Built-in wood furniture

[Myke4]

Looking for a shop in Jomtien / Pattaya to make built-in real wood kitchen cabinets.

Anybody have a good supplier for good quality with a fair price?

[johng]

Sorry no recommendations but there are quite a few shops along Theprasit Road that you can visit.

[Guderian]

I wanted a mirrored wooden display cabinet for my living room but couldn't find any shop that would do it to the quality I wanted at a reasonable price. In the end my builder/handyman was having a quiet spell at the end of last year and he offered to make it for me. I'm pleased with the results, just the job and 12K Baht all-in. Real hardwood too. Euro Design on Thepprasit might have produced a better finish that looked like it came from a factory rather than being hand-made, but they wanted over 50K Baht for it. Try asking around for a carpenter to do it for you, or get your wife or teelac to look for somebody if you can't find a suitable shop, I'm very happy with my custom-built cabinet.

[johng]

2 hours ago, Myke4 said:

good quality with a fair price?

Remember too  that   "good quality and fair price"   are normally diametrically opposed

plus the tropical insects that love wood..except for hardwood  and hardwood is expensive

(except if builder/handyman was having a quiet spell and happens to have some leftover from something else   ???? )

 

Lots of Thai's go for the concrete/tile cabinets with plastic doors and granite or tiles worktops, long lasting no rot easy to clean  no insect damage.

[Myke4]

 

On 2/22/2019 at 2:35 PM, johng said:

Remember too  that   "good quality and fair price"   are normally diametrically opposed

Fair price=paying a price that is in line with value and quality received. Not cheap and not overly expensive.

[Myke4]

There must be people that have had good experiences with built-in kitchen cabinet/furniture builders. I would appreciate that info being shared.

 

Thanks.

[KittenKong]

I've been looking for someone to do some fitted cupboards/wardrobes here for years. Prices are generally silly and quality seems to be a gamble. And more or less everyone I asked only works with laminated MDF, not solid wood. I could put up with MDF but only at MDF prices, not at solid wood prices.

I tried all the shops along Thepprasit and also a selection of specialist factories way out on the darkside.

[KittenKong]

On 2/22/2019 at 2:18 PM, Guderian said:

In the end my builder/handyman was having a quiet spell at the end of last year and he offered to make it for me. I'm pleased with the results, just the job and 12K Baht all-in. Real hardwood too. Euro Design on Thepprasit might have produced a better finish that looked like it came from a factory rather than being hand-made, but they wanted over 50K Baht for it.

What were the dimensions of your 12kB cabinet?

Most quotes I have had have been around 16-18kB/linear metre for a floor-to-ceiling unit. And that's in laminated MDF, not wood. "It's the Pattaya price" I was told.
So I even drove to Sattahip looking for someone who might be able to do it, but found no-one. Lots of noodle shops and motorbike repair shops though.

[johng]

If none of the shops on Theprasit are  any good !!! (shocking)   you could try

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@12.8515237,100.9088295,3a,41.2y,100.77h,83.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2vkDv6lk4o05hs55Z44AAw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

they make tables chairs and  vendor stands   from "proper" wood  I'm sure they could make something  maybe not "built in" though  stand alone   bolt on later...this will not be fine marquetry standard woodworking ????

 

the shop just before the one shown on the map sells reclaimed wood, if you want a laugh and big shock stop in there and ask the price of their wood !!!!!!

 

[KittenKong]

20 minutes ago, johng said:

If none of the shops on Theprasit are  any good !!! (shocking)   you could try

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@12.8515237,100.9088295,3a,41.2y,100.77h,83.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2vkDv6lk4o05hs55Z44AAw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I did actually spot that place when driving past, but the display of tacky furniture at the front put me off. I'll go and have a closer look though.

[johng]

Sorry about the blurry photo,  the sign says  woodworking and metal work undertaken  they make it right there

and can probably make any style you want..not just the tacky stuff !  ????

 

 

 

[JaiLai]

15 hours ago, johng said:

Sorry about the blurry photo,  the sign says  woodworking and metal work undertaken  they make it right there

and can probably make any style you want..not just the tacky stuff !  ????

 

 

 

If those table and chairs are examples of the work it looks like something you make at woodwork at school when you're about 12 years old!!

 

It'd last 5 minutes - utter junk!

[giddyup]

Never understood why solid wood furniture is so expensive in Thailand. When I was after bedside tables I saw some outside Big C extra in Pattaya that weren't too bad, made from rubberwood, but they were more expensive than something similar made in the UK from Oak. Given the substantial difference in labor costs I really don't know how they justify the prices of decent furniture here.

[johng]

40 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Never understood why solid wood furniture is so expensive in Thailand.

I got a feeling its to do with the  antiquated law about logging..until just very recently you couldn't even cut down a hardwood/protected species tree on your own land without getting permission from the government..

maybe (now the law has changed) in a few years people will feel encouraged enough to use their land for sustainable forests and timber prices come down ????   its very frustrating going to all the shops and the only furniture they have is the fall to pieces once wet fiberboard crap at prices equal to proper wood in Europe  ????

[giddyup]

4 hours ago, johng said:

I got a feeling its to do with the  antiquated law about logging..until just very recently you couldn't even cut down a hardwood/protected species tree on your own land without getting permission from the government..

maybe (now the law has changed) in a few years people will feel encouraged enough to use their land for sustainable forests and timber prices come down ????   its very frustrating going to all the shops and the only furniture they have is the fall to pieces once wet fiberboard crap at prices equal to proper wood in Europe  ????

Why not import timber as a lot of countries do? Maybe the import duties are prohibitive for that as well.

[KittenKong]

On 2/25/2019 at 4:26 PM, KittenKong said:

I did actually spot that place when driving past, but the display of tacky furniture at the front put me off. I'll go and have a closer look though.

I did go and have a closer look. The furniture is very cheaply made: off-cuts of soft wood stapled together. Surely cheap enough, but not right for me.

[KittenKong]

8 hours ago, giddyup said:

Never understood why solid wood furniture is so expensive in Thailand.

Most things seem to be ridiculously expensive here.