Metro Custom Furniture Blog series – Buying Like a Professional –

Learn how to buy like a professional when selecting custom furniture. Learn what details to look for to ensure you can reap the rewards of investment quality custom furniture.

Details – Details – Details

With just a small investment of your time, you can learn just what to look for and start buying custom furniture like a professional. Professional buying is all in the details. The professionals are trained to see the critical details that can make your home more attractive and cozy.

Once educated in what to look for, you will be able to buy quality custom furniture and enhance the value of your home just like a professional.

Custom furniture benefits:

1. Aesthetics the way you want – Designs to complement your lifestyle.

Custom furniture allows you to choose from a variety of colors and need-based designs. It is important to create something that compliments the layout, floors, walls and the other furniture in your home. Ready-made furniture often forces you to compromise on design or color. Don’t compromise!

One of the hardest parts about designing or remodeling your home is finding furniture that helps you realize your vision. Sometimes you’ll find the perfect piece but it will be the wrong color, size, or material. You will not have that problem with custom furniture.

2. Better space utilization – Maximizing space not possible with pre-made furniture.

Custom furniture makes the most of what you have to work with. It can create clever solutions that turn dead space into handy storage areas, keeping your home functional, attractive and clutter-free. This can make your home a more pleasant place to live and more attractive to potential buyers.

Sometimes, pre-made furniture just doesn’t fit. Maybe you like that arm chair in the show room, but it’s just too big for the living room. Or perhaps your family room is a strange configuration, with walls that jut out or slanted ceilings, making it difficult to find the right furniture. Pre-made furniture not designed specifically for a room can result in dead space. Custom furniture can eliminate dead-space, utilizing all available space in a given room, making the room more aesthetically pleasing.

3. Improved ergonomics – Designs that reflect your living habits, body structure, and health.

In a national study by Roper Research, closest are considered the second most desired feature in an ideal home – second only to a great kitchen. Closets are used at least twice a day every day and contain our most important possessions. The average American spends 140 hours per year every year looking for lost objects. Custom closets would reduce that time to minutes.

A custom closet maximizes space and greatly improves organization. No more digging through boxes or pulling everything out of the back of closet to find something you lost. Custom closets make it easy to stash things away in an orderly fashion and find them when you need them.

Return on investment – Many report increased resale home value including developers.

Custom Furniture is more durable, made with superior materials that increase the quality and life expectancy. The low priced sofa or dresser that seemed like such a bargain at the furniture store is not going to last anywhere near as long as a custom sofa or dresser. Pre-made furniture is also less likely to add to a home’s resale value.

When you choose to create custom designed furniture, you are in control. You choose the color, the wood, the size, the design and eventually how it looks. Anything is possible. The best part is that it gives you the opportunity to create an environment to meet all of your needs, while making a sound investment at the same time.

What are you waiting for?
If you would like to know more about how to buy custom furniture, and realize all of the benefits like a professional, follow our blog series:

Custom Closets
Custom Doors – including bifold doors, sliding doors, swinging doors, barn doors, wood and aluminum doors
Custom Kitchens & Kitchen Cabinets
Custom Bathrooms & Vanities
Custom Cabinets
Custom Wall Units
Custom Room Dividers
Custom Murphy Wall Beds
Custom Refacing