‘We wanted to turn our new house into a home, but with delays, that wasn’t possible’: what you can do to avoid furniture delays

For LLI Design, who work on interior, architecture, lighting, landscape and furniture design, furniture delays are part of the parcel of their work.

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Before moving into their new home in Oxfordshire in May 2021, Mark Hawley and his partner Tassilo Tochatschek ordered a raft of new furniture for when they arrived: sofas, beds, a kitchen table – everything, except the two desks and office chairs they brought with them.

By July, however, they were still without lamps, bedside tables, drawers, a kitchen table and two sofas, despite ordering both the table and sofas in March.