How I Price My Work

Over the years, I’ve gone back and forth a lot on how best to give people useful information about how our work is priced, without either oversimplifying things or being so vague that it isn’t much help at all.

The problem is that the cost of bespoke work can vary enormously. A modest dining table for a residential project might cost a fraction of a large, ambitious piece for a high-budget commercial project. They are both dining tables, but sharing the price of one won’t necessarily be relevant to the other, and vice versa.

My latest attempt to address this is a new pricing guide on the website.

It isn’t meant to be a price list. It does give some broad starting points, but also explains why the numbers can move around so much: doors and drawers, types of joinery, design development, textures and hand-work, materials, and some other considerations.

Because most of our work is designed around the particular project, it’s generally very helpful to begin with an idea of budget. It gives the conversation some context and helps direct its development towards something workable. Hopefully the guide helps with this and also makes the price side of our work feel less opaque.

If you’re curious, or have been quietly thinking about a piece for a while, you can have a look here.

And if it prompts a question, feel free to get in touch.

Matthew