How do you sell upcycled furniture? (PartOne)

 

How do you sell upcycled furniture? (PartOne)

Over the last year I have been trying to fix my sofa that I brought from a local charity shop about 5 years ago.

Nope due to general wear and tear I am looking at upcycling it instead of sending it to a landfill or taking it apart and reusing the fabric to make some thing new.

But how do I do this and do it right?

So I will look into this and try to break it down

Step one the second-hand sofa.

The fist thing that one should know what dose second-hand mean?

second-hand

[ˌsekəndˈhand]

ADJECTIVE

1. (of goods) having had a previous owner; not new.

   "a second-hand car"

   synonyms:

   used · old · nearly new · worn · pre-owned · handed-down · castoff · hand-me-down · reach-me-down

2. (of information or experience) accepted on another's authority and not from original investigation.

   "second-hand knowledge of her country"

   synonyms:

   indirect · secondary · derivative · derived · vicarious

ADVERB

1. on the basis that something has had a previous owner.

   "tips on the pitfalls to avoid when buying second-hand"

2. on the basis of what others have said; indirectly.

   "I was discounting anything I heard second-hand"

   synonyms:

   indirectly · at second hand · on the bush/jungle telegraph · on the grapevine

So where can you buy a second hand sofa from?

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

14 of the Best Online Second Hand Furniture Stores (List) - Home Stratosphere

What do I need to know before buying a second-hand sofa?

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

Top Tips For Buying Second Hand Furniture - Preloved UK

Three Tips for Buying Second Hand Furniture Online - Live Free Creative Co

The Ten Commandments of Buying Used Furniture | Apartment Therapy

5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Sofa (thespruce.com)

Avoid These Items When Used Furniture Shopping (thespruce.com)

How do you make sure that you second-hand sofa is safe.

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

Furniture Safety Rules for an Accident Free Home (thespruce.com)

Check the Safety Labels

If you’re buying soft furnishings, be sure to check they have the correct fire safety labels. For example, mattresses should have a label stating compliance with BS 7177.

does upcycled furniture need fire labels - Bing images

Second-hand upholstered furniture | Business Companion

Layout 1 (fira.co.uk)

Why are fire labels important on second-hand sofas?

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

Why are fire labels important? - Reuse Network (reuse-network.org.uk)

Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations 1988/1989, 1993 and 2010 : Firesafe.org.uk

Where to find a fire label on a sofa

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

Where to Find a Fire Label on a Sofa - Fire Safety Label (gbfoamdirect.co.uk)

What second-hand sofas do not need a fire safety label?

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

The following are excluded from the controls:

• Furniture made before 1 January 1950

• materials for upholstery of furniture made before 1 January 1950

• goods for export

How can I donate a Sofa?

For the answer to this question I have added link(s) below that you many find use full.

Check for fire labels - UK safety standard for upholstered items | BHF

Winter rising the gardening

  Winter rising the gardening

One of the thing that I still have not done yet this year is to winter rising garden and to plant my bulbs for next year. I always keep saying tomorrow and then it rains or the boys need me.

So my aim is to wineries the garden by 1st December this year and to make sure that I am ready for next year to start all over again.

Volksbolts and KABFA Designs Face masks, Coverings, Redbubble

 Since January 2020 we have looked at using your art work to be sold on face masks and other posible face coverings.

This is something that a lot of companies have been do for a little over 6 months now including ourselves.

Now that the colder weather is starting to set in and Covid 19 is still at the forfrount of most health issues, manyu people are now looking at buying mace masked that can be reused.

Redbubble who we have used for a number of years now to market our Art work currently offer two diffrent face masked that can be reused; peoviding you follow Covid 19 guide lines facecovering.  

Redbubbles facemakes details and the designs that we have to offer can be fround by clicking on the link below.

For more informatiom please contact use.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=all-masks&query=kabfa&ref=search_box

UK Produced/ Printed Fabric

 UK Produced/ Printed Fabric

One of the things that I am passionate about achieving for when I become self employed again is to have at lest 99.99% of everything that I sell to be hand made by self or my co-workers and to be made and produced with in the UK.

Dearly I am looking to work with business with in a 30 mile radius of where I live or work.

One thing that I have been looking at if Fabric that is produced or printed in the UK.  I love working with raw materials so that you can then use then to design anything you like yourself and to enable you end product to be bespoke or mass produced.

By aiming to keep my suppliers local I am aiming to create jobs within my local area and it will also enable me to work with these companies on a more personal level.

Yes Could have things made oversea and at half the prices but what quality will I get and what with the environmental impact be by do so in the long run.

SO my aim is to still make a design products for  Campervans, Classic Car and Narrowboat industry  and also people that are interested in natural handmade products with in their lives.

KABFA, KABFA Designs Learning Computer Added Design is a MUST for me in 2020. KABFA/DESIGNS.

Learning Computer Added Design is a MUST for me in 2020. KABFA/DESIGNS.

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/CAD-computer-aided- design

This now that it is 2020I am really trying to just “Bite the Bullet” and set up my own business.

So yesterday I went to the Printwear and Promotion Show at the NEC.

https://www.thenec.co.uk/whats-on/printwear-and-promotion-live/

The moment that I arrived there it felt like home.

For year their have been a number of things that I have wanted to achieve and do with my life the main one to be self employed or freelances.

For this I even did business studies at school and set about want to become a works renowned travel journalist, who got to wrote about exotic destinations, undiscovered place, meet famous people and try something new year day of the week.

But then reality hot me and my dyslexia was to server so that I would be unable to achieve that dream.

The same with Marine and Freshwater Biology I just was never able to make the grade, pass the basic Key Skill Test requirements, 

I was way 3 mark off a Pass, Merit or a Distinction.

At times I even knew more about endangered animals than the staff, writing about an animal they had even heard of and writing in big letters.

FAIL THE ORINOCO CROCODILE IS NOT AN ENDANGERED SPECIE.

http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/Breeding-The-Critically- Endangered-Orinoco-Crocodile-At-Dallas-World-Aquarium/

”SPIDERS ARE INSECTS FAILED.”

http://www.venomousspiders.net/arespidersinsects.htm

This really hurt and instead of appealing I just quit.

Quitting for my became a habit for so long, I was a afraid.

Afraid to feel anything other than fear, the “Dreamer in Me” died.

For year now I have been lost, looking for that one thing that could possible save me and bring me home.

I still write but only for myself, I no long live my life but just exist.

For years I was advised to learn CAD Computer Added Design 

which was form thing that I learned a little of at school, but been 

then I was told that my business idea to design clothing for the 

disabled especially bags was waste of time.

Yet I have always loved my business names that I invented for my dream jobs.

KABFA/Designs being the main one.

So I am going to go back to KABFA.I am going to start again.

So that everyone by 2030 knows who KABFA are and what I do.