How do you feel about painted furniture?"
Halfpoint Images/Getty ImagesDemand is up for vintage wood furniture — without paintPart of the backlash certainly stems from the current state of the furniture industry, in which it's increasingly difficult to get your hands on brand-new, high-quality furniture.
As a result, the secondhand furniture market is booming, with vintage furniture sellers proliferating on places like Instagram and Facebook Marketplace.
The flippers said most of the hate comments tend to come from flips of midcentury modern furniture, in particular, a beloved and lasting design aesthetic from around roughly the 1930s to 1970s.
Despite all the vocal online haters of painted furniture, there's a reason furniture flippers do it: the pieces sell.
Persons:
—, Christina Clericuzio, grandma, Clericuzio sanded, Clericuzio, TikTok, Jennifer Beck, flipper, Gen Z, it's, she's, she'd, Beck, It's, Mike Coleman, he's, Coleman, Christina Clericuzio's
Organizations:
Service, Business, United Furniture, Facebook, The Washington Post, Big, Ikea
Locations:
Connecticut, Tennessee, Anthropologie, Mesa , Arizona, Chicago