Anyone ever regretted buying a piece of furniture?

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Been hankering after a lovely piece of antique furniture for quite some while. Finally found a piece I liked and thought would look perfect.

I measured out the space it would take up on the floor etc and thought yes looks fine, a little bit but it's ok.

It's arrived today, and it is lovely... but it's just hit me that I've spent £1,000 on a table that looks 'odd' in the room. The wood is much darker than I thought, and it's out of proportions ... :(

Will I grow to love it?

I hate my dining table, I loved it, DP ordered and paid for it for me and it was not cheap. And I can't stand it.. why didnt I chose one a different size/shape/colour.

I will never be able to replace it lol

Oh yes. Bought a solid oak sleigh bed plus matching side tables & chest of drawers. Hated the bed, it was way too big for the space. Got rid 2-3 years later for an iron frame from M&S. expensive mistake.

Yes I hate my sofas. I got recliners which I liked at first but now I think they look like old people sofas and aren’t particularly comfortable. Plus I had a nightmare with the company I ordered them with so they have that connotation to me as well.

DH spent £3.5k on two fireside chairs that I totally hate .

We got a very expensive sleek white gloss table which is lovely except that I am so worried it will end up covered in scratches that I cover it in a vinyl table cloth from b&m! We also got leather chairs to go with it, the white ones are so grubby looking now and the navy ones I personally hate, although Dh loves. I wish we'd got more expensive ones, although I suppose we can change them in future once this dc are older.

Yes a few. I hankered for a rustic type dining table, you know one you can use without worrying about table mats, children can draw on it and you wouldn't worry about the marks but once it was in place, it annoyed me to no end. We received it and actually, it was too rustic even for my liking. Top made out of scaffolding boards with gaps inbetween. I made it slightly better by sanding it myself further to stop the splinter. £750 wasted. I could have bought a normal nicely finished table and aged it myself for the same look.

The sofa we bought when I moved into our flat with DH. Within a couple of hours of sitting on it, DH and I decided it was shit. Lived with it for 6yrs and now replaced a lovely leather corner group and the mess DD has made on it, we are glad we have this one.

The lovely display cabinets in the other room that we occasionally use. They suit the space, and look like they are fitted but now we have decided to knock down that wall and have a bigger kitchen (used to be dining room but now dining is in the conservatory) so soon they will be redundant. I will probably flog them on ebay for pennies. I really love them but I don't know where else I would put them.

The rubbish mattress that came with the new bed for the spare room. I felt terrible when my mother mentioned a spring coming out. I felt terrible. We replaced that one quickly though.

Slow cooker - bought a 3L but I learnt within a couple of uses that I should have got a 5L. I always end up shoving the bloody onions in at the beginning so then every 1 hour I stir to fit everything in which defeats the whole point of a slow cooker and energy saving.

We didn't buy this but were given it as a 'stop gap'....a glass tv stand which we still have now. We are renovating and we will be changing it then but with lockdown everything is on hold sob!

A sofa reduce looks great in the room but is really uncomfortable. The cat likes it though

I always hate new furniture when it arrives but within a week I love it! You'd think I'd have learnt by now but somehow the money spent and the change gets me every time 🤷🏻‍♀️

Me!
Spent £1,200 on a new table (in the sale) I dislike it for a number of reasons.
It's the only piece of furniture I have bought new (apart from my bed & sofas - which I love) and I know never to buy new again.

You've inspired me to stick it on eBay this weekend to get rid if I can clear all the crap off it first!

Hi OP, you may grow to like it, why don't you try and live with it for a while and see how you feel then. If it's still not good, you can always sell it again, antiques should not lose their value a great deal.

Not quite but we spent £5k on solid wood bedroom furniture a few years ago. We love it but it was such a massive pain in the arse to get up our bedroom we don’t think we’ll ever be able to move it out again - we want to move to our loft room so that kids can have our room but it will never get up the (narrow) stairs
Also we have spent £££ on wool carpets- never again as we have moths which we just cannot get rid of

I bought a fantastic dining table with horrible chairs. I replaced the chairs with new chairs that match the wood and are padded but they are too wide and won't fit between the legs.

It's an expensive mistake.

Yes, I bought really expensive bedroom furniture for our guest room when I was just about to give birth. I think I was in some strange distracted mood, as I didn’t think to look inside any of the drawers. The outside drawer depth looked fine...inside it was only half the depth!! Useless. Also, the style suited our old city loft apartment. We’re now moved to the country and I gave the set to a relative. Waste of £3k!!

Also, I spent £5k on wool carpets for the bedrooms. So ridiculous! Within 2 weeks, 3 of the carpets were stained somehow. Wool is impossible to clean. Never again!!

And I’ve made some expensive mistakes on paint colours... getting decorators in and then realising the colour didn’t work in that particular room etc.

Basically I shouldn’t make decisions when tired, which is always 😂

This is why I buy 99% second hand. Nothing ever looks or fits how I expect it to. I've had a high furniture turnover in my house but never lost any money, I'd be scared to invest a lot.

I bought a coffee table which I immediate hated and listed on eBay 5 mins after it arrived in my house. I a moment of delusion I thought I might make a profit. It turned out I broke even, but learned a lesson. (I'm not actually sure what that lesson was apart from I'm not good at visualising what furniture will look like in a room)

I've got an orson armchair arriving tomorrow - I've been wondering since I ordered it should I cancel. I bought it on a whim because I wanted a dedicated place to sit and read

Yes. Leather reclining dark brown sofas. Dh bought them. God how I fucking hate them.

@Carrie7469, What is a sofa reduce?

I have bought furniture and then hated them, but as most of it was 2nd hand it didn't matter too much.

yep, I bought a really expensive stone resin shower stool for shaving my legs. When it arrived I realised it takes up too much space in our bathroom plus I remembered I planned to get my legs lasered anyway... Can’t send it back as DH threw away the packaging already

My Loaf sofa. It was an expensive mistake.

Hall storage things with baskets to tidy up hall, it arrived and is too small, you can fir one thing in a basket and it looks v cheap. Dh had raised his eyebrows at it on line, he was right. It’s like a dolls hall tidy.

Yes I also had a Loaf sofa which just attracted stains and looked horrible after a week! I loved it, but it just looked awful. I eventually complained to them and they took it back (and refunded me).

Mostly I agonise over furniture purchases for such a long time that I'm sure about them - my biggest regret is buying Ikea stopgap furniture which turns out to be permanent.

I did once buy a sofa that was too big for the house. I actually couldn't fit anything else in the room. It looked pretty ridiculous, but cost me so much money I had to keep it. It was exceptionally comfortable though.

I think that a lot of even quite expensive furniture is junk, these days. Poorly applied veneers instead of solid wood, not even solid softwood. Tiny drawers that fit about 3 t-shirts comfortably. Sides of drawers too thin for the weight of the drawer front (eying up John Lewis wardrobe for that one)

We buy quite a bit second hand. Apart from a sideboard that is a slightly more alarming shade of cherry than I ideally wanted, we're rarely disappointed.

We bought a sofa that looked really cute in the shop but it was soooo low and narrow that we got rid of it after a year.

We could barely sit on it together.

It wasn't anything particularly expensive though.