Custom hotel furniture from China starts with a drawing, not a mood at a fair. A Foshan plant can make a headboard that is not in a catalogue. It cannot guess socket height, the hinge you want and the fabric an investor already approved on another project. Anything not in the drawing and material list will be a worker’s decision on the line.
Mock-up room and opening sequence: hotel FF&E from China. Programme umbrella: interior fit-out from China. Here is the narrower job: what must be written before deposit. Your designer still signs the drawing. We turn it into a PO and check that the line can repeat it.
A drawing the line can read
Each room element has its own code. A headboard is not “like the bed”. On the drawing:
- all three dimensions, including depth that eats the aisle and height that hits the AC or the skirting
- structure material, not only a fabric photo
- finish: lacquer code, veneer sample, grain direction, the face that is seen
- hardware, hinges, slides, and whether that hardware can be replaced in Serbia without waiting for a vessel
- a joint that knocks down for the container and rebuilds in the room, with a screw the installer can see, not glue that cannot come apart
- left and right if the room has a mirrored pair
A parts list travels with the drawing. If fabric comes from another supplier, that fabric’s date is the furniture date. The factory will not wait forever. If it starts with a substitute, that is no longer the approved finish. The PO says: no material swap without written approval, and what happens to a piece that started on a substitute.
Quantity floor is not one number for the whole hotel
Headboard, nightstand, desk and chair have different MOQs. An upholstery tool on a small series sometimes costs more than the piece itself.
Practically:
- group room types so a piece repeats
- do not add a fourth chair model for one suite if that suite can be local or a finished model
- ask price for hotel quantity and for one-fifth less, to see where the floor sits
- spare pieces for breakage travel in the same lot, not later in another lacquer
An 80-standard / 6-suite hotel must not keep the same mould for the suite if that breaks the standard date. Split what is from drawing and what may be a finished model from furniture import.
Sample that seals the series
- Drawing and material approval on paper, not “ok”.
- First piece. Corrections written on the piece: this edge, this hinge, this shade. Not in a general message.
- Second piece only on what failed. Do not open new wishes on round two.
- The approved piece stays the reference. The series is compared to it, not to a showroom memory.
If you jump to series after a first “good enough”, the hundredth piece drifts. Then you are not fixing a sample. You are fixing a hotel.
Visit the line before a large deposit
A drawing in mail does not show whether the shop can upholster at that volume. Factories in China covers what to look at. For a hotel programme a visit before a large deposit is standard. If you cannot travel, Papillon goes and returns a report from the line, not from the showroom. Lecong shows a piece. Shunde shows whether that piece can repeat eighty times.
Packing is often the first time that custom shape has a carton. Edge guards on guest-facing edges, fabric wrapped against moisture, room code on the box so a suite does not mix with standard, open a few pieces from mid-series. Packing enters CBM. A beautiful drawing that does not knock down means a dearer container. Tell the designer before the final shape.
Sample still takes 2–5 weeks. Sea about 35–52 days. QC above 2,000 USD before loading. Contact with room types and a drawing pack.
Next step
Send the request: category, quantity, and date. You get a reply within 24 hours, with an outline of the total cost to destination where we can price it.
