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Armoire Desk
An Armoire desk is a desk built within a large cabinet usually having the height of a tall man or a small woman, or anything in between. The cabinet is closed by two to four full height doors, to keep out dust or give a tidy appearance to a room by hiding the cluttered working surface of the desk. This form of desk is usually placed against a wall, like its antique uncle, the Secretary desk.

Beanbag Furniture
Bean bag chairs are a popular form of furniture made of fabric and filled with small chunks of styrofoam or PVC pellets. Bean bag chairs have acquired a cult following. Since the mid 1990s, companies such as LoveSac[1] and Corda-Roy's[2] have begun selling chairs filled with shredded polyurethane foam, charging a premium for the extra comfort this can provide. Bean bag chairs are known to bean bag enthusiasts by many names, such as "Physics Bag" or "Oversized Sac".

Beds
A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for sleeping upon, but also commonly used for sexual activities, relaxing, sitting, and reading.Beds come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Early beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural materials. An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and pests.To make beds more comfortable the top layer is frequently a mattress. Originally these were bags of straw for most people and filled with feathers for the wealthy. Eventually new fillings such as cotton and artificial fillers became common. In modern times most mattresses use springs, solid foam, water, or air.

Bunk Bed
A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed is stacked on top of another. They are typically used as furnishings in children's rooms, or university residence hall bedrooms allowing two people to sleep in the same room while maximizing available floor space. They normally are supported by four poles at each corner of the bed. To get to the second bunk a ladder is used, though taller children often find other faster methods of climbing into them. The top bed normally is surrounded by a railing to prevent the sleeper from falling out. Because of the need for a ladder, using the top bunk of a bunkbed is not recommended for children under six years old. The space saving nature of bunkbeds leads to them also being used in places with limited floor space, such as ships and garrisons or in places that wish to maximise bedspace such as a dormitory in a hostel.

Chair
A chair is a piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a seat, a back, and sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. Chairs also often have legs to support the seat raised above the floor. Without back and arm rests it is called a stool. A chair for more than one person is a couch, sofa, settee, loveseat (two-seater without arm rest in between) or bench. A separate footrest for a chair is known as an ottoman, hassock or poof. A chair mounted in a vehicle or in a theatre is simply called a seat. Chairs as furniture are typically not attached to the floor and so can be moved.

Computer desk
Computer desk is any modern desk form built specifically to support or contain a computer and/or its components and to facilitate work on it by a user or users.The computer itself is normally a separate element from the desk, even if it can take some time to dissociate computer and desk given the number of system cables that can get entangled with parts of the desk. Only a few contemporary computers are actually designed to be built within a desk made specially for them, like the British iDesk. They are then not removable and more precisely not distinguishable from it. Many experimental projects or concepts of the Office of the future often feature completely integrated desk-and-computer work spaces.

Couch
A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, lounge or chesterfield is an item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person.Couches are usually to be found in the living room or the lounge. They come in a variety of textiles and in leather. A typical couch seats two to three people and has an armrest on either side. Many different types of couch exist: popular types include the divan, the chaise longue, the canapé or the ottoman. Also, to save space, some sofas double as beds (sofa-bed, daybed or futon).There are other types, including two-seater, three-seater, corner and chaise longue. A smaller version of the couch which may only comfortably seat two people is more commonly known as a loveseat.

Chippendale Furniture
The description Chippendale has been applied to much of the well-made, English furniture of the 18th century. This is not because the furniture was made by Thomas Chippendale or his factory but because the word Chippendale has become synonymous with a distinguishable style. Surviving furniture actually made by Thomas Chippendale would be rare to the extreme and would require a verifiable provenance.Wood used in this style of furniture was generally mahogany. Though veneers were used for furniture of this period, they are not typical of the Chippendale style. Solid wood was used to accommodate the elaborate carving found in this style. Modern reproductions of the Chippendale style will often be hand carved but will not have the depth and detail of carving that genuine 18th century furniture has.The legs of an antique chair are revealing. There are six different basic Chippendale style legs. These are the lion’s paw, the ball and claw, the late Chippendale, the Marlborough, the club and the spade.

Dressers
A dresser is a piece of furniture with many parallel, horizontal drawers; traditionally used to store clothing. It has a long history as one of the stand-bys of a carpenter's workshop.Dressers often come in 5-, 6-, and 7-drawer varieties, with either a single or a split top drawer.

Entertainment center
A home entertainment center (or home entertaiment console) is a piece of furniture seen in many homes in North America, which houses major electronic items, such as a television set, a VCR and/or DVD player, stereo components (such as an AM/FM tuner, multi-disc compact disc changer, record player, one or more cassette players and graphic equalizer), and cable or satellite television receivers.Entertainment centers also feature high-fidelity speakers. Modern units often have a set of home theater system-type speakers, to greatly enhance the sound quality of the various stereo and television components.The audio and video components have special connectors which are often hooked to a dedicated box. The items are then plugged into an electrical outlet strip, which sometimes has a surge protector. One can usually control each of the components by using a universal remote control.

File Cabinet
A file cabinet is a piece of office equipment that is useful for temporary and permanent storage. It is usually used for the storage of paper in a file folder. The two most common forms of file cabinets are lateral files and vertical files.

Futon
A futon is a type of mattress that makes up a Japanese bed. They are sold in Japan at specialty stores called futon-ya, and are also available at department stores.Japanese futons are flat, about 5 cm (2 in) thick with a fabric exterior stuffed with cotton or synthetic batting. They are often sold in sets which include the futon mattress (shikibuton), a comforter (kakebuton) or blanket (mōfu), a summer blanket resembling a large towel (towelket), and pillow (makura), generally filled with beans, buckwheat chaff or plastic beads. Such sets can be purchased for under 10,000 yen.Futons are designed to be placed on tatami flooring, and are traditionally folded away and stored in a closet during the day to allow the tatami to breathe and to allow for flexibility in the use of the room. Futons must be aired in sunlight regularly, especially if not put away during the day. In addition, many Japanese people beat their futons regularly using a special tool, traditionally made from bamboo, resembling a Western carpet beater.

Lamp
Lamp in general is any device that produces light. Originally, this meant a source of light from an open flame. The word is now most commonly understood to be an electric lamp that sits on a table or desk, or on the floor. It may also refer to the light bulb (or tube) itself, hence "relamping" referring to the replacement of one. For communication between ships, a signal lamp was commonly used.

Loveseat
A loveseat is an item of furniture designed for seating two people. Loveseats are similar to a couches, except they are smaller and commonly have two cushions.The name is derived from the purpose of seating two people in a romantic setting.Loveseats are usually found in living rooms.

Mattress
A mattress is a piece of bedding typically consisting of multiple layers of foams and fibers, along with an innerspring unit used to provide support to one's back during sleep. Mattresses are usually used along with a foundation, which might include metal springs or torsion bars on a wooden frame, which supports the mattress. Increasingly, mattresses made with various foam materials such as latex foam, visco-elastic foam and other polyurethane type foam but without metal spring units are becoming common and accepted. Although mattresses are sold with fillings of air, water, or foam, innerspring or coil mattresses currently have over 80% of the market share in the U.S.The fabric used to cover the exterior of a mattress is called mattress ticking. With modern production methods, it takes 10 to 60 minutes to make a mattress from start to finish.

Nightstand
A nightstand is a small stand or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom, as a place to put anything likely to be required during the night.Before indoor toilets became popular, the main function of a nightstand was to contain a chamber pot. Nowadays it is a small bedside table, often with a drawer. It is likely to support a reading lamp, alarm clock, reading matter, perhaps a glass of water.

Office chair
With the advent of railroads in the mid-1800’s, businesses began to expand beyond the traditional model of a family business with little emphasis on administration. Additional administrative staff was required to keep up with orders, bookkeeping, and correspondence as businesses expanded their service areas. While office work was expanding, an awareness of office environments, technology, and equipment became part of the cultural focus on increasing productivity. This awareness gave rise to chairs designed specifically for these new administrative employees – office chairs.The office chair was strategically designed to increase the productivity of clerical employees by making it possible for them to remain sitting at their desks for long periods of time. A swiveling chair allowed employees to remain sitting and yet reach a number of locations within their work area, eliminating the time and energy expended in standing. The wooden saddle seat was designed to fit and support the body of a sitting employee, and the slatted back and armrests provided additional support to increase the employee’s comfort. Like our modern chairs, many of these models were somewhat adjustable to provide the maximum comfort and thus the maximum working time.

Ottoman
An ottoman is a piece of furniture, a padded, upholstered seat without arms, often used as a stool or footrest.Also known as a hassock or pouffe. In the United Kingdom, ottomans are usually hollow and can be used as blanket boxes. According to the Encyclopedia of Furniture by Joseph Aronson, the Ottoman is defined as an "Upholstered seat or bench having neither back nor arms; so named after the Turkish influence in the early 18th century.

Sconces
A sconce is a type of light fixture affixed to a wall in such a way that it uses only the wall for support, and the light is usually directed upwards. It does not have a base on the ground. The word applies both to traditional forms of torch lighting, but also to modern gas and electric light sources affixed in the same way.

Massage Chairs
Massage chairs have been around for many years, the most common ones being the coin-operated type found at hot-spring resorts. However, old models tend to give rather harsh and bumpy massages due to their technology, which is primitive by modern standards. Since around 2000, however, massage-chair technology has been greatly refined. Manufacturers have begun to produce hi-tech chairs capable of kneading the body gently and expertly. The rapid advance in chair technology was spurred by intense competition among chair makers vying for a chunk of a quickly expanding market.Most chairs massage users with disc-shaped kneading pads or with air bags that expand and contract. To get the maximum benefit from an automatic massage, the back's pressure points must be precisely aligned with the pads. Yet no two backs are the same. Manufacturers have therefore developed technologies that enable the chairs to adapt to the distinctive features of each individual’s back, resulting in much more comfortable and effective massages. The innovations include optical sensors that accurately determine the position of the user's shoulders in the chair and pressure sensors that sense where the user's back muscles are by gauging how their weight is distributed.