Jackietrehorn
2/4/2017 14:26 EST
Where can I get decent furniture, not so expensive that if I move I don't mind leaving it.
Need a kitchen table and a chest of drawers.
Thank you
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iguanalover
2/5/2017 12:11 EST
Try Facebook for these kind of questions. There are many pages for communities in Nicaragua and some buy sell pages. Search Leon, Nicaragua and Nicaragua.
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elduendegrande
2/10/2017 08:14 EST
Go to a local plastic store, they are all over the place. Buy a set of patio furniture to cover you for the time being and then shop carefully. If you stay the plastic chairs and table always come in handy for something.
Quality is always an issue, but Leon is big enough to support some upscale furniture once you locate it.
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johnchip
2/12/2017 15:51 EST
You will quickly find many locals make nice wood funriture out of their home shop. You will find kitchen table with pair of chairs and/or dresser for about $100-150.out (you usually can bargain off $20 of asking price or they will give you an extra piece) You will see them on the street outside their houses or on a corner or in front of a shop. They will be happy to make to your specificatons as well.
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Mtvsolis
2/12/2017 18:59 EST
Nice information, thank you. If you can give some specific directions, I would love to meet some of these woods craftsmen and give them my business.
T.
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atz111
2/12/2017 19:05 EST
Some of the wood will have insects embedded...carpenter ants or termites....
so at home keep away from other wood...
when you get home spray well with cypermethrin....reasonable safe for you...cleared for use in commercial kitchens....
leave in place for 2 days and respray...much of the wood will have varnish and the ctpermentin will not penetrate well...so make sure you spray bare wood well...like underside of chairs..
keep you eye on the stuff for a while...the cypermethrin kills but also repels so if you hd them they will come out or die..
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LongHammer
2/13/2017 12:13 EST
Go to the main highway just south of the Yasaki Manufacturing facility. There are furniture manufacturers on the highway there. I don't recommend anything used as people will buy things on credit for $150 and try to sell them in a couple months for $250 to settle the loan. Doubly so with appliances like refrigerators. Likely ready to fail when sold. There are furnished homes and rooms that you should consider. Happy to assist and my wife a Nica Native and I both live in Leon
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KeyWestPirate
2/13/2017 19:18 EST
Yes,, there are some bargains here in furniture.
Ii suggest to anyone moving to Leon to go on The Real Nicaragua and contact Daddy-Yo.
He has been there for 11 years,, living very close to the center with his Nicaraguan wife and family. He's a fount of local knowledge.
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elduendegrande
2/14/2017 07:58 EST
Some of the best comes from Masaya, but that being said it is no guarantee of quality.
In Esteli, the locals do a few things well. granny chairs and single and double beds. The rests tends to be junk aimed ar the main market--cheapaholics. El Grandino by Hogar makes good stuff.
Flying termites have popped up in our house. I think our infestation started in a sheet of plywood used in a room divider, but a chest of drawers given to our grandson by his mother may have been another source. It was melamine, but the drawer runners were "whitewood". I tried treating some plywood bookshelves after the fact, but ended up burning them.
We are now thinking of going cedro only as it is more resistant. Any pine I use now is carefully inspected and coated with 2 coats of wood treatment bought at the hardware store before finishing. We have decided our next bedroom closet will be drywall on metal rather than wood. The doors will be wood but treated.
Like most referrals, I very much suggest you talk to rich Nicas, Cubans, and long term foreigners.
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elduendegrande
2/14/2017 07:59 EST
Some of the best comes from Masaya, but that being said it is no guarantee of quality.
In Esteli, the locals do a few things well. granny chairs and single and double beds. The rests tends to be junk aimed ar the main market--cheapaholics. El Grandino by Hogar makes good stuff.
Flying termites have popped up in our house. I think our infestation started in a sheet of plywood used in a room divider, but a chest of drawers given to our grandson by his mother may have been another source. It was melamine, but the drawer runners were "whitewood". I tried treating some plywood bookshelves after the fact, but ended up burning them.
We are now thinking of going cedro only as it is more resistant. Any pine I use now is carefully inspected and coated with 2 coats of wood treatment bought at the hardware store before finishing. We have decided our next bedroom closet will be drywall on metal rather than wood. The doors will be wood but treated.
Like most referrals, I very much suggest you talk to rich Nicas, Cubans, and long term foreigners.
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elduendegrande
2/14/2017 07:59 EST
Some of the best comes from Masaya, but that being said it is no guarantee of quality.
In Esteli, the locals do a few things well. granny chairs and single and double beds. The rests tends to be junk aimed ar the main market--cheapaholics. El Grandino by Hogar makes good stuff.
Flying termites have popped up in our house. I think our infestation started in a sheet of plywood used in a room divider, but a chest of drawers given to our grandson by his mother may have been another source. It was melamine, but the drawer runners were "whitewood". I tried treating some plywood bookshelves after the fact, but ended up burning them.
We are now thinking of going cedro only as it is more resistant. Any pine I use now is carefully inspected and coated with 2 coats of wood treatment bought at the hardware store before finishing. We have decided our next bedroom closet will be drywall on metal rather than wood. The doors will be wood but treated.
Like most referrals, I very much suggest you talk to rich Nicas, Cubans, and long term foreigners.
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LongHammer
3/12/2017 16:35 EST
I have found some good furniture at San Juan Parque. At least two are there weekdays selling furniture they make. Unlike more permanent furniture stores around the bus stop, no insect infestations are apparent. I would really advise against plastic chairs. If you notice locals here will sit in 3 or 4 of them at a time. For good reason, the legs often have no more support than the same length of garden hose. For all the crap sold here and poor quality of labor, good woodworking and tiling are two things they are very good at when they want to be. In North America it is standard logs are cured in a pond for 6 or more months after logging. This kills off insects and larva due to lack of oxygen. Then sent to the mill, and the result is straighter boards. Stay away from any wood with the least trace of bark. It will almost certainly be infected.
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