Furniture is an important part to a home interior design, but you might not be sure as to what would suit your personal taste. If you are struggling to make a decision, a simple step back and reconsidering how to search might ease your confusion.
By dissociating these approaches from the problem itself, you’ll be better able to evaluate each approach on its own merits, and you might even find it easier to choose between them. Before deciding, make sure you’ve evaluated all available options carefully:
Cost
While purchasing furniture for your home, you usually trade off between aesthetics and functionality or between cost and quality. Sometimes ready-made pieces are more suitable while others, customised ones. Both kinds have their pros and cons. While shopping furniture, you focus on whether the furniture matches with your style, comfort and decor. Also, the price of customised and ready-made pieces vary, making us face the choice between aesthetics and functionality. For instance, in my home, there are printers, TVs and dressers. Since most of them are multifunctional, the ready-made and customised furniture can be used as is without any changes except for a few minor details. However, the sofas in the living room are a different story. Because families spend most of their time in the living room watching TV, reading books or having some family gatherings. As a result, some people prefer to have cozy sofas where they can crumple their bodies, and others choose adjustable ones for different reasons. In conclusion, both customised and ready-made furniture have their disadvantages and advantages, and it is our preferences that influence our choice.
Ready-made furniture is cheaper than the same piece made-to-measure, and you may also have a wider choice of patterns and colours in a store. You could even pick up your furniture the same day and/or easily replace items if they get damaged or worn.
The custom-made furniture may cost more than ready-made pieces. However, it still proves to be cheaper in long run as it requires less transportation vs mass produced pieces. It may also be available in the model which is perfect for your room, allowing you to make right choices.
Time
Such furniture is a mainstay of good hotels and bed-and-breakfasts as well since it takes lots of time both to fabricate and to deliver according to the client’s wishes and numerous quality checks are necessary to make sure there will be no disappointment in their new possession.
Ready furniture is easy to assemble. One can immediately make the furniture, and wait for its delivery. However, Most of the designs are not meant for your unique architectural design. In addition, this type furniture are mostly made cheap materials, which will eventually tear up. Therefore, The customer will have to allocates more money on replacing.
On the other hand, Ready Made Furniture have a draw back such as it is stiff, inflexible . For example, if you are having an extra bigsized bedroom and you go to a showroom you will not find anything suitable to you as per your wish. You can select material, so that they can be made according to your needs. You can support your local vendors by buying custom made local products.
Design
Many people forget how much home furniture design can influence its look and feel, making them less troublesome to use. Readymade furniture pieces maybe practical to buy, but are lack of quality and customization which cannot support any elegant room decors.
Bespoke furniture is made to your precise requirements, custom-fitted for you with greater precision of fit and design, and with the added bonus that your furniture is a one-off decorated for you and no one else.
However, custom furniture is time-consuming and labour-intensive. At the beginning when we are designing according to your needs, we will make a sketch or design plan as a drawing that guides the creation process. Usually, there are things that we have to improve, any problem that happened on creation process would lead to a waste of effort and resulting in a higher cost so a carpenter that you hired must be able to fulfill his promise.
Quality
Often if a piece of furniture is made to order it is far more likely to be made with a quality material as it is going to be a one of item rather than part of a ready-made batch where a lower grade of wood will be used. Many great classic pieces of furniture use timber such as solid walnut or oak. This applies to quality upholstered pieces especially when you are looking at pieces made with different upholstery materials where a safe bet will always be on wood as it is harder wearing than the other materials.
The custom-made furniture is that it can be designed for your own space and tailored to your own taste. You are sure your new sofa/ wardrobe/chair will fit into the space as planned, and your furniture will be optimised for maximum functionality. Meanwhile, ready-made furniture that does not fit your personal space perfectly could either be too wide and block the light coming into your room, or too short that it cannot surround the daybed, or you might just see it as ugly. Alongside that, such furniture may not last as long in comparison to custom-made products because its raw materials are often of lower grades, plus it is impossible to recycle them, which ultimately aggravates environmental issues.
