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How the work is done, end to end.
Five chapters, in the order a room actually moves: the lifecycle, the costed plan, the fee, the years after delivery, and the honest end of a piece’s life. Every number on this page is a number DAF commits to in writing.
Six steps, one flat fee, no hidden markup.
From the first photo of an empty room to the last chair in place, the work runs the same way every time. The steps are short; the numbers behind them are stated further down.
- 01
The brief
You send the room: photos, dimensions, a budget, a deadline. No account needed.
- 02
The costed plan
Every piece named, at the supplier price, with landed cost, lead time, and the 20% shown per line. Back in five business days.
- 03
The signature
Payment splits 50/25/25: half at signing and approval of the items schedule, a quarter when all POs are issued, a quarter on the closeout package.
- 04
Orders
Quotes compared, purchase orders issued and tracked on your behalf, sourced through DAF Global Connect.
- 05
Freight & customs
DAF coordinates the project's freight forwarder and customs broker. DAF is neither; their costs pass through at rate.
- 06
Delivery & closeout
Last mile to your receiving location, then the closeout package: invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, warranty docs.
- What DAF is
Not a marketplace, not a designer, not a retail brand. The fee is the only revenue: no dealer markup folded into any line.
Every piece named. Every dollar shown.
A plan is not a quote with round numbers. It is the sheet below: each piece at the supplier price, freight and customs at cost, the fee on its own line. Illustrative figures, your plan prices your room.
Lead times are quoted per line, per supplier. A plan states the window, not a wish.
How a plan happens
- 01
Send the space
A screenshot, a floor plan, a budget, or just a feeling.
- 02
We price it
Real pieces, named, at the supplier price — through DAF Global Connect.
- 03
It comes back
Costed, line by line, in five business days.
- 04
You decide
Change it, or fold the work already done straight into the project.
The fee sits on landed cost. That is the whole trick.
Landed cost is the supplier invoice plus freight, duty, insurance, inspection, and last-mile delivery. The 20% sits on that number, so when freight rises the fee is not compounded on freight. It applies once, when a project ships.
Illustrative. A dealer marking the same project up 35% before freight lands at $18,900 before a single freight dollar, and the markup hides inside the piece price.
- What the fee carries
Payment runs 50/25/25, drawn below: half at signing and approval of the items schedule, a quarter when all POs are issued, a quarter on the closeout package. Every message answered by the next business day. Send the brief →
Furniture is not finished at delivery.
Rooms get used, then re-used: kids, dogs, moves, new floors, new colours. Lifeware is the refresh phase of the service, design direction, AR mockups, and a 1:1 exchange window of 3 to 7 years. It is not a monthly subscription; it starts after your procurement closes.
- What Lifeware carries
- What it is not
Enrolment happens at closeout, on your real pieces, with the DAF team. There is nothing to buy on this page.
Refresh a DAF-procured piece between years three and seven and it swaps at its original price, never a discounted credit. Warranty applies per the supplier's terms: DAF registers each piece and relays a claim on your behalf, and does not underwrite it.
The most responsible room is the one already built.
Before anything is replaced, the refurbish path gets priced: re-upholstery, refinishing, resizing, through local trades or the supplier network. DAF does not run a refurb operation. Sometimes replacement wins on cost, wear, or use, and then the plan says so. The decision is made on numbers, not habit.
Refurbish
Re-upholster one dining chair, incl. labour and performance fabric. The frame, the part that took decades of growth, stays in service for another 15+ years.
Replace
A comparable new mid-range chair, retail. The old frame is picked up, and most of it is downstream of a landfill line.
Jump to a chapter
How the 20% works
The flat fee, shown as a line, never folded into the piece.
The engagement →What a plan looks like
Every piece named, the supplier price and landed cost in the open.
See it on paper →Refurbish vs replace
When a room is worth keeping, and what that saves you.
End of life →What Lifeware carries
Design, mockups, and a 1:1 exchange over a multi-year window.
The long arc →