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DESIGN
IN SEARCH OF THE RIGHT PIECE
This Oakville company customizes furnishings to ensure customers get perfect items for their homes
SOMETIMES, IT’S DIFFICULT to find just the right piece of furniture: that console table is gorgeous, but six inches too long; the comfortable sofa is to die for, but the fabric choices leave you cold and, really, you would have preferred a different style of leg. That’s where Cocoon Furnishings has made its name. Owned and run by a husbandand-wife team, David and Glyn Austin – he’s in charge of the business side of things; she’s the creative influence who curates the collections – Cocoon specializes in custom pieces. The company’s new, expanded Oakville showroom, Glyn says, is often a jumping-off point. If customers find the perfect piece there, great; if not, no problem. Sometimes they’re moving and need pieces they can have right away; other times they’re planning a whole new look. “Our design team will sit down with them and really go over their floor plans and what they’re doing and put together a whole home,” says David. “We’re not just trying to sell them what we have on the floor. We always say, ‘Try our chair for how it fits.’ Once you figure out what you’re looking for, it’s easy to pick the arms, the legs, the fabric. “Sometimes, people are scaling down. They may have room for only a 21-inch side table and they can’t find it. We’ll make it for them in any size, wood species, or finish.” Their custom-made pieces are produced locally.
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