Best place to buy new appliances & furniture in Denver metro area?

Forgot to mention furniture places.

I avoid Furniture Row at all costs. If you shop Furniture Row and you shop American Furniture you'll find that most of their furniture collections are very similar or the same. I'd say about 70-80% of their furniture is from the same collections, they just choose different fabric and colors than one another. The main difference between the two is that you will typically pay 20%-30% more at Furniture Row. Furniture Rows catch is that they offer fancy financing deals, they'll give you 12 months no payments, 36 months no interest and all sorts of other gimmicky finance deals. They're able to do those deals by buying down interest rates from banks which in turn increases their costs, they also make a higher margin in general above and beyond their financing costs.

Personally I tend to like American and IKEA. Both have quality furniture that comes with a higher price point and junk furniture that comes at a low price point. Your budget will be the difference maker in whether you get throw away junk or quality stuff.

I change out my living room furniture about every 2 years and have learned a lot about furniture along the way.

A $500 sofa at American or IKEA will look good but they tend to break down 12-18 months into owning them. I had a $1K+ sofa from Ikea that sat just as good the day I got rid of it 2 years after buying it as it did the day I bought it. I now have another $1K+ IKEA sofa I really like and have had for a couple months now. I might even keep this one for more than 2 years.

A couple years ago I went bedroom furniture shopping and did so with a pretty big budget. I'll have a bedroom set for longer than I'll have a car and spend more time in bed than my car so why not spend some money on it?? I picked out a set at Woodleys that was right at $7K for bed, dresser and 2 night stands. I ventured over to American furniture to pickup a mattress, low and behold they had the exact same set I had ordered from Woodleys for a little less than half the price, the only difference was the finish color was slightly different between the two. Needless to say I cancelled my order from Woodleys and bought the set from American.

There's a place on Leetsdale called Dream Home, they'll negotiate pricing and you can some times get even better pricing from them than American but they usually have to order everything in so you can be stuck waiting a couple weeks for your furniture.


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