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So, you’ve decided you want to start selling furniture on Etsy. You’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of how-to articles in good old Google, and now you’ve landed here. Welcome, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s give you a sneak peek at some of the tips you can find in the pages of my new e-book, The Ultimate Guide to Selling Furniture on Etsy.
Is Etsy the Right Place to Sell Furniture?
In the last ten years, Etsy has established itself as the place to go when you’re looking for something handmade, vintage, or unique to gift either yourself or a special friend in your life. Most people will seek it out to find small home decor items or vintage clothing. However, that doesn’t mean you should be sleeping on Etsy as a place to sell painted furniture.
Etsy offers you:
Over 2.5 million sellers a place to sell and advertise their unique wares.
Top sellers make more than $10,000 a year. Not a number to sniff at!
5 million people purchased items from Etsy in 2019. That’s a lot more buyers than sellers, so don’t let people tell you the market is somehow oversaturated.
Opening Up Shop
Have you decided Etsy is the right place for you and are ready to blow the competition out of the water? Excellent, now it’s time to set up your shop. Click Sell on Etsy and let the Etsy selling tutorial walk you through all the steps to setting up shop and adding your first furniture listings.
Watch out!
Catchy Shop Name: you’ve got 4-20 characters to play with to your heart’s content. Make them memorable and make them count!
Etsy Plus: when you sell on Etsy, you only ever pay a listing fee and a small commission. If you’re ready to take your shop to the next level, you may want to invest in Etsy Plus for advanced customization, restock requests, and access to discounts.
Dashboard Advice: Etsy wants you to know exactly how to sell furniture on its platform. Please make sure you listen to the recommendations on the dashboard. They’re set up to help get more traffic to your shop. More people looking means more people are buying.
Listing Your Way To Success
Setting up an Etsy shop won’t get you very far if you haven’t added any listings yet. Quick, click on the handy dandy Add Listing button and make sure to upload pictures of your painted furniture in their most flattering light. Since Etsy thumbnail photos are 570 x 456 px in size, it’s good to have your first photo match those measurements. Include pictures from all sides, detail shots, and any close-ups of vintage wear and tear.
Top tip: Don’t just throw your beautiful Swan Lake foyer table in front of a white wall and call it a day. When you’re selling painted furniture on Etsy, you’re also a set dresser and interior designer. Get your thinking hat on and make your pictures stand out from the crowd.
How to Write Furniture Descriptions
Ah yes, the dreaded furniture description. Not a copywriter? Not a problem. My Ultimate Guide to selling Furniture on Etsy includes a handy list of questions to go through whenever you’re stuck on what to write. My essential piece of advice is to pretend you’re describing the item to someone who cannot see it. What would you consider especially beautiful or incredibly functional? Put yourself in your ideal customer’s shoes and write how they’d want to be written for. That wasn’t so hard, was it?
Avoid!
Language, like refinished, refurbished, and upcycled, has no place in your description. You’re selling a unique, premium item, not trying to get rid of something at a yard sale.
Shipping Furniture
Many buyers do not like seeing a separate shipping fee next to the cost of the item. Enter free shipping. Do you want to know a secret? Free shipping is never free. It’s simply been included in the price of the item. When shipping something as big and bulky as furniture, do not use Etsy’s calculated shipping option. It may be tempting, but it’ll cause more hassle than it’s worth due to its tendency to underestimate costs vastly.
Remember to be as honest as you can on delivery times. Do you have another job or children that may interfere with packaging everything up? You may need to find the perfect company to deliver large pieces. There’s no need for you to try to compete with Amazon. You’re a unique business worth waiting for!
Etsy Statistics
Are you a total data nerd? Me neither, but your shop statistics are worth getting acquainted with. Here you’ll find a line graph that shows the traffic to your shop for the last month. That may not mean very much to you, but contextualizing that line graph helps you understand how effective any shop changes or marketing campaigns have been.
You can also see where traffic to the site is coming from. Are your tags working? Is your social media on point?
Next up, you can see how individual listings are doing. Do you have a most viewed item that hasn’t sold for months and months? It may be time to re-evaluate the price or the listing description. Remember: data is your friend, not your foe in the quest to be the best Etsy seller possible.
Eclat Designs by Crystin
If we haven’t met before, hi, I’m Crystin, and I have been selling my eclectic furniture online and on Etsy for many years successfully. As an artist, I want to delight my buyers with furniture that makes their spaces come alive. As a businesswoman, I want to share everything I’ve learned about making yourself a success on Etsy via my blog and e-books.
Are you still feeling a little daunted and overwhelmed? That’s precisely why I created my e-book. It is the perfect guide on getting you up and running, one step at a time. Start making a profit on your furniture today.
You’ll get over 28 pages of content on:
Starting a shop
Creating Listings
Furniture Descriptions
Tags
Shipping
Stats on Dashboard
Finances
Settings
How to Edit the Shop
Bonus Material worth over $200
3 Step by Step Videos
Digital downloads
File delivery
Your files will be available to download once payment is confirmed.
Payment Options
Returns & Exchanges
I don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Privacy policy
To fulfil your order, you must provide me with certain information (which you authorized Etsy to provide to me), such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information (for a custom furniture piece, for example), if you contact me directly.
I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:
as needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list;
if necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
as necessary for the purpose of my legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving my services. I use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest toimprove my services; and 2) Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. I use your information as necessary to comply with my obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.
Information about my customers is important to my business. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:
Etsy. I share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you my services and comply with my obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
Service providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop, such as delivery companies. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
Business transfers. If I sell or merge my business, I may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
Compliance with laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce my agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.
I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.
Frequently Asked Questions
Care instructions
All of my pieces have been sealed with safe and quality top coats so that they are cleanable with soap and water. Do not use harsh chemicals or industrial strength chemicals to clean the furniture piece.
Custom and personalized orders
I do accept custom orders and personalization. I would love to collaborate on a piece to make it uniquely for you. This will require a separate contract to insure that the time frame and specifications are clearly stated so that there is no misunderstanding. Contact me for any custom requests or changes you would like to make to a piece.
Gift wrapping and packaging
Each piece will be packaged according to the carriers specifications. Some require furniture to be strapped to pallets or blanket wrapped. I will do everything in my power to insure that it arrives in perfect condition without any damage.
Layaway Options
I am happy to come up with a payment plan with you so that you can get the furniture of your dreams within manageable terms. Message me for more details.
Where can I see more of your work?
You can see a full portfolio of my past work at my website www.eclatdesignsbycrystin.com
Where do you find your furniture?
I look for vintage, antique, or quality pieces that fit my artistic vision to give it a new life while helping the environment as 9 million tons of furniture goes to landfills every year. By reusing and refurbishing furniture, it's preserving a bit of history and the craftsmanship that was prevalent before mass production of self assembly furniture is far superior to what you get in boxes at stores now that are made of cheap manufactured wood and particle board. Being environmentally friendly is something important to me and I strive to use environmentally friendly products as well to do my part in preserving the earth.
Furniture Condition
I source quality vintage, antique, and used furniture pieces that are not bought new from a warehouse. This is because I believe in reducing the waste produced by reusing materials that are high quality. This also means that there will be the general wear on the furniture that does not detract from its functionality. This includes minor cosmetic imperfections. These show the furniture pieces history and unique character. Look at all of my photos for accurate depiction of the furniture piece. If you have any questions please message me. Upon purchasing, you are agreeing to receiving as is and if you would like any improvements made that will be discussed prior to purchase.
Shipping and Delivery
I offer white glove and freight shipping services. The type of shipping depends upon the availability of private carriers, delivery times, delivery location, and schedules of the routes. I try my best to give you the best shipping experience possible so that it is as convenient for you as I can provide. I am not responsible for damages, delays, and other issues that may occur after an item has been shipped. This is very rare as I choose the best private carriers. The shipping companies are separate from my furniture shop. I care about customer service so I will assist in any way I can but it is up to the customer to resolve shipping issues that occur. I only arrange for shipping. Furniture pieces will insured when possible.