Furniture Made from the Heart of Texas
Our Couch Potatoes furniture is built with love right here in Austin, Texas. Not only is your sofa homegrown, so is our company! Like many of our employees, owner Brian Morgan is a born and raised Austinite. We believe in giving back to the community, creating comfort, and working with purpose.
Job Creation & Manufacturing
Life-Changing Furniture
As a part of our Second-Chance Initiative, we work with the Texas Transitional Center, a network of regional reentry centers designed to provide a structured, supervised environment to help reintegrate ex-offenders into society. We believe, that if you have breath in your lungs, you have a purpose. Maybe they were never given the opportunity to gain a skill, so we try to give them that opportunity.
Design & Materials
Austin's Couch Potatoes does not sacrifice quality for affordability. Here are some of the materials and machines we use to guarantee you are getting a piece of furniture that will hold up throughout the years:
Plywood — thin layers of wood veneers glued together in a rotating grain to promote strength and flexibility. We use exclusively plywood, making our furniture better than most competitors.
CNC Machine — so precise that a human hair is less than the margin of error. This allows us to use jointed wood techniques instead of nails, making frames more structurally stable. We aren't using glue to keep the frame together either.
What We Stand For
Made in Austin
Our furniture is 100% built locally from the feet up. There's not another furniture store in Austin that's doing it like we are. We try to source from local places too, because we know when we buy locally the tax dollar stays here locally too.
Family-Oriented
Many of our employees include their family in the business, and we support creating jobs for them. At one point we had four generations working in our stores, which created a supportive and secure work environment.
Community Involvement
Early on, we've always been involved in our community. To be local means to get your hands dirty and get involved where the need is. Once a month, we make it a goal to go out in the community and find people who need a helping hand.
ADRN
We became involved with Austin Disaster Relief Network after a flood wreaked havoc in our community. We decided to create the least path of resistance for families to get the furniture they need as quickly as possible and help turn their houses back into homes.
Season of Caring
The Statesman's Season of Caring program highlights community needs by featuring families nominated by local nonprofits. We've partnered with the program for years, donating furniture and making new furniture available at wholesale price.
Making Masks
During the pandemic, we realized the same materials in our sofas are used in N95 masks. With a shortage across the country, we got to work and utilized our warehouse materials to supply hospitals and humans with homemade masks.