BARGAINS : SAVE HOW MUCH? BETTER SIT DOWN.Byline: Trisha King & Deborah Newmark If you've been mooning over furniture on the Westside but the prices leave you in sticker shock Sticker shock is a United States term for the feeling of surprise experienced by consumers upon finding unexpectedly high prices on the price tags (stickers) of products they are considering purchasing. , do we have a surprise for you. Sitting Pretty - an enormous warehouse store that has been selling bar stools bar stool n → Barhocker m , chairs, dinette di·nette n. 1. A nook or alcove located in or near a kitchen and used for informal meals. 2. The table and chairs used to furnish such an area. [dine + -ette. and game sets at discounts of 30 percent to 60 percent off retail since the 1960s - recently opened the Sitting Pretty Design Center, featuring high-end living room, dining and bedroom furniture at deeply discounted prices. The first thing that caught our eye was a large (125-by-125-inch), down sectional in an elegant and durable chenille che·nille n. 1. A soft tufted cord of silk, cotton, or worsted used in embroidery or for fringing. 2. Fabric made of this cord, commonly used for bedspreads or rugs. for $4,199. The sectional, with matching and contrasting French butterfly-seamed back pillows, retails for a least double the price at high-end furniture stores. The first thing you'll notice about the Sitting Pretty Design Center is the color scheme. Rather than having groups of furniture in strongly contrasting themes (a bright floral living room group next to a black and chrome dining set), everything blends together. The current theme in taupe taupe n. A brownish gray. [French, from Old French, mole, from Latin talpa.] taupe adj. Noun 1. is quite impressive. Anything you see, with the exception of one-of-a-kind decorator accessories, can be made to your specifications. For example, if you see a cocktail table - such as one in solid-gauge wrought iron wrought iron: see iron. wrought iron One of the two forms in which iron is obtained by smelting. Wrought iron is a soft, easily worked, fibrous metal. It usually contains less than 0.1% carbon and 1–2% slag. in an acanthus acanthus (əkăn`thəs), common name for a member of the Acanthaceae, a family of chiefly perennial herbs and shrubs, mostly native to the tropics. leaf design with a -3/4-inch glass top ($1,749 instead of more than $5,000 elsewhere) that's too big or small for your home, it can be made in any size with the price adjusted accordingly. A group of furniture can be custom-made to fit a room's dimensions. Upholstery, glass or stone table tops (with a choice of step, bull-nosed, ogee o·gee n. Architecture 1. A double curve with the shape of an elongated S. 2. A molding having the profile of an S-shaped curve. 3. An arch formed by two S-shaped curves meeting at a point. , pencil or triple waterfall edges), table heights, and wood finishes (stain and design) can be customized. Sitting Pretty Design Center is located at 7115 Darby St., Reseda; (818) 881-3114. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , Discover, MasterCard and Visa are accepted. Inside info While the children are attending playclub on Mondays at Creative Kids, parents can be taking advantage of special discounts at stores in the Encino Place mall. Children ages 6 months to 7 years participate in playclub for $18 per child (which includes lunch), plus a registration fee. The store discounts provided by Creative Kids include one free hour of painting at Color Me Mine, 10 percent off all merchandise at M. Frederic and 25 percent off all merchandise at Josephine's Daughter. Call for further details. Creative Kids Encino Place is located at 16101 Ventura Blvd., (Ventura and Woodley) Encino; (818) 380-0373. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday. Book lovers can purchase new books from the Bookmarket and save 50 percent to 80 percent off retail. It is a temporary bookstore that moves around, selling publisher clearance books of many categories. These include children, health, family, computers, spiritual, religious, cooking and biographies. It can be found through the month of April at the Fallbrook Mall (between Sav-On drugstore and Blockbuster Video), 6633 Fallbrook Ave., West Hills; (818) 884-6922. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. |
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