Office Furniture Resources

Office Furniture Resources, known as OFR, is a woman-owned office furniture company in the Midwest that makes its living from corporate office clear-outs. Its homepage describes it as "one of the largest office furniture liquidators in the Midwest, with services nationwide," and says it has served Fortune 500 companies nationwide since 1991. Names shown among its liquidation clients include Accenture, Blue Cross, Kraft Foods, Mars Wrigley and United Health. For a chair buyer, that business model is the point: when large offices close or downsize, their chairs end up in OFR's warehouses and showrooms, and a share of them goes back on sale as used or refurbished stock.

Where it sells

OFR runs three showrooms, which the homepage calls "Three Convenient Midwest Showroom Locations." The Chicago location is at 2451 S Wolf Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60018 (phone 224.531.5770). Milwaukee is at 8787 W Brown Deer Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53224 (414.353.9725), and the Madison showroom is at 1261 W Main St, Sun Prairie, WI 53590 (608.318.2064). The contact form also offers a National Services Team for customers outside those three areas, and a Shipping, Delivery, & Installation service is listed among the company's services. Buyers can also request a site visit; the form lets them choose measuring and space planning, reconfiguration planning, moving planning or an ergonomics evaluation, and upload a floor plan.

What it sells

The homepage invites buyers to "furnish one private office or an entire office building with our huge inventory of pre-owned & refurbished office furniture made by Steelcase, Herman Miller, Knoll, Haworth, Allsteel and more." The chair menu is split into Desk Chairs, Conference Chairs, Stacking Chairs, Side/Guest Chairs, Stools and a dedicated Refurbished Chairs section. There is a separate New Office Furniture menu with its own chair range, so used and new stock sit side by side.

Beyond seating, the shop covers desks (including standing and height adjustable desks), training, cafe and conference tables, file cabinets, cubicles and benching, lounge furniture, phone booths and meeting pods, and office accessories. Refurbished cubicles and refurbished lounge furniture have their own sections too. A sitewide banner advertised a "$25 Bar Stool Sale" on "Select Commercial Grade Bar-Height Stools," which gives a sense of how low liquidation prices can go on simpler pieces.

What customers say about the chairs

The homepage reviews are the clearest picture of the chair side of the business. One buyer says staff "set me up with a great deal on a refurbished Herman Miller Mirro," and another was set up with "a beautiful Steelcase Gesture." A first-time buyer credits a staff member for sharing "all of his office chair knowledge," and another says a staff member gave "a great crash course in what makes a good chair" and that the buyer walked out with two chairs "at ludicrously cheap prices." Several reviews stress the lack of sales pressure. One buyer describes sitting in the recommended chair, trying others across the showroom and warehouse, and coming back to the first one.

Another reviewer, who bought 2 desks and 2 chairs for a home office, writes that the furniture was "very high quality at a steep discount due to it being used," and that being used "doesn't really impact anything." A different customer had a Zody chair repaired at the store "at a reasonable cost." Other reviews cover the rest of an office: an engineering firm that ordered 3 workstations, a buyer who moved to a standing desk, and a home office kitted out with a desk, return file, mobile pedestal, chair and light. These are customer accounts rather than company promises, but they are consistent about showroom help and low prices. Stock changes as liquidations come in, and the site offers an email list under the line "Never miss a new arrival or bargain," which is the practical way to hear when a particular brand or model lands.

Services

OFR's service list is long for a used furniture seller. It includes Office Furniture Space Planning & Design, Shipping, Delivery, & Installation, Office Furniture Moving & Storage, Office Furniture Reconfiguration, Liquidation Project Management, Office Furniture Rental, Custom Office Furniture Upholstery, Office Cubicle Refurbishing and E-Waste Recycling. The custom upholstery service is worth noting for chair buyers, since a sound used frame with worn fabric can be re-covered. The About menu links to a Satisfaction Guarantee page, FAQs, customer stories and the company's history.

The site also offers chair adjustment tutorials, short videos in which OFR staff demonstrate desk chair adjustments and features. For anyone buying a used chair without its original manual, that is a practical help.

Liquidation and sustainability

The liquidation side explains where the chairs come from. OFR says it "takes a team approach to planning, pricing and executing every Liquidation & Decommission project," and it pitches the service as a way for corporations to "meet sustainability goals by diverting unwanted office furniture from landfill." The menu lists Sustainable Commercial Furniture Removal and Charity Partnerships, and the homepage has an environmental impact section based on 2025 results, covering office space decommissioned, furniture value credited back to customers, truckloads diverted from landfill and the value of furniture donated to community organizations.

Who it serves

The Who We Serve menu names commercial real estate, corporate, education, government, home offices and small businesses. One reviewer sums up the range: "if you are getting office furniture for 1 or 100 you should start here." The About menu includes a Women-Owned Business Enterprise page, which may matter to organizations with supplier diversity goals.

Who it suits

OFR suits a buyer within reach of Chicago, Milwaukee or Madison who wants a used or refurbished Steelcase, Herman Miller, Knoll or Haworth chair and would rather sit in several before choosing. The showroom model, the staff's chair knowledge that reviewers keep mentioning, and the adjustment videos make it a good choice for someone new to high-end chairs. Offices clearing out old furniture, or fitting out a new space on a budget, get both sides of the business from one company. Shoppers farther away can contact the National Services Team, though the site is clearly built around its three Midwest locations.