This is the first review on this site. Though I'm really posting this review because I spent some time some months ago looking for Accents's opening hours online, and found some reviews on a site. (I'm not sure which site.) There were a number of people who tended to think that the stuff in Accents veered on the side of expensive. I disagree.
Accents is a furniture and decorative homeware store on the Lisburn Road, opposite the top of Tate's Avenue. There used to be a café upstairs, but now the very good sized store takes up the whole of two floors, and has quite a lot of stuff. And it's very nice stuff. It's a lovely place to visit even just to cheer you up if you've no room for something at home! You might find yourself finding room in your head for something again!
The furniture is not the cheapest, OK, but it's good quality, design orientated furniture, and pleasant stuff. It's not the more designer, say Italian or moddish stuff you might find in other places in the Lisburn Road. Some of it would fit into New England or coastal style, for example, and others are more traditional, other things are a bit more modern, but there's nothing really avant-garde or provocative.
The first thing to say is that the prices are fair and there is a lot of stuff to make really nice rooms up out of. The prices are not Ikea or Homebase prices, but they're fair prices, I feel. At the same time the shop seems to have had a sale going constantly of quite subtantial amounts of discount off most things in the shop. I think every item has 20 percent off, and other marked items were up to 50 percent discount every time I've visited since early Autumn last year (I've been in 5 to 10 times).
I bought some lovely things lamp, vase, decorative items and so did my mother, at really good prices.
Accents has nice stuff. At the top prices, the nice stuff seems worth it, and because of the ongoing sales prices, generally the store seems to be good to very good value.
It is definitely worth going in and having a look a few times. I found that the more I returned, the more I had the impulse to buy some things there (where I'm more used to getting bored of things in shops over time so I tend to wait to make sure).
So Accents is doing a lot right, in my book! The store owners have really good taste in what to stock and sell.
The store is in an easy position on Lisburn Road. The Lisburn Road has a lot to attract people itself now. If you're driving at the Boucher Road outlets, it's easy to get to through Tate's Avenue. If you're around the Lanyon building of Queens University or the Ulster Museum at the bottom of Stranmillis Road, it's in walking distance, if you can take a good 20 minute stroll as walking distance. read more