Dropped serious dough on bedroom furniture tonight

Jstas

Had to find furniture to match the solid mahogany night stands my dad built for me a few years back. It's freakin' impossible to do for a reasonable price anymore.

Anyway, dropped almost four large on some furniture that is a similar finish, a classic or traditional cherry finish. The furniture is cherry but finished dark. Matches the mahogany quite well. I'm pretty pleased! It'll be a good fit and shouldn't be too obvious in the mismatch.

RuSsMaN

I wouldn't worry about it, as long as the little lady likes it - that is HER room in this house (and I'm fine with that).

As far as color, I don't like everything matchy matchy, ala rooms to go or whatever. I think color variations, interesting peices (like your nightstands from pops) give a room character and really it make it yours.

Cheers,
Russ

hockeyboy

Start gettin some miles put on those bed posts and it's all good.

coolsax

i hear ya on the cost of it.. my wife and I's first really big purchase together before our house was a really nice bedroom set..

NotaSuv

Did you go with one of the bigger name brands or a smaller company...gotta keep the wife away from this post

Jstas

Got stuff from Cresent: http://www.cresent.com/

The Murray Hill Collection: http://www.cresent.com/murrayhill.aspx

It's solid wood and the only thing I don't like about it is the brushed nickel hardware. But Van Dykes has polished solid brass hardware to match what is on the night stands and looks better IMO. So I'll spend another few hundred and replace the pulls. There's 20 of them.

http://www.vandykes.com/


I got this dresser: http://www.cresent.com/9980.aspx



With this mirror: http://www.cresent.com/9981tm.aspx



This chest: http://www.cresent.com/9983.aspx



and this bed frame: http://www.cresent.com/9997.aspx




It's all solid wood construction. Only plywood is on the backing, drawer bottoms and dustproofing panels. All drawers are fitted and all joints dovetailed. The drawers are solid ash. The tops and panels seem to be solid cherry while the facings, frame and trim work look like mahogany. The drawer fronts are on poplar backing panels which are secured to the ash drawers. Likely to eliminate the need for **** in to the finish panel. The bed is hard to tell because it's finished inside and out, there's no bare wood like I've seen in cheaper examples from other companies. I do know that the large panels on the headboard are a cherry veneer because I can see the fine grain in certain light reflections but the frame itself has the muddy and deep grain pattern of mahogany. Anyway, whatever kind of wood it is, they are very well built for a mass market product and the only way I can match the finish on the night stands better is if my dad builds me an entire bedroom set. I was very impressed with the overall quality of these products.

It's not high end furniture by any means. I could have spent 3 times what I did on stuff from like Neiman Marcus or another crazy expensive department store and such. The stuff I did get was on the floor for five G's. They were clearing it out to make room for the new Berry Hill from Cresent. So they cut me a deal and dropped almost 2 grand off of the price. I made 1/4 of that up in taxes and delivery and such but I still think I made out pretty good.

steveinaz

Nice, very classy styling.

NotaSuv

steveinaz wrote: »

Nice, very classy styling.

Indeed I really need to not let the wife read/see this thread...........now that beautiful bed frame I could do with..very nice purchases

madmax

Jstas wrote: »

Anyway, dropped almost four large on some furniture

I did this last year when I moved in the new house. Prior to this in the bedroom I had a bed on a frame and chest someone gave me 10 years ago. It was fun to do even though I had this sick feeling over spending that much for non-audio related expenses.

On the other hand it made me realize how much stuff you can get for the price of a great pre-amp... :eek:

Congrats! Looks great.

madmax

BlueMDPicker

Very nice! Enjoy.

Slinger182

I'm a coordinator for a delivery company and my account delivers for Crate & Barrel. I have experience with the vendor for that furniture. That is very good stuff you have there. They are definitely one of the best that we deal with as far as quality of work and should last a very long time.

Hillbilly61

Working on building that nest, eh? Been there, done that and still snooze in it 20 years later. My nest is all mahogany too. Cool dark wood.

AGUERRA

yea i feel your pain just had to buy the little lady a new bedroom set and new coffee table, sofa table and end tables. but at least she leaves my man cave alone:D

jmilez1

You can find great mahogany furnitures in the internet. There are thousands of websites that are selling furnitures. The pictures here are awesome and cool.

messiah

jmilez1 wrote: »

You can find great mahogany furnitures in the internet. There are thousands of websites that are selling furnitures. The pictures here are awesome and cool.

Oh, the furnitures are in the internet!! That's awesome and cool. I looked everywhere for them except in the internet, but all I found was a "no good war".

Silly me.




Oh BTW Jstas, that is pretty nice furniture man. Love the dark wood look!

Willow

Lasareath wrote: »

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Congrats on the new furniture it looks very nice.

When I moved into my house the crap I had was falling apart and I left it at my old place. I haven't bought any yet. Been living out of luandry baskets for the past year and a half.

I'm getting a fat check next week....hmmm.......new 65" LED Samsung 3D or new driveway with belgum blocks or bedroom set........hmmmm.......

That's easy....a no brainer...the driveway! :rolleyes:

Ricardo

Looks very classy and will last a lifetime or three. Money well spent. Congrats!

mdaudioguy

Congrats! That looks really nice. One day my stuff WON'T come from Ikea!

I used to sell furniture. It was always interesting to me that folks will spend MUCH more on bedroom furniture (that "generally" isn't displayed to visitors), while cheaping out on the couch that virtually everyone who visits will see and use - just my random observation. (That's not to say that you cheaped out on your couch. I'm sure you didn't.)

cstmar01

nice stuff!

have to agree, when I graduated college I thought it was time to buy a new bed and a set of something to have and couldn't beleive how much (even just the bed) would cost.

Its nutty, but when I figure that I'll spending a lot of time in it durning my life, it becomes easier for me to take. But like a dresser, that was harder for me to take as all its doing is holding my clothes, but I guess we have to move away from clear plastic bins some day!

renowilliams

Jstas wrote: »

Had to find furniture to match the solid mahogany night stands my dad built for me a few years back. It's freakin' impossible to do for a reasonable price anymore.

Anyway, dropped almost four large on some furniture that is a similar finish, a classic or traditional cherry finish. The furniture is cherry but finished dark. Matches the mahogany quite well. I'm pretty pleased! It'll be a good fit and shouldn't be too obvious in the mismatch.

I hear ya about the price of funiture. I recently bought a leather power reclining sofa. I am pleased with it though as I'm sure you will be. And lets face it, when our wives are happy, we are too.

Rivrrat

I learned a long time ago not to cheap out on furniture. Good stuff will a lifetime, or until you don't like the style anymore, whichever comes first.

nooshinjohn

Nice stuff John...


The real question is how do they SOUND?:p;)

Congrats on the new furniture.

wallstreet

That is some classy looking furniture. I just dropped some money on some cheap stuff for the upstairs game room. Get this, buy the sofa and chair, we'll throw in a 50" Samsung plasma TV. Sign me up!

praedet

Next time, try to find some Amish country

Seriously, I spent a good deal of time finding some very nice stuff in Ohio that is solid maple and cherry. It is made much better than ANYTHING I could find in the stores and less than most of the high-end stuff is these days to boot

tonyb

hockeyboy wrote: »

Start gettin some miles put on those bed posts and it's all good.

...and not one notch to be found. :)

Serendipity

Nice furniture.