DUMOS · on the market since 2020

DUMOS: furniture for the whole house, with the inches on the card

DUMOS makes the pieces a house fills up with after the sofa: the desk and the chair, the dresser and the bed, the stools at the counter, the shelf against the wall, the ice maker on it, the crate for the dog. Here is what our range is for, who it is for, and what the name means.

What DUMOS makes

Furniture and home essentials for every room, sold flat in a carton and assembled by the person who ordered it. The catalogue runs to ten rooms: office chairs and desks, seating for the kitchen and the table, the bedroom, the living room and its storage, the kitchen counter, the vacuum cupboard, the dog, the home gym and the yard. The piece we are known for is the criss-cross chair, an armless office chair with a seat cut wide enough to sit on your feet, and the piece with the largest pool of ratings is the fabric dresser, non-woven bins on a steel frame under a wood top, named by its drawer count.

What the pieces share is a way of being made. A powder-coated steel frame carries the weight; an engineered wood panel is the surface; a fabric, a PU leather or a mesh is what you touch; and the whole thing packs flat into a carton that fits a doorway and a car. That is why a nine-drawer dresser here costs what a single wood drawer costs elsewhere, and it is also why every card prints its assembled size: the carton is not the piece.

Who it is for

The person with a tape measure and one wall. A first apartment where the desk has to fit the alcove beside the closet; a bedroom where the dresser has to stop below the window sill; a kitchen island that needs four stools at the right height; a child's room that needs a bed with a roof and a dresser with a strap. Our range is priced for the room that gets furnished all at once rather than a piece at a time, and it is sized for the room that gets measured before anything is ordered.

It is also for the person who reads reviews. Our pieces have been rated in the tens of thousands on our retail partner, and this site quotes those reviews as they were written, drawbacks included, because a review that says the desk wobbled until the bolts were retightened is worth more to the next buyer than a star.

How the site is different from a photograph

A photograph of a desk has no scale, and most furniture returns start there. So every card on this site prints the number that would have caught the return: the width of a desk, the drawer count and the height of a dresser, the seat height of a stool, the stated weight capacity of a chair, the screen size a TV stand is named for. Where a piece comes in several colours or sizes, the page lists every one with its own price and its own button. Where we state no figure, the card prints none.

Where a piece can hurt somebody, the page says what the authority says. A dresser that tips, a bunk bed with a rail, a heater near a curtain and a chair sold with the word ergonomic each carry a note written from the Consumer Product Safety Commission or OSHA, with a link and the date we read it, on the page where the piece is rather than in the small print.

What the name means, and does not

A search for the word finds a Latin dictionary entry, a sixth-century monastery near Braga in Portugal, and a handful of other sites carrying our name. DUMOS, in capitals, on a carton, is the furniture brand, and this is its catalogue. The other sites you will find under the name print no prices, no widths and no variants; this one prints all three, updated on a schedule, with the date of the last update on our updates page.

How long DUMOS has been around

Since 2020. That is the one figure on this site we state about ourselves rather than about a piece of furniture, and it is there because you can check it. Everything else about us that might fill a sentence, where the pieces are made, how many people are involved, what is certified, is not on this site: a width you can measure beats a claim you cannot.