About · Our Process

How we furnish an office.

Eight steps from the first phone call to the punch list, and one idea holding them together: nobody should have to commit money to a layout they have not seen. The measuring, the drawings, and the samples all happen before you sign anything, and they are free.

Why the order matters

Most furniture vendors run this sequence backwards. You drive to a showroom, sit in chairs that are not in your office, take notes, drive home, and try to picture the furniture in a space the salesperson has never seen. A quote gets written from a headcount. The layout is worked out on install day, in front of your employees, with a truck already unloaded.

We inverted it. Every step below that costs us money — the drive out, the measuring, the drawings, the samples — happens before you spend any. That is not generosity. When a customer signs a quote without a detailed floor plan, the order is approximate, and approximate orders are what turn into short panels, missing components, and a second delivery. Doing the measuring first is simply cheaper than doing the install twice.

The eight steps

1. The initial call — a few minutes

Headcount, square footage, the building, your timeline, and roughly where the budget sits. We ask whether you have architectural drawings, whether you have furniture preferences already, and whether this is a new build, a reconfiguration, or a relocation — those three run differently from here.

By phone, by video, or in person at any of our four locations. This call exists to find out whether we are the right fit, not to qualify you.

2. The on-site walkthrough — 45 to 90 minutes, free

We come to you. Someone from our team measures the actual floor: wall lengths, column placements, electrical outlet locations, door swings, ceiling heights where they matter, and the window placements that quietly decide where a monitor can go. If you already have current drawings — DWG, dimensioned PDF, marked-up plans — we work from those and measure to verify rather than starting over.

The other half of the visit is conversation. How does your team actually work: heads-down or collaborative, fixed desks or shared density? What is broken about the current space? What does a good move-in day look like? We ask more than we tell here, because this is the part that a floor plan cannot be reverse-engineered from.

If you are keeping some of what you already own, we look at it and sort it: what stays, what fits the new layout, what gets repurposed, what leaves. We also note the unglamorous things — loading dock access, freight elevator availability, the building’s certificate-of-insurance requirements — because catching them now is the difference between an install day and an install problem.

Nothing to prepare, and no charge. Details on the on-site measurement page.

3. Floor plan and 3D rendering — often next day, free

Our design team produces a measured floor plan and a 3D rendering of your space. Typical projects come back same-day or next-day; same-week is comfortable even up to about 50 furniture items. Large projects — 50-plus workstations, multi-floor builds, or anything where we are coordinating with a tenant-improvement contractor — can take a week or two.

For projects of real size we deliberately draft two or three alternatives rather than one: density versus private offices versus conference-room sizing. Committing to a single layout before you have seen anything is how a design becomes an argument instead of a decision.

Most vendors gate this behind a deposit or a signed proposal. We do not, and step 6 explains why it pays for itself. Details on the floor plans and 3D design page.

4. Review and revise — usually one round

One working session, often by video, walking the layout and the 3D together. This is where the real requirements surface: the conference room needs to seat fourteen, not ten; you want fewer cubicles and more huddle space; the executive office should be the corner suite.

Revisions often come back within minutes. One round settles most projects; complex ones take two or three. There is no charge for revisions, and no limit we hold over you.

5. Sample delivery — in your office, not ours

Office furniture decisions get made twice. The first time is in a catalog or a showroom: which model, which fabric, which finish. The second time is after install, when someone sits in the chair at their own desk, under their own lighting, and finds out how they actually feel about it. Most vendors are gone by then.

So we bring the finalists to you — chair models, fabric swatches, finish samples, pulled from the Euless warehouse and delivered to your office. The session usually involves the buyer plus two to four employees who will be in those chairs every day. They are the ones who should decide.

Sometimes this happens earlier, when the seating is what is driving the whole project. The order is flexible; the principle is not. Details on the sample delivery page.

6. The quote — line-itemed, tied to the drawing

With the layout settled and the chairs chosen, the quote gets written. Every line ties to a labeled piece of furniture in the floor plan, so you can see what each item is and where it goes. Typically within one to two business days of the layout review.

Where it makes sense, we quote new and pre-owned side by side so the trade is explicit rather than implied. Nobody here works on commission, so there is no version of this conversation where we make more by steering you up a tier.

That drawing then becomes the source of truth for the order and the install — which is the whole reason it was free.

7. Delivery and installation — our own crew

We do not subcontract the install. The crew that walked your space is the crew that builds it, which is why install errors are rare and get fixed fast when they happen.

  • Pre-staged delivery from the Euless warehouse, so the truck loads in one move rather than a partial pull across suppliers.
  • Building access handled — certificate of insurance to tenant services, freight elevator booked, after-hours or weekend scheduling if the install cannot happen during business hours.
  • The build — panel assembly, work surfaces, electrical raceway connection, pedestals and overheads, chairs and accessories placed.
  • Placement to the plan — desks, conference tables, casegoods, and files set in their drawn positions, with real-time adjustments if you want something moved.
  • Cleanup — packaging leaves with us and gets recycled on our end, not in your dumpster. Floors swept, surfaces wiped, before anyone’s first day in the space.
  • Final walkthrough — we walk the floor with whoever on your side is the right person and capture anything that needs follow-up.

One to four days depending on size. Details on the delivery and installation page.

8. Punch list — within one to two weeks

Whatever came out of that final walkthrough — a tweak to the install, an adjustment, an addition to the order — gets handled within a week or two of completion. The project is not finished when the truck leaves; it is finished when the list is empty.

How long the whole thing takes

It depends almost entirely on one variable, and it is not us.

Project shape First call to move-in
Chair refresh or single room, pre-owned from stock Same week to a few weeks
Clean fast-track build-out, around 20 workstations 4 to 6 weeks
Typical full space-planning engagement 6 to 12 weeks
50+ workstations, multi-floor, or custom panel systems 14 weeks or more

The variable is new-furniture lead time. New 9to5 Seating typically runs two to five weeks; new big-name brands ordered through other dealers run six to twelve. Our own steps — measure, draw, revise, quote — are usually days, not weeks.

Which is why, when a move-in date is fixed and immovable, the honest lever is the mix. Pre-owned from our warehouse is the fastest path there is, and shifting part of the order that way is often what saves the date. We would rather tell you that than watch a deadline slip to protect a bigger line item.

For the full week-by-week breakdown of a larger engagement, see office space planning.

Furniture going the other direction

Everything above assumes furniture coming into an office. Sometimes it is leaving one — a downsize, a closure, a relocation into less square footage — and in that case we are the buyer rather than the seller.

That runs as a separate five-step engagement with its own intake, because mixing the two directions in one queue makes both slower. If you are clearing a space rather than filling one, start at office furniture liquidation.

Plenty of projects are both at once: old floor out, new floor in, same week, same crew. Tell us on the first call and we will run them together.

Questions about the process

Yes. The walkthrough, the field measurement, the floor plan, the 3D rendering, and the revision rounds are all free, and you are under no obligation to buy afterward. It pays for itself on our side by making the order exact — an approximate order is what produces short panels, missing components, and a second delivery. We would rather absorb the design cost than eat the install cost.

No. We come to your office to measure, and we bring the chair and finish samples to you so your team can try them at their own desks. Our Euless warehouse is open by appointment if you would rather come in, but nothing in the process requires it.

Nothing. If you happen to have architectural drawings — DWG or a dimensioned PDF — they speed things up and we will measure to verify rather than from scratch. If you do not, we measure the floor ourselves. A rough headcount and a sense of your timeline is plenty to start.

As many as the project needs. One round settles most; complex projects run two or three. There is no revision limit and no revision charge.

Yes, and it is common on build-outs. We work from their drawings, coordinate around parallel changes, and handle the furniture layer while they handle the building. Coordinating with a tenant-improvement contractor is one of the things that can extend the drawing stage from days to a week or two, so tell us early if that is the shape of your project.

Yes. After-hours and weekend installs are coordinated with your building’s tenant-services group, along with the certificate of insurance and the freight elevator booking. Occupied offices frequently need this, and it is a normal part of scheduling rather than an exception.

The final walkthrough captures a punch list, and we work it within one to two weeks of install completion. Separately: pre-owned chairs carry a one-year mechanism warranty from Eggleston Office. Pre-owned panel systems do not carry a warranty claim — they are inspected, the condition is documented on your quote, and you approve a delivery sample before the full order ships.

The full process runs across Dallas-Fort Worth as a matter of course. We also run trucks to Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and smaller Texas cities from our DFW base — call and we will tell you plainly whether your location works.

Start at step one

A few minutes on the phone is the whole commitment. Everything after that — the visit, the measuring, the drawings — happens before you spend anything.

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