Furniture

wow. that's a really bad move from them - even a total idiot can see the costs in making one of these...

Actually... Not really so for a commercial operation. For you or I, fair enough, but for a company.

Consider, they will need to reduce the pallet to it's component parts (to access all surfaces), as a minimum give it all a light sand (to remove splinters) and then apply some form of finishing coating. Then reassemble and add the castors (which aren't cheap for decent ones). Got to be at least two or three hours work plus materials - at £50 per hour (including overhead) I'd guess they are putting around £125 into each one. Then packaging, advertising, processing sales etc - not really a huge margin.

Still, if you actually paid £250 for one and didn't make it yourself, you either have far too much money or no arms.

blah - as an average joe going to local builders merchant with no discount =£20 for good castors, £15 for brand new pallet, £3 for 100 screws, one hour labour max at a generous factory worker rate of £20 + generous 50% markup to wholesale + 50% markup to retail + vat and you are still looking at £150 tops

mass produced you could get these down to £20 a piece and retail them at £75 very easily, the truly embarrassing part is the suggestion of £525 rrp... i'd love to see the shop that sells them at that

Actually... Not really so for a commercial operation. For you or I, fair enough, but for a company.

Consider, they will need to reduce the pallet to it's component parts (to access all surfaces), as a minimum give it all a light sand (to remove splinters) and then apply some form of finishing coating. Then reassemble and add the castors (which aren't cheap for decent ones). Got to be at least two or three hours work plus materials - at £50 per hour (including overhead) I'd guess they are putting around £125 into each one. Then packaging, advertising, processing sales etc - not really a huge margin.

Still, if you actually paid £250 for one and didn't make it yourself, you either have far too much money or no arms.

they forgot the rapha logo to justify the price

Shelving- specifically, straight racking that is screwed into the wall and then cantilevered brackets slot in.

Is there anything to consider other than Spur Shelving for this?

I'm discounting Vitsoe for reasons of £$£$£$.

If Spur is the way forward, where to get it from? I need quite a lot.

ikea

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S19929631/

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/05/mits-newest-invention-fits-all-the-furniture-you-need-in-one-closet-sized-box/371778/

^ Multipass?

Any adjustable height desks that don't look like shit?

You want height adjustable or sit stand?

If sit-stand you'll want to invest in electric. Google Holmris, they make the nicest frames.

Possibly the right thread... Who sells nice beds?

Zeitraum

Thanks, although I ended up getting dragged to TCR and Heals.

Am I getting old or are beds getting lower?

Mrs Sparky's just done a scale drawing of the bedroom to convince me we can get a King size bed. How much space is a minimum on each side, would you say?

One cat plus tail swung anti-clockwise or 2 feet/60cm-ish

I think we'd have 30cm each side if bed stayed against the same wall as now. Tight.

Like a toiger

If the Mrs wants more space have you considered separate rooms?

We're living out of our spare room at the moment and the bed doesn't have much wall clearence. IT'S BOILING MY PISS.

IT'S BOILING MY PISS

I found that with a tempur mattress topper. I got very hot!

In need of a sofa bed unfortunately. Recommendations? I'd like something that A. is attractive. B. is comfortable as a sofa - primary purpose. C. is comfortable enough as a bed but not so comfortable that people want to stay there for more than one night. D. is less than a grand.

Was looking on Made but none of them are thrilling me if I'm honest. Ideally around the 5/6/700 mark?

http://www.westelm.com/m/products/kiko-sofa-h2105/ maybe?

Ta, think I saw something similar on a UK site.
Ooh, possibly another unhelpful stipulation - I'm 194cm and that's a common theme in my family. And sometimes they come in pairs. So needs to be relatively large.

They're on Tottenham Court Road.

Whilst we're on the subject of foldaways, I'd like to build a fold down bed for my spare room at some point - never seen an off the shelf one which looks any good at all. Reckon there's be a market for decent fold-down wall beds, or is it just too niche?