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Who do I need to custom-make me gorgeous fitted furniture? & Biscuit tin?

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BadPoet · 15/05/2011 16:55

Leaving aside prohibitive cost for now

We have a small-ish house (3 bed semi, but converted the loft to get the bedrooms) and for various reasons have made decision to stay put for the forseeable, having previously planned on moving quite soon.

We can therefore put some cash towards small-to-medium alterations to make it better accomodate us and our children, 8 & 4.

I've been looking at small homes blogs, apartment therapy website & book and the one thing all the really functional & gorgeous small homes have in common is very carefully designed fitted furniture that totally maximises the space. Googling it brings up fitted bedroom chains like Sharps, or excruciatingly expensive options like Neville Johnston who don't operate in Scotland I don't think. Do I need a carpenter, a joiner, a 'finishing joiner' or just a DIY genius (in short supply).

And does anyone know where I can get a decent-sized (min 25cm) square or rectangular biscuit tin that isn't the polka dot Emma Bridgewater one that costs £30 and only comes in a set of 3?

DH and I have been talking all day, there's now not a single thing about the house I wouldn't like to change and tempers are getting frayed.

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lovelybertha · 15/05/2011 17:05

You don't need to spend loads.

Check out this: www.abfurniture.co.uk/
I know someone who used him for a kitchen. She reckons it was really inexpensive for what she got. There are guide prices on the gallery pages, I think.

I know you're in Scotland - so obviously would need someone more local. Try googling 'bespoke furniture' or 'fitted furniture' and your area, and then scroll down past all the sponsored ads. I reckon you'll find somebody similar.

lovelybertha · 15/05/2011 17:08

Or maybe 'bespoke furniture makers' or 'cabinet maker' followed by the place you live.

BadPoet · 15/05/2011 17:40

Thanks, I have found this using 'bespoke' so I'll take a browse through that. Smile

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lovelybertha · 15/05/2011 18:10

Oooooh - looks interesting! I'm a bit jealous now.... hmmmm to have fitted storage rather than a hotch-potch of Ikea tat...

BadPoet · 15/05/2011 18:15

Smile this is a largely imaginary exercise too. I might end up getting a fitted wardrobe out of it, to go alongside our hotchpotch of Ikea tat! Anyway, we have now moved the fridge by 90 degrees Shock and tidied up the fridge magnets which has convinced us we'll be OK here for a few years yet.

No luck on the biscuit tin though!

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lovelybertha · 15/05/2011 20:07

Oh yes, the re-arranging thing. I'm convinced that one day I'll discover a magical configuration for our furniture that will reveal either 15 square feet of additional floor space, or an extra room that we hadn't noticed before.

Hmmmm - no ideas re. biscuit tin from me I'm afraid - but this'll bump it for the after dinner lot.

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