Unbelievable. I can't believe we are showing homes with cardboard furniture, it seems this would only work in a cardboard house. Thanks for the info.

Hi Cheryl,

Wow, interesting idea!  I think you have the right idea and hopefully others will see that as well.  Have a great weekend.  Michael A. Caruso

If I were a potential buyer and approached by an actor in one of those Centex Homes, I'd be really creeped. Thanks for the laugh!

Fred, too funny - cardboard house.. Thanks for stopping by Michael, Thanks, Home Staging is the right idea.. Regina, You are so right - too strange !! God bless !!

Would you wear a peper dress?  LOL - Julie

I would not want an actor pretending to be some happy home owner trying to start up a conversation with me...I think it would make people get out of the house all the sooner and not take their time to actually check out the features of the home.

Cheryl, I heard about the faux families living in homes that are for sale. I think they are pushing the button a little to much. The card board furniture, well I'm still laughing on that one. Thanks for sharing.

Absolutley NOT.

No Way.

Never.

How CHEESY!! :-O I checked out the fake furniture website....did you notice the price! You could do some nice vignettes with REAL furniture for the same cost!

Julia, LOL, I might wear a cardboard dress before a paper one.. Sharon, You are right - that is too creepy.. Barbara, Thanks - I guess different strokes..... Michelle, Come on now - you know you would love it, with your imagination - you could create a whole house with the stuff.. LOL Teresa, Yes I did, I am a bargain shopper so I probably could get the real stuff.. God bless you all ..

You are right Cheryl, now that I have time to digest the idea I have come up with a solution.

I would paint it to look like the patterns on Ikea furniture. With all that blank white space I can picture it now.......

For a moment I freaked out when I saw the line coming from you... I was thankful to see the NOT!!  I do actually know of other stagers (right here on AR) who use it or have mentioned what a great idea they are.  I'm with you on this one!!

This was blogged about quite a bit last year, and some A/R stagers posted photos of how they used the cardboard furniture. It wouldn't work in my market, but if it works for someone else I won't knock it. I think someone blogged about putting Surefit covers on the pieces so that they didn't "look" like cardboard. They even offer a cardboard bed!

Michelle, See I KNEW you would come up with something cute for a... play-house !!! Melissa, Thanks so much for stopping by - sorry didn't mean to scare you.. Maureen, Since I was not around last year, I had never seen it but I was surprised to see HGTV mention it.. I guess it's just not for my market.. God bless,

Would you 'rope' off the room so the kiddos don't jump on the boxes?  We lost a jack-o-lantern leaf bag that way once- daughter came home from school and thought we put out a bean bag- to tempting.  Next time we let her rake and fill it up.  be good  cheryl

Cheryl W, I wish I could have seen your daughter's face.. I guess we could make a game out of it - who can crush the most cardboard furniture.. God bless,

Unbelievable.

I just went on the website and looked at the beds, wonder how long it takes to put it together?

Thanks for the giggles.

Joyce

Joyce, Thanks - it is giggly, it probably would take me forever to put together a box bed ;-( God bless,

Cheryl-I love going to Hickory and High Point and buying the "real" furniture.  How great it must be to live there!!

I've seen pictures of "staged" beds on this site by "stagers" that sure look like a sheet thrown over cardboard boxes! 

To each his own, but cardboard furniture is not for me.

Joan Ingis, ASPM Master Stager, Charlotte, NC IAHSP Chapter President

Hi Cheryl, I'm not a cardboard fan either!  Enjoyed your post.  Love what FrontDoor is doing.

lighter weight would be nice, but come on! :)

While showing properties last week we hit three homes with fake beds.  The first clue was the sign that said please stay off the bed.  After the first one my clients made a games of looking for fake staging items.

Cardboard furniture would probably just make me cranky....especially if I sat on one.

Cardboard furniture and paper dolls, Barbie's dream house of the late 50's and 60's and the cut out paper dolls from Betsy McCall.  I am really dating myself now.

Joan, I do love Hickory and the furniture, although wouldn't you know I still have a hard time finding what I need because I want bargains. .. Hey, I have friends that work for a company that makes furniture for Crate & Barrell and I can't even get anything from there - ugh. Susie, Hey, thanks for stopping by, yes Front Door has been great.. Courtney, You are so right.. Randy, Yes, it is pretty common to see the beds but not other furniture. Christine, My favorite things were Barbies and paper dolls... I designed all kinds of outfits - this would be suitable furnishings for them.. God bless,

Perhaps in a foreclosure property that needs just a little bit of something to make it stand out????  I say that with the most confused look on my face as I guess I could see someone making the fake bed look ok with bedding but the rest of it well it is just....FAKE!

Actually we have seen homes with cardboard furniture and as strange as it sounds it was not so bad. It was better than nothing in the home it seemed.

Even the "proptonics" make me a little crazy... but you could have one person carry all of the furniture for a condo in one car and one trip up the stairs...

• Hi Cindy, I guess it has a place ?
• Bob & Carolin - I would have to see it in person
• Lane, Thanks Car Guy for stopping by- lightweight -it's best asset
• God bless you all ..

Hi Cheryl,  Congratulations on your "Featured Post!"  Let's get real!  My wife does some fake props in her staging, but she always has a linen or cover over them so they appear real!  You can't "fake it 'till ya make it" in Staging!

I wish you were closer, I have models that need staging.  Any sugestions?

In one of my listings, we have a fake bed in one of the bedrooms. Unfortunately, young children do not understand what "For Decorative Purposes Only" means!

Wish that was the answer - It sure would make storage & delivery/pickup easier. Seems to me buyers would be talking about the cardboard furniture instead of the home????

Thanks for the laugh Cheryl, I think as well as a sign that says "For display purposes only", they need a "No smoking" sign!!!

Cheers, Emily, Celebrate Staging

• Dan, Thanks, Irene does beautiful staging
• Greg,I wish I was closer also - do a search, we will find you a good stager in WI
• Rich, You are right - kids are going to test the boundaries & the beds ;-)
• Michele, Just think if we could make beautiful furniture that light
• Emily You are welcome - thanks for coming by..
• God bless,

I kinda like the cardboard furniture, looks modern and clean. Just wait until someone decided to have a seat.

Sean Allen

I'm with most of you... I don't think that would work to well. But you would think they could make better "fake" furniture than that! Maybe if it takes off, I'll start a new business for high end fake furniture. :-)

Grant

Great title to hook everyone's attention!  Cardboard furniture reminds me of the play houses before all of the plastic ones were developed.  By extension you could put cardboard window treatments up and cardboard plants.  Too bizarre.  Great post!

Uh oh!  I just remembered there is an old photo of me on my hands and knees crawling into my children's cardboard play house. And you just know that my husband caught my caboose broadside! Too funny! Thanks for bringing back all those happy memories.

We painted that cardboard house with our two little girls when they were 2 & 6. They are now 29 and 25. My that was a long time ago.

Well doesn't that look tacky? I've seen cardboard televisions and computers but certainly, not furniture.

The funny thing about the faux families is that agents always advise home sellers NOT to be present during the showing.  Now we have companies hiring actors to play faux families that could live there.

Doesn't cardboard furniture kind of defeat the purpose?

HI there! Great title-whew, I was so happy to see NOT! Can't imagine using these pieces in a home. Great post Cheryl!!

Yikes!  I hope it is recyclable...................

I'd rather use cheap plastic patio furniture from Wal Mart with throw covers over them!  Cardboard furniture? You've got to be kidding me.

Chances are HGTV received a nice ad from the cardboard furniture company and was compelled to feature the product this way.

Actually I think everything on HGTV is just part of a sinister plot by LOWES and Home Depot to get people thinking they can do stuff - so they go buy stuff to do it with, and then they totally screw up their house and have to buy MORE stuff to fix it with, and then finally hire a contractor who will have to go buy  MORE stuff to fix the homeowne'rs fix!  LOL

Ick, It would be my luck to sit down on one by accident and fall through, although I guess that's noworse than the kitchen chair that fell apart under one of my clients last week :

I went to the website and thought that maybe the bed could be pulled off...but not for that price! I am amazed at how high the prices are!  You can go to a garage sale or craigslist and find furniture that is actually real, for cheaper!

Sean, Yeah - it is kind of modern and clean - just not sturdy ;_0 Ok Grant - I am looking for your high end fake furniture Pam - See we can decorate even cardboard homes.. Michelle, OK - you can share the photos - how funny and YOU CANNOT have kids that old!!! Diane, Thanks for your comments Above All - Yep, I was thinking the same thing Cathy Lee, I scared Melissa also. Lisa - yes - it needs to be recycled real soon Karen Thanks for coming by - you are so right about starting projects then having to buy 10 other things.. Michelle - that would be my luck to have someone crash the furniture Amy - thanks for coming by.. God bless everyone !!

Oh my this one is a kick. My husband is the number one packaging designer in the country. He has made things out of cardboard that would blow your mind - a real boat with a bar and everything that he and his friend took out in the San Francisco Bay and watched the world series in McCovy Bay...so he knows his stuff. This stuff is just awful on here. When I first started my business I went down a route like this with him but combined with material etc. We decided that it would be a quick fix and it would better to invest in quality furnishings which we did.  This would be a complete rip off of our clients if we ever put these items in a property.

Kym, Thanks for coming by.. Wow- your hubby's stuff sounds fantastic but you are right - quality is what we should invest in for long term.. God bless,

Aloha Cheryl G. You are so funny (faux pas) .....so this company might come up with fake cardboard people or hire actors to pretend to be the "family" ?? wow......ive never even heard of fake cardboard furniture!!! very interesting....but they bettter hire you to do the staging !!!! that fake stuff doesnt seem all that great to me and ive seen the photos of the homes you have staged and you are so imaginative and have the greatest ideas with 'real stuff' . I especially liked the drum you made into a table...in the boy room.....i always think about that....what a creative idea...

Aloha Lisa, Thanks, you are my biggest fan - I just can't figure out how to commute to Hawaii, guess you will have to come to NC.. God bless,

This is certainly not WARM and INVITING, much less comfortable. BUT I got news for you I don't think this stuff is cheap either. Just looks cheap

Phyllis Pafumi

Hey Phyllis, Thanks for your comments, now I probably would like that stuff that Kym's hubby makes.. God bless,

I think Michele Hess hit the nail on the head. Buyers coming into a home filled with white cardboard furniture would be so distracted by the novelty factor that they wouldn't focus on the house itself. That defeats the purpose of staging, doesn't it?

Hi David, That is so right - thanks so much for your comments !! God bless,

Aloha Cheryl..thanks for responding to my book blog....i felt the exact same way about the Prayer of Jabez...i worked at Borders Books when it first came out and i never picked it up cuz i thought it was a magic potion of some sort.....but when a visiting pastors wife came up to me and handed it to me and encouraged me to read it...i did .....and im so glad i did....

Take care!!!