Habitat (Shop)

...I was getting bored....) Habitat is a store that you go to when you're a very cool and trendy couple who want some marvellously sparse black and white ornaments for your chic newly wed pad in the country. It's a sort of air conditioned IKEA store for Little Englanders everywhere and like IKEA it shares that very cheap and nasty, irrelevant feell. Things are very snazzy and impressive on the surface, but do you really need a picture frame with a ...
...Im afraid... Now, undoubtedly, Habitat do have a lot of good things on offer and if you're on the look out for furniture and trinkets and ornaments and gadgets then it's as good or bad as any of the others, all pretty nasty compact disc storage units and office furniture covered in those very, very unlifelike faux computers to attract in the big boys amongst you who just have to check whether they're real or not. When me and Mrs D moved back from ...

dave27 02.08.2001 · Read full review
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...Dining Table from our local Habitat store in Chester and at the time we were moving homes. We had moved out of our old house and living with my parents and we had stressed that they were required by the 23rd of April 1999. We then found out that are house move in date had been moved to the 26th of April 1999 and so Habitat had an extra couple of days unknown to them to get the furniture to us. At 8am on the 23rd of April the furniture arrived at ...
...every day for the last two years and with it being right in front of a patio door, it has done well with not losing too much colour etc. I would definately look to buy further pieces of furniture at Habitat although some items are very expensive but modern. ...

sharondyer 07.03.2001 · Read full review
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...a poor student! Yet Habitat came to the rescue when I needed picture frames. I decided that I would be better off buying picture frames to save my newly decorated walls from the relentless torture of sticking up and ripping down posters. Habitat had just the ones… 70x100cm Frameless Frames. The only problem was that I needed three – and this turned into a gigantic problem! I purchased the first frame when I saw it and it was perfect ...
...cannot specifically order them – Habitat will hold them for a few days. So I rang them up every so often and was lucky one day. I reserved it, brought it home, and opened it up and A BIG CRACK DOWN THE CORNER. So I took it back up again and got my money back and then the process started again. But I was in luck – the very next week they had one. So up I went (remember, 30 miles) and it WAS THE SAME ONE I HAD RETURNED THE PREVIOUS WEEK! ...

paulruegg 09.04.2001 · Read full review
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We recently bought a couple of items from the Aspen range: shelving unit and sideboard - for the non-negligible cost of GBP 1747, incl. delivery. Very positively impressed by helpful staff and swift delivery (4 working days from order). Disaster stroke as we had to assemble our flat-packed furniture. Right ... it's not Ikea, but you still need to assemble it, ok ... and you paid more ... so it must be better ... mmmmh The cuts are very approximate. ...
...which I substituted with a pencil I cut myself. The various components are extremely heavy - you need 3 people to make them fall where they should. Some bolts have to be hammered into the shelf, but there is materially no gap for the bolt to get into. In summary. It is a disaster. Stay away. ...

teoteoteo 28.03.2009 · Read full review
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...your home by either visiting Habitat or by looking through the Habitat catalogue. Habitat provide cool stuff for cool people. It is not cheap. But it is still good value for money. "How can that be so?" I hear someone ask. Because although a Rolls Royce has a high price tag, there's not many people who would decry a Rolls Royce because it did not cost the same as a Mini. Habitat do have everything you could ever possibly need. Luxurious sofas, ...
...endless, certainly fills up the Habitat catalogue. We have some Habitat furniture (a sofa, a glass-topped dining table and a glass-topped coffee table, and a really great easy chair that is sometimes fought over! My favourite Habitat item? A set of glossy black glazed coffee mugs. I don't know why it is, but their style and functionality really do impress me immensely. Habitat retails art through their art on demand service. The Habitat website ...

Martinscholes 22.09.2005 · Read full review
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I used to love Habitat style and always used to pick up the catalogues when they were available from the news stands. However, over th last few years gthey have really gone down. Can't put my finger on whether it's the products themselves or the store which is the most local to me; Leeds. Let's just say that Habitat is not one of the shops I dash to when I'm in town any more. I do find Habitat style a litle dated now I suppose, if I am honest, ...
...dark and dingy - strange really seeing as their style is quite minimalist and sleek. I feel really depressed when I've been in ?!?!?! Must say it's quite a few years since I actually purchased anything from Habitat although I'm sure there are still fans of their type of style. ...

gailmill 26.08.2000 · Read full review
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Habitat are bright interesting stores in most big cities. Their goods range from furniture to glasware.,rugs,pictures,cutlery, oils and herbs. crockery and pans, useful gadgets, house linens and lighting. it is all very modern it is also always on the dear side. You can get similiar stuff in Ikea at one quarter of the price.If you want to impress buy your gifts from habitat but if you want value shop arround. You can pick up bargains in their sale. ...

Tracy57 22.08.2000 · Read full review
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...warn anybody considering shopping at Habitat that their staff's knowledge of the availability of a product is awful. They do not offer to check the computer system, and when they do, they get it wrong. I spent half of my Sunday driving round London trying to find a coffee table which a Habitat Assistant at Kings Road told me "she had seen with her own eyes" in another store. The other store (Habitat South Kensington) had never even had it in stock! ...

nick.marsh 19.11.2002 · Read full review
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BE WARNED! Habitat crockery chips/wears extremely easily. i have been searching for a place to air my views on the subject for some time now, and at last thanks to Ciao i can do the right thing and help my fellow consumers. within only a month or so of gentle use (with careful hand-washing rather than dishwasher to clean), the colour of our plates had faded and all of them had chips around the edge. overall, i am astounded at the prices Habitat deems ...

juggernauthematics 20.03.2007 · Read full review
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