Buying Furniture?

[T&A]

Hello all! The issue of furniture regularly crops up on the forums. May I suggest a company called Mondo Convenienza Mondo Convenienza | Arredamento e Mobili per la tua casa

They have stores nationally, but are predominantly in the Toscana, Umbria, Lazio regions. A new store is opening soon in Milan.

Their furniture is a bit like our MFI so the choice is yours. They are very competitive on price and have a good selection. A good selling point I feel is that they will deliver and erect any furniture (inc. kitchens) for only 8% of the total cost of your purchase, provided you do not live further than 100kms from the store!

For example if you spent 500Euros on bedroom furniture, they would only charge 40Euros for delivery, unpack and build!!

[Gala Placidia]

Yes, I agree with T & A, we bought a small number of items from them, a small sofa, three bed bases, an iron bed, some mattresses and a coffee table. They delivered on time, something that was for us a big issue as we were only staying two weeks, so we only bought things which were ready for delivery, and they assembled everything. We even put them to the test with one of the bed bases, which was 1.60 m wide and we found that it would be impossible to get it through the staircase as there were some beams protruding and blocking the access... They came up with the solution, we sent the wrong base back and when we will return in May they shall exchange for two 0.80 m wide bases which will do the trick.
They are also on line at Mondo Convenienza | Arredamento e Mobili per la tua casa and they also have very nice kitchens at reasonable prices. It is a pity that our kitchen is so irregular in shape and with one window which comes below normal benchtop height and we had to order it from a local cabinetmaker.... at considerable cost.

[Bolton35]

Do they have items that are "on the shelf/warehouse" and you are able to take away with you or are most of the bigger items ordered in and you have to wait a few weeks, similar to MFI in the UK?

[Giles and Sarah]

The new one in Abruzzo has a separate warehouse a few Ks away from the show room where you can pick up your purchases from, I don't know if there is any kind of waiting time or if you can go straight there, the warehouse is massive which points to them having the stock and you save the 8% delivery.
We bought a kitchen from them but had it delivered, I must say that for the price it is a remarkably good kitchen!

[NickZ]

Originally Posted by Giles and Sarah

The new one in Abruzzo

The one in Pescara?

Anybody know of something similar in Chieti province? South end would be best.

[Gala Placidia]

Originally Posted by Bolton35

Do they have items that are "on the shelf/warehouse" and you are able to take away with you or are most of the bigger items ordered in and you have to wait a few weeks, similar to MFI in the UK?

You can take with you small items which are in the store at the time. They can tell you whether they are available immediately or not. Some items have signs which say "Pronta consegna", which means that they are readily available from their warehouse. We only bought products in that category as we were in a hurry and we purchased them on Sunday and they delivered them on Thursday morning, which was great. You have to insist a bit on the "prompt delivery".They deliver and assemble the furniture for a fixed rate of 8% over the price of the item, which is very reasonable.

[Gala Placidia]

Originally Posted by NickZ

The one in Pescara?

Anybody know of something similar in Chieti province? South end would be best.

According to the brochure I have, they deliver and assemble throughout Abruzzo from their Pescara shop.

[NickZ]

Problem is it is a 3-4 hour round trip. The catalog has a couple things that might fit but until I see them

I guess I could combine the trip with some visiting but the drive is a bit much for just window shopping.

[coppicer]

We have had some lounge furniture from them are are very pleased. We looked at the catalogue on line, popped into the store near Pisa airport to check on the quality, ordered it on line when we got back to the UK, arranged delivery via e-mail with a very helpful lady called Veronica and two young hunks arrived with it all at 9am on the morning they said they would. They brought it all into the house, set it up and took away all the packaging. We could have paid on line with Visa but opted for cash on delivery. We are very pleased with it and it was very reasonably priced, at least as cheap if not cheaper that stuff in the UK sales at the moment.

[NickZ]

Could somebody comment on the quality?

I've found a local to me supplier with similar prices but much higher shipping. OTOH the stuff is real wood while the best I can figure from the Mondo catalog is it's some sort of veenered fake wood.