Most furniture mistakes are timing mistakes. The piece was right and the room was right; what went wrong was when it was ordered, or what was left in the budget by the time it came to buy it.
This is the guide to the two things nobody enjoys planning and everybody regrets skipping. Real lead times for every category, from stock upholstery at one to two weeks to bespoke joinery at twelve. The budget split designers actually work to, and why spreading money evenly produces a room that reads as unfinished. The seven-phase order of works, and the point in a building programme at which each thing has to be ordered so it arrives after the decorators rather than into a building site.
It also covers the mistake that costs most and is entirely preventable: measuring the room but not the route to it. Roughly one in eight UK deliveries fails on first attempt, and access is the leading cause.
36 pages, 11 chapters, with a quick reference page collecting every figure in the guide and two printable worksheets to plan your own budget and ordering dates.
Most furniture mistakes are timing mistakes. The piece was right and the room was right; what went wrong was when it was ordered, or what was left in the budget by the time it came to buy it.
This is the guide to the two things nobody enjoys planning and everybody regrets skipping. Real lead times for every category, from stock upholstery at one to two weeks to bespoke joinery at twelve. The budget split designers actually work to, and why spreading money evenly produces a room that reads as unfinished. The seven-phase order of works, and the point in a building programme at which each thing has to be ordered so it arrives after the decorators rather than into a building site.
It also covers the mistake that costs most and is entirely preventable: measuring the room but not the route to it. Roughly one in eight UK deliveries fails on first attempt, and access is the leading cause.
36 pages, 11 chapters, with a quick reference page collecting every figure in the guide and two printable worksheets to plan your own budget and ordering dates.
