Teen bedroom furniture

[phoolani]

Where do you go for medium priced furniture for teens? Both mine (dd and ds) need new furniture, beds, wardrobes, shelves etc. I don’t want stuff that will fall apart in 5 minutes but I don’t want to spend a fortune, either. They’re both after that industrial look (scaffolding pipes and boards stuff!).
Tell me where to go!

IKEA, not the cheapest basic ranges. I've just given a large chest of drawers to a charity shop that was bought for me when I was 16 and still living at home, it's moved with me twice and I'm now twenty years older. Accessories give the look, furniture needs to last

www.wingsfurniture.co.uk/scaffold-furniture/

I just googled scaffold board furniture and this came up. No idea on prices.

Another vote for IKEA furniture. I have bookcases which my parents bought from IKEA in the late '80s (abroad) They are still giving great service.

They also have great ideas for storage and multi use features. Enjoy.

That scaffolding stuff is just the kind of thing I’m after, thanks.

Have looked at IKEA, but it’s not really what I’m after. It’s interesting that you both reference stuff that was bought years ago because I think the quality has really gone down. I bought billy bookcases 20 years ago and they were - and are - brilliantly sturdy. I bought new Billys a couple of years ago and they virtually fell apart within months. Very flimsy compared to my old ones.

upcycleuk.co.uk/

Look on FB marketplace or Gumtree for decent stuff (which you can paint if not to your taste)?

We are buying DD a bed from these people https://bigtable.co.uk/beds.html - don't know if they supply only in London, but the quality is brilliant and extremely reasonably priced. We are getting one without a headboard and buying a separate one so if her tastes change we can switch that and keep the bed. This will be it now until she leaves home! She's 10 at the moment.

DD1 sleeps in a bed from La Redoute, which is nice to look at but not as sturdy. You are dead right that big company furniture quality has gone downhill over the last 20 years (not to mention before that!).

Small local places and vintage are the way to go.