A flat-pack box holds about two hours of your evening. We build beds, wardrobes, desks, dressers, bookcases and shelving across Charlotte, and the cardboard leaves with us.
Beds and bed frames, wardrobes and closet systems, desks and office furniture, dressers, bookcases and shelving, dining tables and chairs, outdoor furniture and cribs. Shelves that go straight onto the wall rather than coming out of a box are general handyman work. Gym equipment is heavier and taller than the box suggests, so racks, trainers and treadmills have a page of their own.
Flat-pack instructions assume every panel is square and every dowel seats first time. In practice a wardrobe has a hundred fixings, and one panel facing the wrong way means taking half of it apart again. We do this daily, so the piece goes together once.
Tall furniture is a tip-over risk, and the strap in the box is only as good as what it is screwed into. We find the stud rather than trusting drywall alone. That matters most with small children in the house.
Price depends on the piece and how many there are, so we quote once we know what is in the boxes. Send a photo of the label and you get a number before anything starts. More on what moves the price.
A bed frame is usually under an hour. A chest of drawers takes longer than its size suggests, because every drawer has its own runners and its own alignment. A wardrobe with doors and internal drawers is most of a morning. The part count predicts the time far better than the size of the finished piece, which is why a photo of the label on the box tells us more than a description of the room.
We build in the room the furniture will live in. A wardrobe assembled in the living room because there was space will often not pass through the bedroom door afterwards: the panels go through flat, the finished carcass does not. Where something has to be stood upright after building, the route and the ceiling clearance get worked out first, which matters on a landing or under a sloped ceiling.
A crib is built to a standard and its instructions are not a suggestion. Slat spacing, mattress height and the order the fixings are tightened all matter, and a crib that has been apart before needs its fixings checked rather than reused blind. Bunk beds get the same treatment, guard rails and ladder fixings included. Anything a child can climb is anchored to the wall before we leave.
Clear the floor where the piece will stand, plus a working area about the size of the largest panel. Leave the boxes closed until we arrive, because loose fixings vanish into carpet the moment a box is opened early. If the new piece is replacing something, say so when you book and the old one can come apart in the same visit.
Cardboard, polystyrene and plastic wrap all leave with us. A single wardrobe produces more waste than most people expect, and a stack of flattened board in the hallway waiting for collection day is its own small problem.
Ask for a free estimate and tell us what needs doing.