I would appreciate some advice on how much one should pay for a bedroom set. We currently have two extremes:
1) My children are sleeping in my (long deceased) grandparents' wedding bed, which is made of solid walnut wood and was built in the late 1930s or early 1940s. In any case, it predates WWII, which I know because a matching wardrobe has a spot where a shrapnel hole had to be replaced when you Americans started to bomb us to smithereens in 1944. Clearly that bed is built for the ages.
2) On the other hand, my wife and I are sleeping on an 11-year old $700 bonded leather bed frame with a badly sagging 14-year old mattress. It looks like sh**, is at the end of its natural life, and I am lusting after a king-side bedroom set, with ample room to spread out an accommodate kids and cats that decide to crawl in at night.
A year-long Kijiji search has not turned up any promising leads. The king-sized sets that are being sold are either atrociously ugly (rhinestones on a headboard - really?!), cheaply made (espresso laminate never ages well), or both. Most chain furniture stores also sell very badly made stuff, so the big box store does not seem like a solution.
The bedroom set I really want is made by a Quebec company with part solid teak and part veneer. It is a mid-century modern style, which I find has survived the ages very well. I inspected the construction and, aside from being part veneer, it is well made. However, it is also $7,000 excluding the mattress. As such, while it will likely last 30 years, it realistically won't last 100 like my kids' beds. My grandmother's veneer living room "schrank", which was purchased in 1973 and still graces my own living room, is starting to delaminate at the corners and showing its age. So I figure a 30-year life span is a good guesstimate. By that time I will be 70, when it might be time to think about an electric bed anyway.
Has anyone here recently bought a bedroom set? How much did you spend, and why?