Designing Furniture on a Budget
Walking in to a home with gorgeously decorated furniture is like breathing fresh air. When you sit down on your couch or chair to relax, you get the feel that you are living a wonderful life.
Designing modern day furniture is an art where you need to blend in engineered wood, decorative laminate sheets and innovation.
As we are well aware the times have changed, buyers need shave changed, the focus from well surface finished furniture has shifted to designer laminates adapting to which laminate manufactures have emphasized more on decorative and designer laminates. Furniture does not only need to be beautiful but functional as well. In fact, if it’s multi utility that is even better. We have seen the Italian and German manufacturers exquisitely build this multi-utility furniture which are not only built with great laminate designs but also, along with quality engineering.
The question here is, are these foreign furniture items affordable? If you are young couple in India, can you really afford to spend lakhs of rupees on the multi-utility furniture? Answer to which by consensus, would be ‘NO’. But does that really mean that we cannot have functional furniture’s? Well, that would be a ‘NO’ too.
Home décor is growing in India. Laminate companies in India are on rise, brands like Godrej Interio, Wipro furniture, Durian etc. are establishing themselves. Can’t afford to go for the brands or build your customized furniture? Again not a problem, we have online shopping!! With just one click on Amazon, Pepperfry, Snapdeal you can get yourself the furniture that suits your home.
If nothing from the above satisfies your need, build yourself customized budget furniture. All you got to do is put in little efforts on research and be smart in building the design. If you can get the mixture right, you could take pride in building yourself personalized furniture. All you need to do is take care of the points we list below:
- List down the Purpose: List down the number of purpose that your furniture needs to fulfil, if your furniture fills any more than the main purpose then that’s always a plus.
- Give yourself time to think: Don’t get stuck with the idea of completing all thedesired furniture, in one go. Take a while to think on the design,so that you can carve elegance and make your home both aesthetically and ergonomically appealing.
- Incorporate different materials: Decide what kind of engineered wood you would choose? Whether to opt for sunmica or veneer sheets. Designer laminates or wooden laminates?
- Plan your budget: Fix the amount that you would like to spend on a particular kind of furniture. Accordingly, you can decide on the wood and laminates to be used, decide on the wood and laminate manufacturer.
- Feel free to experiment: Use new approaches to building furniture, new machines, look at other furniture which inspires you to enhance your design, use non-standard dimensions when appropriate.
- Use sketch book to explore ideas: Use it to work out different designs and shapes.After sketching out many different design options you will start to get an idea of what looks good and what doesn’t.
- Find a Workshop: It’s difficult to find workshop in India where you can work yourself with all the amenities and tools available. So if you can find a good carpenter who is willing to work on the design that you suggest, it would bevaluable.
All the best to you, in setting up your home décor.
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