You get a much wider choice when you buy home furniture online than from a physical mall store. This is particularly true when you visit the website of a distributor or dealership rather than a manufacturer. While the latter is restricted to its own range of products, a distributor can offer you the range offered by each of multiple manufacturers.
For example, the Stickley website will offer only Stickley furniture while a distributor can offer Stickley, Simply Amish, The Custom Shoppe, Southwood and Sherrill furniture, and also great mattresses from Jamison besides. That is surely better than having to choose from just one company’s range of products!
A Wider Choice of Home Furniture
This is one of the greatest benefits of buying home furniture online: you get a wider choice, and not just of the traditional type of furniture. You might want a beautifully upholstered sofa and armchair suite from Southwood Furniture, perhaps in a period Queen Anne style or in a delicately slender Thomas Sheraton design.
However, on browsing further through the distributor website you might come across some beautifully plain Simply Amish furniture that could get you thinking along a different line – rather than sumptuously upholstered period furniture for your living room you might like the idea of a style more fundamental to the original pioneers.
Perhaps a traditional hickory rocker, or an aspen sofa and chairs furnished with comfortable cushions rather than fully upholstered. Maybe even a comfortable four post glider for something different, and you could introduce a touch of modernity with an Amish entertainment center, accommodating a large LCD flat screen TV set and hi-fi unit.
Get New Ideas With Online Furniture Stores
When they set out to buy home furniture, most people will have something in mind, but they will also be unaware of all the options available to them. It’s only by browsing that you get exposed to fresh ideas and options that may never have entered your head. By visiting a mall furniture store you see only what that one store stocks, and you will even more restricted if that store is a single manufacturing outlet.
That’s like going to a sports shop that sells only Titleist golf balls or Slazenger tennis racquets! It is so restrictive! Few would visit a sports store like that, so why do so when you are looking for furniture? Furnishing your home is an expensive thing to do, so you would think that the greater choice you had the better!
Discounts Might be Available
Not only choice in design, style or manufacturer, but also choice in price! When you buy online you can often get discounts not available from offline stores, since the online facility is less expensive to maintain than a mall store. It’s a fact that many businesses that have both an offline and online sales outlet can reduce their prices because the online sales are able to finance part of the cost of maintaining a mall store: rental, rates, staff pay, power costs and so on.
You have none of that with an online store – or at least very little. You have staff to pay of course, but that’s about it. Then you get all the other benefits that an online operation can offer. The major of these is information: if the internet is good for one thing it is for the provision of information. Not only can an online furniture store offer you its entire range of products to look at on your screen, but it can also provide you with specifications of each piece.
Online Room Space Planning
The dimensions of every piece of furniture are at your fingertips, enabling you to easily plan how it fits into your room. You can use online room space planning software to fit each item into your room – and you have the firm’s entire stock to play with, not just the pieces they are able to display in their showroom.
Add to these benefits the fact that you are under no pressure to buy. They might mean well, but how often have you been annoyed by pushy sales staff trying to ‘help’ you come to a decision? You would feel self-conscious if you wandered around a mall home furniture store for 3-4 hours without making a purchase!
By purchasing home furniture online you do not need to travel and can make your decisions while you sip a cocktail on your sofa. Then order, pay, check the insurance or warranty and arrange delivery without even standing up, let alone leave the house!
Summary of Benefits
Here is a summary of the benefits of buying home furniture online that we have just discussed:
• A wider choice of furniture manufacturers
• View 100% of firm’s stock – not just a selection
• Come across new ideas for furnishing your home
• Discount prices
• All specifications and dimensions immediately available
• Online room space planning facilities
• No sales staff to bother you
• Take as long as you like to choose
• No traveling: choose from the comfort of your sofa (or buy one if not!)
You can no doubt think of more. The point being made is that you have total control over your shopping: when you do it, where you shop and how long you take when buying home furniture online.