Get a Beautiful LED Fireplace Insert to Warm Up YOUR Winter

It’s not too late to get a beautiful LED fireplace insert to make YOUR home more inviting and literally warmer for the holidays! Curly’s Furniture know how important your home’s ambience is when entertaining family and friends. That’s why we keep our Illinois furniture stores well stocked with amenities such as artificial fireplaces to make your home the showplace it should be.

Reasons to Get a Fireplace Insert

Love the homey feel of a fireplace but hate the upkeep and the safety hazard? An LED fireplace insert might be right for you. These marvels use a safe electric heater and refracted light to give you the illusion of lovely flames. Our selection of fireplace inserts comes in a variety of sizes and designs to match any decor. The heat generating equipment in your new artificial fireplace uses either directly electrified coils or infrared technology, rays that heat copper coils, for instance. Fans then push the heat into your room. You can control both the amount of heat generated and the look of the flames with easy-to-use controls. This control can include timing the lights’ flickering and using random refraction to look just like a real hearth with a comforting, warming fire. Resin logs can complete your artificial fireplace’s look. Most such devices simply plug into the wall outlet; no need to worry about a chimney and its cleaning. Sometimes you can even fit an LED fireplace insert into a real one. Because the heating is encased in the unit, LED fireplaces are safer than real flames in homes with children and pets. Your new artificial fireplace will also be cost-effective, less money to run than a real fireplace or coal-burning stove. And compared to the cost of installing a real fireplace and chimney, it’s an incredible bargain! Save money through the years on the cost of firewood too. Shop smart at Curly’s and enjoy a new LED fireplace for less than half the manufacturer’s suggested price!

Check out our LED fireplace options for YOUR living room or TV room at our Streator, IL store. We are guaranteeing delivery on ALL in-stock items by Christmas!

Rethink Living Room Sofa Sets & Sectionals for YOUR Fall and Holiday Get-Togethers

Always wanted a cool sectional sofa but didn’t think you could swing the cost? Guess again. Curly's Furniture is in the business of making dreams come true. Holiday entertaining season is right around the corner. Don’t get caught with worn-out furniture! You don’t have to thanks to our vast selection and always low prices. And it only gets better. You too can enjoy an awesome living room sofa set when the family arrives for Thanksgiving but pay EVEN LESS thanks to our generous bargains! And what can you get? Read on!

Plush Living Room Sofa Sets

When you see our living room sofa sets you’ll know your time to upgrade is NOW! One of our personal favorites, the Alenya Charcoal sofa and loveseat combo, is in a lovely dark gray polyester upholstery with a reassuring softness. Sink into superb high-density foam cushions made to last. This sofa set features a rugged reinforced corner-blocked frame making it family-friendly even for excited pooches. It sits on wide legs. 

Cool Living Room Sectionals

One of our most popular living room sectionals this season is a cool 7-seater from Signature Design by Ashley. This roomy Segburg pull-action reclining sectional makes it easy to kick back and forget about the stress out in the world. Just chill and enjoy chat with loved ones and maybe the big game on TV. This luxurious Ashley sectional is clothed in soft easy-care polyester in a distinguished light gray. You even get a neat center console to store your remote! 

ALL this sectional and sofa set awesomeness is happening NOW on our website for less as well as at our Streator, IL store and other Curly's Furniture locations.

This Fall, Consider Some New Dining Furniture

Now that the gathering season is here, with holiday meals figuring almost as much as gifts to make this time extra special, some new dining room furniture from your friends at Curly’s Furniture might be in order. Why? Your dining set is your chance to shine in the spotlight as a host. Sure, you can show off your cooking skill at the counter or on a secondhand table you got right out of school. But you also want your relations and friends to be just a bit jealous of your refinement and taste. Some well-chosen dining furniture accomplishes that as well as giving enough room to share a meal and conversation. And when you buy your new dining table from Curly’s Furniture, you’re getting the sterling service of a family-owned business rate 4.9 out of 5 stars and offering same-day white-glove delivery service. We EVEN match prices so you literally can’t find finer furniture deals in Northern Illinois! Here are a couple of cool dining sets Curly’s has on sale THIS fall.

Friendly Informality: 7-Piece Dining Set

If farmhouse shabby chic is your thing, our clearance Skempton 7-piece dining set will be the ideal addition to your home in time for the holidays! This lovely set from Signature Design by Ashley, a bargain brand, features acacia veneers with a distressed white finish atop solid wood to give you years of excellent service. This roomy plank-topped rectangular dining table seats up to 6, which you can readily do with the classic ladderback dining chairs and their beige polyester cushions. Normally listed at $1149.99, we expect this dining set to BLOW out our doors for a rock-bottom $459!

Pub Camaraderie: Counter-Height Dining Set

When you want the “Cheers” closeness of a pub setting, our Bennox brown counter-height dining set is here to set the standard for cool contemporary style. These pieces built on rugged engineered wood are in a classic dark brown finish. Have a couple of drinks or breakfast on this adorable square dining table while sitting on distinguished black vinyl cushions atop the bar-height chairs. Originally $649.99, this dining set can be all YOURS for a mere $259!

Your new dining room furniture look awaits affordably at our Streator, IL store so come on by before the leaves hit the ground and the dining set of your dreams is on its way to someone else’s home.

Fall Accent Accessories: Warm Colors Are the Name of the Game

Now that there’s a nip in the air and the daylight hours are dwindling, it’s a perfect time to check out beautiful accent accessories by Ashley at Curly’s Furniture! Many households refresh their decor seasonally, maybe emphasizing big holidays like the Fourth of July or Christmas. This season’s big feasts are of course Halloween and Thanksgiving, which share fall’s color scheme. For autumn, our brilliant selection of accent decor items ties into the season’s theme of gathering in your home and hearth to share meals and fellowship as the leaves famously change color before being blown off into the fields to be raked. You know those memes that say “fall is my favorite color”? Lots of dazzling, heartwarming hues of red, yellow, orange, and brown? Artists know these as warm colors. Ironic as it’s getting cooler outside, but that’s nature’s palette this season and it fits the homecoming theme you’re looking for. So whether you’re changing out the decoration on your front-hall cabinet or mantel, or maybe changing your living room sofa’s accessories or bedding, there are many possibilities! Let’s have a look at some.

Living Room Sofa Accent Makeover

One simple way you can dramatically retune your house’s look for autumn is to add warm colors thanks to living room sofa accessories. Your sofa is likely the biggest piece of furniture in the front rooms of your house that you share with visitors. A shift to a “nesting” look with warm hues can be as easy as well-chosen accent pillows maybe a faux fur throw in anticipation of colder weather even if your living room is toasty with a radiator and/or fireplace.

Front-Hall and Mantelpiece Fall Accents

A simple way to get your foyer and mantel in the fall spirit is to add a set of accessory glass bottles in red or amber. Better still, have them on a windowsill so they glow in the sunlight!

Fun Fall-Theme Accent Bedding

Now that you’ve got the main part of your home squared away, with some bold colors and/or patterns in your accessory bedding it’ll feel like fall in your bedroom as well. Consider a coverlet set, pillowcases, duvet, and all, in appealing shades such as gold or maroon.

All your autumn decor wishes come true affordably at our Streator, IL store! Have fun this Halloween and Thanksgiving and see you soon.

In Praise of Outdoor Benches, Versatile and Attractive

Among all the awesome outdoor furniture selection you can find or order at our Streator, IL store, one of our personal favorites is small but sturdy and versatile. Fewer things are finer than cuddling on a fine outdoor bench on a cooperative sunny summer Saturday when the humidity calms down. You can find traditional park-style benches with a romantic 19th-century look. Also, the many available picnic-style benches are a hit with one of our outdoor dining sets when you have restless young ones who want to get up from the table and resume playing!

Laminated Traditional Wood Outdoor Benches

When you love the look and feel of real wood, fine outdoor benches in classic designs also have lamination to resist water damage and wood rot. So, making sure the seat is dry, you can sit confidently as you enjoy a glorious sunset, perhaps over drinks, chat, and more. Your new wood outdoor benches will give you many years of excellent service.

Indestructible Polywood Outdoor Benches

IF you are still concerned about your outdoor benches and how they will fare against the elements, Curly’s vast inventory has an answer ready for you to take home and use on your patio or lawn. Check out indestructible Polywood. This wonder material for new outdoor benches and more, such as Adirondack lawn chairs, not only stands the ravages of time and the weather, guaranteed. You can feel good about helping the environment you’re enjoying as you sit and relax in your veranda or yard. All of our Polywood outdoor benches are made of recycled plastic. No more waste in landfills or our oceans but a sturdy piece of outdoor seating for your household to enjoy for many summers.

All your outdoor bench needs have their solution at Curly’s Furniture! See you soon.

Why Good Entertainment Centers Make Sense for Upgrades and Upcycling

When you’ve got the floor space in the home you always wished for, an awesome entertainment center will make your viewing an extra pleasure. Be it game night or binge-watching your favorite series with your large TV unit, nothing makes a home more relaxing than the theater-like experience that the right entertainment center from Curly’s Furniture literally affords you.

Reasons to Step Up to an Entertainment Center

First of all, unlike the starkness of a TV mount, an entertainment center is a substantial piece of home furniture with a commanding presence. Most living rooms have a wall that’s blank and boring. Give it instant appeal and “homeyness” with a beautiful entertainment center taking the place of the old-fashioned fireplace and mantel. And if you still want the fireplace experience minus the cleanup or hazard, check out Curly’s entertainment units with safe, beautiful LED fireplace inserts that give you heat too!

Second, entertainment centers are an ideal fit in your home if you’ve got lots of media such as a sound system or a big DVD collection as some still do, so you need storage. With their handsome built-in shelves and cabinetry, our top-of-the-line entertainment centers fit the bill perfectly. One more thing on the storage issue: a good entertainment unit is extremely versatile for everything from your library to home office storage and even toys.

Large Entertainment Centers Are Easy and Fun to Repurpose

You might be wary of buying a large entertainment center as our visual media are constantly shifting. From flat screens to movies and TV on your hand-held devices ruling the day, our habits and home furniture needs change. Remember when a giant TV was itself a piece of furniture? We sure do, and man, were they heavy! Don’t let that put you off an entertainment unit, because even if TV as we know it is gone tomorrow, replaced by holograms or who knows what, your entertainment center’s massive shelf space is infinitely reusable. For example, some design-minded homeowners have transformed theirs into everything from cool home bars to do-it-yourself mini-pantries.

Whatever your entertainment furniture requirements are, you can get it for less at our Streator, IL store.

In Praise of the Living Room Chaise: Beauty & Luxury

Sure, anyone can get another sofa or armchair, but luxurious living room chaises set your space apart as having design distinction! Here are some reasons for you to consider purchasing a red velvet or leather button tufted chaise lounge from Curly’s Furniture when it’s time to upgrade your front room seating for style and comfort.

Even a Small Chaise Lounge Makes a Room Seem Larger

If the room your realtor or landlord described as cozy is in fact cramped, part of the charm of backless living room chaises is that they seem to float in the room, giving the optical illusion of more floor space as well as a chance to recline gracefully on your leather psychiatrist chair or teal chaise settee. In small rooms, conventional couches and recliners loom too large like a bull in a china shop. And if you spring for a small chaise lounge with storage, you ARE freeing up more floor space even for dancing, because no more distracting clutter!

Try a Chaise Lounge Chair for More Versatility

Not only is a new modern black leather chaise lounge less imposing than a conventional sofa. When you get a living room chaise instead, you are upping your entertainment space’s versatility. The typical indoor chaise lounge is lighter and thus more mobile than the usual seating choices.

A Sturdy Living Room Chaise Is Perfect for Reading

When you lie on a microfiber chaise lounge chair or other design of your choice, you get the double bonus of body support so you can read with your head upright AND the relaxation of stretching out, much more easily than on a conventional loveseat, for example. Put a lamp next to your Victorian style chaise lounge and you’ve got a wonderful mini-retreat for study and meditation.

Unusual Living Room Chaises Are Conversation Pieces

With their decadent-looking curves and other design details, the right living room chaises relieve the monotony of a room that’s too often all squares and rectangles in its interior design. They say the coolest living rooms resemble art galleries, and a piece of furniture with sculpture-like visual interest accomplishes that.

From modern faux leather to fuchsia plush upholstery, you’ll find the living room chaise you want for a fair price at our DeKalb, IL furniture store.

A Look at Faux Leather Furniture Pros and Cons

Both real and faux leather furniture for your living room or den are most affordable options. Here at Curly’s Furniture we have a vast inventory, plus the tons of furniture we can order. Typically in our stores on any given day we offer about 300 faux leather seating choices. What are some of the reasons you might pick this over the genuine article? Let’s have a look at what faux leather furniture upholstery is and how it compares to real cowhide.

What Faux Leather Is

To make most faux leather furniture, manufacturers take a fabric base such as polyester, a mainstay in the industry for its durability, and put a plastic coating over it, often polyurethane (PU). Once the plastic is applied, this is coated with a color and then its texture, mimicking the grain of cowhide. The DuPont chemical company introduced this superior faux leather in 1963. This upholstery choice has a long successful track record of looking good in households with heavy, constant living room furniture use. Another form of faux leather uses a different kind of plastic coating, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Of the two, partly because leatherette is harder to make, polyurethane is far commoner in our faux leather furniture upholstery.

How Faux Leather Measures Up

One big plus of faux leather furniture over genuine is you care about animal rights. Others include little required care. Unlike a costlier real leather loveseat, for example, you wouldn’t have to use special products on your PU-coated upholstery to keep it clean. Leather conditioner now and then is good for both real and faux leather upholstery. PU faux leather is 100% waterproof. A disadvantage to plastic-coated faux leather seats is the polyurethane is not porous so sweat might stay on it if you’re using it a long time on a hot day. Also, real leather is more likely to last longer, which explains the price difference.

Whatever your living room furniture preference, our DeKalb,IL store is ready for you offering prices that literally can’t be beat. Find one lower and we’ll match it!

Designer’s Tricks: Freshen Your Home Decor for Spring

Spring has sprung. To your pleasure or pain, the flowers are in bloom. And even if you need Claritin to get through your day without a stuffy nose, you’ve got to admit the longer daylight hours and splashes of color everywhere in nature lift your spirits. Why not extend this feeling of new life to your home decor? We at Curly’s Furniture have picked up a few designers’ tricks over the years to keep your home’s look fresh.

Go with Bright Colors

Now might be the time to switch out the warm and deep colors that reassure in winter for something bright and cheery to wake up your room. Accent accessories such as wall art are a quick and economical way to do so. Why not incorporate different accent pillows for your living room or bedroom?

Shop Your Own Home

What? We’re not suggesting you buy new furniture? While we love seeing you and helping you re-vision your room with purchases, one shortcut to shake things up for spring is simply to rearrange the home furniture you’ve got. For example, try something dramatic like moving the living room sofa to the opposite wall. You know that upholstered bench that’s become a place to pile your junk in the foyer? Try placing it at the foot of your bed so you have a comfy spot to put on your shoes as the sun rises for another glorious spring day.

Rotate Your Displays

Along with placement of fresh-cut flowers in a vase to liven a room for the change to spring, the top of your accent cabinet is also a perfect staging area for seasonal displays. Store your out-of-season mementos on the shelves below. Now wasn’t that easy?

And when you need home furniture to usher in spring, our Streator, IL store is always prepared, from gleaming white accent consoles to other seasonal accoutrements. And for your own sake, get out and enjoy the glorious weather!

Handling Change: Transitioning Your Kids’ Room Into a Grown-Up Guest Room

Change is ALWAYS difficult. Few changes are more bittersweet than watching your youngsters grow up and leave home. It’s an amazing transformation as your child navigates rapid growth from sprawlingly playful and exuberant pre-teen and tween years into unsure, awkward adolescence and emerges a well-rounded young adult. That makes furnishing your kids’ room an extra challenge. However, with some judicious planning and a careful eye, choosing versatile kids’ room furniture you can continue using once your offspring are on their own needn’t be a headache. At Curly’s Furniture we’ve helped countless families in your situation so here’s another dose of free advice.

Choosing Bedroom Furniture to Stand the Test of Time

My, how the years fly by! Seems like yesterday you were having a baby shower and arranging the nursery with adorable toys and practical goodies around the crib. Blink, and your cantankerous toddler is getting his own bedroom, maybe with fun bunk beds or a favorite kids’ theme such as race cars or My Little Pony. Then in a flash it all became way too babyish and your hard-headed daughter was rushing headlong into trying to be a grownup. Enough to make your head spin, right? We’ve been there. More important right now, your child’s growth spurt into a teenager gives you a leg-up for when he or she is trying out independence. The sturdy twin bedroom set you choose can either last you many decades longer as a guest bedroom or your grown children can use it for THEIR blooming youngsters. The cycle of life stops for no one!

Versatile Home Accents That Are Still FUN!

That said, being grown-up for a teenager’s bedroom or guest room doesn’t rule out fun. Choose appropriate home accents such as wall art to add some pop-art coolness and splashes of color to brighten the day of whoever is using your space. Life’s changes can be enjoyable after all.

For all your kids’ room furniture and other home decor challenges our Streator, IL store is at your disposal, open 7 days a week!

Based on Your Sleep Style, Which Mattress Is Best?

Sleep preferences are unique to everyone, not just morning people vs. night owls but snorers (something a doctor should check if it gets too loud or interrupts your sleep) and, relevant to choosing your foam, spring, or hybrid mattress at Curly’s Furniture, how exactly you like to lie down and settle in for your nightly Zs. That leaves three possibilities, back, side and stomach sleepers. Even the finest, most technologically advanced mattress will do a subpar job keeping you rested if you’re mismatched. The good news is you don’t have to read the hundreds of mattress reviews when you shop. We’ve done the work for you. In this blog post we offer our advice based on years of our mattress store outfitting households like yours. So let’s have a look at each sleeping posture and suggest a mattress that’s a good fit.

Recommended Mattresses for Back Sleepers

Do you just love stretching out flat on your back when you retire for the night, and tend to stay face up for your 7-9 hours in the sack? If that’s you, most doctors congratulate you. Back sleepers are literally in the best position to maintain their spine’s natural shape, preventing pain and injury. Because this part of your skeleton is vital to your well-being, you require a mattress that will “give” just enough to preserve your backbone’s lumbar curve, the slight indentation above your buttocks so your vertebrae move trouble-free when you’re up and about. You also want a mattress that’s easy on your body’s pressure points, literally a sore subject for too many people. A worn-out mattress does your spine a disservice, putting you at risk. We recommend replacing it with a medium firm mattress, something with pocketed coils and/or a strong high-density foam core to take over your body’s support from your muscles. The support foam on top should contour to your spine.

Ideal Solutions for Side Sleepers

People prefer to sleep on their sides for all kinds of reasons, such as easier breathing for one side of the nose and sinuses. This presents a challenge to mattress shoppers. That’s because, male or female, your side – knees, hips, and shoulder – is curvier than your back or front. That means more possibly painful pressure points to worry about! Because of that, we recommend the opposite of what many need. You require a soft mattress! A material that’s both accommodating and supportive enough is latex foam. This has been fine-tuned since its debut so you get airflow at the cellular level, better than ordinary memory foam mattresses, both holding you and making sure your “ride” is perfectly temperature-controlled. Hybrid mattresses with gel are another popular option for side sleepers.

Stomach Sleepers Can Now Rest Easy

As with back sleepers, those of you who naturally sleep prone, face down, need extra support. Unfortunately, your preferred position lends itself to more back pain, because an ordinary mattress will often give away at your hips, putting you out of balance. Ironically, this kind of pain is why many choose to be stomach sleepers, a temporary fix that can lead to big problems. You need an extra-firm mattress. Your options include reliable, affordable innerspring mattresses with up-to-date coil technology as well as high-density core foam and hybrid models.

For the finest in sleep solutions via top-brand mattresses at bargain prices daily, be sure to visit our DeKalb, IL store or one of our other Illinois locations.

Living the Dream: Design Your Ideal Home Office

Perhaps congratulations are in order: your employer has embraced 21^st-century technology and values quality of life so at last you’ve ditched your time-wasting commute in favor of the joys of working from home, tapping away online being even more productive amidst happy, familiar surroundings. Or perhaps you are setting off on your own adventure in entrepreneurship or freelance work, another exciting work option in the Internet age. Maybe you receive clients or patients at your home. Or you might need a household command station in the kitchen or a study room or nook to keep your young ones or budding master’s student focused on lessons. Whatever your home office furniture needs, Curly’s Furniture offers not only a selection of fine pieces in styles traditional and ultramodern, but some design tips that have helped households like yours adjust to this new era of employment. First, let’s consider the matter of size.

Small Home Offices

If what the realtor described as “cozy” is really “cramped,” do not despair. Even if your square footage is extremely limited, so your new home office can only occupy a wall or corner, it can still be attractive and entirely functional. Fortunately for you, furniture manufacturers understand this problem so they offer you ready solutions with multipurpose computer desks that have built-in shelves, for instance. Drawers are a big help, as are amenities that don’t take up space such as USB ports and electrical outlets. You can even shoehorn a ready-made computer workstation into a tight space and let the creativity and productivity flow!

Medium Home Offices

Suppose your home has some wiggle room but your home office setup is modest, maybe still part of a room. No worries. Still consider versatility when choosing your home office furniture but your options are a bit wider. Consider an L-shaped desk for an office using about a fourth of the room, for example. Again you can find shelves below the top so you save space and have enough room to put your printer, lay out your blueprints and other documents, and even put up a few mementos and awards like you had at your on-site office

Large, Dedicated Home Offices

If your home office space is big, good for you. Consider a lovely credenza desk perhaps with a hutch. Or, if you work with others in your space, a more personable yet impressive solution is a stately executive desk featuring Old World design flourishes.

When you are ready to shop for your new home office, our Streator, IL store is ready for you.