Anthropologie Dupes on Amazon: Everything I've Found So Far
Updated: 19 hours ago
I did not set out to become someone who knows what an Anthropologie mirror costs. It happened anyway. ($1,198 for the six-foot Gleaming Primrose, since you asked. There's a seven-foot version for $1,598 that I refuse to discuss.)
So here's the routine now. I see something at Anthropologie, I love it, I look at the tag, I go home, and I spend an unreasonable amount of time finding the version I can actually afford. Then I write down what I found.
This page is all of it in one place. It is also very much a work in progress — I add guides whenever I find something worth the effort, so what's here today won't be what's here in a few months. Bookmark it if you want to watch it fill in.
If you only do one thing
Do the mirror.
I say that having written all of these, and it isn't close. A big leaning mirror in the right corner changes a room faster than furniture does, and it's the biggest price gap on this whole page: $1,198 at Anthropologie, $48.96 for an arched dupe that genuinely looks the part. Everything else here is worth doing. That one is worth doing first.
Mirrors
Four shapes, because Anthropologie keeps making the same four and so does Amazon: the ornate arched floor mirror everyone wants, scalloped wall mirrors, small gilded vanity mirrors, and woven rattan rounds. Cheapest thing in the guide is $37.79. The closest Primrose match is $239.99, and if you put it where it can reflect a window, nobody will ask.
Rugs
This is the guide I'd send to anyone with a dog, a toddler, or friends who drink red wine. An 8x10 Maria at Anthropologie is $1,798 and made of wool, which means it is never going in your washing machine. The dupes are $29.99 and up, they're machine washable, and I would rather have the one I can clean.
Faded Persians, dark painterly florals, Moroccan geometrics, jute. Plus runners, which are the best money-per-square-foot on the site, and the rug pad everybody forgets.
Coffee tables
Four looks: solid and reclaimed wood, travertine and stone, fluted drums, cane. The fluted one is the most recognizably Anthropologie and the Amazon versions are startlingly good for around $110.
There's also a sizing rule in there that fixes most living rooms that feel slightly off for reasons nobody can put a finger on. The table should be about two thirds the length of your sofa. That's usually the entire problem.
Lighting
Boho rattan pendants, mid-century chandeliers, the whimsical little wall sconces, brass table lamps. Starts at $37.59.
Lighting is the one I'd tell you not to cheap out on entirely, by the way. A bad shade looks bad in a way a bad side table doesn't. The picks in that guide are the ones that survived a close look.
The table
Three guides that go together, because they're really one project:
Dinnerware dupes — the scalloped, hand-painted, bow-edged plates. Anthropologie's Bistro Tile bundle is $326, for reference.
Dining chair dupes — including the Layla and the velvet Hagen, which are far and away the two most searched-for chairs they make.
Hutch and sideboard dupes — for putting the dinnerware somewhere people can see it, which is the entire point of buying pretty dinnerware.
The bedroom
Quilts, shams, duvet covers. The texture and the washed-out color without the four-figure bed. Shorter guide than the others and due a refresh, which is on my list.
Seasonal
Winter Home Decor Ideas — cold-weather layering and texture, written last winter and still what I'd buy.
A proper holiday version isn't up yet.
If you'd rather learn to fish
Unlocking the Secret of Affordable Anthropologie Dupes is the how-to. Short version, if you never click through: search the shape, not the brand. Nobody selling on Amazon can legally write "Anthropologie" in a listing title, so searching for it gets you nowhere. Search arched full length mirror gold or fluted round coffee table instead. That's how these things are actually named.
Second thing, which took me embarrassingly long to learn: check the shipping weight. On furniture it tells you more than the description does. Sixty pounds means solid. Twenty-two pounds at the same size means hollow, whatever the listing claims.
What I'm working on next
Chandeliers keep coming up in my search traffic and there's no guide for them yet. Same with nightstands and the candles. I've also been circling other brands — Serena & Lily, McGee & Co, Lulu & Georgia — because the dupe hunting works exactly the same way and the prices are just as silly.
If there's something you want me to go find, tell me and I'll add it to the pile.
While you're here
This blog isn't only dupes, even if this page makes it look that way.
Sustainable living — the stuff I actually started this blog to write about
Recipes, which are mostly things I make in winter
The shop — a few things I make and sell myself, including the e-books and the flower tracker
The books section — what I'm reading, and the ones that live on the coffee table
Coffee table books that actually look good — the last thing that goes on the table, and the cheapest
One housekeeping note
Every price on every guide gets checked against the live Amazon listing before it goes up, and each post carries the date I checked it. Amazon being Amazon, prices drift anyway. If you click something and find it dead or wildly different, email me and I'll fix it — that genuinely helps.
These guides contain affiliate links. If you buy through one, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. It's what pays for the hours of scrolling.
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