I have only ever had cheapish self assembly dining tables.
We have recently re-decorated our dining room and have painted the walls matt Dulux diamond white and have had a wooden oak floor fitted over 1 inch thick ply to replace the collapsed chipboard floor detailed previously - and I'm still smarting at the cost of that!!!
I thought a nice rug and a wooden, perhaps pine dining table for about £500.
That's not what Mrs Z was thinking. First to Oak Furniture Land where you don't get much change from £1,000. But Mrs Z decided that it would be too much wood, what with the wood floor.
So I was dragged to the nearest Furniture Village where she liked a marble table with chrome legs as a statement piece for £2k!!!!
There must be a catch with them - how can I put her off!?
The second choice was an similarly expensive ceramic table at £1800. Again, any known problems?
I'm thinking of popping down to Argos and getting a good old fashioned self assembly job for £200 whilst she's visiting her mother tomorrow afternoon.
Next she wants a replacement bed and in Furniture Village, she was keen on a £3,300 model. I was hoping for £400!
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