Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What is the best furniture store out there?

Now, it has for a long time been argued that Ethan Allen is the best furniture store that can be found in America. But is it really? The only way to determine if this is true is too explain too yourself exactly what the word 'best' means.
When talking about furniture, you are looking for quality, design, cheapness, and organization of store. I will give all 5 furniture store I will talk about a rating on each of these criteria from 1-10
and I will have a poll available for your voting. And then I will arrange in order from worst to best. Let's get started!

Rooms to go

Rooms to go is a furniture store you would go to after just moving in to a new, empty house. It is a store oriented mostly towards children. It is a store with 100% strongly themed rooms. To start its rating, we will go to the quality of Rooms to go products Rooms to go does not support a lot of furniture. But the small amounts of furniture that are available are quite nice. You can find corduroy sheets and I have even seen some bronze encrusted picture frames. Yes, the quality at rooms to go is an 8. As for designs, again, rooms to go is very detailed when it comes to certain things. Like their 'princess' themed room comes with decent carving at the legs of the bed, dresser, and nightstand. and little girly accessories that appear to be nothing much to adults, but little girls are suckers for them. It is just little things like this that make me give rooms to go 8.5 designs. Cheapness comes now, and rooms to go is not the cheapest place around. since the stores has hundreds of diferrent 'rooms' you can either buy the entire room, which is around 1600-2200 dollars. Or you can buy only, say, the bed, for 299 dollars. Of course, you get a big discount if you buy the whole room, but it's already so expensive... anyhow i give it a below average 3.5. Lastly we have store organization. Since rooms to go is all rooms in order of age, it i one the most orgainzed furniture stores there is. I give it a 9 in store organization. So Rooms to go gets a 29 out of 40. A great score!

Ikea

We start the Ikea overall rating with its quality. When you go to Ikea, You first go to a floor with a bunch of their furniture, then, after you choose something, You have to get  the apprpriate 'box' with your furniture in it. So you have to make your own funiture! Because of this and the overall good but not great quality at Ikea, I give it a 5.5 for quality. Next we have design. Yeah, Ikea can have some basic designs in their furniture, though it is not their strong point. They might have carved armrests on their chairs, and marble-topped bureaus, but Ikea is mostly meant for efficientness, not quality and beauty. So they get a low high score, 6.5, for designs. We now come to cheapness. When it comes to cheapness, few stores ANYWHERE beat Ikea. Eeven for their classiest, best wares, they charge next to to nothing. Ikea gets a strong 10 for cheapness. Last in the Ikea category is how organized Ikea is. Ikea is so large, I have to say it is not that organized. It is organized in themed rooms, same age group, and just plain out randomness. so I am going to give Ikea a 3 for organization.
So Ike ends up with a 25 overall rating out of 40.

Ethan Allen

Now the major reason Ethan Allen is said to be a great furniture store is its fanciness. You will find couches with patent leathers, Mahogany wood on tables, and rich, waxy paint on just everything. so I believe Ethan Allen get about 9.5 for quality. But do not let this good start fool you! Next we have design. Well even with its stunning quality, Ethan Allen' furniture's designs are extremely average: no carving in the wood, or unoriginal bends or curves that make the furniture 'pop', nothing much. so in design, Ethan Allen gets a solid 4. Now we come to Ethan Allen's eak spot. Cheapness, or should I say, expensiveness. The prices at Ethan Allen are outrageous. Just an average queen sized bed that would cost 150 dollars at the average store. At Ethan Allen, that similar bed would be around 550 dollars! That is about 3 and a half times more! Ethan Allen gets a 1 in cheapness. Lastly we have store organization score. Ethan Allen is not FAMOUS for its organization, but its actually rather good. Their way to organize their store is to put together rooms with a theme. they have a lot of these rooms. so they get a 7 for store organization. And Ethan Allen ends up with 21.5 out 40. not so good!

the best furniture store is....

I will now make a chart with the three store's scores!


                      Ethan Allen       Rooms to go              Ikea

quality                 9.5                        8                                    5.5

design                    4                        8.5                                  6.5

cheapness           1                          3.5                               10

organization    7                           9                                    3
               ____________________________________
TOTAL                21.5                     29                                  25



3rd place-     Ethan Allen

2nd place-    Ikea

1st place-     Rooms to go


so Rooms to go is officialy the best furniture store you will find in america

Thank you

-Jimbob