In Bristol since 1982, The Sofa Project charity is named after the acronym to Shift Old Furniture Around. It has a store at West Street, Old Market, selling pre-loved furniture and electricals, with a free car park at the rear. There's also a large warehouse at Silverthorne Lane, St Phillip's. Both are open six days a week, Monday to Saturday, and you can buy online via eBay. .uk A social enterprise project giving homeless people a home and work, Emmanus has two retail outlets, at Backfields House, Upper York Street in Stokes Croft, and 72 Bedminster Parade in Bedminster. The stores are open six days a week and there's an eBay shop. .uk Another social enterprise, this time helping people who are recovering from addiction, The Compass Project has two stores, one on Broad Street, Staple Hill (open seven days) selling furniture and the other at Gloucester Road, which sells clothes, books and other items alongside furniture. This store is open Monday to Saturday. .uk Operating from a warehouse at Bristol Vale Industrial Estate, Hartcliffe Way, Bedminster, this charitable store aims to give both people and furniture a second chance.
It's open daily except for Thursday. Contact: BS35RJ / 0117 963 7178 / 2ndchance@ndchancebristol.co.uk In the heart of Bristol's arts and retro scene in Stokes Croft, this place is affiliated to Second Chance Furniture (above) and is great for used and restyled clothing, furniture, crafts and other bits 'n' bobs. Open Wednesday to Sunday. Contact: BS1 3PY / 07825 068676 Open Monday to Saturday, Happytat is another Stokes Croft goodies cave and social enterprise selling recycled, restored and upcycled donated household goods. British Heart Foundation Furniture and Electricals Cheap and cheerful charity shop selling donated items from the store in East Street, Bedminster. Contact: BS3 4HB / 0117 321 1560 Specialising in uber cool furniture, lighting and taxidermy (yes, really), this old shop on Colston Street is an interior designer's dream. It's full of vintage and antique items - and the website is beautifully dark and moody. Contact: BS1 5AX / 07789145175 / info@dig-haushizzle.co.uk Selling furniture and vintage items, including record players, from a shop on St George's Road.
It's open Tuesday to Saturday. Contact: BS1 5UW / 0117 926 8453 Antiques and vintage interiors items, including clothing and accessories, arranged over two stores in fashionable Clifton Village. Open seven days a week in Waterloo Street. An Aladdin's Cave, this shop on Gloucester Road, Bishopston, is full of upcycled, quirky, trendy treasures - perfectly reflecting the people of the neighbourhood. Contact: BS7 8TG / Facebook / 0117 924 8000. In Bedminster's increasingly trendy North Street, Rhubarb Jumble sells "nifty threads and oddities for the home". Check out the Instagram page for a peek at stock. House clearance specialist Hodgsons, on Stapleton Road, Easton, has been running since 1918. Visit the shop or buy online via the website. On Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, there's no website, so you'll just have to pay a visit. Contact: BS6 5QZ / 0117 908 6893 On Mina Road, St Werburgh's, this place buys and sells furniture of all sorts and vintages. Contact: BS2 9XW / 07407 701533. With everything from antiques to budget buys, this West Street store is full of the unusual and quirky that's become typical of outlets in Old Market Quarter.
Open Monday to Saturday. Contact: BS2 0BL / 0117 923 95482 Long-established Gloucester Road store for new beds, sofas, tables, chairs and wardrobes plus secondhand pieces. Open six days, closed on Sundays. Contact: BS7 8NZ / 0117 949 0904 In the South Gloucestershire village of Westerleigh, near Yate, this emporium sells everything and anything for home and garden. There's a car wash and cafe too, and it's packed at weekends. Open Wednesday to Monday. No website or Facebook page, no phone, and no cards accepted either. It's old school cash ony here. Promise it's well worth the visit to BS37. Estalished four decades ago, The Attic is a house clearance specialist based at North Street, Downend. Open Tuesday to Saturday. Based at Dragon Road, Winterbourne, but with a comprehensive website, Roger sells new and refurbished items for every room in the home. Contact: BS36 1BQ / 07 864 337 194 / sales@rogersfurniture.co.uk Operating from Cattle Market Road in St Phillip's, this place saves all things timber from landfill.
You'll find some furniture, but also shelves, doors, logs and charcoal, plus bit and pieces for DIY projects. .uk This architectural salvage business is open seven days a week at Parkway Trading Estate, St Werburgh's, specialising in doors, floors and fireplaces, but also basins, lighting and random household fixtures such as period switches and radiators. Contact: BS2 9PG / 07881 817372 / sales@doorsfloorsfireplaces.co.uk From the yard at Park Road, Southville, Bristol Reclamation stocks a wide range of period and more modern furniture, plus things like floorboards and fireplaces. The team can also create bespoke pieces to order. Open Tuesday to Sunday. Contact: BS3 1PU / 0117 953 2111 Second Hand Furniture for Sale in Bristol New and Second Hand Sofas for Sale in Bristol Buy from us online Check out Emmaus Bristol for: Affordable, good quality second hand furniture, clothes, books, bric à brac and electricals Low cost delivery for larger items Visit our eBay store for collectors items, curiosities and antiques
House clearances at very competitive prices or even free! **Please note that our Brislington shop is now closed** We have shops in Stokes Croft and Bedminster, and a third pop-up shop in Kingswood.Or just stop by for a browse – you might find what you didn’t know you needed! We take donations of household items, clothes, small electrical items and office goods, and can arrange collection. See our donations page for more information.Do you like your furniture to tell a story? Been searching for trinkets from years gone by to brighten up your home? Bristol is teeming with vintage and second hand furniture gems. So forget the flat-pack nightmares and go get stuck in. After all, it’s good for the environment, good for our local businesses and good fun. Here are some of Bristol’s best vintage furniture finds to get you started. The Reclaimer’s yard is like the Aladdin’s cave of the furniture world and it’s easy to get lost in here, so take your time.
From kitchen sinks to beautiful wooden doors, garden ornaments to antique writing desks, they have so much on offer you’ll be spoilt for choice. This is an absolute favourite with Bristol residents. Grown out of two people’s passion for vintage furniture, Dig Haüshizzle almost feels like a museum. Antique furniture, taxidermy and lighting are their main focus. They often have some beautiful collections of drawings and you can expect a friendly welcome. This place is worth a visit even if you’re not intending to buy (although you might not be able to resist a purchase when you see what’s inside). Nestled in the fantastic Clifton Arcade, this little store is a real find. Tonya has a vast knowledge of antique furniture and an ever-changing selection of exquisite one-off pieces, with accessories to match. There are also some great paints on offer if you fancy doing a bit of restoration yourself. Down the road from the central library, Relics is one for the music lovers.
There’s a colourful array of record players and some great posters covering the walls as well as two floors of furniture. There’s also a large collection of old records to root around in too. Focus on the Past, Clifton Village Floor to ceiling, Focus on the Past is laden with all sorts of bric-a-brac. There are some interesting paintings on the lower floor and some sturdy antique pieces of furniture hidden as part of the displays. The old fashioned tunes and volume of stuff in there creates an atmosphere that takes you back in time. A fairly new addition to quirky Stokes Croft, the Pop Up Vintage Market has all sorts different stalls including furniture, records, accessories for the home and clothing. There are some colourful up-cycled pieces for sale and some even more colourful characters lurking round the market, and in Stokes Croft we wouldn’t expect anything less. Hungry after all that shopping? Check out one of Bristol's best cheap eats All pictures by Terri Cramer