Cool Home Office Furniture

[BattyBatty]

Any ideas where to buy cool home office furniture without spending too many shillings? I have seen some awesome looking stuff on the top floor at Paragon but i am not spending 100,000 baht on a desk and 40,000 on a chair.

Any Ikea type stores in BKK?

Cheers

[mosquitoman]

Hi Battybatty

The nearest I have seen to IKEA (in a very limited way) is Index

http://www.indexlivingmall.com/th/home/home.php

Cheers

[BattyBatty]

Hi MM

Yep that look as near as d a m n it. I'll go check them out at the weekend. Thanks for the link.

Edited October 12, 2006 by BattyBatty

[backflip]

The Index Mall has a limited selection of poorly built furniture. There's a store on Thonglor that has a store similar to the Index Mall - real garbage - and it even uses IKEA's color scheme for its signs. If a real IKEA (or Home Depot) opened, I'd practically live there.

[mosquitoman]

The Index Mall has a limited selection of poorly built furniture. There's a store on Thonglor that has a store similar to the Index Mall - real garbage - and it even uses IKEA's color scheme for its signs. If a real IKEA (or Home Depot) opened, I'd practically live there.

I agree most of thet stuff that Index sells is tat, however I have found a couple of gems including some of there chairs (lasted over 4 years in a busy restaurant, and still going strong) which have been OK.

The worst stuff in my experience are the self assembly bookcases etc which seem to disintergrate as I assemble them.

I think the best way is to closely inspect things before buying them.

[davidjtayler]

If you're after cheaper office furniture go to 'Maeng See' area .. its between Democracy monument and Chinatown ... theres around 20 furniture shops in this area competing for your business.

[Prudent_rabbit]

A word of caution, make sure the chairs are built to take "ahem" the weight of the non Thais, our new office, chairman flew in from Australia, had a good luck round sat on the first chair (Nice leather reclining chair) there was a crack and the next thing, he's flat on his back on the floor with bits of broken chair around him, thankfully he saw the funny side