The lowest floor offers a bedroom, bathroom and laundry room, while the main level features public rooms and opens to a patio. Vaulted ceilings add elegance to the bedroom level. Listing agent: Tom Verkozen, Alain Pinel Realtors, (415) 496-2992, tomv@apr.com . 304 4th St., $2 million Beds: 4 Baths: 3.5 Square footage: 1,908 Open house: 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday
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Could you have this in your home without it driving you completely nuts? What you see above is a 3D rendering, but soon it won’t be. Laviani works for furniture design house Fratelli Boffi , and created this piece, titled “Good Vibrations,” for the 2013 Furniture Exhibition. The unit is designed to be disorienting (which it is) as well as comforting.
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“A lot of good companies in the United States that have been making furniture have faced very formidable competition from the Chinese.” Koenig and other retailers maintain that China, which has cheap labor and low production costs, is not selling at unfairly low prices. Up to half of City Furniture’s wood furniture comes from the Pacific Rim with China the biggest player, Koenig said, adding that customers like the Asian-made goods. “At the end of the day, the products that we and other major retailers are importing from around the world are products that consumers want,” he said, noting they are “great quality, incredible value, style diversity and an assortment we can’t get from U.S. manufacturers.” Chinese-made bedroom furniture can cost retailers between 15 percent and 75 percent less than products from comparable domestic counterparts, bedroom furniture stores in houston TX he said, and the more detailed and labor-intensive the piece, the greater the price difference.
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