Quality furniture for your home

By Rob Virtue on August 15, 2008 12:45 PM |

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NOW may not be the ideal time to buy or sell property but if you still want to invest then one option is to improve what you already have.

Bespoke designer furniture could be just what your tired interior decor needs to set it off.

And if you do end up putting your home on the market, smart furnishings can help shift it by showing off how your property can look its best.

Leaves of London boasts a string of A-list stars already on its books and has also kitted out well know establishments such as Jamie Oliver’s restaurant 15.

Run by Leigh Buckland, who has spent 15 years in cabinet making and furniture design, the company has prices ranging between £9,000 and £15,000 for a wardrobe and between £40,000 and £90,000 for kitchens.

Leigh said: “A lot of people are not moving and trying to put money in to their existing property. Coming to us adds value and makes properties easier to sell.

“We offer a professional service. The client can come and look at their product being made and if they want small changes put in we can do that. That’s the difference with our company.�?

“The customer is involved all the way through the process.�?

A huge back-catalogue collected over 10 years provides a starting point but clients are free to adapt designes to their own specifications.

While, latest technology computer software shows how the product will look inside the house before it is made.

Using any timber, sprayed with any colour and with any type of finish the options for the customer are myriad.

If you are planning to sell your home and want to take your wardrobe or kitchen units with you, then the company can make pieces that collapse for removal.

The company is in the process of rebranding from Concept And Design to Leaves Of London. Its team of experts work out of a warehouse in West Dulwich, south London where it has been for the past four years.

The company also fits out office foyers and has an international client base with fittings recently being done in New York and Dubai.

The credit crunch has not hit the company, because people are still choosing to improve homes and also because the company is capitalising on the higher earners tightening their belts.

Leigh said: “We haven’t seen a change probably because we are at the top end of the market. There’s been no decrease whatsoever. Just yesterday I got asked to do three kitchens.

“What I have found is that customers who would normally buy from a high street shop and spend up to £120,000 on a kitchen come to us as they see that we can make units to any specification without that high street cost.�?

Email leigh@cadfurniture.co.uk or call 020 8670 2050 for more information.