Home Essentials — Fine furnishings since 1997, made in Kremenets

Our Story

From Hong Kong to Kremenets

Home Essentials was founded in 1997 in Hong Kong by Chris Exline. The idea came from a simple question on a trip to Singapore: watching expat friends taxed on a $5,000 electronics allowance they couldn't take home, he asked — why not just rent it? There was nowhere for an expat to rent a television. So he built it. Over two decades the business grew into the furniture-rental house of choice across 21 countries.

Today that same international standard is built in our own factory in Kremenets, Ukraine — mattresses, bed frames, wardrobes and headboards made in-house, not imported and rebadged. Every mattress ships with our flagship Trident protector: fully waterproof yet breathable, with a silent membrane and a soft terry-cotton top.

"A good home shouldn't depend on how long you're staying — or how much you want to carry with you when you leave."

What We Make

Made to an international standard, made locally

Mattresses, solid-wood furniture and the Trident protector — all built in our Kremenets workshop, to order.

Mattresses

Orthopedic pocket-spring, motion-isolating memory foam, and a firm coconut-coir kids mattress — each made to order in Kremenets.

Made in-house

Solid-wood furniture

Solid-oak platform beds, nightstands, upholstered linen headboards and wardrobes, built by our own craftsmen.

Built by hand

The Trident waterproof protector on a bed

The Trident protector

Fully waterproof yet breathable, with a silent membrane and terry-cotton top. Quieter and far more durable than a plastic cover. Washable at 60°C.

Our flagship

Buy · Rent · Instalments · Give

A good bed shouldn't depend on your circumstances

The rental model we perfected over 20 years abroad — now offered at home, alongside the ways that suit every family.

Buy

Own it outright

Made to order in Kremenets and delivered to your door.

Rent

By the month

Furnish-a-Room bundles or a single mattress — delivered, set up, swappable, and rent can be credited toward a purchase.

Instalments

0% over time

Interest-free plans — a simple two-page agreement. No bank, no credit check.

Give

Sponsor a mattress

Through Rest Assured, place a bed where it's needed most.

● This is real — and here's how it works

Rest Assured

You can sponsor a mattress. We build a complete mattress plus a Trident protector in our Kremenets factory and deliver it to soldiers at the front, to shelters and to hospitals — then send you a photo and the location. Nothing is skimmed: 100% goes to production and delivery.

You sponsor a mattress

One sponsorship builds one complete bed — the same one we sell.

We build it in Kremenets

Made in our own factory, to the same standard as every order.

We deliver it in person

To the front, a shelter or a hospital — where it's needed most.

You get a photo and the location

Proof it arrived, and where — not a receipt, a real bed with a real home.

Because it's built and delivered by the same people who make our beds, there's no middleman and no overhead. You sponsor a bed; a bed gets delivered.

Where beds have already gone: a rebuilt hospital in Bashtanka — where staff told us the waterproof covers were saving lives — kindergartens in Borshchiv, shelters, and families along the front.

Come and see

Visit the workshop and stores

We're a small team that answers our own messages. Come try a mattress, see the furniture, or ask about rental, instalments or sponsoring a bed.

Flagship store & factory — Kremenets, Ternopil oblast, Ukraine

Message us — Instagram @homeessentials.ua · Telegram @homeessentials_ua

Open now · since May 2023

Kremenets

Beds, mattresses, furniture and home goods, with 0% instalments — a simple two-page agreement, no bank.

Opening August 7

Berezhany

Our second Ternopil-oblast store, with a Family Day to open it.

Coming next

Borshchiv & Kopychyntsi

The next stores in our Ukraine expansion — locations chosen with our own scoring matrix, each opened as a corporate citizen of the town.