As someone that recently had ur chased a couch, and will be looking to purchase new furniture soon, there’s been several pain points.
1) Furniture seems to have bifurcated. There’s the expensive stuff that you can only get from one place, and there’s the very cheap drop ship stuff that dominates search results.
1b) It’s hard to find things that aren’t midcentury. I understand it’s popular now, but I really don’t want my living room look like my grandmother’s.
2) For some things, like beds and couches, you really need to sit on them to decide. Firmness, sit height, and how the back tilts or bulges really make or break of a piece of furniture, and unfortunately they don’t translate into text well.
Sure you a quick return program could help, but getting a guy to bring you three couches is a bit insane.
Interesting points. Our site does, for now, mainly aggregate the stuff that can be found at more than one place. We don't think all of it is merely cheap.
We found that we ourselves sometimes became "siloed" in styles. One goal we have is to help our users understand their style preferences, whatever style this is.
We do believe that younger generations will become more comfortable purchasing things without seeing them. More can be done to increase this comfort, like being able to quickly visualize a piece of furniture in your room, and having some way to qualify difficult-to-see elements like firmness, etc.
Agreed. 1) We'd love to have more non- midcentury inventory and be able to filter based on style / design. Tbh, most of the things we call midcentury aren't but are categorized that way. 2) We are also working to aggregate inventory availability across stores as well, so you'll be able to see if a location near you sells that item, and you can go test it out.
1) Furniture seems to have bifurcated. There’s the expensive stuff that you can only get from one place, and there’s the very cheap drop ship stuff that dominates search results.
1b) It’s hard to find things that aren’t midcentury. I understand it’s popular now, but I really don’t want my living room look like my grandmother’s.
2) For some things, like beds and couches, you really need to sit on them to decide. Firmness, sit height, and how the back tilts or bulges really make or break of a piece of furniture, and unfortunately they don’t translate into text well.
Sure you a quick return program could help, but getting a guy to bring you three couches is a bit insane.