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Recommendations for interior fit out

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  • 09-10-2016 7:55pm
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    Cyrus
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    Hi all, looking for recommendations for interiors from people who have recently renovated or furnished a new house.

    Looking for decent quality at sensible prices

    Mainly:

    Flooring - engineered wood or solid and good quality carpets
    Lighting - decent selection of large lighting pieces
    Furniture - good quality sofas and beds
    Artwork - nice prints that we can get in large sizes
    Sheds - looking for a decent garden shed ideally slightly larger and one that can be painted
    Wood work - bespoke book case style tv stand for whole wall in sitting room

    thanks in advance for any recommendations


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    athtrasna
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    In accordance with the forum charter, recommendations by pm only please


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    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 20,105 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    Even for shops?


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    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Cyrus wrote: »
    Even for shops?

    Similar for most sub forums now.
    You can't even recommend a company even if your feedback is praising them. It's to keep it fair I suppose, no shaming and no praising companies. Keeps boards legal team happy too :)


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    johnnyskeleton
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    Cyrus wrote: »
    Wood work - bespoke book case style tv stand for whole wall in sitting room

    Always wanted one of them! But the price is prohibitive for most.


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    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Flooring is very much personal. This year I have refurb'd 3,000 sq ft with a combination of engineered Jatoba (Brazilian cherry), great carpets and parquet (individual Blocks beautifully laid by a guy from Belfast).

    Furniture, there's a great range in a UK company which is (something).com.


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    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 20,105 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    thanks for all the advice so far,

    on flooring there are few places i have spoken to (to be fair at the upper end of the market reputation wise) They are talking about 95 per m2 for top quality parquet + vat and a little less but not much for standard boards.

    Is that the going rate or should i be trying to achieve a little better than that?


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    drunkmonkey
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    There's a chain of shops doing an engineered floor for 18.99 at the moment. It's the parquet style but straight rather than v shapes, it's in a nice light oak colour.
    It's the cheapest I've seen an engineered floor, same floor was about 60 in another nationwide chain.
    Picked one up for a bedroom were refreshing.


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    Tigger
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    Cyrus wrote: »
    thanks for all the advice so far,

    on flooring there are few places i have spoken to (to be fair at the upper end of the market reputation wise) They are talking about 95 per m2 for top quality parquet + vat and a little less but not much for standard boards.

    Is that the going rate or should i be trying to achieve a little better than that?

    I have a flooring business and the "top of the range" shops in Dublin charge crazy prices ( i suppose they have to as the premise etc have to be paid for )
    Pm me with what your looking for if you want quotes


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    Tigger
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    There's a chain of shops doing an engineered floor for 18.99 at the moment. It's the parquet style but straight rather than v shapes, it's in a nice light oak colour.
    It's the cheapest I've seen an engineered floor, same floor was about 60 in another nationwide chain.
    Picked one up for a bedroom were refreshing.
    That's a lot more realistic and yes you can buy the same thing in different shops for double that.


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