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Best Places For Used Furniture In Baltimore

Everybody wants their house to be stylish and cozy, but with most people on a budget these days, sometimes you have to shop the used furniture and flea markets instead of getting your stuff firsthand. Shopping for used items can be scary, as you never know what you are going to get. You want a qualified and experienced dealer to lead you through the process. Fortunately, a few select tradesmen in the Baltimore area still take pride in their jobs, and do a beautiful job restoring reclaimed furniture. Shop some of these handy locales for vintage secondhand furniture at first-rate prices.
Cornerstone
2175 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, MD 21093
(410) 561-3767
www.onlycornerstone.comA bustling trade center of new, used, consignment and antique furnishings, Cornerstone has been in business for nearly 30 years, and its expertise really shows. Check out its showroom, which is wall-to-wall furnishings, beautifully stained, varnished and restored to a top-quality sheen. Bring your old furniture in and sell or trade toward new furnishings. Don't see what you want? Cornerstone gets new stock daily, and keeps its website up-to-date so you can check at any time if something new has arrived that fits the bill, with a bill that fits your budget. If you don't have time to check the website daily, sign up for the mailing list to receive updates to your inbox. Cornerstone is also happy to do pickup and delivery, so shop its showroom from the web, or sell your furniture without ever having to leave your house.
Overstock Outlet
2811 Sisson St.
Baltimore, MD 21211
(410) 235-2000
www.ooutlet.comCarrying bedding, home goods, linens, furniture, wall art and more, Overstock Outlet brings the public all of the furniture items that were shipped out as surplus from warehouses from around the country, meaning the furniture you buy is good as new, but at used prices. Where does this furniture come from? Well - among other places - some of it comes directly from five-star hotels. Before you over-spend anywhere else, visit Overstock Outlet's website and see if it has the home items you are looking for.

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Essex Used Furniture
313 Eastern Blvd.
Essex, MD 21221
(410) 391-0681
www.essexusedfurniture.comPrices on used furniture could not come lower than this! As estate liquidators, Essex Used Furniture (formerly A Squirrel's Nest Antiques) deals mostly in bulk, and moves massive amounts of antiques and used furnishings weekly, making the pickings bountiful for anyone shopping around for a bargain. If you are looking to clean out your basement, garage or attic, give Essex a call. It buys and sells in bulk (no consignments) so it's a quick and easy way to furnish or clean out your house or apartment.
Ryan's Relics
7900 Belair Road
Baltimore, MD 21236
(410) 870-6493
www.ryansrelics.comLocally owned and operated for about a decade, Ryan's Relics specializes in estate selling and buying, meaning the variety of furnishings moving across the showroom is always impressive, and the amount of new furnishings arriving daily is equally impressive. Ryan's handles every variety of furnishing, ranging from new, to antique, to used contemporary items. With inventory changing daily, Ryan's attracts a regular clientele of bargain hunters, combing its ever-changing stock, hunting for that perfect item. Become one of them today.

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Joel Furches is a freelance writer and researcher for The Examiner and Logos Software, and also manages his own catalog of writing on Hub Pages. Joel is on the board of directors for Ratio Christi. He has a bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Education.
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