Best furniture deals: where to shop for less

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last updated 22 November 2024

Furniture deals are great news if you're looking to overhaul your interior or furnish a new home from scratch, there are plenty of discounts to make the most of in the summer sales. The biggest discounts are likely to occur over the bank holiday sales in August, however, the brands that have kicked of a mid-summer sale already are good ones to bookmark for even bigger discounts later on.

Whether you're looking to score a bargain on a big-ticket item like one of the best sofa beds, find a saving on a one of the best sofas, or source a discounted dining room table, bed frame, or some essential storage furniture, you're in the right place.

We've rounded up the biggest furniture sales at Argos, Barker and Stonehouse, Habitat, DUSK, Heal's, and many more big name retailers so you can find all the best prices in one place. We've also revealed our editors' secrets to shopping for less, including all the key sales dates to add to your calendar.

Keep on scrolling to uncover today's biggest savings and find out which deals are the Ideal Home team's top picks.

What to buy

With Black Friday home deals hitting all our favourite brands, here's a taste of some of the amazing furniture deals you can snap up right now.

Sofa deals

The Jack sofa in green velvet upholstery from Sofa.com

Bed deals

Dining furniture deals

La Redoute wooden spindle-back chairs at a wooden table in a dining room

When to shop for the best furniture deals

Amazon: It may not be your first port of call, but it's quick delivery is hard to beat
Argos: For both Argos own brand and Habitat
Anthropologie: Print and pattern with upholstered pieces and maximalist lighting
Barker and Stonehouse: Statement tables, TV units and sideboards and versatile bedroom furniture
Bensons for Beds: Stylish wooden bed frames, upholstered ottomans, and practical storage divans
Cox & Cox: Scandinavian cool meets classic English style with some great oak dining sets and storage furniture
Darlings of Chelsea: Their sofas, sofa beds, and armchairs are an investment worth making
Dreams: For ottoman storage beds and both upholstered and wooden bed frames
Dunelm: Affordable pieces from desks and armchairs to bedside tables.
DUSK: Luxe-look for less on sofas, beds, dining tables and more.
Furniture and Choice: Dining room, living room, and bedroom furniture at affordable prices.
Furniture Village: As well as its own-brand they also stock brands such as Ercol, G Plan, and the Lounge Co.
Heal's: Worth a look in sale season for investment living room, dining room, bedroom, and storage furniture.
John Lewis & Partners: From sofas and armchairs to dining sets and accent furniture.
La Redoute: A go-to destination for on-trend and affordable homeware.
Marks & Spencer: Stylish accent chairs, nesting tables, bedroom furniture, and much more.
Oak Furnitureland: Regular sales make this a great, affordable option.
OKA: Investment timeless furniture combining classic British style with global inspiration.
Sofa.com: Best-selling sofas in styles and colours to suit every space.
Swoon: A wide range of furniture in a whole host of styles from decorative side tables to practical storage cupboards.
Swyft: You'll find great sofa-in-a-box options with super quick delivery on its flat-packed furniture.
Very: A good selection of furniture for every room of the house.
Wayfair: You're pretty much guaranteed to find some kind of sale action happening on furniture and home decor.
West Elm: For sleek dining tables, bed frames, storage and accent furniture.
The White Company: Timeless mirrors, rugs and lighting to accessoise your space.

Furniture sale shopping – our top tips

The golden rule of sale shopping is to only buy pieces you really want or need. It's all too easy to get seduced by hefty savings and urgent marketing messages imploring us not to miss out, but a bargain is only a bargain if it's a saving on an item you will truly appreciate day in and day out.

It's well worth looking to pay for more expensive items, like furniture, using a credit card. Anything you buy with a credit card that costs between £100 and £30,000 is protected under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, this makes your card provider as liable as the retailer if something should go wrong with your purchase. For example, if an item arrives faulty, or perhaps even never arrives, you'll be able to claim a refund through your credit card company. This also applies if you pay a proportion on your credit card (say, a deposit) but the rest in cash or on a debit card.

It's also well worth knowing your rights should you end up with a big-ticket item that doesn't perform. Have a read of your consumer rights when buying a sofa, which can equally apply to most furniture investments.

Where to find the best furniture deals

Although good discounts can crop up at any time of year, most retailers tend to follow a pattern when running promotions, with the biggest furniture discounts likely to fall at a few key times of year.

Black Friday. The sales event sees some hefty discounting with savings to be found at pretty much all the major retailers – from John Lewis & Partners to Sofa.com and M&S.

Boxing Day. In recent years, Boxing Day furniture deals have started well before Boxing Day itself, with stores increasingly offering discounts as soon as their pre-Christmas shipping dates have passed.

January sales. If a retailer wants to shift stock for the new season, then January furniture deals on end-of-line products can also get bigger as the month continues. However, if a piece is being discounted because it's a discontinued line, then waiting does run the risk that the product may sell out before it drops to its lowest price.

Amazon Prime Day. The brand's yearly price-slashing event – can mean some great Prime Day furniture deals. Amazon usually runs two a year, one in June or July and the second in October.

Bank holidays. From the end of June into July, and often throughout August, retailers may cut prices again. August Bank Holiday furniture deals can see particularly low prices, as the last UK Bank Holiday of the year is often a key time for consumer spending.

La Redoute industrial-look dining table and chairs

How we choose furniture deals

You'll find full details of the Ideal Home product selection process on our how we test page.

To compile this furniture deals page we factored in our own hands-on testing, searching out deals on the products that we consider best-in-class based on our in-house review process.

If deals aren't currently available on our tried-and-tested favourites, then our product experts have used their knowledge and experience of the product category to curate a list of the best deals available today. This includes researching technical specifications and taking into account multiple customer reviews of any deals we recommend.

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Amy is Ideal Home’s Sleep Editor and the Ideal Home Certified Expert on Sleep. She's spent the last four years researching and writing about what makes for the best night’s sleep during the day and testing out sleep products to find the best-in-class by night. So far she’s clocked up over 10,000 hours of pillow, duvet, and mattress testing experience.

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How to find the best furniture discounts from brands like John Lewis, Habitat, Heal's and more