Fake Furniture for Home Staging

By Ed Kohler | Aug 24, 2007



I have a hard time believing that this helps sell homes.

For those of you too lazy to click (why do I enable you?), a company is selling furniture shaped cardboard you can use to stage your home with after you’ve moved your own furniture out.

Personally, I think the market for this is people who bought a house with more rooms than they could possibly use who feel strange having empty rooms in their home. Just throw some cardboard furniture in there.


6 Comments so far
  1. Gabe August 24, 2007 10:33 am

    These would make great furnishings for someone who lives in a cardboard box.

  2. Mike N. August 24, 2007 4:41 pm

    A friend of mine from high school moved out to LA and has since moved back to south Texas. While he was living in Los Angeles he had a job making fake people out of cardboard and balloons to serve as “extras.” These “people” are a lot cheaper than hiring or gathering extras to fill up the background of a scene.

    Maybe these balloon people could sit at the cardboard couches to help complete the sale.

  3. Ed Kohler August 24, 2007 4:44 pm

    I remember seeing a lot of fake people in the audience during American Gladiators. Maybe your friend from HS helped create cardboard mullets for that show?

  4. Ranty August 24, 2007 9:34 pm

    Ew.

    It’s still cheaper to buy real furniture from goodwill, people.

    And you can actually sit on it.

  5. Bonnie Erickson February 22, 2008 11:41 pm

    Funny. I almost sat on one of those fake beds. It was a cot like contraption not meant to hold any more weight than the elegant bed set it boasted. I thought it looked fake but wasn’t sure so checked before I put any weight on the “bed”. I bet the whole thing collapsed and folded like a lawn chair.

  6. AK April 8, 2009 6:02 pm

    I think this is a great idea! As a real estate investor, it would serve the purpose that investors need when selling a property and not have to really worry about a break-in and things getting stolen. INGENIOUS !!!!

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