2nd Hand Furniture

Hi Guys one quick question,
where in London can I get hold of 2nd hand furniture. Apart from the usual carboot & gumtree approach, is there any warehouse with a selection thats worth going to ?

Back home, we have several council projects, where longtime unemployed are working to fix up furniture, which they have pick up from clearings beforehand.
Next to supporting a social projects and being green its a brilliant and cheap way to come by some stuff that has some more personality than ikea/habiltat/ and the lot

Does this exist here ?

What is the single best spot for 2nd hand furniture in London ?
The best carboot sale I found is Chiswick. Any further recommendations ?

freecycle and boot fares further toward the m25. Try council tip too some councils lets the men sell stuff out of the tip.

Depends what you want, As tommy says, join your local freecycle - Lambeth is the largest one in London, but the Lewisham one also churns through a heap of stuff every day.

If you've got a spare bit of cash, there's always some stuff on the Wanted section of the East Dulwich Forum http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/list.php?9 I got an almost new 6 bed tent for £30 at the weekend

If you want to be more ethical / charitable try and find a local Emmaus
http://www.emmaus.org.uk/regions/view/london, or try the heaps of charity shops on the Walworth Road, and there's bound to be more links on the London Community Recycling Network (hello Matthew!) http://www.lcrn.org.uk/

There's boot fairs on Nine Elms in Vauxhall on a sunday too.

www.freecycle.org/

edit: already posted. doh

There is a organisation called Morph the website seems incomplete and has been for a while. As far as I know they are hackney based, at least they have a store(?) on KingslandNewingtonHillRoad (the a10) near old street.

yeah, forgot about Morph, there's one in Camberwell too.

there is the Salvation Army in Wandsworth too.

i would make an effort to get along to brick lane / camden market both of those have a good variety of furniture some 70's stuff at vastly over inflated prices but some pretty good stuff at reasonable i got dining table for 6 and 6 chairs for 100 - 150 or so good quality solid wood ditto coffee tables / chairs etc.

oxfam on streatham high street they have a big range of furniture in that branch

cheers guys, great input will check it out, Thanks

The Tea Rooms on 91 Brick Lane has awesome second hand furniture mostly from the 1960s-1970s and other retro bits...

around marylebone there are some very big antiquey / retro shops
might be a tad pricey but good stuff

cheers guys, great input will check it out, Thanks

The Tea Rooms on 91 Brick Lane has awesome second hand furniture mostly from the 1960s-1970s and other retro bits...

That is an impressive thread resurrection, 18 months after last post was made.

There's some random second hand furniture market sometimes open just off Roman Road, don't think it has set opening times though. Apart from that most of mine has come from the street/peoples old flats.

Before I spend my cash at Ikea does anyone have a dining table & chairs they want rid of?

i have a pair of chairs that i can give you and a table that is a bit scratched. the chairs are ikea nice that i got from frrecycle but theyare only 2 of them. the table is nice but scratched

Thanks tika, we found a new (but cheap) option that is just the right size we're after. Thanks anyway!