🪑 Furniture - Muebles
Beginner Spanish · Furniture and the home
Furniture in Spanish
Furniture vocabulary becomes more useful when you can describe an item, say where it goes, and ask simple questions while shopping. Start with common furniture, then add materials, location phrases, and practical store language.
Your next small win: name common furniture, describe what something is made of, say where it goes, and ask about price, size, or delivery.
Start with useful pieces
Common Furniture
These items cover bedrooms, living rooms, dining areas, and work spaces.
Bed
Chair
Sofa
Table
Lamp
Desk
Bookshelf / shelving unit
Wardrobe / closet
Name three pieces
Say “a sofa, a table, and a lamp” in Spanish.
Un sofá, una mesa y una lámpara.
More furniture and household items
Mirror
Television
Drawer
Chest of drawers / dresser
Nightstand
Armchair
Coffee table
Piece of furniture / furnishing
Say what it is like
Describing Furniture
Use de + material to say what something is made of, then add adjectives for style or comfort.
Wooden / made of wood
Metal / made of metal
Glass / made of glass
Modern
Old / antique
Comfortable
Agreement with furniture nouns
The chair is comfortable.
The sofa is comfortable.
The bed, feminine noun
The desk, masculine noun
Notice the ending: cómoda agrees with feminine silla, while cómodo agrees with masculine sofá.
Describe a chair
Say “a comfortable wooden chair.”
Una silla cómoda de madera.
Decide where everything goes
Arranging Furniture
Furniture vocabulary becomes especially useful when you can describe its position in a room.
The sofa is across from the television.
I put the lamp next to the armchair.
The bookshelf takes up almost the entire wall.
There is a nightstand on each side of the bed.
Moving a table
Where should we put the table?
We can put it near the window.
Useful location chunks: al lado de means “next to,” frente a means “across from” or “facing,” and cerca de means “near.”
Choose a location
Say that the lamp is next to the armchair.
La lámpara está al lado del sillón.
Use the vocabulary in a store
Shopping for Furniture
Price, measurements, comfort, and delivery are four useful things to ask about when buying furniture.
How much does this sofa cost?
What are the measurements of the table?
I'm looking for a comfortable chair for my desk.
Can you deliver the furniture to my house?
Choosing a new sofa
What do you think of this sofa?
I like it, but I think it's too big for the living room.
Useful opinion pattern: ¿Qué te parece...? asks what someone thinks about something. Demasiado grande means “too big.”
Ask about delivery
You found furniture you like. Ask whether the store can deliver it to your home.
¿Pueden entregar los muebles en mi casa?
See furniture in context
Furniture in Everyday Spanish
We found a wooden table that fits perfectly in the dining room.
I put my favorite books on the top part of the bookshelf.
The mirror makes the room look bigger.
Your turn · 8 quick questions
Practice: Furniture
Choose the phrase that fits each situation. Focus on furniture vocabulary, materials, agreement, placement, opinions, and shopping.
Practice complete
You can describe, arrange, and shop for furniture.
A few furniture phrases to revisit
One last step: furnish a room without choices.
Choose a room. Name two pieces of furniture, describe one of them, and say where one item should go.
Hay un sofá y una mesa de centro.
El sofá es cómodo.
La mesa puede estar frente al sofá.
You are looking at a sofa and want your friend's opinion. What do you ask?
- ¿Qué te parece este sofá?
- ¿Dónde ponemos la mesa?
- ¿Cuánto mide la mesa?
- ¿Pueden entregar los muebles?
¿Qué te parece este sofá? asks what someone thinks of the sofa.
¿Qué te parece este sofá? = What do you think of this sofa?
You like the sofa, but it is too big for the living room. Which response fits?
- Me gusta, pero creo que es demasiado grande para la sala.
- Me gusta, pero creo que es de madera para la sala.
- Podemos ponerla cerca de la ventana.
- Busco una silla cómoda para mi escritorio.
Demasiado grande means “too big.”
demasiado grande = too big
You need a comfortable chair for your desk. Which sentence matches?
- Busco una silla cómoda para mi escritorio.
- Busco un silla cómodo para mi escritorio.
- Busco una sofá cómoda para mi escritorio.
- Busco una silla cómodo para mi escritorio.
Silla is feminine, so the adjective is cómoda.
una silla cómoda = a comfortable chair
Which pair uses the correct articles?
- la cama / el sofá
- el cama / la sofá
- la escritorio / el mesa
- el silla / la sillón
The lesson shows la cama and el sofá as examples of grammatical gender.
la cama / el sofá
The lamp is next to the armchair. Which sentence fits?
- La lámpara está al lado del sillón.
- La lámpara está frente a la cama de madera.
- El sillón está de lámpara.
- La lámpara es sillón cómodo.
Al lado del sillón means “next to the armchair.”
al lado del sillón = next to the armchair
You are deciding where to put the table. You want it near the window. Which answer fits?
- Podemos ponerla cerca de la ventana.
- Podemos ponerlo de madera.
- La ventana puede poner la mesa.
- La mesa parece demasiado ventana.
Ponerla refers to la mesa, and cerca de means “near.”
Podemos ponerla cerca de la ventana.
You want to describe a wooden table. Which phrase fits?
- una mesa de madera
- una mesa cómoda madera
- un mesa de madera
- una madera de mesa
De madera means “made of wood” or “wooden.”
una mesa de madera = a wooden table
You want the store to deliver the furniture to your home. What do you ask?
- ¿Pueden entregar los muebles en mi casa?
- ¿Cuánto mide la mesa?
- ¿Qué te parece este sofá?
- ¿Dónde ponemos la mesa?
¿Pueden entregar los muebles en mi casa? asks whether the store can deliver the furniture to your home.
¿Pueden entregar los muebles en mi casa?