This review seeks to give a detailed explanation with regard to the quality of furniture, sold on HouseFull.co.in and the reasons why I will never purchase any more furniture items from this online furniture retailer, ever again!
I bought 4 pieces of furniture from Housefull.co.in: a dinning table, a large coffee table, a queen size bed and a single size bed, for my new home. What attracted me to Housefull in the first place, was the incredibly reasonable pricing of various furniture items and wide array of products, in comparison to other online furniture stores, at the time such as Fab Furnish and Home Centre.
The only issue that I faced initially, was an unexplained 7 day delay in the home delivery of these furniture items, even though I had paid by debit card, but I let that issue slide, as the men who delivered and assembled the furniture items were very helpful and cooperative.
Now, the problems started within 6 months of purchasing these furniture items.
For starters, I discovered that the large coffee table, bought for my living room and the dinning table, had glass tops that had clearly been made utilizing some inferior quality glass, as evidenced by the fact that these glass tops were interestingly, prone to scratches and patches!
My suspicions were confirmed, while trying to clean the glass tops of my newspaper rack(that had been brought from my old home in Chennai), dinning table, coffee table and kitchen counter. It turns out that the quality of the coffee table glass top, is even more inferior than the glass top of the dining table, as the glass cleaning solution seemed to work wonders for everything, but the coffee table! Minutes after applying the liquid on the coffee table's glass top, the solution started to stick to the glass top and even after many attempts of furious wiping, with a clean and soft cloth(as per the instructions provided on the label of the glass cleaning liquid), all I was greeted with, were sticky patches of liquid, clinging on to the glass top for dear life! Such patches are a breeding ground for dust mites!
Second, my dining table has this quirky little feature of having a second glass top underneath the main table glass top, fixed by means of four long screw like contraptions, that looked pretty delicate! Sure enough, one of the screws is gradually giving way! Oh and the legs of the dinning table, are made of wood and are very sturdy, but black leathery covers have been stitched on to each of the four legs of the dining table and the stitches are already giving way, for one leg!
I guess I can safely conclude from all this that lower prices, translate to lower quality! Luckily, the single size bed and queen size bed, remain intact to this day!
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