Quality Used Furniture

Quality Used Furniture is a consignment furniture store located in between a Post Office and Dollar General just off of Sauk Trail and Governors Highway.. THIS PLACE IS OVER CROWDED! !! You can barely see the items on display because there is furniture stacked on top of furniture. Keep in mind, this is consignment folks! So, your consigned items may not always get their «fair display. »
The owner, Danny, is very personable and is willing to negotiate on most items. For me, the store is hit or miss.

Hit or miss. I try to browse here regularly, Sometimes don’t find anything. However, on the occasions I do find something. Its always something at a phenomenal price and value, that more than make up for times I didn’t find anything.

Love this place, a lot of vintage stuff. Sometimes hit or miss but if u ask the owner to look out for something and come back in a week or 2 he might have it. Been coming here for years. And the prices are great

Hit or miss. They have a ton of stuff, lots of terrible vintage but some cool gems buried in there. It’s really cool to look here, it’s visually interesting. Have a great variety of furniture and some estate type things.
Pricing is all over the place. Have found a few really great buys, but more often they’re asking crazy high prices for furniture that would still need a bit of love before you’d let it in the house.
The guys that work there are really nice on good days and kind of apathetic on others. Cool place to stop by often as they’re always adding new stuff. Never know what you’re going to find. This place and sell it again Sam down the street make for a cool way to spend an hour looking at neat furniture.

There’s a little bit of everything here and it’s stacked to the ceiling — used furniture, paintings, lamps, jewelry, the stray pinball machine or inflatable whatzzit, and the assorted detritus of other people’s lives. A narrow circular pathway winds through for your shopping and voyeuristic kinks. What you see changes day to day, but bottom line, as anyone who has spent any time in a big box furniture store knows, today’s furniture is junk and yesterday’s junk is, (by comparison at least,) treasure. Let’s face it, if it was made a few decades ago, chances are it’s constructed from something other than the particleboard, plastic and fibrous toxins that make up today’s modern furnishings. Danny, the owner, along with a cadre of workers and family members (if he isn’t feuding with them) combs the south side for all things used but reusable or out-​and-​out vintage. Some of the inventory is consignment, but a lot of it comes from clean-​outs — the remains of auctions and estate sales or the contents of houses where the occupants have moved on – in one way or another. (Best not to ask.). The turnover here is good — you’re likely to see different (can’t say new) stuff every few days — and everything is priced to move. Danny specializes in good, solid pieces… the kind that will replace what broke, stand up to the tumult of today’s ADD households, and generally give you some bang for your buck. Danny occasionally bags the oddball piece — the chair shaped like mushroom; the vintage vanity that’s only two feet off the ground… and therein you will find the real winners. That’s why I’m reluctant to talk about places like this: too many dealers already come in, grab up the best stuff, put it on ebay or run it through Maaco on the way to a trendy retail shop (yes, I’m talking about you, White Attic) where it gets sold for a few grand to the local hipsters. But if you do get lucky, Danny’s got the guys (and the truck) to deliver it. I’ve seen them get outsized furniture through tiny doorways that you would have bet hard cash just couldn’t be done. (Think the game show «Hole in the Wall»). It’s definitely worth it if you’re in the area, and if you’re not, there’s a similar store kitty corner on the other side of Governor’s (Sell it Again, Sam) that belongs to his brother. That store (and its inventory) is bigger, but the turnover’s slower. That being said, it does give you two good destinations (and two ceiling-​high stacked buildings) for the same gas, so go for it. But dammit, keep your mitts of the plastic mid-​century modern. That’s mine.

Contained in a very crowded storefront in Richton Park, IL is a small gold mine of used vintage furniture at surprisingly good prices. Provided you know what you are looking for (dimensions of your home’s doorframes for example) and know people who have a truck and who can hoist heavy furniture, Quality Used Furniture can furnish your home with used vintage furniture. Evidently some of the furniture comes from estate sales; I found a sticker on an armoire indicating that it had come from the Drake Hotel in Chicago. The crowdedness of the store is a bit offputting, but give it a shot (repeat visits may not be a bad thing either).