Tailor-made Modular Furniture: The Future of Home Decor – Rajesh Dudhaiya

Furniture plays an essential role in the overall aesthetics and functionality of any home. Choosing the right kind of furniture can enhance the ambience and mood of a room, making it cosy and inviting. It not only transforms a house into a home but dictates the look of a room. Furniture definitely affects the room’s flow of movement, focal point, arrangement and functionality. Thus, it is important to consider the style, size and colour of the furniture to ensure it complements a room’s setting.

The Challenges

Buying the right furniture or making your own furniture for your home hence becomes that much vital. With ready-made furniture, the problem is that you might not always find the furniture that will perfectly fit into your room’s setting and even if you do make a purchase, you are never fully satisfied!

Hence, a lot of people prefer making their own furniture as per their choice, but for that, one needs to hire skilled craftsmen and finding them can be a daunting task because there is a dearth of such people today. While the ones that are still into this craft charge a rather hefty price.

Further, a problem with hiring traditional craftsmen is that they do not posses high-end machines, which is a necessity if you wish to build modern furniture. Another issue with hiring traditional furniture craftsman is their disorganized working pattern, which in most cases results in delays leading to frustration. This problem snowballs if one is a resident of any upscale apartment that has official timings and days for when such type of work can be commissioned.

The Solution

So what does one do? A simple solution to all these problems is to opt for machine-made modular furniture. Over the last few years, there has been an increasing demand for mechanized, tailor-made modular furniture across the globe, and it is starting to gain popularity in India as well. There are several benefits when it comes to modular furniture, some of which are:

Customization

Imagine you have a cosy space in your home, but you can’t find furniture that can fit in there perfectly. This is where modular furniture comes in handy because it can be tailor-made based on the dimensions of that space. As anyone from the modular furniture industry would say, “You don’t fit furniture into spaces, you design furniture as per spaces”.

Style, Functionality, Minimalism and Comfort

The best part about customised modular furniture is that they are designed in a way that makes them high on functionality, style and comfort quotient, and not to forget minimalism – a perfect definition of modern-day furniture.

Quick Delivery

A definite advantage of opting for modular furniture is that production time is far less in this case as compared to traditional furniture. The use of high-end machinery makes this possible.

Quality Tested

Since modular furniture is made with specialised and precision-based machines, the quality aspect of such furniture is something that can be blindly counted upon. Due to use of machines, there are no damages in the produced furniture.

Less Material Waste

This is also the specific reason why there is hardly any wastage of materials as compared to traditional furniture making.

Affordable

As a result, it drastically brings down the cost of modular furniture. Other reasons for its affordability is that its low production time and low labour cost.

No Onsite Work

A major advantage of modular furniture is that the furniture is made in factories and hence, no furniture work takes place at home, which means no dust and no clutter.

Quick Installation

Since in the process of producing modular furniture, each part is produced separately and then assembled onsite, the installation part hardly takes time. Also, during the transit, there are rare chances of damage to any part of the furniture.

Eco Friendly

It is one of the most eco-friendly furniture you will come across because it is designed to be compact and easily assembled. Hence, it takes up less space during shipping and storage. This means that fewer resources are needed to transport and store the furniture, reducing the environmental impact of the manufacturing and transportation process.

Transformation – Fixed Asset to Movable Asset

Traditional furniture are like fixed assets that cannot be moved easily and when done, chances of damage are high. On the contrary, modular furniture can be quickly dismantled and assembled, and moving them from one place to another is never an issue. Nailing to Screwing – the transformation we all need in our furniture.

Good Resale Value

Since modular furniture with time retain their original look and are less likely to get damage, their resale value is pretty good.

The Future Ahead

Machine-based, tailor-made modular furniture is going to be the future of home décor, and there are companies in India today that are totally committed to this endeavour. In a bid to make it more popular, they are coming up with some fantastic initiatives:

VR Presentation

Virtual Reality (VR) has entered into different fields of work in the recent times, and modular furniture industry is one of them. Through VR technology, companies are now giving their customers a virtual look at their desired furniture and how well it will fit into the room settings before it is commissioned for production.

EMI Purchase

To make it more customer-centric, the companies are getting into tie-ups with top banks for offering loan-based purchase option on their modular furniture.

Production Review

Further, they are also giving an opportunity to their customers to visit their factories and check on the production progress of their furniture and at the same time, check the quality of the materials being used – something which quite unheard of in any industry.

Purchase of Furniture in Instalments

To make it buying modular furniture a viable option, companies are also giving customers the option of buying different furniture for their homes in instalments, based on mutually agreed purchase and payment terms. This is different from the EMI purchase option.

About Author

Rajesh Dudhaiya is a well-known design consultant, who over the years, has designed many bungalows and office interiors as well building structures in India. He has a keen interest in the modular furniture industry and has been following its growth and demand in India since 2000s.