Home furnishing on the cheap

I hate shopping. While I've been off for work, the idea of spending the week in the stores is painful. Not so much from the 'spending money' aspect (although that's probably part of it), but more for the idea of the effort of having to schlep around, look at things, find things, buy things, and carry them up four flights of stairs.

(Do I sound like a German here-->why do we need to many choices? why do the stores need to be so big?)

For the basics, I've resorted to Poundland just to get up and running, and because I can get there without the car.