I am reviewing the Next Home stores as I have recently had a lot of experience of these while shopping for furniture for a new house. The Next Home stores can either be a smaller department within the usual Next shops, or a larger store of their own, usually on retail parks.

Many of the larger items of furniture can be quite pricey, such as sofas, chairs, tables etc. However, after numerous visits to various furniture stores and also browsing online I decided on a large fabric sofa (Alexis) from Next. The great thing was that it was available to see in most of the Next Home stores that I visited, even some of the smaller ones (I get around a lot as I have family in various parts of the country), and the quality was of a standard to rival M&S, at slightly cheaper prices. The thing that I liked about the sofas in Next Home was that they looked stylish and modern, without being OTT like a lot of the sofas I saw in stores like DFS and CSL. If you want a simple, stylish and comfy sofa then Next Home has a great range. They also have about 70 different fabric styles/colours that can be used on most of the ranges of sofas and they have all the fabrics in the stores that you can then drape over the sofa of your choice.

Ordering was really simple in store and staff were friendly. They told us it was free delivery and would take a maximum of 4 weeks to arrive, however it only took 2 weeks! They sent a txt when the sofa had been made and we phoned them back to state when we would like it delivered. They gave us a morning slot but then they phone with plenty of time to tell you how far away they are.

Now I'm saving up for a matching chair and hopefully some lovely decorative items from the new spring range.