Press release · Cologne, November 2026
Translated from the German original. The PDF is in German.
Furniture by tape measure: Sizely finds furniture for niches and small walls by exact dimensions
Whether it is a hallway niche, the gap next to the fridge or a narrow strip of wall: enter width, depth and height, and the new search engine Sizely from Cologne shows only furniture that actually fits. More than 700,000 items from online shops can already be searched.
Cologne, November 2026. Anyone who rents knows the problem: a hallway niche is 62 cm wide, the chest of drawers in the online shop measures 66 cm. Custom-made furniture is not worth it for most rented flats, and the common furniture portals are built for browsing. Anyone looking for a specific size there has to check the data sheets product by product. The new website Sizely (www.sizely.de) turns this around: measure first, then search. Furniture by tape measure instead of furniture by style.
Users enter the dimensions of their niche or free wall space and see only furniture that fits. For every result, Sizely shows how many centimetres of room are left. Optionally, the search can be narrowed to a maximum price or a colour. Sizely detects the colour automatically from the product image, so that offers with inaccurate colour information are found too. Purchases are made directly in the online shop that Sizely forwards to.
“When I tested a large furniture portal, I found only eight results for my niche, and for some of them the dimensions were not even right,” says founder Jan van Randenborgh. “Yet almost every shop states the dimensions of its products. You just can’t search by them. That is exactly what Sizely changes.”
At launch, more than 700,000 items can already be searched, including chests of drawers, shelves, shoe cabinets, sideboards and floor lamps. Sizely reads the dimensions from the partner shops’ product data and checks them for plausibility. Products without reliable dimensions do not appear in the results. “Better no result than a wrong one,” says van Randenborgh.
If Sizely does not yet find anything for a size, searchers can leave a search alert. As soon as a matching piece of furniture is available after the nightly data update, they receive an email. Besides German, Sizely is also available in English (www.sizely.de/en/) and Spanish (www.sizely.store/es/).
For AI assistants, Sizely provides an open interface. Chatbots and voice assistants can use it to query furniture by dimensions without users having to visit the website themselves.
Furniture shops wanted as partners
To grow further, Sizely is looking for more furniture shops as partners. Online retailers can register free of charge at www.sizely.de/partner and add their product data feed, for example an existing Google Shopping feed as CSV or XML. Billing runs through common affiliate networks such as Awin or through Sizely’s own partner programme. “Anyone who searches on Sizely has already measured and knows exactly what they need,” says van Randenborgh. “We welcome every shop that submits its furniture with dimensions. The more shops take part, the more often the right piece of furniture turns up.”
Sizely is financed by commissions on referred purchases and by a central advertising space that is auctioned to sponsors every month.
About Sizely
Sizely (www.sizely.de, also at www.moebel-nach-massband.de) is a search engine for furniture by exact dimensions, in short: furniture by tape measure. Instead of browsing by style or brand, users enter the width, depth and height of a niche or wall space and get only matching furniture from various online shops. Sizely is an affordable alternative to custom-made furniture and is aimed mainly at tenants. It is operated by Marly & Jacob GmbH, Cologne, Germany.
