Furniture Auctions Vancouver

It’s tough shopping for brand new furniture. Stores may not have styles that match what you currently have in your home, and many salesmen try to force you into installment plans that cost you more in the long run. You could try to shop on Facebook and Craigslist, but you put yourself at risk of scams and worse.  

Furniture at estate sales often sell for a fraction of their original cost. I mean yes, they’re used and that obviously affects the price. But the goal of a sale is to clear out a home, so pieces are priced to move. 

This means you can sometimes get high-end branded furniture at discounted prices, or antique pieces for less than modern replicas. Hell, you may even get solid wood dining sets at the same price or less than a set from IKEA. 

Lots of shoppers are surprised to discover they can furnish an entire room for the price of a single brand-new item. 

Most older furniture is tougher and more durable than modern styles. You’ll have tables that use real hardwood instead of particleboard or aluminum, often with hand-carved details. They’re very sturdy, often decades old and with decades more to go in their lifespan. 

Old furniture tends to be hard to move and are rather large, so won’t fit in smaller homes or apartments. This makes them high-demand items whenever there’s an estate auction. Homeowners snap up these high-quality furniture pieces right away to add them to their own sets. 

Don’t forget, you’re buying furniture someone picked out and chose for themselves. These are curated according to the previous homeowner’s taste. Which means a potentially wide variety of furniture styles and models that you could potentially get, from mid-century modern to retro chairs and accent pieces. 

You’re just as likely to get designer brand-name furniture as you are to get antique hutches and sideboards. Every estate sale is going to offer something different, and that’s part of the fun!

Estate liquidators and executors have to empty out a property—whether or not items are sold. That means if nobody buys a piece of furniture, it’s going straight to a landfill (or donated to charity). 

Buying furniture at an estate sale, on the other hand, saves it from the trash heap and gives it a new home—potentially for a couple more decades, depending on how sturdy it is.