Italian Home Furniture

Will be moving to Northern Italy in a year and have heard american furniture is oversized and won't really fit in most european homes. Wondering what size bed will fit in a bedroom. Basically how much furniture will fit in the average home. And one more question. How easy is it to find furniture in Italy?

Thanks in advance.

The size of my apparment in Rome is much bigger then the appartments of my friends in New York.
Depend on how much you can or want to spend.
A standard size app. is 120 mq (1300 SqFt )
Find forniture is really easy, there re a lot of big forniture stores:
for example http://www.mondoconv.it/

2008-02-14 15:27:36 by Sasha

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two-story home laced with imported Italian furniture. The floor was black-marble tile, the walls were spotless tan. Diamond chandeliers hung from the ceiling.

You could go in the style of Bret Ellis and give everything a specific product name. Imported furniture isn't exactly descriptive, you've noted the country of origin, but failed to name the style. You could also go beyond the simple. Black marble tile, well marble has veins of other colors,what are they? Is it flecked with mica? Is it shiny with care or scuffed with use? Does it remind one of anything? Does it gleam like vinyl or does it ripple like water under star light?

2008-02-23 00:17:02 by Michael D

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Fully Lined
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2 Exterior Pockets

My husband is Italian and for our wedding gift his parents bought us this huge bedroom set, well we have had it several years and the home we are moving into will not hold this big furniture. I want to sell it and buy more updated smaller things, he says it is bad luck and an Italian tradition to keep this first marriage set. Is this true, or some line of crap he's trying to pull not to upset Mommy?

I'm Italian too, and I never heard about such a tradition. Probably your hubby is just making this up because he doesn't want his parents to feel offended when they'll come to visit you in your new home and won't see the furniture they bought for you two...

2010-01-31 11:57:32 by Jennifer

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Beautiful Italian hand made amethyst glass catholic rosary
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Hi there!
I'm an italian girl attending an MBA in Bologna, Italy.
We're developing a project on how to renovate homes in the USA...well...there's no better place that Yahoo USA where to ask for it.
Could you tell me -- step by step -- how you American people move when you want to restructure your house?
Example: call for an architect, then call for a property developer, then go to *insert name of a furniture shop here*...etc...

so....could you PLEASE help me?
GRAZIE!!!

WOW!

Interesting question.

Short answer: It depends.

Let's assume that you want to do a complete renovation to an historic house that has been poorly up-graded over the years. Let's also assume that you have adequate resources to do it (expensive), and that you want modern function with historically accurate appearance.

You will have to do research as to when the house was built and for whom it was built - a large landowner's house will be substantially different from a small farmer's house. An urban house will be different from a rural house, and so forth. This could be done by hiring an architect experienced in the particular era in question - again a colonial house will be different from a Federal, Victorian or Queen Anne. That architect might be able to advise you on finding an Engineer to design your systems that will be compatible with your final aesthetic requirements yet meet code and function practically. This is no small thing. Electricity is a relatively recent innovation (1911-1913 for practical purposes in the US), and indoor plumbing only a bit earlier than that, all other things being equal. Then there is the electrical system, heating and/or cooling, finishes, materials and so forth.

From all the decisions you make in the planning stages, the Architect will prepare a set of drawings and specifications showing _everything_ that needs to be done, specifying intention and quality, showing dimensions, sources and code references. Minimum quality standards will be established and specific instructions will be provided where relevant. If there are additions or alternatives that you wish to explore as potential items, a list of "alternate-adds" or "permitted substitutions" will also be on the documents. These documents will be "signed and sealed" for permit purposes, and will be called the Contract Documents.

With these documents, you will typically invite several qualified contractors to bid the work "per plans and specifications". Such bids have three basic parameters: Quality, Schedule and Cost. Sometimes, you may permit a contractor to make suggestions for 'or-equal' substitutions to save time, or reduce cost or increase quality - but these substitutions will depart from the contract documents. The decision to accept the alternates or substitutions should be discussed with your architect. Typically, the bids will come with a basic schedule and a hard, final cost tied to that schedule, to include starting and finishing points with potential critical-path items noted - long-lead materials for instance with delivery times that may affect the overall schedule.

Once you have chosen the "Qualified Low Bidder" - based on the three parameters noted above - you will go to contract. You will expect your contractor to submit a certificate-of-insurance for his company and all his sub-contractors, provide samples of all finish and appearance materials, provide catalog pages showing items such as windows, appliances, fixtures and furniture items.

The contractor will then submit a schedule that also includes payments expected tied to completion of certain parts of the work, purchase of materials and fixtures and so forth. You will pay based on that schedule, requesting partial releases-of-liens at each payment to verify that the contractor in-turn has paid his suppliers and sub-contractors. You will typically hold 'retainage' (5% - 10% of the value of the completed work) to insure that the work will be completed to-specification.

And so-forth until the completion of the job. At final completion, you may choose to have your architect to inspect the work and verify that it is 'to plans and specifications' before making the final payment. He may prepare a 'punch-list' - a list of defects or incomplete work - to be done after the final payment - for which you held the retainage mentioned above. Once that is complete, the retainage is also paid.

Smaller projects will contain elements of the above, but may not require the full process. Painting a couple of rooms is not usually a big deal, but, for instance, one would be entirely nuts for letting any contractor on one's property who is not either properly insured or who has not signed an actionable waiver - and so forth. Note that in the US, such work typically has a one-year 'full' contractor labor and material warranty apart from any warranties from individual manufacturers or suppliers.

Project
Research
Architect/Engineer
Plans (Project Documents)
Permits (if required)
Bidding/Schedule/Quality/Cost
Work
Work Supervision
Partial Payments
Work Completion
Punch-List
Final Payment

2009-06-15 03:50:31 by eleonora

1.last night we went to bed late. 2. yesterday I stayed at home- 3.. we never complain about anything 4.I never complain 5.why are you complaining about the furniture?

1.last night we went to bed late.
la notte scorsa siamo andati a letto tardi.

2. yesterday I stayed at home-
ieri sono rimasto a casa. (male)
ieri sono rimasta a casa. (female)

3.. we never complain about anything
non ci lamentiamo mai di niente.

4.I never complain
non mi lamento mai.

5.why are you complaining about the furniture?
perché ti lamenti dei mobili?
perché ti stai lamentando dei mobili?

2010-05-09 05:55:18 by Robert