How to set up your place with second-hand furniture in Berlin

With second-hand furniture in Berlin, you add the Berlin flair of understatement and vintage to your home.

Marle

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Updated on 17 Sep 2024

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Renting

Does your dream flat in Berlin have no artistic flair or it misses a touch modernity? With second-hand furniture in Berlin you can really accentuate your personal style in your new home.

Second-hand furniture in Berlin can be a true bliss for expats and students who make Berlin their home base for only a short period of time. What's better, second-hand furniture gives you a taste of typical Berlin flair: understatement, casualness and vintage. Ready to dive into vintage heaven?

Your Späti of choice has been found, the barista at your corner café knows you, but your flat is missing the finishing touches to fully settle in Berlin?

To be fair: If you are an international staying in the city for a limited time, it is convenient to search furnished apartments for rent in Berlin. But if you feel like placing your plants on an unique high table or simply bringing a personal touch to your home, then you can find true gems among the pieces of second-Hand furniture in Berlin.

1. Wollen Möbel Kaufen?!: Paradise for nostalgics and the curious. This second-hand furniture shop in Berlin-Friedrichshain can be found in an old caravan, with one treasure lined up after another. For some pieces, you might have to dig a little deeper into your pocket, while others are true bargains!

Revaler Straße 99, 10245 Berlin-Friedrichshain (Mon, Wed, Sat: 12-19 PM)

2. Vintage Galore: Scandinavia's the epitome of fashionable furniture. At Vintage Galore you will find well-preserved, individual and high-quality wooden furniture.

Sanderstraße 12, 12047 Berlin-Neukölln (Wednesday-Friday: 2-8 PM; Saturday: 12-6 PM)

3. Pony Hütchen: Feels just like at grandparents' home! Amidst typical granny chairs, fabric lamps and wooden chests you fetch a typical Berlin grandparents' flair into your place.

Pücklerstrasse 33, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg (Monday-Friday: 2-6 PM; Saturday: 12-6 PM)

4. Motz - Der Laden: Between rummage and clutter there're true treasures that can add extra charm to your home. What's best: with every purchase you do something good. Many Berliners know Motz as a street magazine that is sold by homeless people in Berlin.

Friedrichstraße 226, 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg (Monday-Friday: 12-7 PM; Saturday: 12-5 PM)

5. Soul Objects: A boutique vintage store known for its eclectic mix of high-quality, handcrafted items and unique vintage pieces. The store's home décor blends vintage charm with contemporary craftsmanship.

Prenzlauer Allee 24, 10405 Berlin-Charlottenburg (Tuesday-Friday: 11-7 PM; Saturday: 12-7PM)

Even in regular furniture stores in Berlin, there're plenty of bargains to be had! Among the big furniture stores in Berlin are obviously IKEA (low price, good design), Möbel Hübner (high quality at fair prices) or Poco Domäne (unbeatable price and fair quality).

1. IKEA: Bet you can't make it through IKEA and end up buying only the things you had actually planned to buy? Face it, you're easily tempted by IKEA and you spend more than you expected. But that doesn't always have to be the case because if you glance through the Fundgrube (“treasure trove”), you will find slightly damaged products at a discounted price. You can find IKEA in Berlin in Spandau, Tempelhof and Lichtenberg.

2. Möbel Hübner: Spread over 10 floors there are high-quality sofas, vases and chairs just waiting for you to be picked out.

3. Poco Domäne: A dream for bargain hunters! Poco Domäne is probably the go-to furniture store in Berlin for small wallets. In Marzahn, Kreuzberg and Wedding Poco Domäne are waiting for you!

Oh yes, at Berlin's flea markets you get more than vintage jackets and old books: flea markets are the hub for used furniture in Berlin, where you can find sofas or chairs amidst vinyl records and art frames.

Many times used furniture slumbers on Berlin flea markets, which have already served generation after generation but are still of superb quality. And all this at a low price!

1. Mauerpark: Every Berliner has probably already been to the flea market in Mauerpark, every tourist probably has as well. In the heart of hip Prenzlauer Berg, you can stroll there every Sunday between 8 AM and 18 AM over the flea market, between live music and mulled wine you can see the latest second-hand treasures in Berlin.

To get to the Mauerpark, simply take the U2 (stop: Eberswalderstraße) or the M10 train (stop: Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark).

2. Boxhagen flea market: Your heart for decoration beats faster here: At the Boxhagen flea market, you will find all kinds of gems to give your home a personal twist.

The flea market is located in the heart of Friedrichshain, very close to the Grünwalder Straße stop (M10).

3. Leopoldplatz: On Leopoldplatz in Berlin-Wedding there are real old treasures to discover. And more than the usual flea market junk food: looking for a fishing rod and a tent for your getaway weekend outside Berlin? No problem. Furniture, clothes? On Leopoldplatz, there are up to 70 traders putting up their flea market tables on the square for you.

Leopoldplatz, 13353 Berlin-Wedding

4. Flea market Arkonaplatz: Those who feel the Mauerpark too chaotic and crowded should go to its little brother every Sunday between 10 AM and 4 PM: The flea market on Arkonaplatz.

Arkonaplatz, 10435 Berlin

5. Kranoldplatz flea market: Dive into the new and old treasures of Berlin. At the large Kranoldplatz flea market in Neukölln, you can rummage through just about anything that other Berliners have left behind

Kranoldplatz, 12051 Berlin

With a pinch of luck, you can even snatch furniture in Berlin for free! It's no secret though that when there's something for free, people speed up. That's why you shouldn't hesitate long and contact people directly.

On Facebook you have these groups for free furniture in Berlin:

• Free Your Stuff Berlin
• Sell Your Stuff Berlin
• Möbel verkaufen, tauschen, verschenken (German)
• Zu Verschenken in Berlin & Brandenburg (German)

So, it's time to bring the Berlin vintage flair of understatement and casualness into your home!