Right time to go furniture hunting

Festive time is just round the corner and its when many plan to acquire things for home. It is not just festivities and rituals but also is the time when the celebration mood is heightened with acquisitions in the form of a kitchenette, a piece of sofa, that computer which the child has been demanding or even a plasma television for which the entire family has been waiting for some time.

Joining the festive moments would be the stores across the city most of whom come out with offers of some kind or other. Earlier, it used to be just some discount offered on furniture. Some came forward with 5 per cent, others pegged their sales pitch with a higher discount of say 10 per cent while some others went to the extent of 20 and 25 per cent.
Exchange offers

That was joined with exchange offers wherein you could walk in with old furniture, from sofa to dining table to cots, and then return home with a new set of piece at a reduced price. These days, one can see several big outlets making offers such as buy a double cot and take home a wardrobe free, take a kitchenette and have some accessories as free and even several pieces of furniture bundled up as a package and offered with a decent enough price tag.

So, for those looking forward to either furnish their new home with a new set of furniture or replace the worn out pieces, this could be the right time to go furniture hunting. The city has a wide compilation of stores in different parts that include cane chairs on road side to luxury Italian cots in the plushest of stores.

The stretch near Nampally railway station has several stores that offer basic material such as cane chairs, basic sofa sets, side and centre tables.

One can also browse these outlets for steel almirahs, cabinets, steel and wooden cots and quite a bit of artefacts and design pieces for décor purposes. From small flower vases to carpets and the needs of children’s room, the shopping can be exhaustive. These days the offerings here also include computer tables and executive chairs that fulfil the need of office spaces.

For small décor items and pretty flower bunches, hangings or frames and metal decorate pieces, markets such as Koti and Sultan Bazar have plenty in store.

While here, a look around for curtains and linen can also be fetching. Remember, a bit of haggling here will surely give some respite to the wallet.

On the end of shopping spectrum are the furniture malls, air-conditioned chains and stores that stock every need of a home from a nail and hammer to the international brands in sofa and cots. An impressive list of these stores ranging from Home Town to Godrej Lifespace can be visited for more cushy and the latest in furniture.

Some have the latest models that redefine luxury and depending on one’s wallet size, shopping can be taken up here.

A drive down from Banjara Hills to Madhapur gets dotted with a horde of exclusive furniture stores and some outlets dedicated to the needs of kitchen, bedroom or bathroom. Just wait for the festive mood to descend and the stores to usher in offers and discounts before you drive out for furniture shopping.

The season is going to be almost month long and many of them are in the final stages of outlining their offers.

And meanwhile, do not miss the series of expos and melas that have already started at venues in different parts of the city. One advantage here would be that a shopper gets to check furniture and crafts and décor items from different parts of the country.