Furniture buying in Costa Rica

I have been shopping for some furniture for my new house, and it is tricky to get something that you like as a couple and doesn’t break the bank, we were lucky with the sofa and got a bargain in Costa Rican terms, but other stuff it is hard to find the right quality and something different, I am not a typical consumer and I don’t like production line stuff as it just looks fake. We have been trying to get some local made stuff as it is nice wood and sometimes interesting but it is far too predictable in its style and isn’t basically nice, so we have been touring round and round trying every shop possible, now we have moved to the other side of the city then we get different shops and we found one that was actually selling imported furniture from India and the style is typical Indian and we both fell in love with it straight away. There were cupboards with strange doors and crazy tables and crazy chairs, crazy everything, some things were so rustic to be laughable but still interesting, we saw some nice tables that had metal strapping holding the sides on and the legs were all pointing in different directions but it still looked interesting, we found several of these crazy table and also a very nicely made cabinet that was low enough to take a TV, again it was rustic but at least the door fit which a lot of the cupboards had non shutting doors or even non shutting draws, how useful is that. So we went round and round the shop trying to decide on what we would like and were it would go and finally we plumped for the 3 rustic tables with bent legs and the nice low cupboard that would take some CD’s and a few books with glass doors and take a TV also, total price, this is all nice wooden furniture remember, £300. I thought that was a bargain, but I am thinking in UK prices not Costa Rican. We celebrated by going to the cinema to watch underworld, fantastic movie, lots of crazy action and she looks great in that rubber or vinyl suit that she wears all through the film, must drive the rubber boys crazy.