With $3,000 you can get a solid couch from What' A' Room' Furniture. Custom made with high quality materials like solid wood frame and 2.5lb high density seat cushion. Extremely comfortable and customizable.

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Depends on your range of “affordable”… Scandinavian designs has great high quality furniture for reasonable prices. Well made pieces from Italy or etc. You can check. IKEA is like the pocketbook-friendly version but it won’t be super high quality. More on reddit.com

Raymore & Flanigan, decent stuff but little pricey, can also check Bob's discount furniture More on reddit.com

I think you typically know what you’re getting a bit better with ikea, and I’ve liked some of their mid-to-higher priced lines. Overstock has some gems, but has been more hit or miss especially at the lower end of pricing. I think it’s really just look at materials and then decide what you like better. Wayfair is much like overstock. It’s hard to tell if you’re in a forever home or just settled for now, but I will say our ikea Hemmnes dressers survived a multi-state move quite well. My rubber wood overstock bedroom furniture is showing how many times we’ve moved it and could use the drawer slides replaced, but otherwise still looks quite good. My favorite option for most things good quality AND cheap is always Facebook marketplace. Lots of people selling wood furniture at decent prices, I regularly see much higher quality pieces for less than Ikea would charge new. For bedding, I’ve been extremely pleased with Target’s threshold line (I like them better than our expensive sheets). I’ve had good luck with rugs.com for regular rugs, and really like tumble for washable rugs. More on reddit.com