Sheltered Housing in the London Borough of Southwark

3 months of hard work, determination and expertise has finally paid off in Southwark, London where ISF have successfully furnished 9 sheltered housing schemes with a variety of reliable and well built items of furniture ranging from sofa’s, armchairs and dining chairs upholstered in vibrant, durable, patterned or plain fabric to coffee tables, large sideboards and bookcases. Matching curtains completed the transformation.

If your sheltered housing is in need of a revamp of the communal lounge, please view more details on our website: isf4furnishings.co.uk

Throughout this project, the tenants had the final say which fabric designs they would like and the colour schemes they wished to go for. ISF produced several 3d images of each room in the tenants chosen colour scheme to help the residents make a confident decision on their new communal living areas. Each house also received sample fabric of the possible colour combinations to fully assess the fabrics true colour, feel and reliability.

If this attention to detail is what you are looking for, ask ISF to quote for any project you might be planning.

Within one week ISF, unpacked and arranged over 500 items of furniture in communal lounges and dining rooms to transform them for Christmas and New Year. Each house chose such a variety of fabrics and wood stains which made the outcomes even better. At the successful conclusion of this task each lounge had a completely transformed identity and felt much more homely and personal to the tenants. We are pleased to say that all the lounges are used much more frequently than they were before their makeovers.

If you wish to book a consultation, or simply just want us to quote for a possible upcoming project, please call us on 01234 340830 or email us on info@isf4furnishings.co.uk

ISF have just installed 17 magnificent panel glides in Teddington, Middlesex.        As you can see from the pictures, this modern and sophisticated look to achieve privacy is the new and upcoming way to make any large window contemporary. ISF can ensure that each panel glide is to the exact measurement of the window with the correct amount of space to allow for soft and continuous movement when mobile.        

          If you wish to modernize your large windows with panel glides, book your free consultation by calling 01234 340830 or email us on info@isf4furnishings.co.uk or visit our extensive fabric library and showroom.

Last week, ISF completed 2 Victorian Room sets for the newly refurbished Higgins Art Gallery in Bedford. These Room sets were designed for visitors to gain a true beautiful impression of the colours, fabrics, textures and designs that the victorians were famous for. This multi million pound refurbishment to modernise and improve the local and popular Art Gallery gave ISF the opportunity to really show how well we make Made-to-Measure soft furnishings. The intricate and detailed design of the Victorian coving proved an exciting challenge to our curtain makers who shaped and upholstered the pelmet exactly to the millimetre.

This velvet damask perfectly illustrates the extravagance of colour and detail that the Victorians loved, and with the precision, timing, reliability and the competitive prices of ISF, the visitors of The Higgins Art Gallery can now experience a true Victorian Dining Room and Drawing Room to its full grandeur.

If you are looking to have Made-to-Measure Soft Furnishings, please view our website for details and more exciting news of ISF’s latest acheivements at www.isf4furnishings.co.uk or call us on 01234 340380.

Recently, ISF created and installed display awnings 8 metres long to cover the untidiness of two very long display fridges in a very busy and popular butchers in the heart of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The uniquely smart awning was designed and constructed in our own local workshop, consisting of sharp Royal Blue and Bright White stripes.

This made to measure awning has completely transformed the popular butchers and made a once unsightly cooler unit, into a smartly uniformed display fridge. The awnings were made completely from scratch with timber frames which we designed and created on the framework of a brief from the customer explaining exactly what they wanted, which we effortlessly made to a very high and precise standard. This process only took a matter of weeks despite the season.

ISF make all types of awning to any specification and design required by the customer.  We only settle for awning that is elegant, immaculate and professional which we shall produce completely ourselves for very competitive prices. As well as all of this, we also have a wide range of motorised awnings that perfectly make the final touch to any entrance, shop window and balcony, with new collections of incredible modern and innovative arms to make all our awnings radiate professionalism. 

In total over 250 articles were reupholstered or made new by our team of dedicated expert upholsterers who persevered over several mornings before 6am to collect and deliver items before the start of the Spa’s day of trade.

Our work ethic at the spa, along with our product knowledge and team of experts, has always made a positive impact as this is not the first time, International Soft Furnishers have engaged with The Sanctuary. Unfortunately 3 years ago the spa suffered the effects of a devastating fire, from which we made all items such as curtains, roman blinds, cord on curtains etc from scratch as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

3 years on, we have once again revamped the spa with the same tactility, precision and promptness that we achieved the first time!

One of International Soft Furnishers’ recent successes was to install curtain sets, roman blinds and three very long fabric pelmets at the Holiday Inn in Bromsgrove, England. Designed by Charles  Leon Associates, it fell to us to make and fit these hospitality curtains, blinds and pelmets.

Most challenging was the 12 metre pelmet to be made in one piece to run down the side of one corridor in this recently redecorated hotel. How would we transport this item if we made it in advance in our workshop in Bedford? The answer was to make it on site. Our upholstery team pre-cut the timber framework, joined the fabric, padded the front boards and set off with all these and more materials to the hotel to make them up on site. Fortunately Holiday Inn Bromsgrove’s main conference room was available for our upholsterers to make the 12 metre pelmet, another one of 7 metre length and a smaller one of over 5metres in the hotel. Which they did excellently.

The plan was that the curtain and blind fitters were to supplement the team the next day to lift this enormous pelmet onto its brackets and fix it into place. Amazingly, we arrived to see the 12 metre pelmet already fitted. The upholsterers had made it so light yet so rigid that two of them were able to lift it into place and fix it professionally to the brackets that they had prepared in advance on the first day. The rest of the job was fitted on the second day to the satisfaction of the client.

Another example of ISF’s Contract Soft Furnishings Making and Fitting Solutions

ISF MADE  AND FITTED CURTAINS, SHEERS, ROMAN BLINDS, PRIVACY ROLLER BLINDS and VENETIAN BLINDS TO 9 HIGH END LUXURY APARTMENTS in RECORD TIME. 

Ordered by our client just before Christmas 2011 to be made to their design, our workshop produced a complex assortment of over 3metre drop hand headed pinch pleat curtains, sheers, roman blinds and professionally bent aluminium tracks ready for 6 flats for fitting in early January.

 Our order control processors purchased the fabrics, wrote making up instructions for the workshop, cutters prepared the fabrics for sewing and seamstresses made the finished articles to deadline. They even worked through the year end break to get everything ready on time. In parallel, our track makers cut, bent to plan and assembled metal curtain tracks, sheer curtain tracks and roman blind systems ready for the fitting date.

 Our fitting team was organised to install up to 27 sets of difficult window furnishings on the appointed days required by the client. Everything went well to the client’s satisfaction to the point that they added three more flats which we were asked to deliver in just two weeks. Most items under our control were punctually delivered with a few ordered in blinds made by others arriving just in time for the major photoshoot to take place on time.

 ISF is exceptionally proud of having contributed to the success of this operation which was just one part of dressing out the apartments with smart furniture and accessories by our client to enable the developer to market these properties to this discerning market.

Sloping top electrically operated pleated blinds to fit two 4.7 metre high by 2.7 metre wide

windows were successfully fitted by International Soft Furnishers in bedrooms of a superbly

designed new house dressed to sell in the Surrey stockbroker belt in October 2011.

Opening the impossible to reach top blinds using a hand held remote control is simplicity

itself. The gentle opening movement of the bottom bar up the rectangular part of the window

then folding right up to the sloping head is beautiful to behold.  The Cosiflor system open

blinds are hardly detectable as the material folds into a tight package right up against the

top window frames. They can be stopped  at any level on the way down to achieve solar

control and near total blackout when fully down. The blinds can be operated singly or all

together by the press of a button on the controller.
 
Manually controlled lower blinds draw closed from the bottom upwards. They can be stopped at

any level to provide either partial shading or privacy with a view when drawn up to shoulder

level or near total blackout when drawn completely up to meet the top blinds.

Our team worked on high scaffolding to install probably the most impressive array of

electric and manual pleated blinds in just two days. Equally fascinating but on a smaller

scale, other rooms with pointed or sloping top windows were fitted with cord  controlled

shaped pleated blinds. Further windows had woodslat venetian blinds and aluminium slatted

venetian blinds in designer colours.

The window blinds installation throughout the first floor complimented the cutting edge

curtains treatments made and fitted by us at the same time in the principal ground floor

rooms.

The main living room 5.5 metres curtain track with full height curtains stretches across the

garden view picture window. Its ripplefold heading produces a superbly regular wave-style

finish which requires practically no assistance to look good throughout its life.

Complimentary roman blinds dress the two side windows.

A strong feature in the dining room is the imposingly modern 50mm Silent Gliss Metropole

with the same wave-style heading. Full height two layer curtains of a contemporary patterned

black sheer over deep colour tafetta background add to the breathtaking scene created by our

interior designer client.

International Soft Furnishers is partricularly proud to have contributed key elements to

enable the developer of this house to market it with confidence at the top end of the

market. We thank all those who have praised us for our achievements on this fine job.

Finance Manager Trudy George has settled in after afew months in post. She has contributed to the running of the company in particularly in banking, ledger management, pricing, margin scrutiny, cost control and in many other ways. She has already shown to be a great asset to our team.
Sales and Marketing Manager Kevin Lawrence has extensive experience in contract furnishings. Formerly National Sales Manager  with office furniture and office package deals companies, he brings us the extra resource we need to open new customers by spreading the ISF message of great quality and competitively priced window furnishings for all types of commercial and institutional situations.

Latest Job
How dow you make a garden seat cushions for a built-in semi-circular garden seat? Well, with the close attention and patience ISF brings to this kind of job. Not only does the back curve for about  4 metres but it slopes at the same time. It takes templates, foam cut to shape, testing and skilled cover sewing to achieve this result. I am glad to say that the great many of our people who were involved got a perfect fit the first time!

Just an example of our custom making upholstered furniture and cushion to order.

Williams and our own senior interior designer Rachael Ives to create these stunning window

treatments, fabric wall panel and fabuolus cushions. Even though the room itself is not

finished we are so excited by the soft furnishings we thought that it was worth posting this

news and images as an example of our work in response to this particular requested design

style.  Greg Kostin.