Where are all the original household items?

Question

This question reminded me of a nagging problem in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”: at some point in the past, all the castle staff and livestock were turned into china, furniture, clocks, feather dusters, etc. Virtually everything we see in the castle was once a person. The “people” hold clothes in their drawers, fill the china cabinet, and even the footstool by the fire used to be a dog.

Where is all the “real” stuff? Did they dump all the real dishes in the trash and take their place in the cupboards (which seems horrifying, by the way — spending your days as one in a stack of dishes!) Is there a disused lavatory in the basement where they have hidden all the real wardrobes, footstools, etc.?

Answer 1

If we take the 2017 film tie-in Lost in a Book at face value, the Beast seems to have smashed a considerable amount of non-sentient furniture, fixtures and crockery.

It had been dark in the Beast’s chambers, but Belle’s eyes had soon adjusted. As she’d moved through the once-beautiful rooms, she’d seen that all the fine furniture they contained had been broken; the costly bed hangings, shredded; the gilt mirrors, smashed.

Presumably mobile plates and footstools are harder to get hold of to destroy, hence their continued survival.