Bargain Finds
Home Decor
APT2B.com
Love modern home furnishings and décor? Then you’re gonna love Apt2B.com.
This recently launched, locally based website has savings of 10%-40% on modern home furnishings and décor pieces similar to pieces that you’d see at Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel and other chic home furnishings store.
Asian Ceramics
Want to spruce up your patio or yard with unique and colorful pots and planters? Look no further than Asian Ceramics in Duarte.
Usually selling only wholesale to landscapers, developers and designers, Asian Ceramics can save you 25%-80% on ceramic planters, pots and more in overstock, seconds and damaged product
CA Liquidators
Love Bargain Basement pricing? Then you’re gonna totally flip at the CA Liquidators monthly warehouse sales. You’ll find savings of 50%-80% on men’s, women’s and childrens clothing, house wares, home décor, home furnishings, toys, linens, electronics, and more for the entire family.
Dale Tiffany Outlet Center
Do you have champagne tastes? Well then, the Dale Tiffany Outlet is a store for you. Here you have the rare opportunity to buy beautiful gift and lighting reproduction pieces by Dale Tiffany, Handel, Galle Collection, Badash Crystal and Antique Road Show at incredible savings. This factory direct showroom carries last seasons overproduction, end of production, unique-one of a kind and closeouts at 20%-70% below average retail.
Designers’ Bloopers
Love high-end furniture but not the prices. Then head to Designers Bloopers where you find higher-end home furnishings at 30%-65% below original retail. Since 1990, Designer Bloopers has been a regular stop for savvy, shoppers in search of something unique, top quality and of course… way below retail. From sofa’s and oriental hutches to traditional dinning sets, chairs or sectionals, you’ll find it here in the nicely arranged showrooms.
Frame Club
In business since 1982, Frame Clubs’ owner Alona Crawford has employed three basic principles to keep prices at 30%-60% lower than other framing sources. Do all the work in-house, deal with local suppliers and services to hold down costs and locate in a low rent district.
Hotel Surplus Outlet
Hotel Surplus offers fine furnishings and fixtures from top ranked, 4 star hotels undergoing renovation or redecoration. These home furnishings run from mint to needs some attention and are offered at a fraction of the original price with savings at 35%-80% off of original retail.
Just Like The Model
Just Like The Model is a huge warehouse of home furnishing at 30% -70% below retail. Super deals on sofas, dining sets, chairs, lamps, armoires, accent tables, dressers, bedding, art and decorative items original displayed in model homes in New Housing Communities in Southern California and Nevada.
The Outlet By ELS
This fun place is a great source for incredible savings on almost anything imaginable. You’ll find apparel, home furnishings, electronics, small and large appliances, home and garden, hardware, home theater, bedding and linens, housewares, sporting, toys and more! All at savings of 40%-80% below retail!
Urbanism
A true bargain find, Urbanism offers good quality, stylish home furnishings at 20%-50% off of boutique furniture stores like Crate & Barrel and Restoration hardware. Savvy owner Stephanie Lamons can sell these hi quality pieces by working directly with manufacturers, keeping a low working overhead, buying in volume and only being open limited hours.
A-Z Mart
As you may have noticed from Zannees Blog, we love older home furnishings. Before bargain hunting became an obsession, antique and vintage home furnishing hunting was a passion.
So I was surprised when I found A-Z Mart in Whittier
ASAP Liquidators
I recently stumbled across a cool new liquidation company that has just opened it’s door to the public. ASAP Liquidators liquidates departments store (Macy’s Target, Walmart, Sears) overstock, returns and freight damaged product and resells it to the public at 50%-85% off original retail.
The inventory is so varied from super kitchy table top items to electronics and toys to higher end designer apparel, it’s hard to nail down this spot to one category. Here, it’s all about the deal.
Bargain Molding
On any renovation or home upgrade sometimes it’s the little extras that really make a difference both in the look of your home and the balance in your checkbook. But because of price, it’s often these little details that we do without.
Unless you know where to shop….
Big Y Yardage
Savings of 15%-50% on name and designer upholstery fabric. Large selection of Tapestries, chenille’s, chintz, cottons, damasks, wools. Designer consultation available. Full service.
Bring Down the House
Trying to put together new furnishings for your home? Even with all the liquidation sales happening these days, decorating your home is a big expense.
Time to look again at a tried and true bargain shoppers friend…. consignment home furnishings where you can save 40%-80% everyday.
Burke’s Outlet
Save 20%-70% on brand name men’s, women’s and children’s clothing and accessories along with deals on housewares, home decor, linens and more.
Chalmers
Chalmers is the perfect place to find deals on gifts for weddings, house warming, anniversary, birthdays, Bar Mitzvahs etc. I was delighted by the quality of crystal, art, fine china, tabletop giftware I found there by such notable names as Lalique, Daum, Versace, Kosta Boda, Lenox, Waterford, Reed & Barton, Jay Strongwater, Michael Aram, Nambe and more. This is a true hidden gem selling these items at 15%-45% below retail everyday
Dahdoul Textiles
I headed over to the Dahdoul Textiles outlet in Commerce this week. I had visited Dahdoul Textiles about 6 years ago and though everything was well below retail, I wasn’t impressed enough with the quality to write about it. But I thought I should take another look.
Well, I wasn’t really wow’d this time either, but I did find a few good buys. Dahdoul sells lower end merchandise priced really cheap… about 10%-30% below what it should go for with a few items priced at a solid 50%-60% savings
Deals in the Downtown Textile District
With our new home comes new décor, new window treatments and new upholstery.
After getting most my curtains through Villa Firenze Warehouse, I went to the wholesale textile district in downtown Los Angeles to search for more fabric for other drapery, pillows and some furniture I was having reupholstered. The deals were plentiful….
Deja Vu Fashions
Back when I was teaching at Scripps College in Claremont, I used to stop into Déjà Vu Resale. I hadn’t been in a long time, so it was time to go back.
Wow… this women’s resale shop has gotten even better. They are bigger, have a better selection of designer goods for women as well as vintage clothing for gals and guys….and they even have a small room with vintage home décor finds…. All at 30%-90% below retail everyday!
Furnishings Direct
Tired of cheap furniture? Want the best quality for less? Then your destination should be Furnishings Direct.
Here you’ll find quality crafted, beautifully designed modern and Arts & Crafts styled home furnishings at 20%-50% less.
Furniture Consignment and More
I love furniture consignment stores. As a creative DIY-er and an antique hound, consignment stores are one of the best places to haunt for stellar deals in home furnishings and décor. So when I spotted a sign that actually said furniture consignment while driving around Long Beach, I executed a fast U turn.
Gibson Factory Outlet
The Gibson outlet is at the corporate and distribution headquarters. In a large modern building, the outlet is a good size with well organized racks packed with ceramic ware, kitchen ware, dishes and objects d’art at 50%-90% off original retail.
Home Consignment Centers
One shopping trend that is coming back after the recession, is resale furniture outlets.
Consignment furniture stores offer shoppers a great way to get a bigger bang for your buck as well as turn over your quality furniture for some cash.
Home Consignment Centers has been around for 17 years, but only in Los Angeles area for the last couple of years.
Home Fabrics Inc
After our big move, we discovered we needed different furniture for our living room.
With budgets getting seriously tight, I dug up an old saved love seat and old chair that had originally belonged to my mom and sent them in for re-upholstery at Valley Upholstering. Not having fabric yet, I headed one more time to downtown LA textile district.
Hughes Estate Sales
If you like to treasure hunt for furniture, great buys on upscale stylish home furnishings will surprise you at the Hughes Estate Sale in Altadena. Savings here are 50% -75% off market or retail prices. If you get on their mailing list they’ll notify of estates sales they do from San Diego to Ventura. But, it’s at their monthly warehouse sales that they sell furniture that’s been pulled from storage units or estates that didn’t have time to arrange a formal sale. And the prices are so low ….their stupid!
King Richards Antique Mall
One of our favorite Holiday traditional pastimes is visiting local antique stores & malls. Most antique malls, stores and dealers have been hard hit by the recession and have lowered prices or a more willing to bargain.
The market has dropped and if you love antiques and can afford to buy, this is a good time.
Liquidation Center
Savings of 30%-90% on closeouts and liquidated goods in clothing, houswares, tools, home decor, bric a brac. A store full of surprises.
Luxury Fabrics
If you want to spruce up your home with new curtains, pillows, upholstery or accent pieces, the problem is finding the perfect fabric at the perfect price. That problem doesn’t exist when you know about places like Luxury Fabrics in downtown Los Angeles.
Manufacturer Furniture Clearance Warehouse
Manufacturers Furniture Clearance Warehouse has savings of 30%-60% on quality home furnishings and décor items. They carry dozens of lines of better manufacturers including Aico, American Drew, Millennium by Ashley, Boyd, Fairmont, Lane, Pulaski, Magnussen, Schnadig, Samuel Lawrence, Ital Art, Brownwood and more
Moskatel’s
Attention Crafts peeps and DIYers. If you haven’t been to Moskatel’s, you’re missing on on a huge selection and some surprising discounts.
Across the street from the flower marts and a couple blocks from the textile area of downtown LA. This is not the wholesale Moskatel’s of my youth. But it still offers a mammoth selection
Our Home Renovation Sources
Our new home renovations are finally finished. We spent a lot, but saved a lot on quality workmanship and goods. Here’s who we used and where we bought stuff:
Al Menendez - Contractor.
We used him for everything from our new wood patio cover ($1200) to re-roofing ($6900- half was Spanish tile), garden cement pathways $3500, electrical, garage conversion w/ new foundation and new office finishing.
Overstock Village
There’s a new discounter in town. Overstock Village. Still rough around the edges in a warehouse type space, this off price outlet liquidates from a wholesale, “Big Box” discounter as well as a famous home improvement store, selling everything from sinks and electronics to clothing and house wares all at 25%-70% below those companies original prices with the average savings at 30%-50%.
Pottery Manufacturing and Distribution
Shopping a long time, tried & true bargain source isn’t easy in Southern California where most independent discounters from years past have closed up. Not so with Pottery Manufacturing and Distribution in Gardena where you can save 30%-40% on ceramic pottery, pots and planters.
Premier Antiques Furniture
We are always on the prowl for quality used and antique furniture. Not only can you save money, but you’ll usually be able to buy higher quality than buying brand new. Hubby and I came across Premier Antique Furniture when we were buying flooring at National Flooring Outlet in Monrovia. Hidden across the parking lot in a 2-story building was a small sign for antiques.
Intrigued, we ventured in.
Reel Appeal
A jaunt around the Valley last week yielded a surprise at Reel Appeal. On first entry I though it was just a warehouse with old movie and film props. But it’s more than that. Buying up overstock from local studios including Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox and others, this independently run warehouse has everything from home décor, linens, bedding to home furnishings, jewelry, antiques, collectibles and more.
Sterns Drapery and Fabrics
During our home renovation this last Winter, I headed back and forth to fabrics stores in downtown L.A. about 10 times to shop for upholstery and window treatment fabrics. Though the selection and prices were great, driving into downtown and paying for parking each time, got a bit old.
I felt kinda stupid when I completely forgot about long time, tried and true fabric outlet, Sterns Drapery and Fabric in Sherman Oaks. So I went to visit.
Super Home Mart
This family operated store in the heart of China Town, is a direct imported / wholesaler of goods from Asia. You’ll find a plethora of items including gift items, household product, dishware, home décor, small appliances, office supplies, Asian art and artifacts, perfume jewelry, cookware and some furniture at 20%-75% below retail everyday with the average savings in the 40%-50% off range.
Thanksgiving & Holiday Entertaining
Thanksgiving and the Holidays are literally around the corner and if you’re entertaining guests, having a party or going to any parties, it’s time to get prepped!
Though we can’t give you any real cooking tips, we can help you get extra plates and place settings, linens as well as hostess gifts and gourmet foods for less. Here are some great bargain sources to help make your Holiday celebration shine.
Top 10 Bargain Sources for 2012
Here they are…our top 10 new Bargain Sources for 2012!
Every year we research dozens of new stores, outlets and discounters. Out of these we pick the top ten new sources for each year. It isn’t easy, but here they are.
See if you agree.
World Caravan Outlet
If you keep your eyes open you can find outlets in the strangest places… like a retail mall!
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The World Caravan Outlet at the Paseo Colorado mall is a real discount outlet. This is a great place to shop for casual linens, home décor and home furnishings with savings of 20%-70% everyday.
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