Istria Furniture

[balacleigh]

Dear All,

I have to furnish a three bed house in Porec. Could anyone advise me on a good shops and a reasonable budget for same ?

Thank you in advance.

Balacleigh

[mambo]

You could go to Pevec in Pula, probably pay a bit too much, but at least it will be a one stop shop.
Other option is to go to Rijeka, where you will not only find a Pevec, but also Metro and a Lesnina (or Lesina, always forget the right name). Actually they are within 500 meters of each other and cannot miss them.

[zorro]

there's an IKEA in Padua, Italy

[hansel]

If you need a kitchen I can recommend ID Design in Rovinj, 052 842248. They are small and import from Italy, the price depends on what you go for but I can guarantee professional installation. They will have other furniture as well but the price might be too high.

For white goods and especially lights I would go to Merkur in Pula, www.merkur.eu

For carpets, Tepih Centar in Rijeka, www.tepih-centar.hr

For the rest maybe something from Kenda, www.kenda.hr or Kapra www.kapra.hr

For affordable antique items I would go to 'Antik' shop in Pula, Flavijevska 14, near amphitheater, 052 541481

[upthevilla]

Pula has lots of furniture shops to choose from. About the cheapest is a shop called Mima. There is an ok shop called Istadom in Stoja, middle of the range .In nearly all of the shops Expect to wait a minumum of 1 month for most furniture, kitchens ordered .
Rijeka at the tower centre is well worth the drive and i advise buying as much as possible there and paying them to deliver , the wait is about 45 days.The shop semorara is set out like ikea and offers a good choice .
Pevec is good for getting all the little things but i strongly advise NOT buying any electrical goods dosent matter how cheaper they may appear. I have had several clients who have had nothing but problems with them.tv`swith no cables, dvd payers with no plugs or cables,coffee machines that break after 2 uses,washing machines that dont wash
I once took a faulty vacume cleaner back to pevec and after 2 hours of being humiliated and run all over the shop trying to get someone to deal with it i finally got it changed. The shop assistant then quite blatantly then re packaged the faulty vacume , re sealed the box, and then put it back on the shelf .

Other good shops in pula are Brico store, moi sun and Mercur

[zorro]

Merkur is an excellent shop but again if you go to a Merkur in Slovenia you might get better prices?

[balacleigh]

Many Thanks to you for the detailed answer. They have been very helpful.

Kind Regards. Balacleigh

[clin]

Just like to backup upthevilla regarding Pevec: I bought some electrical equipment from them, they have absolutely no concept of after sales service/ support. Even getting the equipment delivered involved several rows and plain bad manners from staff. Based on my experience- avoid at all costs.

[MartinM]

I last heard that Pevec were bankrupt, their workers were striking and their shops pretty much empty. Not sure of the situation recently though.

[crojoe]

Yep, Pevec in Zagreb closed, out of business. No longer see their trucks about. What I did like about Pevec was their lunch meals. Could eat a good meal, then spend hours buying Chinese junk. Actually, their stuff was cheaper then the likes of a few other similar stores, but I tend to think they over stretched themselves on product. Tried to be all things to all men, but made for to much stock, costs and not enough sales.

Maybe this is why their after sales service is non existent.

[mambo]

Pevec and cheap ??

Pevec was incredibly expensive and that was the main reason for their collapse. On average they were 40 to 50 % more expensive than Bauhaus, Baumax, Metro and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out you will not survive.

The one thing I never understood from Pevec is why they were buying their Chinese stuff in Holland !!
They could have found their own suppliers in China, but instead they were buying stuff through wholesellers in Holland.

As soon as Pevec got competition from Bauhaus, Baumax, Brico it was over and out. The business model could not handle the competition and highly incompetent management in Pevec prevented them from adjusting.

[joe3576]

Pevec has shocking service - I agree completely.

But there is other good furniture shops about closer to Porec - there is one very good one in Tar and another one called Moj Dom in Umag which is very good.

We have 3 houses in Brtonigla and they furnished everything including kitchens - pretty good quality, price okay (discounts if you pay cash) but with most furniture in Croatia it can take anything from 1-4 months to some in. They say all the furniture comes in from Italy and Slovenia and so takes time to go through customs etc - so be careful on this point.

I normally go in and ask to buy their display stuff in their showroom - they look at me as if I am from Mars but normally agree and you get the stuff the same day and a bit cheaper too.

There is a very good shop for bed mattresses in Porec close to the ice-cream factory on the drive up to Lidl and also a very good electrical shop for all your appliances called Labelle down at Spadici.

There is also a few furnitures shops in the drive up to Lidl / Knozum in the industrial parks to the left and right.

But as always once they see you are foreign the prices go up - we always bring a Croat with us and the difference in price is unreal.