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The premium-quality furniture display will include entertainment units, credenzas, chests of drawers and bedside tables, plus one of our brand new timber tables.

As Creative Space furniture is sold purely through the online store on a made-to-order basis, this is a great opportunity to really see and feel the craftsmanship and quality of the furniture we make. You will soon see the Creative Space difference!

Each furniture piece is made to order so you can choose the exact size, colour and finish to suit your needs. It is locally made in our workshop on Sydney’s Northern Beaches so it can be delivered to your home as a fully assembled piece of furniture, ready to use.

As well as offering a 15% discount off the entire range on all new orders this weekend, we also have a limited number of display pieces that we will be selling at the pop up shop for up to 50% off!

Come and say hi, grab a bargain, and discover the Creative Space difference for yourself!! And if you can’t come in to see us, you can still claim your 15% discount when you shop our furniture from the comfort of your own home. Just remember to use discount code “STOCKLAND” at checkout.

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Add Some Greenery

A highly effective way to instantly improve your home office environment is by simply adding some greenery to the room. House plants add life and vitality to your workspace, improving the atmosphere and ambience. Living plants and greenery also help you to de-stress and replenish mental energy.

Declutter

It is essential to remove clutter from your home office in order to create a workspace conducive to productivity. Clutter can negatively impact your ability to focus, leaving you flustered and unproductive. It is simple and definitely worthwhile to set some time aside to clear out all unnecessary items from your workspace. This ‘spring cleaning’ will leave you feeling re-energised and ready to power through your work.

Give Everything A Place

Following on from the previous tip, it is a great idea to create an organisational system that you understand. By developing a filing system yourself, it will be easier for you to remember where everything belongs. This will ensure you don’t end up with a build-up of miscellaneous items cluttering your space again. It will also ensure everything is easy to find when you need it, so rest assured you won’t be turning your office upside down trying to find a document minutes before you have to head off to a meeting. It is an excellent idea to invest in custom cabinets or shelving if you feel it would benefit your organisational system. This will ensure everything has a dedicated and customised home office.

Take Breaks

It is important to take regular breaks from work to maximise your productivity and decrease stress levels. Taking short, regular breaks can help to relieve stress, calm your mind and re-energise you so that you can get the most stuff done in the least amount of time once you restart work again. A good idea would be to go for a short walk outdoors in these breaks if possible. The addition of being surrounded by nature will further provide you with positive benefits.

Try to Keep Home and Work Life Separate

It may not always be possible, however, it is an excellent idea to have a separate room or space dedicated solely to work. This physical change will help your brain distinguish when it is time to work and when it is time to switch off. Having this difference between work and home will help to minimise work spilling into your personal life and vice versa.

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The majority of DIY furniture comes packaged in a cardboard box, ready to be shipped off and assembled. There is a lack of individuality in these mass produced items as each piece of furniture is identical to the next. In response to this, more and more individuals are turning to bespoke, custom made furniture. With this, customers are able to make adjustments to the design so the piece is just right for their specific situation. Custom designs are also appealing as they provide a sense of individuality.

Leave the Work to the Professionals

It’s best to leave large projects to the professionals in order to ensure the best result and least frustration in the shortest amount of time. They are professionals for a reason – they’re great at what they do. By leaving the furniture making to the pros, you will be rewarded with a custom made furniture that will truly stand the test of time.

Prioritise Your Time

DIY, flat pack furniture can often take several hours, if not days to complete. The process is long and frustrating, with many hours spent indoors trying to decrypt instructions when they could be better spent elsewhere. Wouldn’t you rather spend your weekend outdoors, seeing friends or simply relaxing than trying to assemble a new shelving unit?

Minimise Negative Energy

Let’s face it. How many times have you become unnecessarily angry or frustrated that you assembled an item incorrectly, or that you couldn’t figure out what to do next? Assembling flat pack furniture is a sure fire way to get worked up over practically nothing. How can we avoid this you say? Simple. By purchasing custom furniture that does not need to be assembled, you are investing in a more solid piece, whilst avoiding the all too well-known nightmare of DIY instructions.

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Less Dust & Allergies

Having clutter and excessive material possessions lying around is a surefire way to accumulate dust. This makes the space difficult to clean as there are so many objects to move around. An excess of dust can trigger allergies for many people, creating an unpleasant environment for them to be in. Dusty corners can also seem like an attractive spot for unwanted creepy crawly residents. By keeping only the bare essentials in your bedroom, you are instantly reducing the amount of dust that is left lying around.

Enjoy a Greater Sense of Serenity

There have been correlations made between minimalist living and greater peace of mind. By reducing the amount of clutter in your bedroom, you are able to reduce the amount of focus placed on material possessions. This provides you with space and freedom to concentrate on your health, wellbeing, creativity and relationships. A clear space further enables you to let go of things more easily, lessening the burden of the past.

Find Things Easier

A clear benefit of having a minimalist style bedroom is being able to find your belongings quickly. Creative space creates a beautiful built-in wardrobe, easy to keep organised and minimalist. Gone are the days of sifting through piles of clothes only to go “I don’t have anything to wear.” With a clutter-free bedroom, simple tasks such as choosing an outfit and finding your USB cables are no longer time-consuming and frustrating. It is much easier to find things when you need them if your room is organised and clutter free. Make use of custom shelving units to create a personalised organisational system, perfect for keeping your belongings categorised and easy to find. 

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Bundle and Tie Cords

Long electric cords are unsightly and can potentially act as tripping hazards. They also become easily tangled and are often left sitting on the floor, doing nothing but gathering dust. A simple way to minimise the mess created by long cords is to bundle up each cord to the exact length between the two items it is connecting, securing it in place with a cable or twist tie. This will dramatically reduce the amount of space the cord takes up, ensuring it is less of a tripping hazard.

Clean Out the Space Periodically

It is an excellent idea to periodically clean out your entertainment unit to ensure it retains maximum functionality. By doing this every 6-12 months, it will be much more manageable than leaving it for extended periods of time.

Get Rid of Dated Technology

Do you still have an old VHS player that you never use anymore, just sitting there taking up space as it collects dust? Or a dated cassette player that you haven’t used in the past decade? These old electronics are often very bulky, with outdated aesthetics. They sit unused in many entertainment systems, adding to the amount of visible clutter in the room. Take an afternoon to get rid of anything that has been long replaced or is no longer functioning. This will have a dramatic impact on the overall appearance of your setup as it will leave the space with only the necessary, practical items.

Have Dedicated Spaces for Items

It is important to have dedicated spaces for specific items to keep your unit organised. Large electronics such as TV monitors and gaming consoles would also benefit from having a designated home. This can easily be achieved with custom designed furniture. Other smaller items such as games, CDs or DVDs would also benefit from having a dedicated storage area. This will ensure all media items are neatly organised and easy to find.

Overhaul Your Media Collection

If you still have old video tapes, cassettes or even old CDs and DVDs, it may be time to have a good look through your collection and discard anything you no longer use. Simply put, there is no point in owning hundreds of tapes if you don’t have a working tape player to play them in. Furthermore, anything that you haven’t watched in the past few years you probably won’t be needing again. Everything is quickly moving towards digital, so perhaps even CDs and DVDs will soon become redundant.

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1. Make your furniture work double hard – for example, an upholstered storage ottoman that doubles as a coffee table or extra seating.
2. Go vertical. Emphasis the height of a room and maximise storage by having floor to ceiling shelves. If you keep them tidy and just have one wall of shelving it won’t overwhelm or clutter the space.
3. Get custom-made furniture to make the most of the available space.
4. Play Up the Light. Take advantage of all available light to help enlarge the space. Avoid dark colours – use white or pale colours to increase the brightness of a room by reflecting light.
5. Keep window furnishings simple and avoid blocking the windows with heavy layers of fabric.
6. Use mirrors to reflect light around the room and give a feeling of openness.
7. Try matching furniture colour to wall colour to make it feel larger

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A number of tragic deaths have occurred in recent years as the result of furniture toppling onto children, and new data shows there has been an average of one death a year since 2000 involving furniture falling on children under nine years of age in Australia. A new safety warning was issued in April 2016 when a third toddler was crushed to death in the US by a popular flat pack chest of drawers.

You can help prevent death or serious injury to small children from toppling furniture by anchoring furniture to the wall. That is why Northern Beaches Furniture offers a FREE anchoring service on delivery of all chests of drawers.

“We take safety very seriously at Northern Beaches Furniture. All our furniture is expertly designed and made by professional joiners, so you can rest assured you are getting quality workmanship. This means sturdy, stable, well-built furniture, with no small parts, and no sharp corners. And best of all, because all our furniture is delivered by us fully assembled, we also offer a FREE anchoring service on delivery of all chests of drawers.  Great quality and safe kids bedroom furniture.”

Product Safety Australia also provides the following Safety tips to consumers:

Buy Safe

• Purchase low-set furniture or furniture with sturdy, stable and broad bases.
• Look for furniture that comes with safety information or equipment for anchoring it to the walls.
• Test the furniture for stability: pull out top drawers of a chest of drawers and apply a little pressure to check if it topples; make sure the drawers do not fall out easily.

Use Safe

• Attach, mount, bolt or otherwise secure furniture to walls and floors.
• Do not put heavy items on top shelves of bookcases.
• Place televisions at the back of cabinets or secure them to the wall.
• Discourage small children from climbing on furniture.
• Do not put tempting items such as favourite toys on top of furniture that encourage children to climb up.
• Do not place unstable furniture near where children play.
• Put locking devices on all drawers to prevent children opening them and using them as steps.

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You want to save your relationship and save your weekend from flat-pack hell!

Self-assembling flat-pack furniture is no-one’s idea of fun. With Northern Beaches Furniture, your furniture is built and delivered fully assembled to your home so you can start enjoying your furniture straight away.

You want stylish, good quality furniture that will last.

All our furniture is designed and made by experienced professionals, and we only use the best materials and suppliers across our entire range. So you get beautiful, contemporary, robust furniture that will stand the test of time.

You want drawers that will run smoothly, with bottoms that don’t collapse.

All our drawers are glued and fixed, and fitted with BLUM runners as standard, so you can finally say goodbye to collapsing drawers and drawers that won’t slide smoothly.

You like value for money.

It’s the quality you’d expect from highly skilled cabinetmakers for half the price.

You like simplicity.

You want to do your furniture shopping from the comfort of your home. Battling crowds in high street furniture stores is nobody’s idea of fun, particularly on your precious weekend!

You don’t want your furniture built in.

You want to be able to take it with you when you move, and you want the flexibility to move your furniture around.

You need a piece of furniture made to fit a specific space.

A space that is not the standard size offered by high street furniture retailers but don’t want the expense of custom joinery.

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1. With Northern Beaches Furniture, there is NO SELF-ASSEMBLY – you actually get a beautiful piece of high quality furniture, as opposed to a box of hundreds of furniture parts and hardware, an Allen key and a set of indecipherable instructions. Self-assembling furniture is notorious for creating frustration and arguments. It always takes three times as long as you expect it to – and let’s face it, we’ve all got better things to do with our weekend.
2. You will be getting OUTSTANDING WORKMANSHIP and a quality piece of furniture to last a lifetime that you can start enjoying from the moment it is delivered to you.
3. No more will you have to make do with standard sizes, colours and finishes. This is because we don’t carry stock. Each piece of furniture is MADE TO ORDER so we can offer you flexibility that high street retailers can’t. There is no need for compromise as you get choice and individuality in every piece.
4. You won’t need to visit a single furniture store, so no wasting your weekends or fighting the crowds. With Northern Beaches Furniture you BUY AND CUSTOMISE YOUR FURNITURE ONLINE from the comfort of your own home, and then sit back and wait for us to deliver your furniture to you.
5. Northern Beaches Furniture offers GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY. There is a well-known saying that “You get what you pay for”, and this is particularly so with furniture. All our furniture is made with high quality materials – all our drawers come with soft-closing concealed Blum drawer runners with a 30kg weight rating as standard, and we use only the best Australian-made board that high-end cabinet makers use. And there will be no need to pay a handy-man to build it for you – with Northern Beaches Furniture, building and delivering actual furniture is all part of the service.

Shopping for entertainment units, bedroom furniture and home offices has never been so simple or stress-free.

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