Free, plain-English buying guides for every room of the house, from mattresses and sofas to washers, grills and patio sets. They're written by a family-run home furnishings business that has spent more than 30 years selling and delivering this stuff in Southeast Michigan, and they cover the measurements, trade-offs and mistakes that spec sheets leave out.
Every guide is long-form and written to be read before you buy, not after. Each topic below starts with the one thing we most often wish customers had known first.
Learn about mattress types, sizes, firmness levels, and what to look for before you buy. Innerspring, memory foam, hybrid, latex — we break down the pros, cons, and price ranges of each.
Read the Guide → 🛏️Bedroom Furniture · 15 min readBed sizes with real frame footprints and minimum room dimensions, six frame types, foundations and slat spacing, the six-point drawer inspection, layout clearances, and the order to spend your budget in.
Read the Guide →Everything you need to furnish your living room. Sofas, sectionals, recliners, coffee tables, TV stands, and design tips — plus Michigan-specific advice on humidity, delivery, and winter comfort.
Read the Guide → 💺Living Room · 13 min readThe six-point fit test, power vs. manual, wall-hugger clearance numbers, what separates a three-year recliner from a fifteen-year one, leather vs. fabric, and how to choose a lift chair for a parent.
Read the Guide → 🧶Rugs & Flooring · 14 min readA rug size chart for every room, wool vs. nylon vs. polypropylene vs. viscose, how construction changes the price, pile height, rug pads that will not damage your floors, and Michigan salt and basement advice.
Read the Guide →Stop guessing on table size. Learn exactly what fits your room, how many people it seats, the best shapes and materials, chair heights, and the mistakes that lead to returns — plus a printable buying checklist.
Read the Guide → 🍳Kitchen & Appliances · 15 min readBuy the right fridge, range, dishwasher, and microwave the first time. Learn how to measure every opening, check your hookups, compare gas vs. electric vs. induction, pick a finish, read energy labels — plus a printable buying checklist.
Read the Guide →Top load versus front load, capacity by household size, gas versus electric versus heat pump, venting rules and safety, stacking and installation — including the shipping bolts that destroy machines when people forget them.
Read the Guide → 🧹Cleaning · 12 min readUpright, canister, cordless stick and robot vacuums compared. Which specs actually matter, bagged vs. bagless for allergies, true HEPA and sealed systems, honest cordless runtimes and the maintenance that restores lost suction.
Read the Guide → 🧽Home Care & Maintenance · 16 min readMake everything in your home last years longer. How to clean and protect wood, upholstery, leather, mattresses, appliances, and patio furniture — plus a stain-removal cheat sheet, the upholstery code-tag guide, and Michigan seasonal tips.
Read the Guide →Buy the right TV the first time. Learn what screen size fits your room, OLED vs. QLED vs. LED, what HDR and refresh rate really mean, how to pick a soundbar, and the setup mistakes that wreck picture and sound — plus a printable buying checklist.
Read the Guide → 💼Home Office · 14 min readDesk depth, standing desks, ergonomic chair anatomy, monitor height, lighting and cable management — how to build a home office that does not wreck your back, and where to spend a $1,000 budget.
Read the Guide →Everything you need to create an amazing outdoor patio. Furniture, grills, fire pits, lighting, and design tips — plus Michigan-specific seasonal advice and a maintenance checklist.
Read the Guide → 🔥Outdoor Cooking · 14 min readGas, charcoal, pellet, kamado and griddle compared. Sizing, the BTU myth, build-quality checks, placement clearances and fire safety, plus how to winterize a grill through a Michigan season.
Read the Guide →The guide to read before any large purchase. Measuring the room and the delivery path, the diagonal depth rule that decides whether a sofa clears the door, stair turns, clearance minimums and a delivery-day checklist.
Read the Guide → 📦Small Spaces · 13 min readHow to furnish a small apartment or tight room: apartment-scale dimensions, multi-function pieces worth buying, vertical storage, rug sizing, studio zoning, and renter-friendly fixes that come back off the wall.
Read the Guide → 📅Smart Shopping · 11 min readA month-by-month calendar of when furniture, mattresses, appliances, TVs and patio furniture really go on sale, why prices drop when they do, how MAP pricing works and how to spot a fake deal.
Read the Guide → 📖Reference · 16 min readSixty-two furniture, mattress, appliance, delivery and retail terms defined in plain language — eight-way hand-tied, diagonal depth, foam density, MAP pricing, prorated warranties — with why each one matters when you shop.
Read the Guide →Most failed furniture deliveries are a measuring problem, not a furniture problem. Enter the narrowest opening on the way in (usually a storm door, hallway or stair landing) and the piece's dimensions. The checker uses the same rules as our measuring guide: subtract two inches for hands and moving blankets, then compare against how the piece actually turns through a doorway.
After three decades on the sales floor and the delivery truck, the same problems keep coming up. None of them is about product quality.
A sofa doesn't need to fit the living room; it needs to fit the tightest point between the truck and the wall. Storm doors, 30-inch hallways and L-shaped stair landings stop more deliveries than anything else. How to measure the path →
A thicker mattress needs deep-pocket sheets, a foam bed needs the right slat spacing, and a new dryer may need a new cord or vent. Add up the whole cost before comparing prices. Bed, frame & foundation basics →
Many "sale" prices are the normal price with a higher number crossed out above it. Furniture, mattresses, appliances and TVs follow predictable yearly sale cycles. Know them, and you'll rarely need to pay full price. The month-by-month calendar →
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The short version: we write what we would tell a neighbor standing in our showroom. The full version is in our editorial standards.
The advice comes from decades of selling, assembling, delivering and taking back furniture and appliances. We draw on what actually goes wrong in real homes, not on manufacturer marketing copy.
We don't print prices, discounts or star ratings because they change daily and would be wrong by the time you read them. We explain what to check instead, so you can judge the live listing yourself.
Some guides end with a few example products at Amazon or Walmart, and we may earn a commission if you buy. Those examples are chosen to match the advice; the advice is not written around them. See our affiliate disclosure.
If something in a guide is wrong or out of date, tell us. We fix errors and revise guides when products, standards or our own experience change.
Wholesale Warehouse Inc. is a family-run home furnishings business based at 6345 Beverly Plaza in Romulus, Michigan, founded in 1994. For three decades we have sold mattresses and furniture to families across Southeast Michigan and delivered them into apartments, bungalows and split-levels. We've seen a lot of the ways a purchase can go wrong.
This site is where we write that experience down. It isn't a store: you can't buy anything here, and the guides cover far more than we have ever carried. If you have a question a guide doesn't answer, or want to talk to someone about a specific room, get in touch. You can read more about us on our about page.
The team at Wholesale Warehouse Inc., a family-run home furnishings business in Romulus, Michigan, that has been selling and delivering furniture and mattresses since 1994. Each guide draws on spec sheets, measurements and what we have seen go right and wrong in customers' homes. Our editorial standards explain the process.
No. This site publishes buying guides. Some guides end with a short list of example products. Those links go to Amazon or Walmart, which sell, ship and warranty the items under their own return policies.
Through advertising and, when you buy through one of the retailer links at the end of a guide, a small affiliate commission. Neither changes the price you pay, and neither decides what a guide recommends.
Because they change every day and any number we printed would soon be wrong. A stale price is worse than none. We explain what a fair price range looks like and what to check, so you can judge the live listing at the time you're actually buying.
Yes. Send us your room measurements, the piece you're considering, or the question a guide didn't answer through our contact page. Questions readers send us often become new sections or new guides.
