SME News Northern Enterprise Awards 2023 / 44 Best Residential Furniture 2023 - North Yorkshire Linthorpe Furnishings is a bespoke furniture store based in Middlesbrough, in the northeast of England. It is a boutique, independent retailer that prides itself on offering high quality furniture solutions for all its customers’ distinct furnishing needs. It sells beds, sofas, living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture, with a particular focus on specialist, orthopaedic, back care mattresses, and custom-made bed frames and sofas. It popular showroom is situated on the Linthorpe Road, Middlesborough. Linthorpe Furnishings operates as a one-stop furniture shop, helping customers’ with all of their home furnishing requirements, including specialist bespoke pieces. It has a strong belief in supporting the UK economy, backed up by its decision to work in tandem with a variety of British manufacturers. It enjoys the ability to develop close relationships with customers on a face to face basis, and offer great value services that never compromise on quality. As part of its bespoke services, Linthorpe Furnishings works alongside customers to help design and create rooms that are perfectly suited to them and their needs. Its specialist bed frames and sofa sets are designed to support customers with back care needs, and its bedroom, living room, and dining room furniture can all be specified according to clients own wants. Furniture can be collected directly from the company’s showroom, or delivered locally and assembled in customers own homes. Under its guise as Linthorpe Furnishings The Bed Centre, the company has been serving the northeast area for the best part of 35 years. To keep up with demand, and the constantly evolving needs of customers, the business has adopted a social media presence that includes Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and a soon to be launched company website. Its extensive showroom provides a place customers can come to “try before they buy”. The company also prides itself, in contrast to many other big furniture stores, on being able to provide prompt, even same day delivery for customers. Special order bespoke products can also be achieved from order to receipt of delivery within just a couple of weeks. Linthorpe Furnishings always tries to make sure the service it provides for customers is as easy as possible, valuing a seamless transition from beginning to end. It is emphatically aware of the importance of aesthetic appeal to customers, as well as the need for furnishings to be fit for purpose. Once installed in customers own homes, the furniture usually looks even better than it does in the showroom, and so Linthorpe Furnishings is happy to ensure pictures are taken that enable happy customers to share their new home furniture with friends and family. Being based in the Yorkshire region is advantageous as it means that the company has a wide customer reach. It is also able to provide a quick turnaround due to being in close proximity to a number of suppliers. Linthorpe Furnishings is committed to visiting all manufacturers used by the company, to make sure it knows exactly how items are made, and so it can oversee the quality standards. When it comes to recruiting staff at the company, Linthorpe Furnishings determines to seek out friendly, capable people who are in tune with customers’ needs. It celebrates a personal approach that puts customers at ease, and assures them of trust in the company. It wants people to know that they will receive a high value service that is good value for money, and always designed to be ideally suited to their specific needs. As a 2nd generation, small family business, the passion for furniture runs through the veins of everyone that works for Linthorpe Furnishings. The family patriarch, Mr Ali, has worked within the business from a very young age, starting out in an antique and used furniture store. He has customers who have been returning to him since 1989, and now bring their families to Linthorpe Furnishings to continue the tradition. The company is thrilled about this, and comments, “It is lovely to see generations keep coming back as loyal customers.” Having recently received the title Best Residential Furniture 2023 - North Yorkshire, Linthorpe Furnishings is planning to further expand with its new website and social media presence. It is confident that once everything is up and running, the services it offers will be even more superlative. Ultimately, however, its intention is always to stay true to what it does best, providing quality furniture at competitive prices. Company: Linthorpe Furnishings Web Address: https://linthorpefurnishings.co.uk/ Contact Name: Neelam Ali
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