“The popular train of thought portrays custom furniture as this expensive extravagance that is rarely worth the investment. But custom furniture is more personal, durable, elegant and unique. Modern homes deserve custom furnishing for that much-needed luxurious touch.”

Among experts in the interior designing sphere, there is no longer any debate regarding custom furniture and ready-made furniture. The architects of modern luxurious homes acknowledge the value of custom furnishing. However, ready-made furniture is affordable and accessible. And the time of delivery today is next to nothing. When you are building and designing your dream home, it is only natural to feel confused. Custom-made furniture takes time to finish while you can get ready-made furniture tomorrow.

Custom furniture vs ready-made furniture

Custom furniture is tailor-made to your preferred specifications. If you want your bedroom wardrobe to have a large mirror in front with the doors sliding sideways and the height to not touch the ceiling and yet be tall enough, a custom designer can get the job done for you exactly as you envision.

Ready-made furniture, on the other hand, is mass-produced. And since they are made for the masses, they come with specific heights and specific designs that you cannot alter to your liking. More often than not, the framework and designs are repeated and the wardrobe in your bedroom might be the same as your neighbour’s. Ready-made furniture may or may not fit into your room. You may or may not get the desired decor in your home.

What makes custom-made furniture better?

First, with the design and specifications in your hands, you can optimise the space and look of your home. You can get tables of specific heights and couches of specific shapes depending on the size and spread of your living room.

Second, you get to decide the material and fabric used in your custom-made home furniture. Most ready-made wooden furniture use mass-produced plywood or particleboard that is structurally weak and non-durable. When you get custom furnishing, you can ask the designer to use Indian rosewood or mahogany if you like.

Third, custom-made furniture gives you and your interior designer the freedom to maintain a seamless home decor theme in your room. Your luxury furniture can either look vintage, contemporary, bohemian, victorian or some other style. Bringing about such home decor themes with ready-made furniture is next to impossible. Given their target customers, ready-made furniture designers have a limited scope of creativity.

Lastly, the custom furniture in your home will stand out. A second piece of your ultra-modern kitchen counter or vintage coffee table will rarely be available as these were not mass-produced in some manufacturing facility. Expert designers and trained artisans build your custom home furniture. A lot of art and hard work gets infused in every corner of the furniture you order.

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What all can you get custom-made?

Almost any home furniture can be custom-made provided you pick the right interior designing firm to design your luxurious home. Right from your king-size bed to the corner table in the living room, the spice cabinets in the kitchen to the seating area on the balcony. Any design you want, any size you want, custom bespoke furniture can accommodate the same to bring about a home decor that redefines class and luxury.

To get started, you can custom-make your:

• Beds with storage
• Nightstands, bedside stools and chairs
• Bookcases, coffee tables, accent chairs
• Dining tables and chairs
• Living room couch, TV unit and ottoman
• Kitchen Islands
• Patio furniture

And others. An expert interior designer can help you with the end-to-end furniture design and transform your home into an elegant abode.

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Impeccable longevity and finish

Premium wood like mahogany and Indian rosemary survive for eternity. You may also go for premium-quality cotton for your cushions or top-notch fabric for the drapes. You do not get such options with ready-made furniture where you will either have to compromise with size or design, given that you can still find the material of your choice. With custom-made furniture, every decision is in your control. Material, design and dimensions – you can blend these in the right way to craft the luxury bespoke furniture you want in your home.

And one of the greatest drawbacks, above all, is the finishing of ready-made furniture. Being majorly machine-crafted, they come with hard edges, simple designs, neutral colours and poor-quality polishes. You can eliminate these from your home entirely by contacting Alive Studio and employing our finest team of in-house skilled artisans. Every custom furniture in Alive Studio is finished by hand. We do not produce furniture, we carefully create them. The end product is worth the wait and the splurge because rarely can anyone else mimic Alive Studio’s creative handiwork.

For the home that you have waited so long to build or buy, do not decorate with mass-produced ready-made furniture that might make it look like a furniture supermarket. Personalise, innovate and design with Alive Studio custom furniture and live in a luxurious space.