Room and Board Furniture Review

Is it Worth the Price?

shadows, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Dec 12, 2007 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."

Room and Board furniture, and home furnishings has become a popular favorite amongst many professional home decorators. Room and Board offers outstanding quality, using only the best materials in their furnishings, but quality comes with a price. Decorating your home in this designer furniture is not cheap, in fact you can expect to pay $300.00 or more for a simple desk lamp. Room and Board's designs are very simple, clean cut, modern, and crisp. They offer a large selection of furniture, and home furnishings, which are certain to appeal to designers. You will not find any particle board, or pressed word in any of their furniture pieces. In fact, the materials used in Room and Board furniture are Maple, Cedar, and other natural woods.

After coming into a little money, a close family member decided to purchase the bed of their dreams, from Room and Board's online catalog. With several delivery options to choose from, they settled with the "in home" delivery. This option cost an extra $200.00 more, but not only was the bed delivered, it was assembled and set up, with all trash removed. I remember the phone conversation as if it was yesterday "you've got to come see my bed, it came today and it is beautiful". The bed was beautiful, it was a 4 poster king size solid Maple bed. The bed was extremely heavy, as the wood was very thick, almost to thick for my taste. No questions asked, the piece was bold, and guaranteed to become a heirloom piece of furniture. As I was drooling, wondering how nice it would be to even own a bedroom large enough to display a bed that big, and still have room to walk around in, I had to ask the price. The total cost for this one piece of furniture, in my opinion was outrageous. The bed was a block shape, no hand cravings, or exquisite detailing. It did not come with mattresses, pillows, or decorative bedding. Just the bed frame cost a total of $9,686.42 after tax, and delivery.

Decorating an entire room in furniture, and home furnishings from Room and Board will easily run you $20,000 or more. Imagine decorating an entire home. Room and Board has stores in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. There is also an outlet store in Minnesota, which is only open on the weekends, but offers huge discounts of scratch & dent, returns, and closeout furniture. You can also grab a few bargains on the clearance section of the Room and Board website, where you will find discounts up to 75% off. Shipping and handling is quite costly though. For their in home set up delivery option you can expect to pay anywhere from $69.99 to $199.99 depending on where you live. Small home accessories items can be shipped for $15.00, and large accessories for $25.00 through UPS. Large furniture pieces are shipped basic freight for $79.00 and up.

The one advantage you will find at Room and Board that some other furniture companies do not offer, is the ability to design your own furniture. You can pick out the type of wood, colors, sizes, style, and more, to create that "one of a kind" designer piece. For those whom have the financial means, Room and Board furniture is definitely an option worth considering. As for me personally I will settle for buying my furniture, and home accessories at a more reasonable price, even if it's guaranteed to only last a few years.

Published by shadows

I'm a single, full time mom of 2 wonderful kids. I enjoy writing, crafting, movies, animals, nature, the outdoors, and much more. View profile