Platte Furniture

We are Colorado’s largest used furniture store that specializes in quality, unique and hard to find items. Our selection ranges from antiques to modern. Whether you need an everyday item or a unique (contemporary, vintage, primitive, retro, modern, antique, shabby shic, danish modern, industrial, Asian, Western) piece we should have it. This truly is a one-of-a-kind shopping experience.

Established in 1978.
Twenty two years ago, after a seven year career in teaching and coaching, Platte Furniture’s owner, Dick Kelly, began selling furniture out of his garage. He never envisioned that he would expand into a building that had been a hardware store managed by his wife’s great uncle many years before and open for business on May 30th, 1978. Today, that meager beginning has expanded into over 36,000 square feet of showroom floor, making it the largest used furniture store in Colorado. Platte Furniture has always been about family. Dick’s Mother-in-law, Dot Boone, was one of the store’s first employees and can still be found daily working on the books at the store. His stepmom, Mary, recently passed away, after being an employee for 18 years. On April 29, 2000 Dick proudly opened the door to welcome his son, Kyle, a recent college graduate, who is now working alongside his father with the hopes of one day filling his father’s shoes.

Richard K.
Business Owner
Dick Kelly got the sales bug early.
As a local kid, he’d buy rabbits at Ross Auction in Colorado Springs, raise them, and then sell them back to the auction for more.
When his career veered away from business – he was a teacher in Ellicot – he sold things on the side at the flea market, from his garage, and at a used-furniture store on Platte Avenue.
“I told the owner if he ever wanted to sell, I was interested,” Kelly said.
Then, in 1978, Kelly started Platte Furniture, 2331 E. Platte Place, with $10,000 and 5,000 square feet of space. Twenty-two years later, Platte Furniture brings in [snip] a year and occupies 36,000 square feet – possibly Colorado’s largest used-furniture store.
Set back from East Platte Avenue’s pawn shops and tatto parlors, the adobe-like store seems to have defied the odds. Three generations of the Kelly family work at the store, in an era when family businesses are disappearing. It doesn’t look like a used-furniture store – the largest showroom