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The Pearl Collective Podcast

A few weeks after Market I had the pleasure of being a guest on The Pearl Collective's podcast.  We filled the hour with a bunch of information about Ted Scott Designs, how we run the company and why our business model is so different than other factories.  More than...

Custom Lead Times – Why so Long?

Lead times are always a sticky situation in building furniture.  Once a client gives the green light for their designer to move on a project everything goes into warp speed in their mind.  It doesn't matter if it took the client months to make a decision - once that...

Showroom Information

Ted Scott Designs operates a to-the-trade-only showroom that is open during Market and by appointment in cooperation with custom art vendor, Itinerant Studio. Location: 410 N Wrenn Next to Modern History, on the block just north of the new Gaby Showroom, next to Our...

Quick Ship Program

We are kicking off the new year with a brand new Quick Ship program on our most popular styles!  Here are the details: Quick Ship only applies to specific styles and trims No customization is allowed on Quick Ship items including changes to dimensions, skirts,...

Introducing Ted Scott Designs

We know we kinda surprised you with this new name and we’re sure you have questions!  Here are some of the questions we would ask if we were you.  If we forgot something - let us know!  We’ll gladly answer any questions or concerns you may have! Why is the name...

Welcome Brenda!

For the first five years after buying the company virtually all customer interactions came through me.  Granted, Vickie was invaluable (as always) with answering questions, handling all shipping and a multitude of other items but the day-to-day “customer service” and...

Understanding Production Schedules

We are asked quite often, "why can't you give me a firm completion date?"  While that seems like a simple question, the answer, I'm afraid, is quite complex. Let's start by looking at one of the "big box" manufacturers - you know the ones with their names on big...

Banquettes!

One of our most requested items is banquettes.  The good news is that we have spent much of the past year working on a super easy to understand, easy to order banquette program and it is finally ready to roll out!  Unfortunately the web developers haven't caught up to...

What caused the long lead times?

For years and years, 8 - 10 week lead times were the industry standard.  Anytime you heard of a plant exceeding 10 weeks you automatically thought the worst.  At least until the Pandemic of 2020 hit, 8 weeks was the standard amount of time it took to produce and ship...

In the Showroom – June 2021

Wow!  What a way to start!  For those of you that made it to our new trade-only showroom at 410 N Wrenn in High Point - thank you!  We had high hopes but low expectations - but you had something else in mind!  You decided to blow us away with great traffic, wonderful...