Adelaide metro only
Custom furniture made in Adelaide
Tell us what you want built and we pass it to an Adelaide maker who builds that kind of piece. Before you commit, check their ABN, their insurance certificate of currency and their completed local work. It is free, and there is no obligation.
Popular pieces include dining tables, built-in wardrobes and fitted joinery. If you are still deciding on materials, start with the timber guide.
- Free
- to use, always
- 8-14 wks
- typical table build
- Metro
- Adelaide makers only
Get quotes from Adelaide makers
Takes about a minute. No obligation.
Straight answers
What custom furniture actually costs in Adelaide
A custom dining table here runs roughly $2,800 to $9,000. A built-in wardrobe is quoted per linear metre and usually starts near $2,600. Bedheads and coffee tables start lower, around $900. Timber species moves those numbers more than size does, which is the part most people get backwards.
The reason a custom piece costs what it does in Adelaide is not labour rates. It is that a maker buys rough-sawn hardwood, loses a third of it to machining and defect, and has to build the piece to a moisture content that survives an Adelaide summer. That last constraint is genuinely local. Adelaide is the driest mainland capital, and a house running ducted or evaporative cooling through February can sit well under 30% relative humidity for weeks at a time. A tabletop glued up to an east-coast moisture content will shrink here and open at the joints.
That is the single most useful thing to know before you commission anything, and it is why how a top is constructed matters more in this city than the species you pick off a colour chart.
Easy to check
Ask the maker for their ABN, a certificate of currency for their public liability insurance and photos of completed Adelaide work. Each takes minutes.
Adelaide makers only
Gawler to Aldinga and out through the Hills. We never pass an Adelaide brief to an interstate workshop or a drop-ship importer.
Free, and no obligation
The maker may pay us a fee. You are never charged, and you are never committed to accepting a quote.
What Adelaide makers build
Pick the piece and see what is involved
Each page covers real sizing, the timber options that suit Adelaide, honest price bands and the questions worth asking before you commit.
Freestanding pieces
Built-in and fitted
Makers, materials and repair
How it works
Just 3 steps, and you are talking to a maker
01
Tell us what you want made
One form. The piece, a rough size, the room it goes in and a budget range. You do not need to know timber species or joinery terms yet, and a phone photo of the space is more useful than a precise measurement.
02
We pass it to a maker
We pass your brief to a local maker who actually does that kind of work. Before you commit, check their ABN, their insurance certificate of currency and their completed Adelaide work.
03
They quote you directly
The maker contacts you, talks through sizes and timber, and quotes. You contract with them, not with us. If nothing feels right, you walk away and it has cost you nothing.
The difference custom makes
Where a made-to-measure piece earns its cost
Drag each slider. These show the 3 situations Adelaide homeowners most often come to us with: a room a standard size does not suit, dead space above a freestanding wardrobe, and a good piece that only needs restoring.
Flat-pack table to a custom build
The common starting point: a table bought to a standard size that leaves the room feeling wrong, replaced with one built to the actual space.
Freestanding wardrobe to fitted joinery
Fitted joinery scribed to the wall and taken to the cornice recovers the dead space a freestanding wardrobe leaves above and beside it.
Tired piece to restored
Where a piece was well made to begin with, restoring it is usually cheaper than commissioning a replacement and keeps the original timber.
Illustrative examples, not photographs of specific customer jobs. Custom Furniture Adelaide is a referral service and does not build furniture itself, so the imagery on this site shows the kind of work our makers take on rather than a particular commission.
Before you commission
The 4 guides worth reading first
Written for people about to spend real money on a piece of furniture, not for search engines.
FAQ
Custom furniture in Adelaide: the questions we get
What does custom furniture cost in Adelaide?
A custom dining table generally runs $2,800 to $9,000 depending on size, timber and base design. A built-in wardrobe is quoted per linear metre, usually from about $2,600. Coffee tables and bedheads start lower, around $900 to $1,200. The single biggest driver is timber species, not size.
Do you build the furniture yourselves?
No. Custom Furniture Adelaide is a referral service. We take your brief and pass it to independent Adelaide makers whose work suits it. The maker quotes you directly, contracts with you directly, and builds the piece. That maker may pay us a fee, and you never pay us anything.
How do I check a maker?
Check their ABN on ABN Lookup, ask for a certificate of currency for their public liability insurance, and ask to see completed work in Adelaide homes. Furniture making is not a licensed trade in South Australia, so there is no register to check. Those 3 things plus references are what can actually be verified, and each takes a few minutes on the day you commit.
How long does a custom piece take?
Most Adelaide workshops quote 8 to 14 weeks for a dining table and 6 to 12 weeks for fitted wardrobes, measured from the deposit rather than from your first enquiry. December slots typically fill by about August, so a table for Christmas needs ordering in winter.
Which suburbs do you cover?
Adelaide metro. That runs from Gawler in the north to Aldinga in the south, and out through the Adelaide Hills where a maker is willing to travel. We do not refer interstate, and we do not pass Adelaide enquiries to workshops outside South Australia.
Is it really free?
Yes. You are never charged for using this site, and there is no obligation to accept any quote. The maker we pass your enquiry to may pay us a fee, which is why the service costs you nothing.
Start here
Tell us what you want made
One short form. We pass it to a local maker who builds that kind of piece, and there is no obligation to go ahead.
- Free to use. The maker may pay us a fee, you never do.
- Check the maker's ABN, insurance and completed Adelaide work before you commit.
- Adelaide metro only, so you are not sent to an interstate workshop.