Furniture and stuff

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I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to find half decent solid wood furniture here that isn't either tat, hugely overpriced (pottery barn etc) or basically ornate Asian style imported dark wood. I just want simple oak type stuff, much like you get in the UK at the generic oak furniture shops. I'm considering buying from abroad. Any suggestions on this?

Sorry for this extremely non PH thread but I'm not desperate enough to go on expatwomen just yet.

[CRB14]

Sounds ideal. Never even considered that actually so if you could recommend that would be great. I'll do a bit of a search also