About
Who we are, and what we are not
Custom Furniture Adelaide is a referral service run by Loudachris Digital Marketing in Adelaide. We are not a furniture maker. We take your brief, pass it to an independent Adelaide maker who builds that kind of piece, and step out of the way. That maker may pay us a fee, so it is free to you.
That is the whole business model and we would rather lead with it than bury it in a footer. If you want the mechanics, how it works runs through all 6 stages. If you would rather find a maker yourself, the 9 checks we use are published in full so you can run them without us. And if you just want prices, what custom furniture costs in Adelaide has the bands.
Why this exists
The gap we saw
Search for custom furniture in Adelaide and you get 3 kinds of result. Retailers selling imported stock pieces that are neither custom nor local. Directories that sell the same enquiry to whoever pays. And a handful of genuinely good workshops, most of them 1 to 3 people, most of them too busy building to keep a website current.
Meanwhile the people commissioning a piece have no way to tell any of them apart, because furniture making is not a licensed trade in South Australia. There is no register, no licence number to check, and no minimum standard to fall back on. Anyone can call themselves a furniture maker.
This site exists to close that gap in the only honest way available: publish what is genuinely checkable so you can check it, and route each enquiry to a workshop that actually does that kind of work. The guides are the other half of it. Everything we use to assess a maker is written up publicly so you can do it yourself if you would rather.
The standard
What you can check, and what nobody can
What to confirm before you commit to a maker:
- A current, active ABN, which you can search on ABN Lookup.
- A certificate of currency for their public liability insurance, in date on the day you sign.
- A portfolio of completed work in Adelaide, not renders and not supplier stock photography.
- References where the size of the job warrants it.
What nobody can check:
- A trade licence. Furniture making is not licensed in South Australia. Where fitted work forms part of building work, licensing may apply to the maker or their builder, and that is worth confirming with them for your specific job.
- Whether a specific piece will be built to the standard you hoped for. Credentials and completed work tell you a lot, and the maker's own references tell you the rest.
Run these checks on the day you commit. An insurance certificate that was current 14 months ago tells you nothing.
Being straight
The things most referral sites leave out
The photography is illustrative
The images on this site show the kind of furniture a maker builds. None is captioned or presented as a specific customer job. We would rather say that plainly than caption a stock photo as a recent commission in a named suburb.
The maker may pay us a fee
You never pay us anything. The maker we pass your enquiry to may pay us a fee, and the maker quotes you their own price.
We have no track record to show yet
This is a new site. There are no reviews, no completed job counts and no years-in-business claim, because there are none to make. When there are, they will be real and attributed.
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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.