Date: 3 Sep 85 20:24 EDT From: Harry Bovik (C410HB00) To: hqb@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Subject: Wing: futons & bookcases Message-Id: <03Sep85.202401.HB00@CMU-CS-A.ARPA> Jeanette Wing forwarded the following: ____________________________________________________________ Date: 30 Aug 1985 15:04:08-EDT From: Sara.Moss@CMU-SEI Subject: futons I just bought a futon from a store which specializes in only futons. It is called the Linen Closet and it's on the corner of Walnut and Maryland. but it seemed reasonable. Sara ____________________________________________________________ Date: 30 Aug 1985 15:23-EDT From: Todd.Rockoff@CMU-CS-G.ARPA Subject: Re: furniture I think that there's supposed to be cheap stuff made out of particle board at Busy Beaver. The stuff looks pretty good for desks and bookshelves. I'm in the market for this sort of stuff myself, and am heading out there with Richard Wallace this weekend to grab some. I guess you should mail me if you want us to investigate for you. ____________________________________________________________ Date: Friday, 30 August 1985 15:26:58 EDT From: Sandra.Katz@cmu-cs-cad.arpa Subject: Futon Mat and Bookcase Jeanette, Try Chinoiserie on Walnut Street for a Futon mattress. They seem to be cheaper than the other Shadyside stores that carry them (Linen Closet and Sunshine, all on Walnut Street). For a bookcase, Wooden Dollar on Highland Ave. carries nice unfinished ones. --Sandy Katz ____________________________________________________________ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1985 15:44 EDT From: "Scott E. Fahlman" Subject: furniture For used bookcases, keep an eye on the bborads or try Goodwill Industries (as described in the Guide to Pittsburgh). If you want cheap but ugly (industrial strength metal) shelf units, try Busy Beaver stores -- there's one next to the Waterworks shopping center in Fox Chapel that carries these things. If you want new wooden bookcases (actually veneer over particleboard, but it looks OK), a good source of these and other inexpensive furniture of simple, modern design is a chain of stores called HomePlace. There's one in the annex behind the Monroeville Mall, and another at Station Square. These are made in Denmark and require some assembly, but it's much easier than it looks. -- Scott ____________________________________________________________ Date: 30 Aug 85 16:04:32 EDT From: Bill.Chiles@CMU-CS-A Subject: Re: furniture I have no idea what level of furniture quality you're going for, but I'll guess that you'd be interested in The Home Place. It is a store located in the Monroevill Mall Annex that sells domestic and cheap imported (that is, it is not 3x the cost because it is 'imported') furniture of all kinds. It all has a certain underlying feeling to it that is hard to express, but I'll attempt it by saying reasonably priced, sometimes put together by you, and either very simplistic and functional or slightly elaborate looking and functional. Also, possibly David Weiss in Monroeville and Dahlkempers in the same place. All these places are within a mile or two each other on business 22 (Wm. Penny Hwy). Bill ____________________________________________________________ Date: 30 Aug 1985 17:27:35-EDT From: Steven.Shafer@CMU-CS-IUS Subject: Furniture Jeannette -- For futons, you might try calling World Bazaar (?) in South Hills Village mall (down Rte. 19 a ways). I can give you driving directions if needed. As for bookshelves, what I suggest: Buyer's Mart on Rte. 8 about 5-10 minutes north of the river -- general-purpose discount furniture store with about the best day-to-day prices for all kinds of furniture ordinary department stores like K-Mart and Hills -- sometimes have substantial things on sale Century III Mall -- right outside Sears are two furniture stores whose names I forget but I'm fairly sure they both have bookcases for reasonable prices. As for ballpark figures, I bought two full-size (>6') bookcases from Sears (their cheapest, but they look fine) for about $95 each, and today I wouldn't really want to pay more than $80-90 for the same thing, just because I know where to shop. As an additional note, when you buy inexpensive bookcases they frequently come KD ("knocked-down") in a box, requiring lots of screws to assemble them. You may be tempted to get out a screwdriver and go to work, but I don't recommend this -- I had blisters for a week because those screws are BIG and LONG and they fit TIGHTLY in those holes. I have a drill with screwdriver bits that you can borrow (who knows, maybe you can even borrow the owner!) that would make the assembly job go fast and be relatively easy. -- Steve Shafer ____________________________________________________________ Date: 30 Aug 1985 19:05-EDT From: Mike.Blackwell@CMU-RI-ROVER.ARPA Subject: Re: furniture I recommend The HomePlace, in the back of the Monroeville malll. They have lots of nice furniture, at very reasonable prices. I just bought several sets of large wooden bookshelves there. cheers, -m- ____________________________________________________________ Date: 2 Sep 1985 22:54-EDT From: Edward.Tecot@CMU-CS-K.ARPA Subject: Re: furniture I just bought some cheap bookshelves. If that is what you are looking for, try G.C. Murphy or Zayre. _emt ____________________________________________________________ Date: 3 Sep 1985 12:52-EDT From: Andy.Brown@CMU-CS-K.ARPA Subject: Re: furniture Home Place, in Monroeville Mall annex, has a good selection of reasonably priced bookcases. I don't think that they have futon mattresses, however. Andy Brown