Sharp's Fitted Bedroom Furniture

Advantages: Great design, making the most of space.
Disadvantages: Wish we had more storage space.

...Sharp's Bedrooms My Husband & I were looking for a fitted bedroom. We started to review the market. Sharps Bedrooms were recommended, since friends of ours had the Oslo Range. We were fortunate enough to see it in their bedroom, and I must say it looked superb. They told us it came with a 5 year guarantee and gave us an indication what they paid for it. We organised a designer to visit and within a couple of hours, he had measured and designed us a bedroom. The drawings were very impressive. Their was no hassle. We told him we were looking for other quotes and he was o.k with this. Had Hammonds arrive a few days later. Different ball game, tried to brow beat us into signing on the day and kept reducing the price. Virtually told us we were wasting HIS time. Decided to go ahead with Sharps, Nice choice of finance plans, took...

Stewardess 17.07.2008 · Read review
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White, Sherbourne furniture - not wardrobes

Advantages: Made to fit
Disadvantages: No measurements on initial plan, designer didn't give full options of various height/depth/widths.

...wardrobes. Lots of flexibility regarding height, width and depth but designer tends to draw what THEY like, where THEY want it, so be ASSERTIVE and ask loads of questions about alternatives/options/measurements/positioning. Initially, we nearly ended up with low level bedside cabinets, hadn't initially been told we could have more suitable mid level - all because designer drew what SHE likes!! Also had to absolutely INSIST she move kneehole dresser to where I wanted it as opposed to where she wanted to put to be "symetrical" - who cares, it's MY bedroom. She chose 500mm deep dresser top, same as existing for "more floor space" (as fitted butting right up to wall as opposed to Schreiber self assembly which had 5" gap behind it - because of previous rad position, which would be moved for Sharps furniture, thus closing that gap...

1954Sagalout 20.06.2008 · Read review
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No hair left but a beautiful bedroom

Advantages: Very well finished
Disadvantages: Don't care about the customer

...Our nearly 15 year old flat packed bedroom furniture had seen better days and we (really me!) decided that we should invest in some new stuff. Picture this, drawers that go lopsided when they fall off the runners. Wardrobe rails that keep falling down, door handles that fall off. Where do we start? First we visited the well known furniture retailer who sold us the original flat packs. Things have improved since then. We chose our favourite design and the salesman put together a package based on our room measurements. That came to about £1900 including fitting. But it was ?put together?. It lacked cohesion and I just had this gut feeling that it wasn?t quite what I wanted. My daughter and I visited another local fitted bedroom company (when my husband was at work!) and I was faced with the most sexist salesman I have ever...

carolscotland 26.02.2003 (26.03.2003) · Read review
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Sweet Mimosa

Advantages: Sweet smelling
Disadvantages: none

...There are several Mimosa species but the one I talk about today is I think Arcacia dealbata When we went to Tunisia at the end of February we saw many mimosa trees/shrubs. I was impressed by the sight of a row of these shrubs growing alongside the road. The mimosa an evergreen bushy tree with green feathery blue grey green leaves. Grows to15 metres tall. The flowers are yellow, a small ball shaped flower which is sort of fluffy. Numerous of these flowers grow at the end of branches and are quite sweet smelling. They grow well in full sun. These trees /shrubs have a pale green coloured trunk. This Mimosa is native to Australia. It will survive in a sheltered position in the south of this country.. It is a tender plant. This plant can be grown as a conservatory plant and placed outside in the summer.. The Mimosa will...

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Voulez-Vous Coucher avec Moi ce Soir?

Advantages: Impressive finished product, great catalogue and TV advert, professional sales staff
Disadvantages: Very expensive, sister companies featured on BBC1's Watchdog

...WRITTEN February 2003 INTRODUCTION Over past few years there has been an increase in interest in DIY thanks mainly to Carol Smillie, Anna Ryder-Richardson, Linda Barker etc. I have only dealt with Sharps Bedrooms on one occasion, which was about 3 or 4 years ago. This op is really about the pitfalls to watch out for when dealing with them. I know very little about DIY but I hope that some of this op will be interesting to read. WHO ARE SHARPS BEDROOMS Sharps Bedrooms are probably the UK?s leading company for storage solutions and fitted bedroom furniture. I would guess that Magnet is their nearest rival. Whenever I walked past a Magnet store there was always a sale offering up to 50% off. The web site of Sharps bedrooms is www.sharps.co.uk. The site was quite well designed. All their stores in the UK were...

mrpaella 05.02.2003 (10.12.2003) · Read review
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Sharp's Practices

Advantages: Stylish furniture competently fitted into your bedroom
Disadvantages: Furniture is not of the highest quality.

...quickly as possible.? So, there I was inside the showroom and it does look impressive. There?s a range of furniture to suit all tastes and styles. The ornaments are all tasteful and the duvets have matching pillowcases, unlike at home where someone always ends up with a Magic Roundabout pillowcase if we have a full house. You may get the impression that this is a custom-built bedroom, but it?s not. A solid frame is built (or, in plain language, battens are screwed to the wall, floor and ceiling) and then standard units are fitted into this. You choose the units and the finish for the outside. They put it all together. In showrooms the staff always seem to fall into two categories. They?re either very friendly or rather superior. The lady in Sharp?s was very friendly if a little vague on precise details. The ?designer? (salesman...

SueMagee 13.10.2002 · Read review
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The dolls have a lovely bed to sleep in!

Advantages: Robust, excellent quality, pretty, safe
Disadvantages: You may feel that it is a bit expensive but you do get what you pay for

...My niece has a beautiful dolls house called the Marlborough Dolls House which is a John Crane Pintoy product ? in fact I wrote a review about it some time ago. There are various sets of furniture made in 1:12 scale available to fit in this, or indeed any other, dolls house including bathroom, living room, kitchen, nursery and bedroom furniture. Earlier this year she received the set of living room furniture which she loves playing with and then for her birthday she received the set of bedroom furniture which she loves just as much! I thought I had better tell you about it in case it was useful as a Christmas present idea! Since I hadn?t a clue how much it cost I have just searched via Google and found the set ranging from £14.99 at Mail Order Express, to £13.95 at Amazon, down to just £12 at www.kidsrooms.co.uk where they also...

SusanLesley 08.12.2009 · Read review
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Bedroom Philosophy

Advantages: it's something that feminists can have a chick fight over; i.e. disagree
Disadvantages: More violent than erotic, and might contain too much "philosophy" for some

...La Philosophie Dans le Boudoir, which is translated as Philosophy in the Bedroom in some versions and as The Bedroom philosophers in others, is a play written by Marquis de Sade in 1795. It represents the transformation of the 15-year-old virgin, Eugénie, who was brought up by her virtuous mother to become an honest woman. Her father, who disapproves of his wife's way of life, sends her to learn from three libertines how life should be lived. The trio encourages the young girl to express all her desires and passions, and her ultimate hatred seems to be saved for her own mother. The virtuous woman is ridiculed and humiliated by everyone and then she is stripped, beaten, and punished by her daughter and her companions. This punishment reaches its highest point when the group instructs a servant who has syphilis to have sex with the woman...

sottovoce82 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Couldn't even get a quote!!!

Advantages: designer come to house
Disadvantages: couldn't even get a quote

...After having put up with many flat pack furniture I thought I would teat myself to a 'professional fitted' bedroom. I called both Sharps and Hammonds (I'll write another review on Hammonds later). The appointment was made and the designer duly came as promised. After the initial slagging off Hammond's, he then got to business and started to measure up the area and made some good suggestions and started drawing his plans (of course Hammond computer generated design was not good enough) He had the time to listen to my concerns and he seemed to answer my questions honestly. He the told me that it would take a couple of days, he came on a Tuesday so he told me that I would definitely get it by Friday. A week later I still hadn't received the quote so I rang him myself. His phone rang then went on to answer phone so I left a message...

Ragsintooting 29.01.2009 · Read review
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AN UNUSUAL PIECE OF BEDROOM FURNITURE

Advantages: smells wonderful,bakes the perfect loaf
Disadvantages: a bit noisy for the bedroom

...with fruit juice when making fruit flavoured breads and making sure that your ingredients are at room temperature. There is a handy troubleshooting guide, which, luckily I haven?t had to use yet. I did think it would be nice to put the machine on a delayed cycle and have it make a fresh loaf of bread in time for breakfast; however, the one drawback is the noise it makes! Not really that loud, but a definite churning sound which would wake me up because we have situated it in the bedroom, (hence the title of this op) which is fine for baking during the day, but wouldn't suit baking early morning-unless it could double as an alarm clock. The wonderful aroma of baking bread is a very positive aspect of this process and the satisfaction and sense of achievement when you turn out a large, perfectly risen loaf is quite remarkable. My...

sylviesinc 29.04.2003 · Read review
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