Good deals and spaces available? SCORE. There are some big furniture sales in December/January, so you can swipe some fun stuff! 
Since we had bits and pieces moved around of like, a mash of college furniture for most of the necessities (read: bookshelves and desks lol), furniture shopping for our house was literally like, "you know how you guys said you were 'thinking' about buying a new couch/bed/washer-dryer?" to everyone we knew, and cruising yard sales and flea markets (I used to do a lot of refurb). Found a kickass deal on dressers at a consignment store....never knew what would turn up!
Since we had bits and pieces moved around of like, a mash of college furniture for most of the necessities (read: bookshelves and desks lol), furniture shopping for our house was literally like, "you know how you guys said you were 'thinking' about buying a new couch/bed/washer-dryer?" to everyone we knew, and cruising yard sales and flea markets (I used to do a lot of refurb). Found a kickass deal on dressers at a consignment store....never knew what would turn up!
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.