Planning notes · Defining the fabrication scope
Do’s Flower · Arirang Dowon · Jangjeongjeong
Store furniture— how much needs to be custom-made?
Before making everything new, identify what needs to fit your space.
When preparing a store, when should you choose furniture? Can you buy the chair you like first? Do all counters and shelves need to be custom-made?
The starting point is not whether custom furniture is better. It is deciding what must be planned with the space and what can be selected as a product and placed within it.
Do’s Flower’s fittings, Arirang Dowon’s built-in seating and Jangjeongjeong’s window seats frame these questions. This article does not classify every photographed piece as custom-made or off-the-shelf.
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Before naming the furniture, name the work it will support.
Do’s Flower’s working list distinguishes sink, worktable, curved worktable, upper shelves and lower storage. A separate document addresses lighting positions within fittings.
The record considers the roles of individual pieces rather than selecting furniture as one set. The completed photograph shows the window-side sink, long worktable and opposite shelves relating within the same space.
For a new café or restaurant, list preparing drinks, placing dishes, storing supplies and handing things to guests. Review selected equipment, service positions and storage together before deciding what needs fabrication.
Published document summary: sink / worktable / curved worktable / upper shelves and lower cabinets; separate lighting references to LEDs, shelves, sink and SUS. Original dimensions and transaction information are omitted. These records do not verify fabrication cost, lead time or in-use performance.
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Built-in furniture belongs with its surrounding conditions.
Arirang Dowon’s working guide separately addresses U-shaped built-in seating, lighting locations, platform seating and a curved table. It includes an instruction to confirm the lighting position before drilling into the seating.
Where seating meets light, choosing an outline is not enough. Furniture and surrounding services, finishes and installation conditions need to be reviewed together.
For a new store’s wall-side bench or service-connected counter, ask both “what shape?” and “what does it connect to?” This makes the fabrication decision more specific.
Published guide summary: built-in seating drawings, seating and lighting positions, confirmation before drilling, platform divisions and curved-table model. Based on the previously published summary of a 20-page working guide; not a claim that every proposal was built.
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Purchased furniture also needs to be chosen within a layout.
Jangjeongjeong’s window photograph shows a long bench, tables and opposite chairs. It reveals relationships between seats, tabletops, windows and circulation rather than isolated objects.
For a new project using off-the-shelf chairs or tables, collect dimensions alongside product images. Review whether chairs fit beneath the top, whether arms and legs interfere, and whether there is space to pull out a chair and pass.
Selecting products separately from designing custom furniture can leave junctions to be reconciled later. Both belong in the same plan.
The existing seating article discusses how guests stay. This article focuses on the sequence and criteria for selecting and designing the furniture that makes those places.
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Between buying and making, keep a list to review together.
01 · Items already selected Collect existing furniture, purchased equipment and candidate products with photographs and dimensions. Mark unpurchased items as candidates.
02 · Parts that must fit the place Identify fittings meeting walls, columns or services, work-specific tops and storage, and seating connected to lighting. This list alone does not determine that custom fabrication is necessary.
03 · Relationships to confirm before ordering Review heights and interference, delivery and installation routes, connected services, schedules and responsibilities. Agree which purchasing, fabrication and installation tasks are included for each project.
These are consultation prompts, not evidence that identical procurement checklists or comparative cost and performance tests were used in all three projects.
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