About Songmics

Songmics sells flat-pack furniture and storage aimed squarely at the problem of not enough room. The catalogue is wide, the prices sit below the big furniture chains, and the assembly is on you.

Three brands, one company

The group trades under names that look unrelated on a marketplace listing but come from the same place. Songmics covers storage and organisation, Vasagle covers furniture such as side tables, desks and cabinets, and Feandrea covers pet furniture including cat trees, crates and beds. Knowing they are related helps when you find the same design listed twice under different badges.

What the range is strongest at

Storage is the core: shoe cabinets and benches, wardrobes and clothes rails, shelving, storage boxes, laundry hampers and jewellery cabinets. Around that sit bedroom pieces, living room tables and TV units, home office desks and chairs, entryway hall trees, and a growing outdoor and pet section. For a rented flat or a first home, this is a practical place to furnish a room without spending what a showroom charges.

Measure the space and the doorway

Everything arrives flat packed, which solves the delivery problem and creates an assembly evening. Two measurements prevent almost every disappointment: the space the item will occupy, including the swing of a door or drawer, and the route in, meaning the doorway, the hall and the stairs. Check whether shelves are adjustable and whether the unit needs to be anchored to a wall. Tall furniture in a home with small children should be fixed to the wall regardless of what the instructions imply.

Buying and after

Materials are usually engineered wood with a laminate finish, steel frames and fabric panels, which is why the prices work. Read the dimensions rather than judging from a styled photograph, since scale is the hardest thing to see in a product image. Keep the instruction booklet with its parts list, because replacement fittings are ordered by the part number printed there.