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Furniture has lead times that are frequently longer than the construction it is going into. A made-to-order boardroom table is ten to sixteen weeks; upholstery from the European houses can be longer. If it is ordered when the site is nearly finished, it arrives well after you have moved in. So we plan the furniture programme against the construction programme at the very beginning and order the long items before demolition starts.
We also receive it. Everything is delivered to our store, unpacked, inspected against the schedule and held there until the floor is genuinely ready. That single step removes the two most common furniture disasters: damaged goods discovered on the day you open, and forty boxes stacked in a half-finished office for a month while the trades work around them.
The specification itself draws on the same twelve houses as our residential work. Workplaces have moved decisively towards materials and pieces that used to be domestic — real timber, proper upholstery, considered lighting — and the houses that make those well are furniture houses rather than contract-office suppliers. Trade pricing is passed through and our margin appears on the schedule as its own line.
What we handle
The whole furniture layer, on one schedule, coordinated with the build.
Furniture plan
Room by room against the finished construction drawings, so that a table which does not fit is discovered on paper rather than on delivery day.
Specification and sourcing
From the twelve partner houses and our wider trade accounts, chosen for how the pieces will be used rather than for how they photograph in a catalogue.
Ergonomics and task seating
The one category worth spending properly on. It is what your team sits in for eight hours and it is the least glamorous line on the schedule.
Lead-time mapping
Every item plotted against the construction programme before anything is ordered, with the long items ordered first.
Trade pricing, stated openly
The trade price and our margin both appear on the schedule. You always see both numbers.
Receiving, inspection and storage
Delivered to our store, unpacked, checked against the schedule, and held until the floor is ready.
Installation and commissioning
Assembled, placed, levelled and adjusted, with every scrap of packaging removed by us.
The furniture schedule
A document listing every item, finish, dimension and supplier, handed over for your records and for whoever manages the space next.
Specifying furniture that survives a workplace
Contract use is genuinely harder than domestic use, and the differences are not obvious from a photograph.
Fabrics rated for contract use
Abrasion resistance matters in a way it does not at home. A beautiful domestic upholstery on a much-used sofa in a workplace looks tired within a year.
Task chairs with real adjustment
Seat height, depth, lumbar and arms, all adjustable. A fixed chair fits perhaps a third of a team, and the other two thirds spend the year uncomfortable.
Tables that take the load
Meeting and communal tables get leaned on, sat on and moved. Solid tops and properly engineered bases, not veneered board on a slim frame.
Acoustic furniture where it earns its place
High-backed booths and upholstered screens genuinely work in an open plan. They are also expensive, so they belong where the plan actually needs them rather than everywhere.
Serviceable, not disposable
Pieces whose parts can be replaced — castors, gas lifts, upholstery. It is the difference between furniture lasting four years and lasting fifteen.
Storage that matches the way the team works
Lockers for a mobile team, cupboards for a resident one. The wrong choice here is the most commonly regretted item on a workplace schedule.
Workplace Fit-Out & Furniture in western Queens
The furniture layer of a workplace, specified from the partner houses and delivered on the same programme as the build.
Every job of this kind starts the same way: somebody climbs it, photographs it, and writes down what is actually wrong before anybody quotes a price. The survey is free, the report is yours, and you are under no obligation to use us for the work it recommends.
Questions
Workplace Fit-Out & Furniture — the questions we are asked most
Why manage furniture through the builder?
Because the lead times are frequently longer than the construction, and because somebody has to receive it. Furniture ordered near the end of a project arrives after you move in, and furniture delivered to a live site either gets damaged or blocks the trades. We plan it from the start and receive it at our store.
How is furniture priced?
Goods at trade price with our margin shown as its own line on the schedule, plus a management fee from $4,500 for the plan, procurement, receiving and installation. You always see both the trade price and what we are making, which is not the norm in this trade.
How far ahead does furniture need to be ordered?
Long-lead items go before demolition starts. A made-to-order boardroom table is ten to sixteen weeks and European upholstery can be longer. Standard task seating and desks are usually four to eight. We map every item against the construction programme and order in that order rather than all at once.
Can you use furniture we already own?
Yes, and we will tell you honestly which of it is worth keeping. Task chairs with worn gas lifts and sagging foam are usually not; solid tables and storage frequently are. Reusing what works is often the difference between a furniture budget that fits and one that does not.
What should we spend most on?
Task seating, without much competition. It is what people sit in for eight hours a day and it is the item most often cut to make a budget work. A lounge sofa that is slightly less impressive is a far better saving than a chair that fits a third of your team.
Do you do this without doing the construction?
Yes. We are engaged on furniture alone reasonably often, including for spaces another contractor is building. We will need the construction drawings and a realistic date, and we will coordinate with whoever is on site.
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