Bespoke furniture, explained
Practical advice on custom furniture, reworking what you own, and planning an office move or refurbishment.
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Reusing Office Desks After Downsizing: Resize, Convert, Recycle
Downsizing the office? How to audit surplus desks, resize and reconfigure the ones you keep, turn spare frames into breakout tables and recycle the rest.
Planter Tables and Biophilic Office Design: A Practical Guide
How planter tables bring greenery into an office: planter depth and liners, watering, power and cable routing, sizes and seats, and bespoke vs the Orbital.
Office Furniture Rework Cost vs Buying New: Where the Money Goes
Is it cheaper to rework office furniture than buy new? What drives rework cost, where the saving comes from, a rework-vs-new comparison and when new wins.
Measuring for Desk Re-Tops and Resizing: What a Maker Needs
How to measure existing desk frames for new tops or a resize: frame footprint, top thickness and overhang, fixings, cable cut-outs, and the photos to send.
How to Brief a Bespoke Boardroom Table
What a furniture maker needs to quote a bespoke boardroom table: seats and size, room and access, power and AV, shape, finishes, budget band and date.
Remanufactured Office Furniture: What It Is, and When to Choose It Over New
Remanufactured vs refurbished vs second-hand vs new: what each means, what remanufacturing costs and saves, and whether your desks are candidates.
Bespoke Office Furniture in London: A Practical Buyer's Guide
What bespoke office furniture covers, when it beats off-the-shelf, realistic lead times and costs, and how to write a brief that gets the right result.
Office Refurbishment Furniture: Reworking and Resizing What You Already Own
When to rework and resize existing office furniture in a refurbishment, what can be adapted, how to assess it, and how the design-and-build process runs.
Fitted and Bespoke Office Storage: Lockers, Shrouds and Joinery
A practical guide to fitted and bespoke office storage in London: joinery, lockers, shrouds and credenzas, plus how to measure, specify and install.
Sit-Stand Desks: A Commercial Buying Guide
How to buy sit-stand desks for an office: motors, stability, controllers, benching, cable management, finishes, warranty and lead times.
Moving Office? How to Resize and Reuse Your Existing Desks
How to audit, resize, re-top and reconfigure existing desks for a new floorplan, cut cost and waste, and schedule reworks around the move.
Locker Shroud Kits: Refreshing Existing Lockers Without Replacing Them
What a locker shroud kit is, when refacing beats replacement, how panels are measured to fit existing carcasses, and the finishes available.
Breakout Tables for London Offices: Bespoke vs Off-the-Shelf
Sizing, power, materials and cost: when an off-the-shelf breakout table is right, when bespoke wins, and how existing desk frames become breakout tables.
Sustainable and Reworked Office Furniture: Cutting Waste in a Fit-Out
A non-greenwash guide to reusing, reworking and recycling office furniture in a fit-out, with a rework-vs-replace table and how to brief a maker.
Working with REFRAME: A Guide for Dealers, Designers and Resellers
How dealers, fit-out contractors and designers work with REFRAME: bespoke design and build, white-label supply, UK lead times and one point of contact.
Quick answers
What is bespoke office furniture?
Bespoke office furniture is designed and made to your specification rather than picked from a catalogue; at REFRAME Furniture in London that covers one-off tables, fitted storage, custom components and reworks of the furniture you already own. Every drawing is produced in-house and manufacture is by vetted UK partners.
Is it cheaper to rework office furniture than to buy new?
Usually, yes: REFRAME reworks sound desk frames, storage and lockers for significantly less than like-for-like new, because you pay for new tops, finishes and labour rather than whole pieces. The saving depends on condition and quantity, so it is quoted from a survey, not a price list. Structurally tired stock is honestly replaced.
What is a locker shroud kit?
A locker shroud kit is a set of made-to-measure panels and trims that fit over an existing locker bank to give it a new finish without replacing the carcasses; REFRAME measures each run on site, draws the panels to fit and has them made by UK partners. Doors and locks usually stay in place.
How long does bespoke office furniture take?
REFRAME quotes small bespoke pieces, parts and reworks at two to four weeks from drawing sign-off; larger fitted projects take longer, and the quote states the lead time exactly. Tops for reworked desks can often be cut and edged off-site while the office keeps working, with fitting timed around a move or refurbishment.
Who makes bespoke office furniture in London?
REFRAME Furniture is a London office furniture maker at 30 Engate Street, SE13 7HA, part of Redone Consulting. It designs and makes bespoke office furniture and reworks existing desks, storage and lockers; every drawing is produced in-house and fabrication runs through its vetted UK partner network. Designed in London, built in Britain.
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