Furniture has the greatest variety of characteristics in all basic properties. In the future, the whole process of developing a product project will be considered mainly on the example of furniture products.

Furniture is classified (GOST 20400 “Furniture production products. Terms and definitions”) according to the following main characteristics: operational, functional, structural and technological, materials, as well as the nature of production.

According to the operational purpose, the following types of furniture are distinguished.

Household furniture is products designed for furnishing various rooms, apartments, cottages, for outdoor use. There are the following types of household furniture: for a common room (for rooms with combined functions, for example, a dining room, a bedroom), for a bedroom, a dining room, a living room, an office, a nursery (products, sizes, shapes and designs of which correspond to the age characteristics and growth characteristics of children), for kitchens, hallways, bathrooms, and also dachas.

Furniture for public spaces – products designed for furnishing the premises of enterprises and institutions, taking into account the nature of their activities and the specifics of functional processes. There are the following types of such furniture: medical (for hospitals, polyclinics and other medical institutions), laboratory (for laboratories, including educational and medical), for preschool institutions (kindergartens, nurseries), educational institutions (schools, colleges, technical schools and universities), trade enterprises, catering (canteens restaurants, cafes, snack bars, etc.) and consumer services, hotels and health resorts, theater and entertainment institutions, libraries and reading rooms, sports facilities, administrative premises, waiting rooms of transport institutions, communication enterprises.

Furniture for transport is a product designed for the equipment of various means of transport.