Whether because of rent hikes or the simple desire to live elsewhere, urban living often comes with frequent moves. In a major city like New York, the average lease spans three to four years, with more than 30 percent of residents inhabiting a different home than they had in the previous year. The prospect of squeezing a queen-sized bed frame down an impossibly narrow staircase is daunting, and it can be less expensive to abandon existing furniture and purchase anew than to hire movers. But high-quality furniture that ships in reasonably sized boxes and is intended to be taken apart and put back together — with ease — can be revelatory.
A growing number of move-friendly furniture brands are cropping up, positioning themselves either as competitors to a Swedish furniture giant or seeking to carve an entirely new niche. Below, find three labels specializing in flat-pack furniture, each focusing on different products and backed by separate ideologies, but all striving to make furniture that looks good and facilitates a smoother move.
Burrow
The modular couch. Just as easy to assemble as it is to take apart, the Burrow couch is made with chemical-free, stain-resistant fabric and embedded with a hidden USB charging port to enable deeper dives into that Instagram blackhole. Designed to adapt to changing spaces, Burrow is available in four sizes and can expanded or grow smaller with the addition (or removal) of seating sections. Better yet, the couch can be assembled — tool-free — in just 10 minutes.
