10 Jan 2014 7:26 PM:
Hi Cathie, we found it was a mixed bag in Spain when we furnished our apartment earlier this year. We shipped some items from the UK, mostly flat pack boxed items and bought the rest in Spain.
Ikea was cheaper on some items and we decided on beds and mattresses to purchase from Murcia rather than ship as their mattresses are different to those in the uk (not sure if it is correct but we assumed that they would be more suitable for the Spanish climate)
There are lots of furniture shops near DFS (you can google it then just drive down the roads to find the rest) they have modern or traditional and lots speak English and will deliver for free.
We actually found (after we had unfortunately already bought a lot of items) that El Corte Ingles in Cartagena was also very reasonably priced.
Mercadona just outside Cartagena is great for pans, plates and small electrical items. Worten is on the same industrial estate and good for larger electrics, and finally Leroy Merlin on the same estate is like our B&q.
Good luck, we managed to do most of ours over 10 days at Easter, it half killed us but was worth it as we had 4 further very chilled holidays afterwards!
Wendy
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Furniture Buying
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