Hi All
Thought i would share some photos with you of the furniture i had made by a local carpenter in Hurghada. They were made from drawings i gave him The finished wood colour is your own choice ie: very light to very dark and he can copy anything ..... we are in Egypt after all. I have more photos taken at various stages of the construction of the furniture.
I wanted to support this suggestion as this is exactly what we did for our apartment in new Cairo. In December when we decided to furnish the apartment, and we purchased custom made furniture. We purchased both dining room and bedroom furniture, that included a dining table for 8, credenza, china hutch, armoire, sleigh bed, night stands, dressor with vanity table. These were made with solid wood and glass over the tables, night stands and vanity. The cost was approximately $5000.00.
Before you decide if you want custom-made furniture, be sure to measure the space to be furnished. Also know, that custom furniture businesses do not always use standard measurements in the furniture they make. For example, we asked for a double bed frame for the sleigh bed. When we placed the standard double matress on the frame, we quickly discovered the bed had measurements were slightly different than a normal double bed. The issue for us was that the matress hangs over each side by a half-inch. No big deal, no one can tell once the bed is made anyway. If I had to do it again, I would have measured the matress and submitted the measurements to the matress manufacturer.