If you are furnishing a a room, an apartment or a house and need to do it on a budget, consider purchasing from your furniture from one of the many companies offering furniture in a box.
If you are handy and can Do-it Yourself (DIY), Ready-to-Assemble (RTA) furniture is a great way to save money when furnishing your home or office.
If you are not handy or do not have the time or patience, there are service professionals in every community you will do it for you at a reasonable price.
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There are many places to purchase RTA Furniture. Two of the original companies that produce the lions share of products is Sauder Furniture and IKEA.
Here’s a history on these two pioneering companies.
SAUDER FURNITURE:
Sauder started crafting furniture in 1934, then began making RTA furniture in 1951. Shortly thereafter in 1953, our founder, Erie Sauder, was granted a patent for the first assemble-it-yourself piece – an end table that snapped together in minutes. Today, the entire world can buy, transport and install Sauder furniture pieces in a manner inconceivable at the turn of the Twentieth Century – assembled quickly and easily at home. But our innovations didn’t stop there—we continue to develop new lines of home and office furniture, TV stands,bookcases, and more with specialty features and details that keep us at the forefront of the furniture industry. http://www.sauder.com/.
Here are is a link to find furniture dealers in the Unites States that offer their products. http://www.sauder.com/dealers/dealerlocator_usa.asp
IKEA: 1956 – Designing furniture for flat packs and self-assembly
The decision for IKEA to design its own furniture stems, ironically from competitors pressure for suppliers to boycott IKEA. Exploration of flat packaging begins when one of the first IKEA co-workers removes the legs of the LÖVET table so that it will fit into a car and avoid damage during transit. After this discovery flat packs and self assembly become part of the concept. To read more, please visit Our business idea.
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/about_ikea/the_ikea_way/history/1940_1950.html
Here’s a excerpt from Wikipedia:
Ready-to-assemble furniture (RTA), also known as knock-down furniture or flat pack furniture, is a form of furniture that is purchased in multiple pieces and requires assembly. This form of furniture generally arrives in a box and contains instructions for the buyer to follow in order to assemble it after purchase.
Ready-to-assemble furniture is popular among consumers that wish to save money on their furniture purchases by assembling the product on their own and no need for delivery cost. In addition to saving the consumer money, flat pack furniture is generally simple to assemble and requires only the use of simple tools.
Merchants benefit from selling ready-to-assemble furniture because furniture that is already assembled tends to be bulky and more expensive to store and to deliver. Since the furniture does not need to be assembled in the factory, ready-to-assemble furniture is also less expensive for the merchant to purchase. Due to these many factors, selling flat pack furniture is a more cost effective method of conducting business.
Ready-to-assemble furniture is typically packaged in a kit form with the pieces packaged in one or multiple boxes. The kit may contain a number of flat parts, fasteners, screws, fixings, and other parts that are needed to assemble the furniture.
A furniture assembly industry has grown from otherwise desirable furniture being sold only in ready-to-assemble form. Consumers engage a service provider to come to their home and assemble the furniture they have purchased.
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