How old is your furniture before you replace it

**homesteadmamma** · 01-12-2006, 09:34 AM

Now it takes a long time before I replace furniture. It has to be pretty worn before I do and I make sure I can't repair it first. Not so years ago, I'd replace it at a drop of a hat.

**Sara Noel** · 01-12-2006, 09:52 AM

We haven't even completed furnishing with first sets of furniture, so replacing isn't even something I can start thinking about. lol

**mizniteowl** · 01-12-2006, 10:21 AM

Well, I've had about 4 kitchen table and chair sets in 6-7 years. One was given to me. My children seem to find everyway possible to destroy things. And yes, back then I replaced everything right away.

My couch needs major replacing. It's not fixable. It's 6 years old and ready for the trash. Who knows when we'll get a new one though. We'll make do for now.

**Darlene** · 01-12-2006, 10:31 AM

Had our couch about 18 years and replaced it a couple years ago.
Everything else we've had forever.

**mom2matty** · 01-12-2006, 10:35 AM

The furniture we have in our "formal" living room is as old as the house....18 years and we haven't replaced it yet......still looks good! The couch we had in the family room was used and abused way more so it wore out on us in 4 years and had to be replaced!!

**guest32** · 01-12-2006, 12:16 PM

We've just begun slowly replacing our furnishings. We got married in 1995 and dh basically had nothing...he was fresh out of school and had moved with very little except some hand me downs. So, we have my bedroom set which is about 20 years old...still really nice and in excellant shape. (got rid of his waterbed

) We had one couch, also about 20 years old (mine) and we finally got a new one 2 years ago, and a new dining set (didn't have one). Our kitchen table is about 6 years old, we replaced the one I had bought at the thrift store after we got married. A few months ago we bought a cabinet for the dining room. Lastly, we just ordered new family room furniture. The stuff we have is 12 years old and has been through teenagers and all their friends and is literally thread bare! All the other pieces are odds and ends and antiques that we have kept because we like them. We save up and pay cash for everything, and always try to pass along our things to someone who can use them. The family room furniture is going to the church youthroom. Our kitchen table went to a family that didn't have one, etc... Oh, and we replaced the w/d about 3 years ago...mine were 17 years old!

**JaneP** · 01-12-2006, 12:46 PM

Our Family Room couch and tables are 22 years old. Our kitchen table and chairs are 20 years old. My living room furniture is 9 or 10 years old. I've recovered both couches and my DH had to practically rebuild the frame on the living room couch when I recovered it. Kids can be very hard on furniture.
And Drum Roll Please..........My bedroom set I bought when I was 18 which makes it...28 years old.
I guess I don't replace furniture very frequently.

**momof42003** · 01-12-2006, 03:19 PM

I have never had new furniture.. The living room furniture was the set DH bought with his ex when they got married in 1987... We just got rid of the last piece of that set two years ago

.. So that would have made it 17 years old or so... Now we have two used pieces they were almost brand new when given to us.. I hope to have a new set of furniture for grown ups in the next two years.. The kids can have the furniture we have now in their own space.... LOL Oh ya and the diningroom table we HAD been using, DS #2 just broke the glass table top on it... So right now I have no diningroom table and it was also 17years old or so...

**AmyBoz** · 01-12-2006, 03:32 PM

We've never replaced any furniture, so for now, the answer is 7 and 1/2 years so far. Of course, a lot of our furniture is much, much older. For example, Julia is sleeping in the bed my parents bought me when I was in high school. We are sleeping in a bedroom with a bedroom set that we bought used, and it had been 20 years old when we bought it! My piano is 28 years old (I got it when I was 7). Patrick and Julia are using dressers that are 34 years old, and Julia's desk is 25 years old.

**Pepper** · 01-12-2006, 03:41 PM

The only thing we have replaced in the last 10 years is our television set, we went bigger and our sofa!

**Katybird** · 01-13-2006, 02:47 PM

I try to purchase things that are classic styles and colors so that I don't need to replace anything as I change the styles and colors in my home. I find that neutrals go with anything and that classic furniture styles will blend with any other style and if it doesn't you can always call your style "eclectic" and still get away with it.