Your Home on the Orihuela Costa. Furnishing your Home
Turning your house into a home.
Whether you buy a property here on the Orihuela Costa to live in, to holiday in or to rent, it is important that it has your personal stamp on it..particularly if you are living in it.
Your home is one of your most valuable assets, so why not make it comfortable, easy on the eye and a place that you really do call home.
Here on the Orihuela Costa, the Costa Blanca and further afield in Spain, many, or most actually properties come either 'key ready' (mainly new-builds), with your furniture and white goods provided or are sold 'furnished', with the furniture being of variable quality from decent to 'questionable' furniture and fixtures and fittings.
The reason for this may be that many individuals who have purchased a few properties from developers, or who have been on limited budets will opt for 'furniture packs', that can be of vastly varying quality and styles, from the bog-standard everything matches with orange pine to frou-frou chintzy and over the top mixes of wild patterns and mixed styles of soft and hard furnishings, that can be stressful on the eye.
Furnishing your home obviously depends on the main purpose of your property, (e.g. do you really want to spend 2000 euros on a sofa that holidaymakers may possibly cover in sun-oil)
Your home is one of your most valuable assets, so why not make it comfortable, easy on the eye and a place that you really do call home.
Here on the Orihuela Costa, the Costa Blanca and further afield in Spain, many, or most actually properties come either 'key ready' (mainly new-builds), with your furniture and white goods provided or are sold 'furnished', with the furniture being of variable quality from decent to 'questionable' furniture and fixtures and fittings.
The reason for this may be that many individuals who have purchased a few properties from developers, or who have been on limited budets will opt for 'furniture packs', that can be of vastly varying quality and styles, from the bog-standard everything matches with orange pine to frou-frou chintzy and over the top mixes of wild patterns and mixed styles of soft and hard furnishings, that can be stressful on the eye.
Furnishing your home obviously depends on the main purpose of your property, (e.g. do you really want to spend 2000 euros on a sofa that holidaymakers may possibly cover in sun-oil)
Chuck out your chintz. Second Hand Furniture Stores.
All along the Orihuela Costa and neighbouring areas are second hand furniture stores and new to you type furniture stores that are happy to come out to your house, newly acquired or otherwise and taks your unwanted items off of your hands, and you normally will get a nominal cash sum for this.
The biggest pro of this way of clearing out the unwanted furniture from your home is you do not need to remove anything yourself, your house gets cleared all at once AND you get a wad of cash to but yourself something that suits your taste.
These are great souces of removal and you can always visit the stores too, where more than likely you can nab a bargain from someone else's house.
The biggest pro of this way of clearing out the unwanted furniture from your home is you do not need to remove anything yourself, your house gets cleared all at once AND you get a wad of cash to but yourself something that suits your taste.
These are great souces of removal and you can always visit the stores too, where more than likely you can nab a bargain from someone else's house.
Furniture Bargains.
In the true traditions of grabbing a bargain, the Orihuela Costa also has a bundle of furniture and accessory stores that can provide you with modern, stylish and well priced furniture and 'white goods'.
These stores offer stylish furniture from beds to sofas to corner units, mirrors, curtains, garden furniture, candles cushions and so musc more, that it wold take a few pages just to list.
Look out for tha sales (normally from 6th Jan and 1st July) to grab that extra bargain, though many of the furnitur stores along the Orihuela Costa will have offers (offertas) on most of the year.
Many of these stores are owned by ex-pats, so for those of you who feel embarassed to try out your Spanish, or just don't want to speak Spanish, they they realy do talk your language.
These stores offer stylish furniture from beds to sofas to corner units, mirrors, curtains, garden furniture, candles cushions and so musc more, that it wold take a few pages just to list.
Look out for tha sales (normally from 6th Jan and 1st July) to grab that extra bargain, though many of the furnitur stores along the Orihuela Costa will have offers (offertas) on most of the year.
Many of these stores are owned by ex-pats, so for those of you who feel embarassed to try out your Spanish, or just don't want to speak Spanish, they they realy do talk your language.
