Ask yourself the following questions before you start
Lundbergs Möbler lives for fine craftsmanship. Olof Bratt and Katrin Kahl missed no details when they designed the modern classic Wilma in 1998. Lundbergs Möbler lives for fine craftsmanship. Olof Bratt and Katrin Kahl missed no details when they designed the modern classic Wilma in 1998.
What complexity does your reuse project contain?
High complexity
There are many different types of furniture and materials in your reuse project. Upholstered furniture, chairs, built-in furniture, metal, stone, etc. You have a complex and exciting project ahead of you and need help from an actor with a very broad network of suppliers. We recommend that you contact Sajkla directly, who are experts in complex reuse projects.
Normal complexity
Your project mainly involves existing wooden tables and chairs combined with new furniture
Use Lundbergs RekondAnalys to quickly and easily get good control of your project. For a fixed price starting at 4800 SEK excluding VAT, we help you with an analysis of the furniture relevant to the project so that you feel confident with the choices you need to make and how they work together with the new furniture you intend to use. Questions like whether you can use the same surface material on new and reconditioned tables or if the color can be the same on new and reconditioned furniture will be answered with the analysis. We promise that you will save a lot of time and money with this Analysis
Low complexity
Your project mainly consists of existing furniture from our own collection. Use our reconditioning service, Lundbergs Reconditioning. For furniture from our own collection, you can also get a price estimate in our price list that you can download from our collection page
We share these experiences
The nature of reusability is that we cannot predict everything before we start the reconditioning work. When we remove the fabric from the seat, the foam may be bad and need to be replaced. A table's rails break when disassembled and chairs turned out to need stabilization as they were wobbly. In some cases, we have experienced that the furniture could not actually be reconditioned for the simple reason that it could not be disassembled. A lot of work had been put into those pieces of furniture completely unnecessarily. Here we have gathered 9 tips to take with you when you start a reuse project involving furniture.
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Spend a little extra time on inventory and documentation
Talk to someone knowledgeable about what information you need to gather about the furniture. That time will pay back many times over. If you want to do it simply, quickly, and with high quality, you can use Sajkla's platform for this.
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Does the furniture need to be disassembled?
Does the furniture need to be disassembled and can it be disassembled easily? If it cannot be disassembled, it is likely more difficult and expensive to recondition.
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Can the different materials of the furniture be easily separated from each other?
Facilitates a lot and increases the possibilities of what can be done with the furniture.
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Veneered shell chairs are difficult to repaint in color
In the heavily curved parts, small cracks form that are visible when painted in color. Choose to refresh them with a clear coat instead
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Veneered tabletops
Veneered tabletops are often difficult to sand down as the veneer is so thin, 0.5-0.7 mm. A better option may be to sand off the veneer and apply new veneer, laminate, or linoleum instead.
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Tabletop with a chipboard core is often better to recycle
Buy a new one of better quality and reuse the legs and base instead.
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How is the stability of the chairs?
Important to know when reconditioning is ordered as stabilizing a chair significantly increases the reconditioning cost but is crucial for quality. No point in reconditioning a chair that needs to be discarded in a year.
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Talk to your customer so they have the right expectations
The refurbished furniture will look like new but with a history. During a refurbishment, we fix the cosmetic issues that affect function, but others are the furniture's provenance.
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Keep the volumes together!
Keep in mind that the cost of refurbishment depends greatly on the volumes of a furniture type. The first chair costs a lot since it is the one we test the solutions on. If there are many of the same kind, the cost of the first chair can be spread over many, making the refurbishment price affordable.