[quote=“Muzha Man”]I didn’t find much of the furniture any cheaper than you can get around town at other shops. The 3-seater leather coach was about $80,000. [/quote] I just looked pretty fast and didn’t check the prices on the sofas. I was talking about the wood furniture. I need to go back. I was in and out in about 15 minutes. Not sure could be called the best, but worth a look as many of the things there are different and I hadn’t seen them in Working House or Ikea or other places I have been to in Taipei.
you can find all the stuff in that new store at the huge weekend market in Bangkok for a lot cheaper and better selection… i can’t see that store surviving here
Umm…ehhh…this is Taiwan not Bangkok. Want to carry back a piece a furniture for me on your next trip? Everyone knows the stuff is cheaper in Thailand, Bali, China, Vietnam or wherever it came from. Granted I only looked quickly, but the prices seemed reasonable.
No, the sofas & armchairs in that stuff we saw were the same style as the leather sofas that they had when we were there last, maybe about 2 months ago. They were of a pretty modern design, pretty large, squarish, deep seating with low back rest, but the colour seemed to be the same you saw. The fabirc is called “velour” as my wife informs me, or maybe “velours” as it seems to French(?). It’s apparently easy to clean with regard to stains, dirt etc. using a wash cloth or something, but it being fabirc after all, I can’t imagine that a cat’s claws would do it much good …
Re. pricing: what I saw of their furniture, it seemed pretty expensive all in all, but as I said above, the leather sofas seemed to be comparatively cheap. I bought nice, very heavy, red hand-made table ware there as a present for the missus and it was quite costly, but very nice too … I guess, as somebody has already pointed out above, what’s costly to me might seem very affordable to others, so best go and have a look for yourself, it’s a good place for a little stroll … 
True, apparently Macao is the best place in the region and shipping is not too expensive either, but that’s not too much help to the average, non-travelling furniture shopper stuck in Taipei …
We wanted to buy a large dining table & chairs in Bali last time we went, but it ended up being quite expensive. The basic price for the furniture was quite low, but transportation and I believe export or import duties (??) were prohibitively high, but then maybe they just wanted to take us for a ride … :s
there is a piin here in hsinchu, if i had the money i would only buy furnishings from that store, super nice
Xpet: I imported two 20 foot containers from Bali with very affordable furniture. You just have to know what you are doing to find a cheap price on the shipping. It was super cheap, but if you are not careful you could get ripped off on the shipping and packing and even the furniture. By the way, watch out when you are driving around Bali too, the police are wickedly corrupt and go after the rental car drivers. I have also imported many large pieces from HK and some smaller things from Thailand shopped for furniture in Veitnam when I was there. (I use to have a big cheap house out in Sijhih.) I still want to check out Jakarta and Singapore. Never heard of Macao being that great are you sure? I will check it out the next time I am passing through HK. What sort of things do they sell in Macao? I have been to their furniture streets many years ago, before I had a need for so much furniture and it seemed like mostly Chinese styles. Do they have European styles as well? Have you or anyone you know ever imported furniture from Macao?
With all of this information on pricing for furniture around Asia I honestly think that PIIN is not that bad. They seem to make only a reasonable amount of profit.
I finally checked out Piiiiin. I don’t know about the prices (I would guess it’s more expensive than Ikea, but I don’t know), but they do have some great looking furniture (in addition to “accents” and the like). In particular, I liked the red faux antique Chinese cabinets, and the tables and chairs with creative designs and a relaxed, casual, gently broken in look to them. My wife thought some was used, but it was just supposed to look that way and that’s not necessarily a bad thing (I like my Ikea furniture, but it’s all so clean and square and neat – I wish I’d bought some of the softer looking furniture from Piin instead).
i found the kitchen, bathroom and kitchen stuff to be very reasonably priced but their sofas are overpriced, poorly made and incredibly uncomfortable. Other furniture ‘looks’ nice but as my designer friend said “shitty woods, shitty construction, just shitty” 
Everything is relative as they say.
Anyone who can post some more low budget shops for bed & kitchen furniture. Being Swedish I’m allergic to IKEA.
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there are furniture store streets on nanchang rd between hoping w. rd. and fuzhou st, and the first or second alley south of hsinyi rd. between guangfu s. rd. and anho rd.
[quote=“Europa”]Do you realize that hardwood is VERY likely to have been ripped off from Indonesian or other endangered rainforests - and it’s even illegal? Because people buy it, the orangutan could go extinct in the wild within the next ten years or even fewer - and many many other species. I think if we want to prevent disasters like that from happening, we have to be very very careful of what we buy. Here’s a website to help:
http://www.orangutan.com/index.htm[/quote]
Well I got a question for you… Would you rather buy a hardwood furniture that lasts a lifetime and looks better to boot, or would you rather buy a POS particleboard furniture that lasts no more than 2 years and gets thrown out filling landfills?
Im sorry but particleboard just wont cut it in Taiwan. The humidity is way too high. If you are really concerned try finding plywood furniture. Much better than particleboard IMO and will look just as good as hardwood if properly masked. Plus its stronger and less likely to warp (than hardwood) due to moisture too.