How To Talk About Furniture in Spanish: A Room By Room Guide

Whether you are trying to learn Spanish because you are traveling to a Spanish-speaking country or if you want to expand your business to an area where Spanish is commonly spoken, there’s no getting away from the fact that it will involve a lot of memorization of common Spanish words.

Improving your Spanish vocabulary is key to reaching fluency, so it’s important to keep yourself motivated and keep your studies interesting. One way to quickly build your vocabulary is to sort and categorize your word lists.

By sorting and categorizing, we mean that she group similar words into one list that has a common theme. For example, words for food, words for the weather, words for feelings. In this post, we’re going to share with you a list of words for furniture in Spanish that you can memorize.

Memorizing these words for furniture in Spanish isn’t just a good mental exercise, however, but it is also useful if you intend to live in a Spanish-speaking area for some time. It’s always useful and practical to know the word for things that you are going to use or need and furniture such as a bed or a table or a chair are objects that you are going to see and use daily.

Here are some words for furniture in Spanish that you should know before traveling to a Spanish-speaking country.

1. Spanish words for bedroom furniture

The Spanish word for the bedroom is “el dormitorio” (el dor-mee-toh-ree-oh) or it could be referred to as “la habitación” (lah ah bee-tah-see-on) and here are the Spanish words for furniture that you might find in a bedroom. 

Be it in a hotel or motel room or a private bedroom in a home, you’re likely to find these pieces of furniture.

• La cama (lah kah-mah) – the bed

• La mesa de noche (lah meh-sah deh noh-cheh) – the night table 

• La lámpara (lah lahm-pah-rah) – the lamp 

• La cómoda (lah koh-moh-dah) – the dresser/drawers

• El armario (el ar-mah-ree-oh) – the wardrobe

• El clóset (el kloh-seht) – the closet

• El cubo de basura (el koo-boh deh bah-soo-rah) – the trash can 

• El escritorio (el ehs-kree-toh-ryoh) – the desk

• La silla (lah see-yah) – the chair

2. Words in Spanish that refer to office furniture

If you are traveling for business to an area where Spanish is commonly spoken, it can help you to know a few words about office furniture. 

You’re probably going to want to know where your desk is or to be able to ask for a better lamp, so you should know how to refer to office furniture in Spanish.

FYI, the Spanish word for office is “la oficina” (lah oh-fee-see-nah)

• El escritorio (el es-kree-toh-ree-oh) – the desk

• La silla (lah see-yah) – the chair

• Lámpara de escritorio (lahm-pahr-a el es-kree-toh-rio) – the desk lamp

• Archivador (ahr-chee-bah-dohr) – the filing cabinet

• El estante de libros (el es-than-te deh lee-bros) – the bookcase

• Teléfono (the-leh-foh-noh) – the telephone

3. Words for living room and dining room furniture in Spanish

If you are invited into a Spanish speaker’s home, you’re likely to spend most of your time in either the living room or the dining room. 

Also known as the family room, the living room is probably the first room that you will see upon arriving at your friend or colleagues’ home. It is a nicely decorated space that is reserved for general and informal use. The Spanish words to refer to this space are “la sala” (lah sah-lah) or “sala de estar” (sah-lah deh ehs-thar).

When just the family is around, this might be the place where they gather at the end of the day to just sit together and talk about their days and maybe do some quiet activity together. 

When guests are around, the living room is a place where the family can ensure the guest is comfortable while they entertain them with good conversation – at least until the meal is ready, at which point you will probably be ushered into the dining room.

Here are the common pieces of furniture that you will find in a living room.

• El sofa (el soh-fah) – the sofa

• La mesa (lah meh-sah) – the table

• El sillón (el see-yohn)– the arm chair 

• Tirar almohadas (tee-rahr ahl-moh-ah-dah) – throw pillows

• La alfombra (lah ahl-fohm-brah) – the carpet/rug

• La mesa de centro (lah meh-sah deh cehn-troh)– the coffee table

• El taburete (el tah-boo-reh-the)– the stool

• La televisión (lah the-luh-vih-zhihn) - the television