Sift

Pinterest for dumpster divers

Your dream home is blocking the hallway.

Save photos of found furniture to room boards. Your one-bedroom flat now has a library, a guest suite and a breakfast nook. All three are in your kitchen.

A place for your finds. Floor space sold separately.

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Found wooden dining chair with an olive seat

One chair. The start of something.

Found on moving day. Three still missing.

Dining room · 12 finds

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Save the chair to a room board. Search for the other three when you're ready to lose an evening.

Keep your rooms organized.
Your actual room can wait.

LibraryGuest suiteBreakfast nook

A board for every room you don't have.

Save found furniture to boards for your future rooms. The reading chair goes in Library. The second reading chair goes in Guest suite. At home, they go in front of the fridge.

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Editorial collage: Library, Guest suite and Breakfast nook furniture compete for space in one kitchen
Three imagined rooms. One actual kitchen. Sift keeps the boards separate; the furniture has other arrangements.

Find the rest of the set.

Photograph your rescued chair and search for matching pieces. Sift finds the other three in a hotel-clearance post from 2018. You've turned on notifications for a hotel that no longer exists.

Try visual search
Three matching wooden chairs in an old hotel clearance photograph
Three matching chairs. One promising lead.
Hotel permanently closed.

Crop out the dumpster.

Publish a close-up of your rescued lamp. Eighty-three people save it to Quiet luxury. Your housemate adds the wide shot in the comments.

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Designed lamp story: the tight crop gets 83 Quiet luxury saves; one wide shot in the comments reveals the dumpster
The crop: 83 saves to Quiet luxury. The comments: one wide shot with the dumpster still in it.

It looked smaller on the board.

I saved a sideboard to Future dining room and brought it home. We eat off it now because the table won't fit beside it.
Nina PatelWeekend furniture diver; studio tenant
Visual search found my missing drawer handle in a photo from 2016. I messaged the uploader. She has moved twice and would like me to stop asking.
Lewis GrantFurniture restorer; collector of incomplete sets
A woman asked where I sourced my lamp. Before I could answer, my flatmate posted a photo of me pulling it out of a bin in my dressing gown.

How many rooms are we imagining?

The furniture was free. The extension to your online house starts at $6.

Room

Free

Three room boards. One actual room.

  • Three boards with room sections
  • Up to 60 saved finds
  • Photo cropping, public profiles and comments
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House

$6 / month

Your studio flat has acquired a breakfast wing.

  • Everything in Room
  • 25 boards and unlimited saved finds
  • Visual search for matching furniture
  • Notifications for new posts from followed accounts
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Estate

$18 / month

Six people furnishing a country house. Everyone lives above the same takeaway.

  • Everything in House
  • Unlimited boards and sections
  • Shared boards for six collaborators
  • Private boards for unfinished restoration projects
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All plan links open the same feature preview, including visual search. No purchase or plan change takes place.