Matching Up!

A large proportion of our work at David Head Furniture involves making furniture to match existing pieces in peoples homes. The ability to do this is something that we take pride in. Not many people are lucky enough to be able to furnish an entire room at once from scratch. If you are anything like me, your furniture collection has been built up over years, slowly adding either a new piece or a nicer piece when the finances allow. Obviously, if and when you buy a new piece, it is normal to want it to fit in with your existing furniture and if your existing pieces are a few years old it can be extremely difficult to accomplish this. Styles will change and manufacturers may go out of business meaning that when you come to buy a coffee table that matches the bookcase you bought two years ago you may find that it is no longer in production.

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A recent customer asked us to slightly rearrange the kitchen above (the larder unit you can just see on the left hand side of the picture is something we have added, I’ll get to that later!) They wanted to add some more storage around existing appliances (a fridge freezer and a wine cooler) whilst keeping the impression that the whole kitchen was made and fitted at the same time. This kitchen is a very good example of our furniture matching service as there are so many different elements to it, there is framework, doors, pillars, panels, cornice and pelmet etc etc.

The first job and probably the most important when matching up, as ever lies with David! He will go to the customers home and take time to ensure that we know exactly what we are matching up to. He will take plenty of photos of the existing mouldings for reference and also measure as much as he possibly can, from the width and thickness of the framework to the depth of the panel on the doors. If there are curves on mouldings these will be measured to ensure that we get the right radiuses on our curves.

We have a large amount of different shaped cutters for our router and spindle moulder so most of the time these will be used. For more specialist mouldings we will locate the right shaped cutters from our local supplier and, in some cases, even have cutters specially made. It is so important to take such thorough measurements as having one moulding slightly out of place can mark an entire section of the kitchen as being an add on and not part of the original kitchen.

This is one of the larder units that we added, This was situated effectively just behind the first photo. You will also notice that you have a door frame to the right hand side and the wall returns around the corner on the left hand side, this meant that on top of matching all the styles and mouldings, the unit itself had to be built to bespoke sizes to ensure a nice tight fit with no wasted space. The design of the front framework was also important to ensure that it fit neatly around the wine cooler, making the appliance look completely integrated but also allowing for it to be taken out and accessed easily.
The trickiest thing about this design actually turned out to be the doors, they featured several curves and joints that were at odds with our normal methods for making similar doors. We sourced the right cutters and made sure that all the framework and panelling on all of the doors was exactly the same as the doors to the rest of the kitchen. The open shelving on the left hand side were made from the same materials as were used for the units to the rest of the kitchen, again to ensure that it didn’t look different.

Also wanting to give the existing kitchen a little bit of a facelift, and with it being a handpainted kitchen originally, the customers asked us if we would hand paint not only the new bits of the kitchen but also to put a fresh coat on the original bits. This really helped to draw the whole matching process together. With the attention paid to the details and the mouldings and a fresh coat of paint on everything we think you would be hard pressed to know that half the kitchen was roughly 8 years older than the other half!

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You can see here the match of old and new. The larder unit built around the fridge/ freezer is all new, the rest of the picture (including the island which was specifically painted a different colour) is old. Can you tell?!

A completely bespoke furniture matching service is something that most companies can not offer. It will either go against their method of mass producing their own ranges and styles or it is just not cost effective for them (and therefore for you) for them to go through all the processes required to match up to your existing furniture. As a completely bespoke company, this is the sort of work that we feel we really excel at.

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If you are trying to find a piece of furniture to match an existing piece then there are several small but important details that you need to look for. Some of them are-

1. The thickness of the timber used, is the top 20mm thick or 30mm? Are the doors 18mm or 26mm?
2. If it is an inframe piece how wide is the framework? How wide are the outside pieces on the doors?
3. Are there mouldings on the skirting, pelmet and cornice? If so take specific sizes, check the sizes of any curves.
4. What colour is it? This may seem like a silly one but there are hundreds of variations on the colour white alone, it may look the same in the shop but look completely different when the two pieces are next to each other. The same goes for a bare timber look. Different stains and oils will appear to be very similar but could in fact be just different enough to drive you insane in the long run!
5. Hinges, handles and catches. These can usually be sourced to match existing. If this is not possible then it is always worth investigating how much it would cost to buy new handles for your old piece so that they match the new piece, for a fairly small price you can make a huge difference to the overall look.

If you are looking to take advantage of our furniture matching service you can reach David at David@davidhead.co.uk or on 01525 753737.

Thank you for reading

Tom