Rebuilding Life Furniture · Harrisonburg, VA
Dressers and Case Goods in Harrisonburg
Visit Rebuilding Life Furniture
60 E Rock St
Harrisonburg, VA 22802
- Grand Opening
- Saturday, Aug 15, 10 AM to 2 PM
- Weekdays
- By appointment, 5 to 8 PM
- Other days
- By appointment
By appointment any day. Call or text (833) 514-5762 to set up a time.
Case goods is the trade word for the furniture that stores things. Dressers, chests, nightstands, buffets, sideboards, consoles, cabinets. Anything with a case and no cushion.
It is also the category where our prices look the most unreasonable, because a solid wood dresser is expensive to build and expensive to ship, and freight damage or a discontinued finish knocks the price into the floor without touching the furniture.
We buy name-brand overstock and major retailer returns by the truckload and sell at 30 to 50 percent of retail.
What we stock
Dressers, from six drawer wides to tall chests. Nightstands. Buffets and sideboards. Consoles with glass doors. TV consoles. Bar and wine cabinets. Hutches. Lockers and accent cabinets when they come through.
Oak, walnut, painted, blonde, white, espresso. The finish that got discontinued is usually the one with the best price on it.
How to tell a good piece from a bad one
Take ninety seconds and check four things. This works in any furniture store, ours included.
Pull a drawer all the way out. Look at the corners where the front meets the sides. Interlocking joints are the good sign. Staples straight through a butt joint are the cheap sign.
Feel the glide. A drawer on real hardware runs smooth and stops soft. A drawer on plastic rails wobbles and sticks, and it will get worse.
Look at the back panel. A solid or thick back means the case will stay square for decades. A thin stapled sheet means it will rack eventually.
Push the top corner. If the whole case flexes, walk away no matter what it costs.
Do that on our floor. If a piece fails, we would rather you buy the one next to it than get something home you do not like.
Veneer is not a bad word
People hear veneer and think fake. A wood veneer over a solid core is how most quality furniture has been built for two hundred years, and it is more stable than a solid slab in a house with real humidity swings.
The thing to avoid is printed paper over particle board. You can tell by looking at an edge or inside a drawer opening. Ask us and we will show you the difference on two pieces standing next to each other.
Flaws are where the money is
This category is the best argument for buying a tagged piece.
A chipped back corner. A scratch across the top. A ding on one drawer face. A hutch with a cracked glass door panel. We mark every one of those and we price them down hard.
Almost all of it disappears in a real room. The back corner faces a wall. The top wears a lamp and a tray. The scratched surface takes a runner.
You are buying construction, not a showroom finish. The construction is not what got damaged.
We tell you about every flaw before you pay, standing in front of the piece.
These pieces move rooms
A buffet is a TV console. A dresser is a changing table, then a dresser again. A glass door console is a bar. A tall chest fixes a closet problem in a house with no closets.
Do not shop by the label on the piece. Shop by the box and the drawer count and whether it fits your wall.
Pair one with your bedroom furniture or set one behind your dining tables and chairs.
Measure and bring help
Case goods are dense and heavy. A loaded dresser is a two person lift empty and a four person lift full, so empty it before you ever move it again.
Get your wall width and your doorway. Big buffets and wide dressers are the pieces most likely to lose a fight with a hallway turn.
Our crew helps you load. Bring a truck, bring straps, bring a blanket so the finish survives the ride.
Every purchase supports recovery at Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge.