Bali Furniture Heaven in Ubud, Sanur and Seminyak

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Bali especially in Ubud is furniture heaven, there are many Ubud furniture stores or manufacturers for wholesale market along Ubud street. Whether you just looking, searching for that missing side-table to complete your new look interior, or buying on a large scale. The furniture factory or shops in Bali is not only in Ubud and it can be found easily on every tourism places in Bali.

Where ever you go in the island, especially on the tourism area such as Seminyak, Ubud or Legian you will see many furniture shops, in-lined at the street side selling furniture diversely in model, size, price and color. Each of the furniture is mostly in a hand-made furniture, crafted by local Balinese artist. Either in retail or whole sale selling those antique furniture is ready to buy for every buyers around the world.

We have all seen the signs outside the shop fronts. The roadsides are full of them, advertising furniture products for wholesale, retail and export under various guises. Lio Colection, Bali Antique Furniture, Lombok Primitive, Cempaka Furniture and others are all implying a treasure trove of exciting goodies within. Some of the stones are jumbled incoherent collection, of piled-high wooden odds and ends, while at the grander end of the scale, flash boutiques show off glamorous window dressings worthy of a film set. If you have the time and more importantly the patience, half the fun is in the hunting.

BALI FURNITURE: WHERE TO START?

Well for those who don't want to get their hands dirty, there are an increasing number of user-friendly, one-stop-shop showrooms, using your self driven car rental on the by-pass roads towards Sanur and Nusa Dua. These large, well lit, open-plan outlets take their lead from the giant mega stores popular in Europe, Australia and the United States. They make shopping for furniture enjoyable and stress fee. Customers are free to browse, unhassled by overbearing staff, prices are fixed and clearly marked.

When you are on a driving on your self drven car rental and passing by those roads which is sell all interesting furniture, try to just stop by. Do some window shopping and let your eyes enjoy all those antique hand-made furniture. Or, you can just to try buy one or two furniture for your gift, the one in a small size such as key chains, maybe. Or another medium size one such as a chair. If you are on a rental car with your driver you can ask the driver to drive you to the advised furniture shop. Seeing another side of Bali by visiting its furniture collection could be another interesting activity in Bali.

Those all Bali furniture which are displayed on their furniture shops along the roads is selling either in retail or whole sale. Retail selling is dominated by a by a local buyer who buy the product for their home interior. But the whole sale selling could be more interesting.

For the whole sale selling, most of their customer is coming from the hotel and villa in Bali which need to full fill their hotel room, or lobby hotel or any part of their accommodation with antique-best decoration of the furniture. A new established hotel in Bali in massive way always look for a new furniture products from these furniture shops so that is why doing a furniture business in Bali have a good prospect for long term.

From all part of Bali island, maybe Ubud is the main heaven of the furniture. If you have a time exploring Ubud by your self driven car rental Bali, you will see many furniture shops around the street. From the areas of Ubud named Andong to Tegalalang, from Lodtunduh to Monkey Forest, and from Kedewatan to Bisma there are so many Ubud furniture shops, ready to buy and bringing back to your country.

The export activities of Bali furniture is also on good prospect. This is because many ex Bali tourist after see the opportunity then decided to buy a large number or Bali furniture from local furniture shops here and exported it to their own county, such as in England, Australia or Thailand. They have their own furniture shop in their country and sell those Bali furniture products there. This is business is going well for years. We know about the good prospect of this Bali export product from the amount volume of the export activity from the Bali government. The value is always stable, or raising up for years.

TIPS FOR BALI FURNITURE BUYER

One of the key to be a successful exporter for foreigner who dealing with Bali furniture is to make a cooperation with the local, as an agent. Find the local who know where the furniture producers or ware houses located. Also he must be understand the price and how to bargain with. Not only that, the local must be capable to find a competitive local cargo company in Bali who can handle and ship the good from Bali to the destination country. This is important. Because it is always easy to deal with the local with another local person. And you (as the buyer) be at the middle of both of them (producer and agent).

The furniture products is vary such as chair, desk, lamp holder, storage, bedroom, wall decoration, and any other wood related products. Those are on many variety of model. You can also order for a complete set of living room or bathroom purely 100% from wood and natural stone material. A jewelry storage is also available.

Try to to take a drive with your car rental along the small back roads around Ubud, that have become the unofficial center for independently owned, dual purpose furniture factory or showrooms. This maze of small dusty roads, that twist and turn their way through the rice fields, is packed with disorderly, open fronted stores, packed to the rafters with a tangle of regular furniture, antique and curious alike.