If you're serious, I can heartily recommend Stickley. I bought a chair over twenty years ago, and about five years ago bought a matching media console. I ordered it with the same finish, and the two match perfectly.

If you live near North Carolina we have discount outlet stores for the major manufacturers.

Stickley

Truly, though, hit up estate sales in fancy neighborhoods where the owners bought Henredon, etc 80 years ago. It’ll be great for the next 80

I've never found NEW affordable quality furniture. The only thing that I have found to make quality furniture affordable was managing to find it used.

Not really helpful. Sorry.

Have you ever looked at This End Up Furniture? It's kinda a similar vibe to your Joss and Main item.

I personally like Furnitureland South. They have a very large regular price showroom, but the back outlet warehouse is Costco size with manufacturers samples heavily discounted, and there is another off site warehouse with scratch and dent type stuff for cheap.

Thrift stores have quality furniture and it’s often well made.

I get most of my furniture from FB marketplace. The older furniture is well made and durable, plus less expensive. It takes longer because you have to wait to find the gems from a bunch of crap, but well worth it in the long run.

Check out local stores now. They should be selling off displays since the new year's models are coming in now.

Habitat for Humanity stores

Secondhand stores and wayfair

If you have one in range, Ikea.

They have a rep for cheap quality furniture that falls apart, but that hasn't been my experience at all. I have a bunch of Ikea stuff from varying price ranges and it's all held up for years. Only the absolute cheapest stuff they sell is obviously flimsy, but you really can't complain when it's an entire coffee table for like $15. Their mid and higher priced items have all been good quality by any metric for their price point, often better than much more expensive furnture from the big home stores like Ashley.

Used, Facebook marketplace or look for estate sales in your area. It takes some patience but you can get incredible deals if you can haul it yourself.

There's nothing in that price range that achieves what this sub would qualify as "BIFL" if only because modern furniture manufacture isn't made to last forever, it's made to be cheap.

The best values are going to be used furniture, but it takes some knowledge to understand what is or isn't the real deal in a CL ad or estate sale, making it risky. I will say that office furniture is surprisingly easy to find secondhand in good condition--be it conference tables, office chairs, desks, or files. Plenty of BK'd businesses liquidating assets...

In new home furniture I feel like there are definitely quality/value flights depending on who's the target market. IME, the quality flights are as such:

Tier 1 - College Dorm

• IKEA, Ashley, Target, Walmart

Tier 2 - Starter House

• Wayfair, Costco (crapshoot - sometimes OK, sometimes rebadged Ashley), Poundex / Furniture of America, Pottery Barn / Crate & Barrel,

Tier 3 - Almost quality, definitely paying for it

• Thomasville (Tier 3 prices, Tier 2 quality), West Elm (basically upmarket crate & barrel), HD Buttercup, Restoration Hardware, Ethan Allen

Tier 4 - Actual "Good" furniture

• Stanley, Stickley, Sherrill, Hooker, Bernhardt, Lexington, anything actually made by the Amish

Right now, I think West Elm is making the hardest push to claim Mid Century as their calling card and should fit your price range. Unsure of actual quality of their MCM pieces, but definitely higher than Ikea/Target level furniture. I did order a big old couch from WE on Black Friday. I'll receive it next month. My office couch is also from WE and it's a decent piece of furniture.

At the top of the ladder, there's still some more value speciation to be had. I get chuffed at the idea of paying "Solid Oak" prices for veneered MDF--but even in the most expensive brands of furniture, I'd say a lot of them are doing exactly that, which makes an artisan (be it an Amish guy or someone in North Carolina, where solid wood furniture is somehow cheap and good) crafting furniture to spec the best way to know you're paying for what you're getting--but who has time for that???

Look up lane, broyhill, plycraft, DWR, Herman miller, and knoll on aptdeco.com, they have good prices and will deliver.

Housing works on 23rd has great donations of very good quality MCM and post on their website the better pieces. Off the Bedford L and into Greenpoint there are a bunch of smaller vintage shops with good collections.

Edit:. Missed the part about Everlane. For the price point you are looking at you're left with Wayfair, which is a lot of veneered particle board. There's a restoration hardware outlet just on the other side of the GW that if you caught them at a sale you could maybe find some new pieces in your budget.

My 2 cents is that if you want MCM the best way to get great quality is to buy original antiques.

You'd be surprised how inexpensive some vintage/midcentury/antique furniture can be.

Look for estate sales.

I'm currently sitting on my grandmother's couch that i inherited, which she bought in 1951, and has reupholstered 3 times. It's still the most comfortable couch I've sat on.

I'll echo what /u/ILoveBabyBats said.

My wife and I just got back from an estate sale in Basking Ridge NJ and purchased a server and a lingerie chest, made by Statton, for $250 a piece (they're worth ~$1K each). We check estatesales.net once a week or so and see if there's anything we're interested in. Keep in mind that they don't post prices online to get you to come out, and everything is negotiable. If you see a piece that you like, give the estate sale company a call and ask who manufactured the piece and see how much similar pieces are going for on ebay or CL.

Honestly, my best bet has been to browse sites I like and use this app to find cheaper lookalikes. Saved me a few grand already

>are looking for the highest quality (but moderately priced) brands or makers

You may not be able to find the moderate costs you want at the "highest quality" you want.

But try to focus on who manufactures the sofa, not who sells it.

RH has high quality sofas made in North Carolina and Virginia and Italy, and lower quality sofas made in china.

DWR also has some high quality sofas, although if ligne-roset is the high end of your budget, they will mostly blow out your budget. (I think that their prices are reasonable for a design focused European brand, but their construction uses a lot of MDF and particle board, and really doesn't have the construction quality Americans traditionally want in a sofa).

My favorites in your price range would be sofas from Hooker and Bradington-Young (which they own) - you should expect to pay around $3000-$5000 for a midrange sofa.

Bassett will be slightly cheaper but they are still decent.

I'm sure others will offer some other good brands as well.

What you want to do is find a retailer that sells the brands you like; these are typically smaller (although not that small) independent stores; not nationwide chains. (Although Arhaus has some okay furniture; so does room and board).

Note that at retailers they will often have the model that you want but not the fabric; they can typically order them from the factory (which takes 6-8 weeks. Sometimes more.)

What you don't get is the convenience of having all the options online and just clicking a button. (And, to be fair, they would be appalled at the idea that you would order without actually having a swatch of the material).

Look into Stickley

I always recommend spending on the scale of 2 months salary for a 3 seater sofa for bifl. That's what your (great)grandparents spent on a sofa you sat in through your 20s. 

I recently went to many showrooms, Room and Board, Ethan Allen, Design Within Reach, Joybird, Interior Define, Pottery Barn and West Elm. Then I considered What a Room and a few other online options. I asked Reddit, got lots of hate on WE and PB. Reddit loves Room and Board but I did not find the sectional of my dreams there. Lastly I stopped at Arhaus, and that’s what we went with. Got it delivered today. I love it. It’s replaced a 9 year old Z Gallerie sectional. I think at the end of the day you just have to go for it.

Check out Leather Creations (they do fabric too).

What area are you in? Most major cities in the US have well known luxury malls or shopping districts where better quality furniture stores tend to concentrate. Are we talking $100 for a sofa? $1000? $10000? Do you have images of what luxurious looks like to you? Best quality for retail would include things like RH, Room & Board, BoConcept, Roche Bobois. Or local furniture who carry Century, Hickory Chair, Henredon, McGuire. Get the best you can afford but don’t break your budget on furniture. You can get clean simple basics in a freshly painted room with good accessories and have an amazing looking space!

I bought my custom sofa and ottomans from Joy Bird. They send you fabric swatches to choose from. It takes a few months to make from scratch, but it's worth the wait. I purchased mine in 2016 and they are in perfect condition and the structure of the sofa and cushions is solid.

I’ve found the best furniture at ReStore.

Ethan Allen.

Go to real furniture stores that have American brands and designs, and exercise some elasticity in your budget. Good legacy furniture is not priced like your initial sourcing.

If you like the style I've had a stickley sofa and some wood side tables and cabinets for 20 years that have held up well, and their newer stuff looks to be the same quality.

Around the Midwest US there are shops that sell custom Amish furniture. It's for sure buy it for my life, and hopefully the life of whatever future grandkid wants it. Some of it is pretty contemporary in style.  It's kind of neat that my dining table has my last name written by the maker underneath too. Pricing isn't any higher than what you'd get at crate & barrel either. 

If what you want is high quality check out the joinery, our couches came from Room and Board no complaints and all US made.

You might look into something vintage and having it reupholstered. I’ve owned furniture from Room. & Board (great quality) to high end European Brands (like Ligne Roset) and of course stuff from C&B, PB and CB2. The latter are stylish and good value for the price but you’re right - they won’t last forever. The former are great quality but do expect to use them forever, if you get tired of the style you don’t get your money back out of them.

My current couch is a hand me down from my mom, a 60 year old Drexel Heritage sofa. I just had it reupholstered for more than most new sofas cost new but the frame is bulletproof. No fabric will last forever but reupholstering something lets you choose the fabric that’s perfect for you.

I don’t think any purchase is an investment, which is to set aside capital in hopes of a future return. 

I view 100% of all purchases as consumption. 

Anyway, estate sales are what’s up. Learn how to refinish wood, etc. 

I’d look for US made furniture - a few brands still make in North Carolina and are BIFL. A lot of those DTC brands that go heavy on the advertising are not really top quality, they’re just good at ads.

I was recommended an American Leather sofa (mine is fabric, despite the name) on here and it has been wonderful. Spendy but it is great and so well-made.

I went vintage for my dining room table and got a mid century rosewood table that can’t be made anymore. Absolutely beautiful construction. Chairish and 1stDibs are great places to look (I usually filter for items in my area and go see them in person)

We’ve had good experiences with Article and Living Spaces. I would say the pieces have held up well over several years with heavy use (pets, no kids).

Our sofa is from Bensen. More than a decade and we still love it.

Room & Board is usually a bit better than PB, CB, WE, etc. I've gotten things from them. Customer service is excellent. Can take a while to get stuff if you customize it. But it does actually arrive.

DWR has many of the modern classics but can edge into the just plain expensive territory. They do have sales.

Ethan & Allen has some quality pieces, but it can be a bit pricey. I used to do touch up and repair on their furniture. Their table tops had thick finishes and were easy to polish out at any sheen. Ethan Alen is somewhere in between middle -to -high end.

Facebook Marketplace, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, thrift shops, furniture consignment shops, IKEA.

If you are in the US, I always recommend Big Lots if there’s any remotely near you. Just watch for sales on the items you want. Great quality for price. I got two really nice couches for $400 total last year.

IKEA.

This was what I was going to recommend too! I love the buy nothing! I don’t buy furniture anymore, just look at the group everyday if I’m interested in something

My local overpriced furniture store has an "as is" department. Full of scratched, dented, dinged furniture. I got a $250 coffee table for $25 because of a scratch.

Lowe’s and Home Depot offer these as well. And while they may not sell all of their furniture in store, they do get online purchase returns that are sold at a fraction of the cost. Good luck!

What is affordable to you? My favorite retail source in terms of value for the aesthetic is CB2

Wayfair.

Cheap and good quality generally don’t go together. I’d look for estate sales.

I like World Market. They have some good sales that happen. Upwards of 40% off.

Affordable plants: I've had good luck at Home Depot and Walmart

Furniture: I love Wayfair, also offer up has some great options sometimes especially if you're wanting to do a little DIY to update it