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The stuff you buy to prove you're an adult, then assemble while questioning that decision.
means The movable stuff — chairs, tables, beds, sofas — that makes a room usable and livable.
from From French fourniture, from fournir meaning 'to furnish' or 'equip,' a word with Germanic roots related to English 'furnish.' The sense is of 'supplying' or 'outfitting' a space with what it needs — the same root logic that gives us 'furnish' a room before we ever stuffed it with flat-pack boxes and tiny hex keys.
- word scope shrank
- once meant any supplied equipment, not just home goods
- allen key
- invented basically to torment flat-pack buyers
- oldest surviving piece
- Egyptian furniture dates back over 5000 years
- IKEA effect
- people value furniture more after assembling it themselves