Workshop · March 2026

Why we never send a frame out of the building

Splitting a piece across suppliers is how a six-week order becomes a six-month one. The arithmetic, honestly.

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March 2026

The six-week order that takes six months

A frame is cut in one workshop, driven to an upholsterer in another, then to a finisher in a third. Each move adds a queue, and each queue is invisible to you until it has already happened.

The real cost is not the driving. It is that nobody owns the piece. When the frame arrives with a twisted leg, the upholsterer does not send it back — that would mean admitting a delay — so it gets shimmed, and you find out in year three.

What changes when the rooms share a corridor

A frame that fails inspection on Tuesday morning is re-cut on Tuesday afternoon. The joiner who cut it walks over and sees what the upholsterer is complaining about, which is the only reliable way anyone learns.

It also means we can tell you the truth about a date. When every stage is on one floor, the schedule is a fact rather than a forecast.

What it costs us

A narrower catalogue. There are pieces we would sell well and do not make, because making them properly would mean a machine we do not have or a skill nobody here has yet.

We would rather turn down the order than quietly put your name on somebody else's work.

Come and sit in it first.

The showroom on Al Kharj Road holds every piece in this catalogue. Book a slot and we will have the fabrics and finishes waiting on the table.