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San Francisco Office(628) 203-98721388 Haight St Suite 1235San Francisco, CA 94117By appointment only
Custom Furniture in San Francisco
Valley Studio builds custom furniture to designers’ drawings, and directly for homeowners. Sofas and sectionals, lounge and dining chairs, benches, ottomans, headboards and beds — made to order in our Los Angeles workroom in Van Nuys by a studio that has been building to specification since 1985. Our Bay Area team meets you by appointment at our Haight Street office or on site, measures the room, and our own installers place the finished piece across the city, Marin, the Peninsula and Napa & Sonoma.
From the House Collection
Pieces we designed and build ourselves in our Los Angeles workroom. Every one is made to order — dimensions, frame, wood, finish and upholstery are set per order, so any of these is a starting point rather than a fixed product.
Sofa 01
A Valley tailoring classic with a pleated slip for every day ease
Chair 02
Simple elegance and comfort for any occasion
Chair 01
Informed by history for the modern sophisticate
Chair 08
A low pine lounge chair with a slatted back and loose box cushions
Table 04
A round oak table on turned legs that opens to seat the whole room
Cabinet 01
Balancing utility with unexpected charm
Chair 05
Bringing a sense of calm utility to spaces made for gathering, cooking, and daily life
Table 02
A meditation on restraint and refinement
Where the work is made
Valley Studio does not operate a San Francisco workroom, and we would rather say so than let a website imply otherwise. Every Bay Area piece is built and finished by hand at our own benches in Los Angeles — our workroom in Van Nuys — then delivered and placed by our own installers. What is local is the conversation and the tape measure: a member of our Bay Area team measures the room and the route in, and takes the drawings from there.
In practice that costs a designer very little, because the decisions that need a room are made in the room, and the decisions that need a bench are made at the bench.
What we build
The work splits two ways. Upholstered pieces — seating, benches, headboards, and wall and ceiling upholstery — go onto hardwood frames, tied or sprung to the drawing and filled for how the piece is meant to sit. Wood pieces — occasional tables, cabinetry, bed frames — are made or specified to the drawing and finished by hand.
A designer sends dimensions, a frame or a reference, and the goods; we build to it. There is nothing to order from a catalog, though the House Collection above is a reasonable place to start if you want a silhouette to modify.
How the distance is managed
Everything that would normally be settled by walking over to the bench is settled on paper first. Drawings are confirmed before anything is cut, yardage is calculated from those drawings and confirmed back to you, and the goods ship to the fabricating workroom rather than to a warehouse. Nothing starts until the material is in hand and reserved against the order.
Before a piece crates we photograph it — frame, deck and finish — so a designer who cannot fly down still approves the real object rather than a rendering. If something is wrong, it is wrong while it is still on our floor, which is the only place it is cheap to fix.
Delivery and access
We confirm access before fabrication — door widths, stair turns, elevator dimensions — and build knock-down or in two pieces where a hillside lot, a narrow Victorian stair or a tight Peninsula landing requires it.
Our own Bay Area team delivers and installs every piece. We do not hand the job to a third party at either end, and the piece is inspected before it leaves the workroom, not after it arrives.
How an order runs
Most orders run C.O.M.: you specify and ship the fabric or leather to the fabricating workroom against the order, and we confirm yardage off the drawings before anything is cut. Where a piece warrants it we build a deck or a muslin first and send it back for review.
Orders start on a 50% deposit, with the balance due before the piece ships. From payment, custom furniture made to your drawings — upholstered or wood — generally runs 16–20 weeks, and when a date moves, it is fabric delivery more often than the bench that moves it.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I fully customize a sofa or chair — dimensions, frame and fabric?
Yes. Everything is made to order, so the overall dimensions, seat depth and height, arm and back profile, frame, fill and finish are set per order, and the fabric or leather is whatever you specify — usually C.O.M., shipped to the fabricating workroom against the order. Start from a drawing, a reference photo, or a House Collection silhouette you want to change; there is no catalog to pick from.
- Do you work with homeowners, or only with designers?
Mostly with the trade — interior designers, architects and contractors — and also directly with homeowners. A direct client gets the same process: a written estimate from sizes, photos and fabric choices, a measure before anything is made, and one design partner as the point of contact through delivery.
- How long does custom upholstered furniture take?
Custom furniture made to your drawings, upholstered or wood, generally runs 16–20 weeks, and the clock starts at payment. That is a general range rather than a date: we give a firm schedule per order, and the fabric has to physically arrive before we commit to a delivery or install date. House Collection pieces and re-upholstery of an existing piece are shorter, generally 10–12 weeks.
- Where is the furniture actually built?
Bay Area orders are built in our Los Angeles workroom in Van Nuys — the frame in our framing shop, the upholstery in our upholstery room — and delivered and placed across the Bay Area by our own crews. Valley Studio does not operate a workroom in San Francisco, and nothing is white-labeled or made overseas. We meet by appointment in the city and deliver across Marin, the Peninsula and Napa & Sonoma.
- What does a project start with?
Sizes, photos and the fabric you have in mind. From those we prepare a written estimate — we can rough one in from your dimensions first, and we always measure before anything is made. There is no minimum order. A design consultation to measure on site and talk through options is $500 for San Francisco projects, waived on orders over $2,000. Orders start on a 50% deposit, and delivery to the Bay Area is billed separately.
- How does C.O.M. work when the workroom is not local?
The same way it does anywhere, with one extra step we take on: you specify the fabric or leather and ship it to the fabricating workroom, and we confirm both the yardage and the receipt of the goods back to you in writing before cutting. Nothing is started on an assumption about what arrived.
- Can I see the piece before it ships?
Yes. We photograph the piece at frame, at deck and at finish, and we will hold a finished piece for a scheduled review if a designer wants to look before it crates. A visit to the Van Nuys workroom is welcome too.
- Who delivers and installs the furniture?
Our own Bay Area team, every time — the team that measures the room also delivers and installs the finished piece. We do not hand the job to a third party at either end, and we don’t hand a finished sofa to a freight company and hope.
San Francisco — By Appointment
1388 Haight St Suite 1235, San Francisco, CA 94117
By appointment only · (628) 203-9872