What bespoke really means here
Because every sofa is handmade to order, almost every element of our designs can be tailored to you: custom dimensions, your choice of cushion fills and styles, trims from flat piping to the new Oxford border (and the Flange Edge, available bespoke at no extra cost), skirt details, loose or fixed covers, leg styles and finishes, and your own fabric on the models that take it. Bespoke here is not an expensive side menu. It is simply how the workshop works.
The word bespoke gets attached to anything with two colour options these days, so let us define ours by listing it. What follows is the genuine span of choice on a made-to-order sofa, and the honest map of where each decision is made: most of it you can configure directly, and the truly custom requests, unusual dimensions, your own material, the ideas no form anticipated, go to the team, who enjoy them most of all.
The span of choice
Start with the body: a comprehensive range of standard sizes from footstools and loveseats up to four-seaters, plus modular and chaise configurations that build a room to shape, and custom dimensions when the standard range does not fit your life or your alcove. Then the sit: cushion fills from the low-fuss feather-over-foam to all-feather softness and the all-natural latex core, in box edge or knife edge styles. Then the dressing: loose covers that untie for washing or a fully upholstered fixed cover for a tailored, formal fit; skirts in dressmaker, box pleat or ruffled finishes, or legs instead, in the Draycot, Liddington and Walcot turned styles across Natural, Walnut and Ebony, or the metal Wroughton in Chrome, Bronze and Antique Bronze. Then the details that quietly decide the character: flat or round piping, self or contrast, the soft edge with no piping at all, the new Oxford border with its relaxed pillow-like depth, and the Flange Edge, a soft unstructured lip of fabric available on request at no extra cost. And finally the fabric itself: around seventy five of ours, the fabric houses beyond, or your own material on the Coco, Barton and Isobel.
Two clients, one base
The best proof of what all this choice means is a real exercise from our trade book: the same Coco, specified twice. For a composed reception room: the 3.5-seater in Cool Coconut, box edge cushions, round piping, a fixed cover. For a relaxed country room: the 2.5-seater in Wildwood Duck Egg, knife edge cushions, contrast flat piping, a loose cover with a dressmaker skirt. Same frame, same springs, same hands making it, and two finished sofas a guest would never connect. That is what bespoke means here: not a different product, but the same beautifully made base becoming exactly, and only, yours.
The honest part: choice needs a guide
We will not pretend that this much choice is effortless; handed to you all at once, it is a wall. So two honest notes. First, the decisions have an order that makes them easy: size first, then cover fit, then skirt or leg, then cushion style, then trim, then fabric, each one narrowing the next, and we or Nadia will walk you through that sequence in minutes. Second, the further from standard you go, the more the conversation moves to humans: bespoke dimensions and your own material are gathered by Nadia and finished with the team, because measurements and meterage deserve human eyes before a saw moves. None of that costs you anything but a conversation, and the conversation is the part we like best.
Not a different product. The same beautifully made base becoming exactly, and only, yours.
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The pleasant way through all this choice is one decision at a time, with help on hand.
Questions, answered honestly
What can actually be customised on your sofas?
Almost every element: size and configuration (including custom dimensions and modular builds), cushion fills and styles, loose or fixed covers, skirts or legs across all the styles and finishes, every piping and trim option including the Oxford border and the bespoke Flange Edge, and the fabric, ours, the fabric houses', or your own on the Coco, Barton and Isobel.
Does bespoke cost extra?
Bespoke is how the workshop works rather than a surcharge for its own sake: many choices, like the Flange Edge, cost nothing extra at all. What moves the price is what the choice consumes, larger sizes, more fabric, particular fabrics, and we will always quote precisely before anything is made, with no surprises after.
Can you make a sofa in a non-standard size?
Yes: custom dimensions are part of the service, for the awkward alcove, the low window, the room that standard ranges ignore. Bespoke dimensions are handled with the team rather than a form, because measurements deserve human eyes before a saw moves, and that conversation costs nothing.
In what order should I make the decisions?
Size or configuration first, then cover fit (loose or fixed), then skirt or leg, then cushion style, then trim, then fabric: each choice narrows the next and the wall of options becomes six pleasant steps. Nadia will walk the sequence with you in minutes, at any hour, and nothing commits you until you are ready.
Can the same model really look completely different?
Completely: the same Coco specified as a fixed-cover, box edge, round-piped piece in Cool Coconut reads composed and formal, while a loose-cover, knife edge, contrast-piped version in Wildwood Duck Egg with a dressmaker skirt reads relaxed and rural. Same frame, same hands, two sofas a guest would never connect.