This post was originally published on october 17 2017 and was updated in december 2019 to highlight recent direct to consumer trends as well as for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
Direct to consumer furniture companies.
Like the mattress bedding and flat pack furniture disruptors recently on the scene a new crop of sofa companies are co opting the direct to consumer model to offer affordability and in some cases new and improved designs.
If you re in the market for a new one consider the four power players below.
A new crop of direct to consumer companies have popped up disrupting the design industry as we knew it and making it easier to decorate and furnish your home.
This brand sells its high quality furniture online skipping traditional retail stores to minimize retail markup and keep costs affordable for buyers.
Just this year floyd a direct to consumer furniture brand based in detroit raised a 5 6 million round of funding.
Psst you can order em all from the comfort of your couch.
And while we love scoring modern affordable furniture from popular direct to consumer furniture brands such as ikea and wayfair a home exclusively containing only those finds would look way too contrived and dare we say mundane.
We make clever uncompromising furniture and other nice things fit for modern life at home.
They offer modern pieces that are as sturdy as they are stylish.
Parachute home which.
Here are our eight favorites.
We love em we need em we spend exorbitant quantities of time and money selecting em but that last caveat doesn t have to be so.
Ikea is a sweden based direct to consumer furniture and home furnishings brand with hundreds of company owned stores across the world.
Thankfully a new crop of direct to consumer brands and flat pack furniture have seemingly showed up out of the woodwork.
Everyone knows all too well that furnishing a whole home or apartment heck even just one room can be quite a pricey proposition.
E commerce is the place to be for young scrappy direct to consumer brands.
Ikea has flexed its worldwide muscle to expand into many other categories such as office furniture food electronics lighting mattresses and much more.
Burrow a flat pack sofa company raised 14 million.