Furniture
As I said in the introduction to this section, our inital reason for using new to us furniture was financial need. However, we have found it makes a much more interesting house when with furniture has it's own story.
We have inherited grandparents' chairs, friend's table, parent's settee, camping chairs and tables. Our son uses my old bed, with a new matress. We are careful with the furniture we take, making sure it doesn't come with any unwanted visitors, in the creepy crawly line. Many insurers don't provide cover for damage from an infestation, which can destroy all your furniture other than plastic, requiring the house to be gutted and in certain situation the occupiers to be house bound for a period of time. We think this is worth missing, so if we have any concerns we decline the kind offers.
There is now again a space issue, our house is at capacity with furniture so if we get something new something needs to go, this tends to clarify if it is really a piece of furniture we need or not.
Much of the furniture needs running repairs - legs screwed back on to spars and recovered for example but that just gives them a new chapter and helps them look at home with us.
We have inherited grandparents' chairs, friend's table, parent's settee, camping chairs and tables. Our son uses my old bed, with a new matress. We are careful with the furniture we take, making sure it doesn't come with any unwanted visitors, in the creepy crawly line. Many insurers don't provide cover for damage from an infestation, which can destroy all your furniture other than plastic, requiring the house to be gutted and in certain situation the occupiers to be house bound for a period of time. We think this is worth missing, so if we have any concerns we decline the kind offers.
There is now again a space issue, our house is at capacity with furniture so if we get something new something needs to go, this tends to clarify if it is really a piece of furniture we need or not.
Much of the furniture needs running repairs - legs screwed back on to spars and recovered for example but that just gives them a new chapter and helps them look at home with us.