Measure the room before you come.
The wall it will stand against, the door it has to come through, the distance from the window. Three numbers settle more than an hour of standing around looking.
Decide here, not from a photograph.
Photographs flatten furniture. Come and sit in it, open its doors, see it in ordinary light — the showroom exists so you can change your mind before it costs anything.
We choose furniture.We don’t make it.
That is the whole model. Suppliers show us far more than we take, and most of it fails on the things that matter here — joinery, proportion, and how a piece will handle years of humid air. What reaches the floor is the short list. The sorting is the service.
Sit longer than feels polite.
Any chair is comfortable for ninety seconds. An hour is the real test — and much closer to how you will actually use it.
Look at it in bad light.
Morning light flatters everything. Late afternoon shows the filled joint and the panel that does not match — if they are there to find.