Where to buy not too expensive chest of drawers?

[mashpot]

I am in desperate need of a new chest of drawers for my bedroom since getting rid of the awful old fallen apart ikea drawers when I moved house 18 months ago!

I haven't the patience to trawl eBay, Habitat is too expensive, I want something better than ikea, where do I look? To add further complication, apart from price, it has to fit in an alcove so be no wider than 1m. There is a nice tallboy on made.com but it is only 50cm wide and I just don't think it will provide enough storage. Any suggestions of where to look will be gratefully received.

[SneakyNuts]

We get all of our furniture from second hand shops. Any scratches or dings are good from a bargaining perspective and you can get things for half the price.

The items are usually much better quality than argos/ikea also.

You can always paint/sand and improve them

[JamNan]

The local tip, charity shops or look in your local paper. Sand and paint.

[ditziness]

antique fair, auction houses, gumtree, preloved and free cycle!

[Fairylea]

Argos stuff isn't too bad.. go mid range which is still reasonably cheap and use extra glue to stick it all together... will last a lot longer than it normally would do.

[Fairylea]

Argos stuff isn't too bad.. go mid range which is still reasonably cheap and use extra glue to stick it all together... will last a lot longer than it normally would do.