Designers and Decorators - Anyone engaged in Such?

[baileyuph]

In your support work, who does the pickup and hauling of the furniture?

Doyle

[chrisberry12]

pick up and delivery depends on the client. Since we are talking designers/decorators, if they live here on Island they take care of that but if they are out of state or Off the Cape then I take care of that. It is different from job to job, like anything. Actually everything about the business is so much different here then on mainland. I am on an island so the whole trade is different, busy time is summer, slow time is the holidays and starts to pick up now.

[bobbin]

I am not an upholsterer. 

I always prefer to have a piece requiring a slipcover in my shop.  But, I have no desire to go into the "furniture moving" business and I also understand that slipcover customers don't wish to surrender a significant part of a room's seating capacity for a more than a couple of days, if at all.  I pattern in the customer's home.  And I get wonderful results.  I can pattern just about anything accurately.  And do it efficiently.  Time is money, afterall!  For me it's more about good marketing. 

[baileyuph]

I can readily understand Bobbins point.  I get repair request that I can do in less than an hour.  To merely truck it to the shop and return would cost much more than fixing or repairing on a mobile basis.  Customers love it, the negative is finding someone at home.

Doyle