Patio Furniture Retail Business

Patio Furniture Retail Business Success Stories [2025]

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Updated: October 7th, 2024

Looking to combine your love for the outdoors with a savvy business venture? Consider starting a patio furniture retail business.

This business idea involves sourcing a variety of outdoor furniture and selling it to homeowners, event organizers, and businesses that want to enhance their outdoor spaces. You'll need to invest in inventory, select high-quality pieces, and manage a storefront, whether physical or online.

As people continue to invest in their homes and outdoor living areas, there's a growing market for stylish, durable patio furniture. Imagine helping customers create the perfect backyard oasis or a cozy balcony retreat.

While it requires some upfront investment and relationship-building with suppliers, the prospect of running a patio furniture retail business is promising. It’s not just about selling furniture; it’s about enhancing lifestyles. Dive into this venture and turn every patio into a potential paradise.

In this list, you'll find real-world patio furniture retail business success stories and very profitable examples of starting a patio furniture retail business that makes money.

1. Seedia ($600K/year)

Piotr Hołubowicz came up with the idea for SEEDiA when he was sitting on a park bench with friends and their phones died. He wanted to create a bench that could charge mobile devices using renewable energy, leading to the development of their solar and off-grid benches and other smart city solutions. With a record year in 2020 and plans for new products in 2021, SEEDiA is continuing to innovate and improve urban spaces.

How much money it makes: $600K/year
How much did it cost to start: $2K
How many people on the team: 21

How We Started A $25K/Month Company Developing Smart City Solar Products

SEEDiA is a smart city technology company that develops solar-powered benches, trash cans, info kiosks, solar bus shelters, and smart hand sanitizers, and has sold 112% more products in 2020 than the previous year, while also introducing three new products in 2021.

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