IN THIS POST:
– Size
– Style
– Materials
– Price
– Usability
– Timeline
Ordering bespoke furniture for your home is a great way to add a personal touch to the interior. Keeping your interior décor style in mind, you can place an order to custom design couches, wardrobes, desks, cabinetry, beds, and even dining tables. Customised furniture design is the best way to bring your interior décor preferences into your home and can help you avoid scouring the markets for that perfect piece of furnishing that complements your interior as well as your vision. Keep reading to discover what aspects you should always consider when you are custom designing your furniture.
Customised Furniture Design – What to Consider?
If you’re debating between custom-made vs ready-made furniture, there are a few things you need to consider before opting for custom-made furniture. These include:
- Size
- Style
- Materials
- Price
- Usability
- Timeline
Let’s cover each of these considerations for custom designing your furniture in detail below.
Size
If you have extraordinarily large rooms or fairly cramped quarters, ready-made furnishings, which are available in a fixed size, might not be the best fit for your room. This is when you need to opt for customised furniture design to create a piece of furnishing that is neither too large nor too small for your room and fits it just right.
For this, it is essential to measure the room’s dimensions before ordering custom furniture designs. Once you know the size of the room, you can consider consulting an interior designer or furniture maker with regards to the ideal size for a bed or wardrobe for a particular space. There are many benefits of hiring an interior designer, one of which is the fact that they bring a lot of professional expertise to your project, and will help you bring your vision to life in the best manner.
Once the room has been measured and the furniture sizes have been estimated, order the right pieces and await the delivery. Measure the furniture once it is delivered to your home or when you are inspecting it before delivery at the shop to determine that it is of the right size before making a payment.
Style
Most pieces of custom-designed furniture are based on wooden frames and you might be able to choose the frame or style you like from an available catalogue to tweak it as per your preferences rather than creating a design from scratch. This choice of customising existing furniture designs will depend on the portfolio of your furniture maker. You might have to put your vision on paper first for them to understand what you want to achieve for your home’s décor.
Ultimately, you should always choose furniture that complements the style of the home and room as a whole. If you love modern interiors, go for sleek and bold pieces where less is more and one piece of furnishing plays several roles. If you’re opting for a traditionally designed sofa, choose prints that reflect the colour scheme of the room and will add to its appeal once the sofa moves into the drawing room. The style statement you want to make within a room should always be kept in mind while you order bespoke furnishing.
Materials
Custom designing your furniture gives you a lot of freedom in terms of the choice of materials, allowing you to boost its durability and comfort in contrast to mane ready-made options. For instance, if you opt for custom designed kitchen cabinets, you can also choose the quality of the wood the cabinet will be made out of, the colour that will best fit your interior, and each of the fixtures and fittings that you would like the carpenter to use.
This means that from the door and drawer handles to the glass panels, light fixtures, and the shelving options, you have a say in everything that is added to the cabinets to make them perfect for everyday use as per your specifications rather than forcing you to adjust to the storage solutions offered by premade cabinetry. Thus, you can choose the best materials and the right products for each step of the build for the ideal final results.
The same choice applies to all furnishings. If you choose to custom design a sofa set instead, you can make the decisions, not just on how many people it will seat and how wide or deep it will be, but also the fabric used as upholstery. From the soft feel of velvet to the durability of leather, there are a lot of fabric options on offer when furniture is custom designed for the people who will use it the most.
Price
Of course, customising furniture means paying a higher amount for the design process, in contrast to simply purchasing a bed, cabinet, wardrobe, or sofa set from the market. However, if you have a particular vision in mind on how your room needs to look to appeal to you and your guests, don’t hesitate to order bespoke furniture when needed.
Keep in mind though, that not every piece of furnishing needs to be customised. Sometimes, a price comparison will show a great variation when ready-made and custom-made furniture, and you will need to evaluate what you value more – paying extra for furniture that is made for you, or compromising on your needs just a little bit to get similar furniture at a lesser rate with almost the same amount of functionality.
Usability
Custom designing your furniture has one major benefit. The furniture caters to your needs completely once it is designed as per your specifications and thus, it not only fits your interior like it was made for it (which it was) but also offers optimum use of the furnishing. For instance, you might like a TV console with sliding doors but find it to be too short and too wide for your space. A customised order can fix that, along with giving you the freedom to add or remove shelves, drawers, doors, and legs/wheels as per your storage needs.
Ultimately, custom-designed furniture offers satisfaction that your furniture offers a place for all your storage needs while also being authentically aligned with the style of your room in terms of colour, materials, and design.
Timeline
Unfortunately, custom designing orders take a while to process and can take anywhere between 10 to 14 days, even for smaller pieces. Thus, if you are in a hurry to furnish your new home and move in, custom designing your furniture is not recommended unless you want to live in a partially furnished home until the furniture is ready for delivery. Such projects can also face unforeseen delays, due to bad weather, absence of labour, or shortage of the raw materials that are required to create the furniture.
While all such delays and timelines will be communicated to you by your furniture maker, customised furniture, while giving greater satisfaction, might require a longer timeline in comparison to simply going to the market, choosing the furniture you like best, and bringing it home.
These are some of the top considerations for custom designing your furniture. Keep them in mind if you want to opt for customised furniture design and you should be able to make the right decisions for your home’s interior.
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