Furniture Made Easy

Made with pride on the Jersey Shore, Soapbox furniture is easy to assemble. A recently launched company out of Asbury Park, Soapbox, like IKEA, is in the business of producing versatile, flat-packed home furnishings. Soapbox’s collection of unfussy storage options — lovely boxes of all shapes and sizes, with or without legs — are made in New Jersey from plywood (no MDF here, folks) covered in a range of real hardwood veneers (cherry, walnut, maple) using soy-based glues. Best of all, the pieces require absolutely no tools to assemble. With the motto “furniture made easy”.

Soapbox is driven by simplicity. Each linseed oil-finished piece is held together by clever, specially designed steel corner brackets available in a galvanized option or in four different powder-coated colors for a bit of visual pop. Wall-mount hardware is also an option if you’re dealing with limited floor space. As mentioned, assembly is easy, breezy, simple. Moving? It’s just as effortless to disassemble each piece as it was to put it together. Prices range from $90 for a 12-by-14-by-14-inch box to $430 for a 30-by-15-by-42-inch coffee table), this is high-quality, made-in-Jersey stuff that won’t likely end up in a landfill in the near future. The complete line — keep an eye out for a limited-edition collection made from American pine salvaged from a New Jersey warehouse — is available directly through the Soapbox website