Furniture Statistics Ireland 2026: €2.17 Billion Spent on Furniture, Furnishings and Loose Carpets

Last updated: August 2026. Human written and fact checked against each named source.

Irish consumers spent an estimated €2,174 million (€2.174 billion) on furniture, furnishings and loose carpets in 2025, according to preliminary national accounts data. This is the clearest measure of household demand in the available official data, but it is a current-price consumption estimate rather than a measure of furniture-shop turnover or the total retail market.

The picture is broader than a single spending figure. Official statistics show weaker furniture and lighting retail sales in June 2026, mixed price movements across household goods, substantial furniture reuse and continued difficulty replacing worn-out furniture for some households.

The latest evidence does not all cover the same period: this roundup combines June 2026 retail and price data, 2025 spending and deprivation estimates, 2024 reuse data and 2023 household distributional accounts.

Key furniture statistics for Ireland at a glance

• Irish personal consumption expenditure on furniture, furnishings and loose carpets was estimated at €2.174 billion in 2025, based on preliminary current-price national accounts data.
• The value of retail sales in the combined furniture and lighting category was 6.8% lower in June 2026 than in June 2025, on a provisional basis.
• The price of household furniture was 1.3% higher in June 2026 than a year earlier, even though the broader furniture, furnishings and loose carpets group fell by 0.4%.
• Prices for furnishing fabrics and curtains were 6.0% lower over the year to June 2026, the steepest fall among the furniture-related CPI categories reviewed.
• Irish households reused an estimated 38,300 tonnes of furniture in 2024, within 83,400 tonnes of second-hand products reused overall.
• In 2025, 16.0% of people lived in households unable to afford replacing worn-out furniture, down from 16.7% in 2024.
• Among people in single-adult households with children, 47.8% were unable to afford replacing worn-out furniture in 2025.
• Households with a mortgage allocated 5.6% of consumption to furniture, equipment and routine maintenance in 2023, compared with 3.8% for outright owners and 3.2% for renters and rent-free households.
• IKEA Ireland reported €247.3 million in sales for the year ended 31 August 2025, while online sales increased by 10.4% and represented almost 40% of its total.

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How much Ireland spends on furniture and furnishings

The Central Statistics Office’s national accounts provide the most useful top-level spending measure. Personal consumption expenditure on furniture, furnishings and loose carpets reached an estimated €2.174 billion in 2025, compared with €2.054 billion in 2024. The same series recorded €2.257 billion in 2022, so the latest estimate remains below that earlier current-price level.

These figures should be read carefully. They are stated at current market prices, which means that changes can reflect both the quantity purchased and the prices paid. The 2025 figure is preliminary, and the category includes furnishings and loose carpets as well as furniture. It should not be presented as the turnover of furniture retailers or as a standalone market-size estimate.

The broader national accounts category covering furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance was valued at €5.983 billion in 2025.

Within the same tables, household textile spending was €518 million. Those wider categories add useful context, but they overlap with goods and services beyond furniture, so they should not be added to the €2.174 billion figure to produce a larger furniture total.

Furniture retail sales in 2026

The CSO Retail Sales Index measures a different part of the market. In the combined furniture and lighting category, the volume index was 116.8 in June 2026, with 2021 set to 100. The provisional volume estimate was 1.8% lower than in May 2026 and 6.8% lower than in June 2025.

The value index was 116.1 in June 2026. Retail value fell by 1.3% month on month and by 6.8% year on year. Value tracks money taken at the till, while volume is adjusted to show the amount of goods sold. The matching annual declines suggest that the category’s weaker June result was not simply a price effect, although the figures do not explain why sales changed.

The category covers furniture, lighting and other household articles classified under NACE 47.59. It is therefore broader than furniture alone. The index covers Irish-registered enterprises and excludes online sellers that are not registered in Ireland.

June 2026 is provisional, and the CSO also flagged the volume indices for possible revision, so the figures are best treated as a timely indicator rather than a final annual market total.

What happened to furniture prices

Ireland’s Consumer Price Index shows that furniture-related prices did not move in one direction. The broad furniture, furnishings and loose carpets group was 0.4% cheaper in June 2026 than in June 2025, but the household furniture subcategory increased by 1.3% over the same period.

Other household categories recorded larger falls. Garden and camping furniture prices declined by 7.6% over the year to June 2026, while lighting equipment was 1.4% cheaper. Furnishings, loose carpets and rugs fell by 1.7%, and household textiles fell by 4.4%.

Within household textiles, furnishing fabrics and curtains recorded a 6.0% annual price decline. The contrast between rising household furniture prices and falling prices in several adjacent categories is a reminder that a broad inflation figure can hide meaningful differences between products. CPI data describe price movement, not unit sales, product quality or the size of consumer demand.

Furniture spending patterns by income and tenure

The CSO Household Distributional Accounts offer a view of how consumption is allocated across household groups. In 2023, the lowest-income quintile allocated 3.9% of consumption to furniture, equipment and routine household maintenance. The highest-income quintile allocated 4.1% to the same combined category.

Differences by housing tenure were wider. Households that owned their home with a mortgage allocated 5.6% of consumption to the combined category in 2023, compared with 3.8% among outright owners and 3.2% among households renting or living rent-free.

These percentages are shares of total consumption, not the percentage of households that bought furniture. The category also includes household equipment and routine maintenance.

The distributional accounts are published as a Frontier Series, meaning that the methods remain under development. The figures are useful for comparing the composition of spending, but they do not establish that tenure or income caused the differences.

Furniture affordability and enforced deprivation

Replacing furniture is not affordable for every household. The 2025 Survey on Income and Living Conditions found that 16.0% of people lived in households unable to afford replacing worn-out furniture. The corresponding figure was 16.7% in 2024.

The burden was much greater for some groups. Among people in single-adult households with children, 47.8% were unable to afford replacing worn-out furniture in 2025. Among people experiencing enforced deprivation, the proportion was 76.4%.

This measure captures an inability to afford replacement, not whether a household owns furniture, recently made a purchase or would choose to replace an item. SILC results are weighted survey estimates and subgroup percentages use different denominators.

The CSO reissued and revised the 2025 results in March 2026, so the revised release is the appropriate version to cite.

Furniture reuse and Ireland’s circular economy

Reuse is already a substantial part of how Irish households acquire and pass on products. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that households reused 83,400 tonnes of second-hand products in 2024. Furniture accounted for 38,300 tonnes, making it a major component of the measured total.

Across all included products, the reuse rate was 15.5 kilograms per person in 2024. Ireland’s national target is 20 kilograms per person per year by 2030. The target is a future policy benchmark rather than an achieved outcome.

The EPA’s revised 2021 estimates put furniture reuse at 41,890 tonnes and overall reuse at 15.9 kilograms per person. The 2024 study used a changed methodology, and the estimates remain subject to validation.

A simple comparison between 2021 and 2024 could therefore overstate a real trend. The household figures also exclude commercial and business-to-business reuse and do not cover construction materials.

Online and service trends: an IKEA Ireland case study

Company results can show how one major retailer is changing, but they should not be used as a proxy for the whole Irish furniture market. IKEA Ireland reported sales of €247.3 million for the financial year ended 31 August 2025, an increase of 0.36% year on year. Operating profit was €16.2 million.

Its online sales increased by 10.4% and accounted for almost 40% of total sales. The word ‘almost’ matters because the company did not report an exact 40% share. The result nevertheless shows that digital purchasing was material for this retailer in Ireland during the period.

Demand for related services also increased. IKEA reported a 21% increase in overall service uptake. Assembly and installation services increased by 9.5%, while planning, interior design or measuring services rose by 14.5%. These are first-party company figures and reflect IKEA’s own customers, pricing and service offer. They are best presented as a case study of one retailer rather than evidence that the entire market moved at the same rate.

What the figures mean for Irish households and retailers

Taken together, the data describe a market with several distinct forces. Current-price household spending on furniture, furnishings and loose carpets was higher in 2025 than in 2024, but the provisional retail index showed weaker furniture and lighting sales in June 2026 than a year earlier. These measures cover different populations and periods, so they are not contradictory and should not be combined into a single growth rate.

Price movements were similarly uneven. Household furniture became more expensive over the year to June 2026, while garden furniture, textiles, curtains and several furnishings categories became cheaper.

For consumers, this means the overall cost picture depends heavily on the type of item being purchased. For retailers, it underlines the value of analysing categories separately instead of relying on one headline inflation figure.

Affordability and reuse add important social and environmental context. A significant minority of people lived in households unable to afford replacing worn-out furniture in 2025, while tens of thousands of tonnes of furniture were reused in 2024.

The statistics do not show whether affordability pressures caused reuse, but they do show that new retail purchases are only one part of how households furnish their homes.

For anyone using these figures, the safest approach is to match the statistic to the question. National accounts are best for household expenditure, the Retail Sales Index for recent trading direction, CPI for price movement, SILC for affordability and the EPA study for household reuse.

None of these sources, on its own, measures the full value of Ireland’s furniture market. Reading them side by side gives a richer picture, provided their definitions and limitations remain visible.

Method and sources

This article was prepared from seven canonical sources reviewed on 20 August 2026: the Central Statistics Office Retail Sales Index, Consumer Price Index, Annual National Accounts, Household Distributional Accounts and Survey on Income and Living Conditions; the Environmental Protection Agency’s national reuse statistics; and IKEA Ireland’s first-party financial-year release. Each statistic was checked against the relevant source page before drafting.

The sources use different reference periods, populations and methods. Retail sales cover Irish-registered enterprises in a combined furniture and lighting classification. Consumer prices measure price change rather than sales. National accounts estimate consumption expenditure in broad product categories.

Household distributional accounts compare shares of consumption, while SILC reports weighted survey estimates. EPA reuse estimates cover households and changed methodology between 2021 and 2024. IKEA’s figures describe one company. These differences are why the article reports each measure separately and avoids causal or whole-market claims that the data cannot support.

How M&I Interiors Can Help

Statistics can describe the market, but choosing furniture remains a practical decision about scale, materials, comfort and how a room is used. Customers comparing options can explore M&I Interiors’ furniture collections online or visit the Portlaoise showroom for help assessing pieces in person. This service connection is separate from the statistical evidence above and does not imply that the cited datasets measure M&I Interiors’ customers.