01The Contract Difference
Domestic furniture is bought as objects; contract furniture is bought as a specification that must survive repetition — across a 400-room order, across a phased development, across a re-order three years later. The product, in contract terms, is the recorded composition: pieces, constructions, finishes and codes, held stable. The catalogue behind this page — hotel sets and pieces plus the whole-house joinery ranges — is administered exactly that way in a programme: the composition table is the contract's technical memory.
Commercial buyers beyond hotels use the same logic: serviced apartments, co-living operators, education and staff accommodation. Anywhere the room repeats, the contract frame applies, and anywhere it applies, the questions are the same — what is recorded, what is approved physically, and what happens when a line is re-ordered.
02Writing a Contract Programme That Holds
- Record constructions, not photographs. A photograph cannot be re-ordered; a construction with a finish code can.
- Fix the approval objects. The mock-up room and the signed samples are the programme's constitution. Keep them, label them, refer to them.
- Price the spares in. Contract programmes include attrition; agree the spares ratio per room type at quotation.
- Agree the substitution rule. No line ships substituted without written approval — the single clause that prevents most contract disputes.
The supplier side of the same discipline is the schedule: one document, versioned, that both sides work from. Programmes run this way are boring in the best sense — the furniture arrives as the room that was approved, and the interesting conversations happen about the next phase instead of about this one.
QBuyer Questions
What does FF&E cover in this catalogue?
Furniture, fixtures and equipment for guest rooms and public areas: the hotel furniture ranges on this site, plus the lighting-adjacent and loose pieces in the wider catalogue. Operating supplies and kitchen equipment are outside this range — the schedule will say where the FF&E package stops.
How is an FF&E budget held?
By line-level substitution with the change named: a different casegood construction, a simplified finish set, a reduced public-area list. The FF&E schedule keeps quantities by room type so substitutions reprice cleanly. See the cost-factors guide in the blog for the method.
When should FF&E start relative to construction?
Earlier than most projects allow. Furniture production and consolidation sit between design freeze and installation; our FF&E timeline guide walks the stages and the decisions that gate each one.
Can one supplier carry furniture, floors and bathrooms?
That is the structure offered here: hotel furniture, commercial flooring, bathroom vanities and sanitary ware in one schedule. Confirm the full scope in the quotation — the package is defined by what is written in it.
Working on a project materials list?
Send the BOQ, drawings or room schedule. The team replies with a materials schedule, per-item quotation and the certificates available for the items on your list.