Whole house customization is the most expensive single item in home decoration and presents many challenges. This article explores the core competitiveness of whole house customization and the necessity of skilled design.
What is the core competitiveness of the customization industry?
Whole-house customization is the most expensive single item in home decoration, and the customization industry is also so complex. As a consumer, how should you choose when comparing? When getting to know the business, what key points should you know about the business so that you don’t step into pitfalls?
Today I will briefly talk about a very important point in the customization industry: custom furniture design!
The necessity of design
When it comes to design, let’s be honest the industry skills is really uneven. Design determines the effect of whole-house customization and whether the customized products can be used normally and reasonably. No home decoration can be perfect. Many people build and decorate a house, making various choices and trade-offs.
Therefore, many custom cabinets are not simply boxy.
- There are downspouts at home that need to be covered;
- There are beams or pillars behind the cabinet;
- A gas pipe is behind the cabinet, and a sewer pipe needs embedding;
- The walls and ceiling are not horizontally or vertically, and the error is large;
- There are also many kitchens with built-in electrical appliances. Can they be built in? Can they be flush when they are built in…
In fact, unfortunately, there are very few businesses that can perfectly solve the above-mentioned most basic customization needs that consumers understand. Ninety percent of the custom shops on the market are trying their best to fight against the above problems. Even the slightly more advanced stores have ridiculously high prices.
The design and experience of the merchant, rather than the plate or machine in the processing plant, determine the solutions to these basic problems. However, it is difficult to compare design and experience in the early stage, so many consumers have no idea about how to compare it.
As a result, the overall service satisfaction in the whole-house customization industry is very low. Ask around who have had done such customization can get a lot of negative experiences.
In addition, more than 50% of the floor-to-ceiling effect of home decoration is determined by the whole-house customization. If customized products fall into the trap, it basically means that the decoration has failed.
There are very few custom shops that can perfectly meet the basic needs of cabinets listed above and then present them in customers’ homes with better results.
Many of the unit prices that can be used to produce such products are prohibitive for consumers.
Another thing is that the effect of the store’s exhibition hall actually has little to do with the effect of the customer’s home. A dedicated team decorates and designs many exhibition halls. It is impossible for normal customers to have such a design in their homes. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the design of customized products is the core of comparing customized products.
Designs on the markets
1.The lowest level design:
The design process for this type of customization is straightforward. Entry-level custom designers often start with wardrobes, requiring no detailed drawings. Noted dimensions later become simple CAD line drawings. Customers review and approve these basic plans, select colors, and pay a deposit.
Installers resolve on-site issues, such as accommodating pipes and switch panels. This approach leaves many problems unaddressed during the design stage. Such rough solutions meet basic storage needs but neglect space usage and aesthetics. Unfortunately, 80% of whole house customization shops follow this model. Expectations should be modest, focusing on functionality rather than high design standards.
2.Barely reliable design:
This design presents a three-dimensional model to the customer, which looks more intuitive to the customer (some three-dimensional mobile VR drawings are basically gimmicks, basically simply modified from the previous customer’s drawings) .
But the most fearful thing about this kind of design is that the designer’s measuring tape also only measures the length, width, and height of the cabinet. The measuring ruler does not use a level on site, but only occasionally writes down precautions.
The service cycle of this kind of design is just a bit more longer. Once customers understand it clearly, they will have more opinions, so it usually takes several rounds of consultation with customers.
It is much better to spend time communicating in advance than to spend time wrangling after the installation is complete.
3.Reasonable design:
The most important thing about this kind of design is communication. The designer’s measuring tape will use a level to measure the condition of the wall at the construction site and record it. The designer measures all ceilings, switch panels, wires, beams, pipes, and lights related to cabinets and models them in 3D.
One of the advantages of this is that it allows customers to understand these problems and find the most reasonable solution. The other most important thing is that the designer is less likely to make mistakes during the design process and takes all the attention points into the design.
For stores on the market, in addition to the kind of design mentioned above.
If they can also have great communication with the machines in the factory and take every production link seriously, this kind of shop will be the top customization merchant on the market.The prices in this kind of store are usually very high and they have a good reputation.This kind of shop that customizes the whole house basically has no worries about business and has many referrals from old customers.Of course, there are also some independent designer custom shops that provide this service, and the price is not very high. This depends on the rational judgment of consumers.
I hope this article can be of some help to friends who are preparing and comparing customized furniture.
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