Where can I buy small wooden bookcases, today?

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I'd like to buy two small wooden bookcases today. Real wood. Not composite or laminate.

Approx 85cm width and 1m height.

I'd like to go to a shop, choose the shelves, and bring them home (ideally not flat pack). Mid-price-range (£ hundreds vs. £ thousands).

We're based in Surrey.

Where would you go for the widest possible selection of wooden bookcases?

Ideally it'd be a place with a bunch of different shops to choose from.

Do they have to match?

I get most of my bookcases from charity shops. I’d see if you have any British Heart Foundation furniture shops locally.

Harder because it’s Sunday.
There are various “pine and oak” type shops that sell plenty of things like this, eg the one in Chobham, but that one is closed on Sundays, and usually the only things you can actually take home from the store are display stock or smaller items like mirrors, so they might not have what you want.

Or large furniture charity shops eg British heart foundation / Woking Sam beare hospice ones, you can take any of that home on the day, but again they’ll be closed on Sundays.

Not sure what other furniture shops there are where you can take stock away the same day. Usually they have display stock to choose from then an order can arrive quickly afterwards. Needing it today will constrain you a lot and rule out places like barker and stonehouse, heals, furniture village etc.

IKEA have solid wood as well as laminate / mdf etc. You can obv take them home on the day (the reading store is ok).

They dont have to match, but matching would be quicker/easier.

They're to go either side of our bed.

Most of our bedroom furniture is built in, so the only free standing furniture is the bed and bedaide tables. The purpose of the shelves is for the unweildy pile of books on each of our bedside tables.

We also get a fair amount of stuff from BHF etc. (including an amazing homemade Welsh dresser for £85 last year). But it's a bit of a needle in a haystack, and we've needed these shelves for so long, today I've just got the urge to finally do it.

We've looked online too, the usual places (Oak Furniture Land, Graham and Green, OKA, John Lewis, etc. But never see any that are "right").

Oh I see. The online weariness can get a bit much. I think best thing you could do today would be to go to some actual shops (the ones you’ve looked at online - John Lewis, furniture village, etc) and just look at the options in real life as well as endlessly online searching. I find it helps to clarify the options and stops the online stalemate. If you get really stuck and can’t find anything you like, get a “pine and oak” place to make you something to your specs. But I think there’s a risk you’re oversciencing it - they’ll be 90% books by the time you stack them up. (I say this as a chronic oversciencer myself who spends too much time looking online and usually finds actual shops help!)

And as to your point of “where” - I’m in Woking and would go to the shops around Guildford, or head to Kingston. But there may be better places near you.

Thank you, I've done a bit (more) Googling and I think we'll head to Guildford (we're Walton/Weybridge borders).

Then we can do a Grand Tour of furniture shops.

Ah great - I recommend the barker and stonehouse, and there’s a furniture village across the road from there. Both outside town so parking easy though it’s easy to get swept down the wrong road if you don’t know the area!
Then in central Guildford there’s OKA and a couple of other places in the tunsgate quarter - v nice for inspiration but likely pricey.

Looks like there’s a Cotswold company place in Godalming nearby as well, but I’ve not been there.

good luck!

Yes there is Cotswold in Godalming
nice but a bit pricey