We were just about to quit what has started to seem like a futile search for an affordable, modern-looking chair-and-a-half when we happened upon Bay Area Sofas.
This Burlingame company specializes in custom upholstered pieces at very reasonable prices.
The designs are unabashed knock-offs of popular lines from mass retailers Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, and Room & Board.
This is a great resource if you're looking for transitional style in the form of a new upholstered piece at a good price and you need some customization.
Bay Area Sofas will make you a sofa, loveseat, chair, chaise lounge or sectional to your exact measurements and in a variety of fabrics that include micro fibers, prints and jacquards.
None of the styles are very daring or even original, but they do look comfy--and very much like the more expensive brands they're imitating (currently C&B's
Huntley and
Petrie, PB's
Greenwich and
Seabury, and Room & Board's
Cameron and
Metro. The amazing things is that these pieces are hand-made in LA and their prices that are 30-50% lower (and 10% cheaper if you pay with cash or check).
How about quality? Features include 100% kiln dried hardwood frames, "no sag" spring construction, and heavy weight insulation.
Does anyone have direct experience from shopping their Burlingame Showroom?
****Update: Please be sure to read the comments below, and in this Open Thread****
I went and checked out http://www.spheredesignsfurniture.com/ recently- they're worth a look and I think a bit cheaper than Bay Area Sofas. . .
but I may have to make a trip to Burlingame to check it out.
Their quality is Great for the price...Much better than some of the other places I went to. I love my sectional that I bought from them. I went to Crate and Barrel and found a style that I really liked, but it would not fit into my room. At Bay Area Sofas I got to choose the size It fits perfectly. I also had a huge selection of fabrics to choose from. (that was the hard part-they had so many great fabrics, it was hard to decide)
I would recomend them to all my friends.
This Store Ripped My Family Off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ordered a sectional sofa from this so called business, paid in full and was given a delivery date of 6 to 8 weeks. 13 weeks later i was calling, emailing, faxing and driving down there to get a delivery date for my non existent sofa... found out they filed bankruptcy and took my money with them!!!
No sofa, No money, NO GOOD !!!!!!!!!
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Bay Area sofas was a great resource but apparently changed hands some months ago and is now defunct. Another concerned customer went by the premises today and found a notice is posted there asking people to contact an attorney: Darrell Horstet, 415-291-1900. Hope that is helpful to gfr16 and others.
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More about Bay Area Sofas in this Open Thread:
http://sanfrancisco.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/open-threads/open-thread-76-031494#comments
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AT:SF reader Peggy just wrote in to point us to this page on the Burlingame Police Department website -- it's dedicated to Bay Area Sofas fraud reports:
http://www.burlingame.org/index.aspx?recordid=25&page=50
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