Owning your own home

The scribing will be the most challenging part for me, I've not done it before. Not even sure yet how I'm going to secure the scribed infill bits so welcome any tips for that.

The experience of ordering from Fittingly was beyond expectations. The above set up with double doors on each unit, no drawers and single doors that lift upwards on gas struts was just over £5k (with a 30% discount that wasn't hard to get, basically get your design ready and ask what they can do for you if you order that day).

During the design process, it was super simple when working on Chrome. Firefox didn't seem to support some of the features. You can see the design on mobile but it's not great for making changes. At any point, they reacted on chat really quickly and made tweaks to the design I was working in in real time.

When you place the order, they send the design to you to sign off. All the while offering a call with a design specialist. For mine, they spotted the chimney breast cutout and sent through some extra information on how to work around a chimney breast.

When it is delivered (only took a couple of weeks), they use hardly any packaging. The only packaging I had was around the doors as they have a paintable vinyl finish, the infill pieces and the boxes with the hardware. All the panels were naked. Which meant for a lot of pieces that needed to be sorted and arranged before I could get started. I suppose if I was there I could have placed them as they came in.

I was actually away when it was delivered, but the guy who delivered it brought it all up to the first floor. Took him well over an hour but he didn't grumble once. I left £20 with our lodger to give him as a tip. In hindsight, I would have left more for that job. But he was very appreciative and tried to refuse (I saw the interaction on the security camera).

All bits are well labelled, referencing the design.

They will also build it for you. This design would have been about a grand for them to build.

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