Furniture Stores
Independent discount furniture and mattress outlet on the east end of Bridgeport Road. Sofas, beds, mattresses and household basics at outlet pricing, open daily. Worth a look before paying chain prices if you are furnishing a rental or a first place.
Furnishing a first apartment is an exercise in not overspending on things you will replace in five years, and the outlet format exists precisely for that. Sofas, beds, mattresses and household basics are the categories where the gap between adequate and expensive is widest, and where adequate is very often the correct answer. Nobody's first sofa deserves a five figure decision.
The comparison worth making is against the chains on the corridor. Richmond has the big names within a few minutes of here, so walking through an independent first costs you an hour and can save real money, particularly on mattresses, where the markup structure across the entire industry is famously strange. Do not expect designer furniture. Do expect to find something serviceable without a payment plan attached to it.
Bridgeport Road is Richmond's warehouse and big-box belt, running east from the bridge approaches past the casino and the large lots into the industrial blocks. It is a strip built for cars and for large purchases, and it is where you go when the thing you are buying will not fit into a shopping bag. Getting here from the tunnel or either bridge is easy, which matters if you have borrowed a van for the afternoon. Telephone before driving over for a specific item, and settle delivery separately rather than assuming it is included. Measure your doorways before you buy a sofa. Everybody knows this and nobody does it, and it is the single most common reason a good furniture bargain ends up back on the truck.
In the Bridgeport neighbourhood of Richmond.
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