Fernish is Reinventing Furniture Renting

If you haven’t felt bombarded with work-from-home content already – what exactly are you doing? While many companies are busy crafting messaging and helpful tips for our no-clear-end-in-sight, work-from-home circumstances due to COVID-19, a few companies out there are poised to help on a much more practical level. If you find yourself working from home sans the perfect office setup, meet Fernish, a furniture rental company intent on revolutionizing the way people interact with home furnishings. Fernish cofounders Michael Barlow and Lucas Dickey linked up to start the new biz in 2017. After working in finance at JP Morgan in NYC, Barlow moved to L.A. to take a job at a tech media company. Like many people his age, he moved four times in five years, with three sets of roommates. Around that time, he began dating a woman in Chicago, and after trying to convince her to move to …