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Themetastic
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Where did you go baby furniture shopping?
Themetastic
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I want to start shopping for nursery furniture since I guess it can take up to 3 months to be ordered. Where did you look?
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Re: Where did you go baby furniture shopping?
Thanks for all the tips! I also have amazon prime, so that is a good idea.
Most of what you can take a look at in-person at say Babies R Us, you could likely find on Amazon for less money and free shipping. The shipping doesn't take that long either.
There's a crib and bed outlet in Lombard. They have a nice selection.
There's also Rooms for Kids on Halsted and Cermak. They have a very small selection of cribs but all of the furniture is very well built. https://www.rooms4kidsoutlet.com/
We haven't bought our furniture yet but will probably go with one of these two places.
Not sure what area you're in, but Cribs to College in Naperville is awesome! Their sales people don't work on commission, so there is no pressure to buy. Plus their prices are great and they always have a great monthly deal going. My crib was $20 less and the dresser $30 less than at Buy Buy Baby. The February deal was $100 off a crib with the purchase of a mattress and one other piece of furniture, so I feel like we got a great price for everything.
I would highly recommend checking it out if they're at all convenient to you. They're on 59 by the mall.
Thanks! Good to know. I am about 25 min away from Naperville.
We got the dresser and bookshelf from RH Baby & Child (my friend is an interior designer and has a discount there), the glider/recliner from Lazar's (I
that chair so much, it was frequently my bed during the first few months). We looked all over at cribs and ultimately decided to not spend a lot of money on a convertible because DS might end up using his crib rails as teething toys once he can pull up - so we got the Graco Sarah from BRU online as they had the best deal when we were looking.
Definitely spend time looking around to see what is out there. You can always decide to buy what you find in stores online instead if you want!
Eh, we got ours at Cribs to College and I was underwhelmed to say the least. The store is nice and our salesman was helpful (he was one of the owners) but I didn't think the prices were that competitive. We ordered it when I was 20 weeks pregnant and were told the furniture would be in in 8-10 weeks. Nope, it took 17 weeks to come in. There was no communication from them, I was calling constantly and being told different stories and different timelines. It was so stressful being full-term and finally getting the furniture and having to set up the nursery at 38 weeks pregnant. I think they just didn't care about customer service once they had my money.
Added to that, someone else asked a question on here a while ago about furniture stores and there were posters who were chiming in about how great this store was, who all had like 1 or 2 posts. So it looked to me like someone from the store was lurking on these boards to talk up their store. That was really icky to me.
We bought our furniture from Buy Buy Baby. Still waiting for it, but we were told it'd take about 8 weeks (it's only been 2 so far.)
We also looked at Lazar's, as we were told that they have nice stuff at good prices - well they had the same exact crib we bought from BBB, but each piece was marked up 10%-20% from the BBB prices.
Also, if you go to BBB, you can use 20% off coupons for each item. If you sign up for the BBB e-mail, they'll e-mail you a coupon good for 20% off. Sign up with multiple e-mail addresses, and you'll get multiple coupons.
BTW, if you have gmail, you can add periods or remove them throughout your e-mail address, and the e-mails still go to your same e-mail address but the BBB website thinks they're all different addresses. For example,
e.mail @ gmail, em.ail @ gmail, ema.il @ gmail, e.m.a.i.l @ gmail, etc., are all the same e-mail account at gmail, but BBB sees those as 5 separate accounts. Hope that makes sense!!
We got ours at IKEA. It was one of the few places that had something small enough to fit in our nursery. It is the Leskvik series. We got the crib and dresser/changing table.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60108663