I Miss My Sauder Furniture Store

One of the great inventions of the 20th century isthe drawers roll evenly. It's a nice piece of furniture.
furniture that you put together yourself. Because youIn the living room we have our 40" flat screen TV
have to provide some of the labor the cost of thissitting on a Sauder entertainment center. We had to
furniture is considerably cheaper than somethingadapt it just a bit so the new TV would fit, but it
you'd buy at a standard home furnishing store. In thelooks nice. It's a corner unit, cherry red, with
beginning these pieces were cheaply made and itbookshelves on the side. It's nice enough I'd take it
showed. But in the last several years the mostwith me when we move. These pieces are no longer
popular manufacturers have started making veryconsidered throw away furniture that you give only
classy looking furniture that, once assembled, isto college kids. They are becoming centerpieces in
almost impossible to distinguish from their standardmany nice homes today. No longer do you have to
counterparts.feel guilty for owning one.
In my house we have lots of "do it yourself"We used to have a store that had a huge variety of
furniture, mostly from Sauder, some from O'Sullivan.these pieces on display. You could buy them prebuilt
We have bookshelves, dressers, an entertainmentfor you or take it home in the box. Whatever they
center and desks. None of them look cheap and alldidn't have in stock you could order. But you could
were a fraction of the cost of what we could havesee it all on display and know exactly what you are
paid at a regular store. In my office I have a nicegetting. I miss that store. They closed down last year
medium oak computer desk that sits right in theand moved on to other ventures. They are missed.
middle of the room. Everything is level, straight and