The new easy way to get art and furniture made for you online

Locked-down consumers can now turn a bespoke furniture sketch into a 3D furniture design like this table and view your creation using Augmented Reality. A totally contactless solution with design to delivery in a few weeks, and at affordable prices.

How to design & produce your own bespoke table

While visiting art galleries, furniture and home improvement shopping centers is off bounds for most of us during the Coronavirus period. Searching online for your next piece of art or furniture for something special to make your space that much more special is the obvious choice.

Due to the coronavirus, what tends to happen now is you spend hours searching online for that perfect table having inevitably already had to compromise on size, or colour  or something.You finally get to the checkout about to pay the and boom, the site tells you, delivery can’t be confirmed or will go on backorder…

So what's going on? Well like many things currently because of the global coronavirus issue, the factory for the world China has only recently started to open up again and they already have a lot of furniture orders on back order to get through. Even if it's not made in China some of the materials it's made from are likely to be. What can you do about that? You ask yourself, well now is actually the perfect time to get a little creative yourself and actually become your own designer and get that table produced for you locally. How locally how about in London.

Now your’re a little hot and sweaty, is that the coronavirus , oh god...No, wait a minute it's because you assume getting your own design made for you in London is only for the super rich right? Wrong, not only can you afford it but by getting it designed and made locally it's better for your sense of pride, much better for the environment as you can be more in control of where that wood comes from knowing its FSC - Forests For All Forever for example and you can enjoy the entire process.

Lastly and probably just as importantly during this pandemic, you can actually get your piece of furniture, designed, made and delivered within just a few weeks!

But now you’re thinking well, do I really want to invite a carpenter into my home even if i can find one that is open and willing to ? Does not really sound like “essential work”. Even if I did get someone to do that and run the risk, what is the likelihood of them being able to design exactly what's best for me in my budget? Are they not more likely to just sell me the designs they have been able to create before in the materials they have used before. Will that really create the “Wow” factor im after and will that really be unique?

Well the answer to that question is clearly yes, that is exactly what usually happens, so is there a better solution out there to really create me the client the best possible piece of bespoke furniture ?

Well there is now, if you contact London based “Commission it”, the platform that helps you to turn your idea into anything from art, 3D models to bespoke furniture. Their strap line is Think it, Create it Commission it.

Not only can they provide the latest digital manufacturing (CNC - Computer Numerical Control) with speedy turnaround times from just a few weeks on some materials but they also have all the craftsmen covered for nearly every discipline to have your bespoke project created for you with the precision and skills learnt by some of their award-winnings craftsmen.

Ok, that all sounds great, but how does Commission it solve my problem?

So instead of contacting a local carpenter who would traditionally have to come to your home/work to inspect the area and arrange a face-to-face meeting, “How old school that feels right now.” Then take some measurements, show you some brochures/images of previous projects or email them over after the visit. 

So how about instead, go online and search through the entire existence of creativity from the dawn of mankind to the most contemporary furniture created by designers who push the boundaries of what's possible. A great starting point is on Pinterest, or Google Image search.

In some cases when clients see something while out and about they just take a picture of it and send it to Commission it.

The website even has an online sketchpad that lets you make a drawing helping to illustrate what you want made. They then convert that into a CAD (Computer Aided Design) for you so you can not only view the final design in 3d before you confirm your order but using Augmented Reality you can view the bespoke furniture in the place you want it to go and immediately see how it will look.  

You can also change the size of it to help decide on the final details before they then get it produced in the UK using sustainable plywood or even recycled plastic.