Shopping for furniture can be a time-consuming task—especially if you already have a vision in your mind of the type of piece you want to purchase. You can spend days driving from furniture store to furniture store, only to find that many of the stores carry furniture that isn’t particularly well made, even in the higher end stores.
Shopping online for furniture can save you time (and money on gas), but not being able to see a piece in person can be a deterrent for many people. It can be difficult to get a sense of the quality, colors, details, and size of piece when you’re just looking at it on a computer screen. You might be tempted to roll the dice with an online purchase—especially if the website offers free shipping—but make sure you have realistic expectations of what you will be receiving.
A lot of people don’t ever consider having a piece of custom furniture built for their San Diego home. They assume it will be prohibitively expensive, and it still might not turn out exactly how they envisioned it. However, when you work with the right custom furniture company in San Diego, you don’t have to worry about these things.
Having a piece of custom furniture built may not be as expensive as you imagined. Jack Ward, owner of Three Pines Wood Co., says, “We are often able to build custom pieces at prices that are better than those at mid- to high-end furniture stores in San Diego. This is because we keep our overhead low. We don’t pay for fancy showrooms, or salaries and commissions to a bunch of salespeople. We don’t run expensive ads in magazines or on television. Instead, we keep our operations tight, so we don’t have to overcharge our customers.”
That doesn’t mean that custom furniture is “cheap,” but for the type of quality you typically get from a custom furniture maker, the prices can be considered very reasonable. No custom furniture company can compete with stores like Ikea in terms of price, but they’re not trying to. Custom furniture makers are crafting pieces for people who care about quality—who want furniture that will still look great many years later.
Probably the most attractive aspect of buying custom furniture is getting exactly what you want. When you work with a custom furniture maker in San Diego, you can give them the exact dimensions of the piece you want them to build. You can also choose the type of wood you want, as well as the finish.
Ward says, “Often, our customers will come to us with some very specific ideas in mind. They may even come to us with a few pictures of pieces they like. They will point out elements that they like in each of the pictures, and ask us to design something that includes all of those elements in one custom piece. We use design software that allows us to give our customers a pretty realistic rendering of the piece of furniture we will be building for them. That way, there will be no surprises when we deliver the piece at the end of the process.”
