Want to know my test for value-priced furniture? It's not the showroom. Everything looks fine in the showroom. My test is year three, when a drawer glide gives out or a rail bracket goes missing in a move, and you find out whether the brand behind it still exists as far as you're concerned.
Most value brands fail that test. Elements International is the exception that earned bedroom space on my floor.
Who is Elements International?
A bedroom furniture specialist out of Rockwall, Texas, running a 150,000 square foot distribution and customer service center there. Beds, dressers, chests, nightstands, classic to contemporary, plus their Elementary youth line for kids' rooms. Solid value pricing across all of it.
But here's the line from their operation that actually sold me: they inventory spare parts at that Texas facility and typically ship a request within 48 hours. Read that again. A value-priced furniture company that stocks parts domestically and ships them in two days. I've seen premium brands that can't manage that.
Is value bedroom furniture worth buying?
For the right room, absolutely, and I sell against my own premium lines saying so. Kids' rooms that get outgrown, guest rooms, first homes. The trick is picking the value brand that still answers the phone in year three, and now you know how I pick.
The Elements sets are on our floor at 1024 S Harbor City Blvd in Melbourne, set up near the premium bedroom lines on purpose. Compare them yourself, the differences and the price gap are both honest. Full rundown on our Elements International page, and financing works on these too.
Eric
