We got a Chester Drawers from there and the drawers are made of nasty thin wood which flexes and the drawers don't remain cuboidal, they turn parallelogramal.
Lots of weird and wonderful in Halifax: [url= http://www.andythornton.com/en-UK/products/architectural-antiques ]http://www.andythornton.com/en-UK/products/architectural-antiques[/url]
2 mins googling finds whittaker and biggs does a general weekly auction in congleton, so you should be able to pick up plenty of decent stuff for next to nothing.
2nd's is a good call, might be useful. Is it labelled as a Habitat?
Andy Thornton's looks like a lot of fun, will try to swing past this weekend.
We drove past Arigghi Bianchi in Macclesfield, it didn't look like our kind of thing, far too shiny! We're more spaniels, mud and dents 🙂
hadn't considered auctions, that could be a laugh - thanks.
Yes, I'm sure it has a habitat sign. It has a normal habitat at the front and the warehouse out back. Been a few years though since I've been there though.