The trend of personalized customization is becoming increasingly popular, and people's thinking is no longer limited to purchasing finished furniture. More and more people prefer custom-made furniture. Although customized furniture is good, not all furniture needs to be customized. For decoration professionals, they blindly pursue the effect of customized furniture that is standard and innovative, ignoring practical applications and subsequent repairs. Today, we will talk to you about the misconceptions surrounding customized furniture.
Misconception 1: Customized furniture is quite good, so let's customize all the furniture!
1. Can all furniture be customized?
Not all furniture can be customized. Customized products are mainly aimed at users who have difficulty in utilizing space, have more personalized storage needs, and have different sizes from standard fixed sizes. A typical example is a wardrobe/cloakroom. Only by customizing furniture can we better cover beams and columns and make better use of high space. For furniture that is not sensitive to spatial scale, such as sofas, coffee tables, chairs, and furniture that is relatively fixed in size and has little difference, such as beds and tables, finished products are better choices.
Finished furniture, due to being products of the same style, specifications, and materials, can be produced in large quantities by factories. In terms of raw material costs, process costs, quality control costs, and later installation costs, the relative cost of finished furniture is lower than that of customized furniture. (Relative cost refers to the proportion of these links to the factory price). Customized furniture is split, cut, produced, trial assembled, and installed in a single order, and each order is different, making it impossible to produce in large quantities on an assembly line. So in terms of price, customization is more expensive. For example, in the market, a regular 1.5-meter plate bed can be customized at a cost of no less than 1500 yuan. Finished products with similar materials and styles can be purchased for 1000 yuan on a one meter five bed.
2. Customized furniture, is it about designing according to your preferences?
Customization does not mean being casual, it does not mean being creative and doing whatever the owner wants. Currently, customization generally refers to users freely choosing materials, colors, lines, adjusting lines, planning space, decoration, hardware, etc. based on their inherent craftsmanship. If users have their own new styles that meet production conditions, it is another matter. Even if there are millions of ideas, they must be designed according to production standards, and manufacturers can only produce according to this. In fact, customizing furniture is similar to building blocks. For example, customizing an American style solid wood wardrobe involves selecting materials, colors, door panel shapes, line shapes, Roman pillar shapes, other decorations, interior space utilization plans, and hardware accessories. Basically, the entire wardrobe is ready. The product cannot break free from the constraints of the factory's existing craftsmanship and design, unless there is sufficient budget to allow the manufacturer to develop new styles, which is of course expensive.
3. Is overall furniture customized furniture?
Unequally, overall furniture provides a comprehensive home design scheme and supervises the implementation of details during the construction process before providing customized furniture services as needed. However, overall furniture not only includes the customization of simple wardrobes, bookcases, etc., but also other finished products.
Conclusion:
For those with high requirements for space utilization and storage, it is recommended to choose customization. For example, owners of cabinets, wardrobes, cloakrooms, shoe cabinets, foyer cabinets, whole wall bookcases, and furniture that are difficult to purchase in the right size. For fixed sizes that require high design and style requirements and are not sensitive to space, it is recommended to choose finished furniture. For example: sofas, chairs, coffee tables, beds, desks, etc; If you are more concerned about affordable prices and less concerned about space utilization, you can even choose finished wardrobes, shoe cabinets, etc.
Misconception 2: The earlier you plan for customized furniture, the better. The more you plan, the better
1. Determine custom furniture before decoration?
Generally speaking, designers would suggest that homeowners decide on the choice of custom furniture after most of the decoration is completed. Some users, in order to speed up the process, often start customizing products after the hard decoration is completed. However, the overall style of decoration is very important for furniture selection, so it is better to complete the basic overall decoration before customizing furniture.
2. Customization requires installing cabinets in all areas
Cabinet products are the mainstream of customized furniture, but now they are a bit off track. Nowadays, not only small apartments, but also large floors over 200 square meters, and even customers over 300 square meters, all emphasize various storage methods and do not allow any empty space in the home. All cabinets and cabinets... Having enough storage space is a good thing, after all, living at home always requires a lot of things to be stored. However, the overcrowding and limited mobility go against the original intention of customizing furniture. Imagine a bedroom that should have been simple and refreshing, full of cabinets. Even for cabinets, one had to choose a 1.5 meter bed, which affects the quality of daily life. Secondly, most custom furniture is fixed furniture, which is difficult to remove when installed. It is very troublesome to move or replace the original cabinet, which can cause significant damage. If one day the house needs to be redecorated or the functionality of the room needs to be adjusted, it will be very painful - and cabinets designed separately according to specific spatial scales may not fit properly when placed in another space. Lack of flexibility is also an insurmountable drawback of customized furniture.
3. Since it's customized, then the color and style will be the same!
When customizing furniture for a whole house, many users prefer to make it in a uniform color and style, which is both convenient and stylish. Especially for homeowners who don't know how to match, they prefer this approach. However, in reality, for products like solid wood customization, having the same furniture for the whole house is a scary thing. Such planned furniture can make the space lose its sense of hierarchy and feel oppressive.
The owner's idea is actually very simple, it is to want a feeling of unity, but unity does not mean that the same color occupies most of the space. Designers can help with color matching.
Conclusion:
Customized furniture should be sufficient, and storage and harmony should also be rational. Believe in your own vision and the professionalism of the designer, and do not exaggerate.
Misconception three: Customized furniture, I make requirements, designers take care of it!
1. Exhibition hall effect ≠ actual effect
Many users choose custom parameters through exhibition halls or 3D displays, but there is still a significant difference between the display effect of the exhibition hall and the actual effect. There are no restrictions on the layout, spacing, or floor height of the house, which leads to differences in effect. In actual construction, there is no need to force the effect of the exhibition hall, and it is important to choose a house that suits oneself.
2. Customized furniture, just make the requirements and ignore the rest
Designers who customize furniture are not yet a very mature and complete profession. Many of them are interior designers who have transitioned, and to put it bluntly, most of them do not understand ergonomics, nor do they understand the different demands of different customers for storage. In order to save time and improve efficiency, they basically complete the design by changing the size of a few templates.
How can we use a few templates to meet everyone's needs, as everyone's item quantity, storage habits, and movement methods cannot be the same? For example, young couples hope to have more hanging areas in their wardrobes. They need to be in a hurry, pay attention to efficiency, and have reasonable and clear partitions in their wardrobes; Older people, on the other hand, are more accustomed to stacking and using bucket cabinets. However, their waist and legs are not as agile as young people, so it is important to try to make it easier to use and reduce the occurrence of bending down and probing hands. For example, for cabinets, if you don't make any requirements, they are mostly designed for a height of 80 centimeters - but if they are 1.9 meters tall, it will be very inconvenient.
Before signing the formal contract for custom furniture, a meeting with the designer is usually arranged. You can first brainstorm the customization needs of your family, such as how many clothes, pants, shoes, books, etc., and how to place and use them. Then, be sure to describe it in detail to the designer. Afterwards, the designer will prepare the plan and hand it over to the owner for review. At this point, everyone should carefully review it and not overlook any details. All questions should be promptly raised to the designer, to see how the designer explains them, and to hear how the designer incorporates your requirements into the plan.
3. Brilliant yet unrealistic, ignoring rationality!
When choosing customized furniture, all material additions and deletions should conform to design principles, taking into account support, practicality, and functionality based on the designer's opinions. It is not advisable to blindly showcase individuality, but rather to focus on rationality.
Conclusion:
If you need to customize furniture, you should also try to participate in the design as much as possible, so as to ensure the applicability and practicality of the furniture. Of course, it is also important to note that not everyone's needs are reasonable, and it is also important to listen to the opinions of designers. In the process of communicating with designers, it is not only to indicate one's aesthetic orientation, but also to consider more practical needs.
Misconception 4: After designing customized furniture, handing it over to the manufacturer can only ensure proper installation.
1. No matter what, leave it all to the manufacturer
This is the practice of many lazy people, and it is also a practice that causes many tragic consequences. Users of customized furniture should have a sense of respect for the manufacturer's professionalism, while also paying attention to issues related to supervision and construction coordination, following up and communicating in order to make adjustments at any time. For example, edges that cannot be retracted, openings that cannot be covered, nail holes that cannot be blocked, and uneven lines that cannot be fitted. The so-called "a tiny difference leads to a thousand miles" is fully revealed during installation. For example, if the angle of a corner is not just the right 90 degrees, the cabinet cannot be installed tightly against the wall, between the side standing board and the wall. There will definitely be a big gap - Aijiajiang has encountered a cabinet before, with a width of 1.7 meters. The gap between the left cabinet back panel and the wall reaches 4 centimeters.
Some homeowners feel that the gaps are okay, but they just don't look very good. Just use a side view panel to block them. What if this is a hanging cabinet installed with expansion screws or hanging codes? The gap means that the expansion nail cannot fit properly, and the force is very unstable. In case of any problems, it may fall off and hit people. If the kitchen wall is uneven, it will be even more troublesome. It is difficult to fill this gap with glass glue, and it is likely that the cabinet factory/countertop factory will need to send people to set out and modify the goods, which will cost a lot of money.
What if the top surface is uneven? Other spaces, with suspended or flat ceilings, may be solved by using corner lines, but what about the wardrobe in the bedroom? Wardrobes usually have a top line or a closing board, and the installation workers on site re polish them according to the slope of the top surface before reluctantly installing them. The problem is, you can tell it's slanted. There is another issue, if there is paint, it is very likely that the paint surface will be damaged and peeled off during the polishing process. What should be done? Return to the factory and repaint.
There are also issues with the walls. Nowadays, many families arrange some hanging cabinets in order to have more storage space. The installation of the hanging cabinet needs to be fixed by the wall, and the common method is to expand and root it. However, when many households upgrade their water and electricity systems, the walls are slotted, wires and pipes are buried, and there are also pipelines pre embedded by developers, which poses a huge risk to the installation of hanging cabinets. In case the electric hammer damages the pipeline during expansion, it cannot be easily handled. Some walls are made of hollow bricks, which do not have load-bearing capacity. Even if they were reluctantly installed at the time, it would be difficult to ensure that there will be no problems in long-term use in the future. Lightweight partition walls with gypsum board structure and wooden board partitions may look like walls on the outside, but they can only be used to hang a TV. Installing cabinets is unimaginable.
2. Customized contract without carefully examining the terms
After determining the custom furniture, it is important to carefully read the contract terms, which should be as detailed as possible, including the rights and obligations of both parties, payment methods, installation processes, warranty services promised by the manufacturer, after-sales service, etc. Special attention should be paid to data related to material thickness values, product materials used, installation methods and delivery times, and after-sales service.
3. No strict requirements for job types
Customized furniture actually involves various aspects of decoration and hard furnishings, such as walls, floors, floors, and baseboards, which are all related. Strict requirements should be placed on various types of workers during installation and construction to avoid damaging the original foundation decoration and even the safety of the house.
Conclusion:
Don't assume that custom furniture is just a part of the entire decoration process. It cannot exist independently and should be matched with all items such as walls, walls, tops, floors, baseboards, doors, door frames, etc. So, in order to ensure the completion of the entire decoration and the quality of the presentation, it is necessary to strictly require each type of work during the basic decoration process, and avoid achieving horizontal and vertical levels, with 90% yin and yang. In addition, in hydropower renovation projects, it is better to take photos at any time to record the position, direction, nodes, etc. of pipelines. If there is a new wall, please make sure to confirm the material of the wall. For the original wall, the developer/property should be consulted about the structure, material, load-bearing capacity, etc. of the wall to ensure sufficient strength to fix hanging cabinets, shelves, etc.