How long does it take from the keys to a furnished property?

It is set by the slowest supplier rather than by us, and the slowest supplier is almost always the sofa or anything made to measure. A topping-up job can be days. A full fit-out planned in advance, with the ordering done before handover, is usually weeks rather than months. A full fit-out started from a blank page in August, when suppliers are on holiday, is the version that goes badly. ⚠️ Real timings from our current projects go here once Samuel confirms them.

Does anything come with the property?

It depends entirely on what you bought. New builds are usually handed over bare, sometimes without even light fittings, though the kitchen and the bathrooms are installed. Resale properties vary from completely empty to fully furnished, and where furniture is included it should be listed on an inventory and that inventory is checked before handover. What is on it is the starting point for everything else.

Can I choose the finishes in a new build before it is completed?

On most developments, yes. You typically choose materials, surfaces and colours, most often in the kitchen and the bathrooms, and some developers will allow layout changes such as moving a partition. The window closes long before handover, so it is worth asking about early rather than discovering it has passed.

Should I buy furniture in Spain or bring it from Czechia?

Buy here, in almost every case. Transport costs more than people expect, a warranty claim on something bought in Czechia is close to unusable from Spain, and anything that breaks needs to be replaceable locally, which matters far more if the property will be let. The exception is a small number of things you personally care about, and those travel in a car rather than in a lorry.

Can you help if you did not sell me the property?

Yes. The recommendation and the advice do not depend on where the property came from and there is nothing to buy from us either way, so there is no reason for it to be conditional. The one practical limit is geography: a designer who has to stand in the property has to be able to get to it, so this works on the Costa del Sol rather than anywhere in Spain.

What if I only need a few things?

Then say so, because a full fit-out is the wrong shape for a short list and it is the most common mistake on this page. Tell us what is missing and we will tell you where to get it. For a handful of items ordering them yourself is often faster than involving a designer at all, and that is a legitimate answer rather than us declining to help.

Who deals with the community about the lift and the deliveries?

Whoever is running the fit-out on the ground, which in practice means the designer or their fitters, coordinated with whoever holds the keys. Larger buildings usually require the lift to be booked and protected for a delivery, some restrict the hours work can happen, and a few require notice in writing. It is a small thing that stops a delivery dead when nobody has done it, so ask who is responsible for it before anything ships. If the property is under our management, the access side of that is already ours.

What does this cost me?

Nothing. Recommending the designer and advising you on the furnishing are free, and there is no membership, no retainer and nothing to sign. What you pay for is the design work and the furniture, quoted and invoiced by the designer and the suppliers.

Services

Property furnishing and equipment on the Costa del Sol, even when you are in your home country

Signing at the notary does not make a property usable. It has to be furnished, equipped and working, and for most of our buyers that has to happen while they are two thousand kilometres away. This is not something we sell you. We recommend an interior designer we have worked with for years, and everything on this page, what goes on the list, what a fit-out for guests needs that a fit-out for yourself does not, and what it is likely to cost, is advice you get from us for nothing. Furniture is not in any of the purchase-cost figures on this site, so it is a budget on top of the price and it is worth putting a real number on it early.

Two jobs that get called the same thing

Furnishing a property here is either of two completely different projects, and people arrive asking for one when they need the other. Either the property is empty and everything has to arrive, be carried up, be assembled and be plugged in, or the property already has most of what it needs and the gaps are what is stopping it from being usable.They differ in lead time, in how many decisions you personally have to make, and in what you get for the money. It is worth knowing which one you are buying before anybody sends you a quote.

	A complete fit-out	Topping up what is there
What it is for	An empty property, usually a new build handed over bare, sometimes a resale property that has been cleared out.	A resale property that came with furniture, or a property where you already brought some things yourself and the rest is missing.
Where it starts	A plan for the whole property, room by room, agreed before anything is bought.	An inventory of what is actually there and an honest read on what is worth keeping.
Lead time	Weeks rather than days, and it is set by the supplier with the longest delivery rather than by us. Sofas and made-to-measure pieces are usually the slowest thing in the project.	Days to a couple of weeks, because most of it is available locally and nothing has to be sequenced around anything else.
Decisions you make	The big ones: the direction, the budget per room, and the pieces that matter to you. Not the eighty small ones, which is what a designer is for.	Item by item, because there are few enough of them for that to be quick.
Budget	The larger one by an order of magnitude, and the homepage says so in the only words the site publishes on this: the cost can differ by tens of thousands of euros.	Usually a few thousand, and it is the version most owners of a furnished resale property actually need.
What arrives at the end	A property that is finished. Beds made, kitchen equipped, lights working, terrace usable, and photographs of all of it.	The specific gaps closed, with the same handover and the same photographs.
Whether you need to be here	No, and this is the part most people do not believe. It has its own section below.	No.

If you are buying with us, this conversation starts before completion rather than after, because a few of these decisions are cheaper when the property is still being built. What you should not do is arrive with the keys and start from a blank page in August, when suppliers are on holiday and everything takes twice as long.

Do you furnish the property yourselves?No, and we would rather say so plainly than pretend to be a studio. We recommend an interior designer we have worked with for a long time, and the planning, the buying and the installation are theirs, invoiced by them. What you get from us is the introduction and the advice around it: which of the two scopes above you actually need, what belongs on the list, what a property that will be let needs that a property you live in does not, and a realistic idea of the cost before you talk to anybody. None of that is charged for.

What you already own, and what you can still choose

Before anything is bought, two questions are worth an hour of somebody’s time, and both of them are easy to skip. What is already in the property, and what can still be decided at no extra cost.

The inventory is a real documentOn a purchase with an inventory, what is listed on it should still be in the property on handover day, and it is checked. On a resale property that comes furnished, that list is your starting point rather than an afterthought: half of it is often perfectly good and the rest is the actual project.
A new build lets you choose before it is finishedOn most developments you pick materials, surfaces and colours during construction, typically in the kitchen and the bathrooms, and some developers will change the layout, moving a partition for example. That window closes long before handover, which makes it the most time-critical decision on this page.
Some of it can be negotiated into the purchaseFurnishings and changes are part of what gets agreed with a developer or a seller, not something that begins after the keys. A furniture package a developer offers is worth pricing against buying the same thing yourself, and sometimes it wins.
A resale property may need renovation before it needs furnitureWith an older property, expect to replace the kitchen and the bathrooms at some point, and expect something unexpected to appear once work starts. That is a different budget from furnishing and it often ends up at the same money or higher, which is worth knowing before you buy sofas for a room that is going to be rebuilt.

New-build property handover

How a fit-out runs while you are in Czechia

This is the part that sounds implausible and is mostly logistics. Somebody has to hold the keys, be there when a lorry arrives, know which flat the sofa is going to, and be standing in the property when three fitters need the lift booked. That is the whole trick, and it is why furnishing from Czechia is a question of who is on the ground rather than a question of taste.Below is how it actually runs. The designer and the suppliers do the work in it. Our part is the introduction and telling you what to expect at each stage, which is why this section reads as a description rather than as an offer.

The brief, before anybody is introducedHow you will use the property, who sleeps in it, whether it will be let, what you already own, and roughly what you want to spend. Half an hour on a call with us is usually enough to know which of the two scopes above you are talking about, and that conversation costs nothing.
Somebody measures and photographs the propertySomebody stands in it with a tape and a camera. Not the developer’s floor plan, the actual room, because the floor plan does not tell you that a wardrobe cannot be assembled in a bedroom that narrow or that the terrace door swings the wrong way for a table there. Ask for this before you accept any plan.
The plan, and the quoteRoom by room, with what each piece is and what it costs. The thing to insist on is one itemised document rather than a single total, and the design fee shown as its own line rather than buried inside the furniture prices. Nothing should be ordered before you have approved it.
Ordering, and the delivery windowThis is where the lead times live. Everything has to be ordered in the sequence it must arrive in, because a bed frame that turns up three weeks before the mattress is a room nobody can use. Ask for dates rather than promises, and ask which single item is the slowest.
Delivery and installation daysAccess cards, the lift booked with the community, someone at the property for every delivery, the assembly, the electrician for anything that needs wiring, and the packaging removed rather than stacked on the terrace. This is the part that is genuinely impossible from Czechia and the part to check is covered before anything ships.
Handover, in photographsBeds made, kitchen unpacked and washed, lights working, everything tested, and photographs so you see the finished property before you fly. Agree in advance who replaces anything that arrives damaged, because that is the question nobody asks until it happens in July.

Where we do come into it physically is access. If we already manage or let the property for you, the keys, the access cards and being at the property for a delivery are part of that service and the fit-out simply uses it. If we do not, that access has to be arranged with whoever holds the keys, and it is worth settling before the first lorry is booked rather than after.

Can this genuinely happen without me being in Spain?Yes, and for most owners on this coast it does. What you do from Czechia is approve a plan and approve a budget. What has to happen here is somebody holding keys, renting suppliers in, booking the lift with the community and being in the room while things are assembled. The designer we recommend works this way as a matter of course, and it is the same logistics our own property management runs every week, so if you want a sanity check on a plan somebody has sent you, ask us.

Who lets the fitters and the deliveries in?Whoever holds the keys, which is the question to settle first. If your property is under our management, we do: keys, access cards and gate codes are held and logged, deliveries are received at the property, and nobody is in there on their own initiative. If it is not, the designer arranges it with you, and a property with nobody able to open the door on a Tuesday morning is the most common reason a remote fit-out slips.

Furnishing for yourself, or furnishing for guests

The homepage puts it in one line: it costs one thing to furnish an apartment you are going to let and another thing entirely to furnish a house you are going to live in. That is true, and the difference is not the price tags, it is what the property has to survive.A property you use six weeks a year is furnished for you. A property that takes forty parties of guests a year is furnished for wear, for replacement, and for a photograph that makes somebody book it rather than the one next door. Both are legitimate. Deciding which one you are doing before anything is ordered saves buying everything twice.

When you will be living in itWhen guests will be sleeping in it

Buy what you like, in the quality you would buy at home: Buy for replacement. Everything should be something that can be bought again next year in the same colour, because at some point it will have to be.
One good sofa: A sofa with removable, washable covers, and a spare set of them in the cupboard.
Beds sized for your family: Beds sized for the registered capacity, because the number of people you may legally take decides what the property earns more than the nightly rate does.
A kitchen equipped for how you cook: A kitchen equipped for six people who all cook differently, with more of everything than seems reasonable and nothing that needs explaining.
Two sets of linen and towels: Three sets minimum, because a changeover cannot wait for a wash, and a hotel-white standard so everything can be laundered together.
Curtains you like the look of: Genuine blackout in every bedroom. It is the most common complaint in reviews on this coast and it is entirely preventable.
Terrace furniture that suits you: Terrace furniture that survives salt, sun and being left out, because the terrace is what sells the property in the photographs and it is what guests remember.
Your own things, which make it feel like yours: A locked owner cupboard for your own things, and nothing personal left out. Everything visible should be replaceable.

One honest note on the money side, and it is the site’s own wording rather than ours. Where an apartment is used for short-term rental, the rental income often covers the annual taxes, fees and running costs, and for a well located property a significant part of that can be covered by the summer season alone. It depends on the location, the occupancy, the nightly rate and that specific property’s costs. What that sentence does not say, deliberately, is that a more expensive fit-out pays for itself. Sometimes it does. We are not going to publish a number claiming it always does.

Short-term rentals

Is it worth furnishing to a higher standard if I am going to rent it out?Up to a point, and the point is lower than most people expect. What reliably matters is beds, blackout, air conditioning, a kitchen with enough of everything, fast internet and a terrace that photographs well. What reliably does not matter is expensive individual pieces, which guests do not notice and do not treat carefully. Spend on the things that appear in every review and buy the rest for replacement.

The budget that is not in the purchase price

Start with the thing this site already tells you and most buyers still miss: furniture is not in any of the purchase-cost figures anywhere on this website. Not in the purchase calculator, not in the annual costs table. It is a separate budget, it is a large one, and the time to put a number on it is before you sign rather than after.How large is a question with no honest single answer, and the site says so rather than inventing one: the cost can differ by tens of thousands of euros, because it costs one thing to furnish an apartment you are going to let and another thing entirely to furnish a house you are going to live in. What follows is what actually moves that number, so you can see which version of the job you are looking at before anybody quotes you.

What you are furnishing	What moves the number	Where the money goes
An apartment you will let	Capacity. Beds, bedding and blackout scale with how many guests you may legally take, and that registered number drives the income more than the nightly rate does.	Beds, blackout, air conditioning, a kitchen with enough of everything, and the terrace. Bought for replacement rather than for show.
An apartment you will use yourself	Your taste, which is the variable with the widest spread on this page. Nobody else can narrow it for you.	Fewer compromises and better individual pieces, concentrated in the rooms you will actually be in.
A house or a villa	Rooms, outdoor space, and anything made to measure. A villa fit-out is a project with a schedule rather than a shopping list.	More of everything, plus the outdoor areas, which on a house are a second property in their own right.
Topping up a resale property that came furnished	The inventory. What is already there and honestly worth keeping decides the whole size of the job, and it is usually a fraction of a full fit-out.	The specific gaps. This is the version most owners of a furnished resale property actually need.
The terrace and everything outside	Sun, salt and being left out all year. Outdoor furniture bought for a Czech garden does not survive a season here.	Materials that last, and shade. On this coast neither of those is an accessory.

There are deliberately no price ranges on this page. The fit-out is quoted by the designer and by the suppliers, from a plan for your specific property, and a range invented on a website would only anchor you to the wrong number. What we will do, before you talk to anybody and at no charge, is go through the list below for your property and tell you what a realistic budget looks like and what is already included in what you are buying.

Furnishing and furniture

Who gives me the actual price?The designer and the suppliers, on their own quotes, for your property. Ask for one itemised document rather than a single total, and ask for the design fee as its own line rather than folded into the furniture prices. Before you get to that point, ask us: we will tell you for nothing what the job looks like, what belongs on the list and what a sensible budget is, which is usually enough to know whether a quote you receive is reasonable.

What actually goes on the list

This is the part nobody writes down, which is why the first quote most buyers receive is a number with nothing behind it. The list below is the shape of a fit-out on this coast. The third column is the one that matters, because half of these decisions are cheap now and expensive later.

What	Why it matters here	When it has to be decided
The rooms
Beds and mattresses	The single most complained about item in reviews anywhere, and the one thing a guest cannot ignore for a week. For a let, the number of beds is also what your registered capacity is built on.	Early. Delivery times on beds and made-to-measure headboards are among the longest in the project.
Sofa and the living area	The longest lead time in most fit-outs, and the thing that decides what the main photograph looks like. Washable covers if guests will use it.	Early, for the lead time alone. Ordering a sofa late is what delays a handover.
Wardrobes and storage	New builds often hand over with fitted wardrobes and older resale properties often do not. Whether you need to buy storage at all is the difference between two very different budgets.	At the measuring visit, because it depends on what is already in the walls.
The kitchen: everything that is not built in	A property is not usable without pans, knives, glasses, a kettle and enough of everything for the number of people who sleep there. This is the category most people underestimate by half.	Late, because it is bought locally, but it must be listed early or it is what is missing on day one.
Outside, which is half the property here
Terrace and outdoor furniture	On this coast a large part of the floor area is outside, especially in a new build where the terraces are generous and the interior is not. The terrace is where you will actually sit and it is what sells the property in photographs.	With the main order. It is not an afterthought here and it should not be priced as one.
Sun protection and shade	A south or west facing terrace is unusable at four in the afternoon in July without shade, and an awning or a parasol changes whether the best part of the property gets used at all.	Early if it is fixed, because an awning may need the community’s permission.
Materials that survive salt and sun	Salt air and strong sun are hard on finishes, fabrics and mechanisms. Outdoor furniture bought for a Czech garden does not last a season here, and it is a mistake people make once.	At specification, not at delivery.
Comfort and technology
Air conditioning, and whether it is enough	Bedroom units matter more than living room units, because the problem is sleeping in August rather than sitting in August. A property with one unit in the living room is a property with a bad review waiting for it.	Before the fit-out, because installation involves drilling and possibly the community.
Blackout in every bedroom	The light here is strong and it arrives early. Blinds that dim a room are not blackout, and the difference is the difference between a guest sleeping and a guest complaining.	With the window treatments, and made to measure more often than not.
Internet, television and the router	Fast internet is now a booking criterion rather than an amenity, and it is the first thing a working guest checks. The contract, the router position and the coverage in the far bedroom are three separate problems.	Before the first guest, and it depends on the utility connection being live.
Lighting, and what is missing after handover	New builds are frequently handed over with no light fittings at all beyond the bare essentials, which is a surprise on the first evening. Lighting is also what makes a property photograph well.	At the plan stage, because anything wired needs an electrician on an installation day.
The things that get forgotten
Linen, towels and the spares	For a let this is operational rather than decorative: a changeover cannot wait for a wash, so you need more sets than a home needs. One standard, so everything launders together.	With the final order, and it is quantity rather than choice.
A locked owner cupboard	If the property will be let, you need somewhere for your own things, and if it will not, you still want somewhere the beach gear lives. It is the cheapest thing on this list and the one that gets forgotten.	At the plan stage, because it needs a place.
What happens while the property is closed up	A property that stands empty for months in humid coastal air develops a smell, and it starts in the soft furnishings and the wardrobes rather than on a wall. What you buy and how it is left decides how bad that gets.	At specification, and it is the argument for somebody checking on the property afterwards.
The waste, and the boxes	A full fit-out generates an astonishing volume of packaging, and a community will not thank a new owner who leaves it in the corridor for a week. It has to be planned and it has a cost.	On the installation days, and it is in the quote rather than a surprise.

Going through this list for your property is the free part, and it is worth doing before anybody quotes you. If you already own half of it, you should be buying the other half rather than a package, and since we are not selling the package there is nothing stopping us from saying so. ⚠️ This list is our own working version and Samuel has not yet reviewed it against what he would actually specify.

Cleaning and maintenance

Where this sits in the purchase

Furnishing is thought of as something that happens after the keys, and mostly it does. But two of the decisions that matter are earlier: what gets negotiated into the deal at the reservation and contract stage, and what is on the inventory that gets checked on handover day. Steps 1 to 12 are somebody else’s page.

Steps 13 to 15 of 15, and beyond

The final check, and the inventoryBefore handover
The property is checked against what was agreed, including that the equipment listed on the inventory is still in it. That list is the starting point for everything on this page: what you already own decides what you buy.
New buildThis is also the last point at which snagging matters to a fit-out. Furniture arriving into a property with unresolved defects means moving it again when the builder comes back, so the two schedules have to be talked about together.
ResaleOn a furnished resale property, this is where you find out whether what you saw at the viewing is what is still there. It is a good day to be represented by somebody who is standing in the property.
Notary and keysHandover day
The property becomes accessible, which is when a fit-out can physically start. Nothing can be delivered before this, so a plan agreed in advance is what turns the keys into a start date rather than a first phone call.
The property becomes usableWeeks, not days
Electricity, water and internet have to be live and the property should be insured before anything valuable is in it. Then the deliveries, the installation days and the handover. Utilities and insurance are separate jobs with their own pages, and they are the prerequisites rather than the project.
And then it is a property that gets usedFrom that point onward
If it is going to be let, the fit-out hands straight over to the renting setup: photography, the listing, the licence. If it is not, it hands over to whoever is going to look after it while you are not here. Either way nothing has to be explained twice to somebody new.

The full buying process, step by step

Starting from scratch, or starting from a recommendation

The same empty property and the same budget, approached two ways. Plenty of owners do the left column and some of them enjoy it.

	On your own	With Arevont
Finding a designer and suppliers	Searching in a language you do not read, with no way to tell a good one from a bad one until it has been delivered.	One designer we have worked with for years, introduced, and you deal with them directly from there.
Knowing what belongs on the list	You find out what is missing on the first evening, which is the expensive way to learn it.	The list on this page, gone through for your property before anything is ordered. That costs nothing.
Getting the brief right	Furnished like a home, then adapted after the first season of reviews if it turns out to be let.	Specified for how the property will actually be used, from the first conversation. Renting and living are different briefs.
Judging the quote you receive	One total, no way to tell whether it is reasonable, and no idea which line is the design fee.	Send it to us. We will tell you what looks normal, what looks thin and what is missing from it.
The new-build choices	Usually discovered after the window has closed, which is when they become an expensive change instead of a free one.	Raised while the property is still being built, because that is where the cheap decisions are.
Who is there when the lorry arrives	You, or a neighbour, or nobody, which is how a delivery goes back to the depot and comes again in eleven days.	Settled before anything is booked. If the property is already under our management, that access is part of it.
What our part of it costs	Nothing, but the flights, the hire car and the weeks are real and the last one is the cost nobody counts.	0 €. The furniture and the design work are quoted and invoiced by the people doing them.
The language it happens in	Spanish with the suppliers, the fitters and the community about the lift.	Czech with us for the advice, and a designer who is used to owners who are not in the country.

What we are arranging right now

Two fit-outs running as this page goes up

Rather than describe any of this in the abstract, here are two fit-outs happening right now. Both are properties of ours rather than a client engagement, which is exactly why we can write about them: we are not showing you somebody else’s home. The development names, the addresses and the figures are left out on purpose.

An apartment in a new build, furnished for guestsHanded over bare, and being furnished now. It was specified for renting from the first conversation rather than furnished first and adapted later, which is what changes: beds sized to the capacity, blackout in every bedroom, a kitchen equipped for a full house, and terrace furniture chosen to survive being left out. Once it is finished it goes into our own short-term rental operation, which means the people who specified it are the people who will have to live with those decisions on changeover days.
A penthouse being furnished before it goes on the marketA property that is about to be listed for sale, and unfurnished it is a much harder sale. The fit-out here is doing a different job: it is there so the property photographs and shows well, and so a buyer walking in can picture living in it rather than doing sums about what it still needs. Furnishing to sell and furnishing to live in are not the same brief, and the budget goes to different rooms.

It can be handled even when you are in your home country.

How it is paid for

YouApprove a plan for your property and pay for what you order. Ask for it itemised rather than as a single total, and nothing should be ordered before you have said yes to it.
Designer and suppliersQuote and invoice for the design work, the furniture and the installation. Ask for the design fee as its own line rather than folded into the furniture prices.
Arevont0 €. The introduction to the designer, and the advice on this page: which of the two scopes you need, what belongs on the list, what a property that will be let needs, and what a realistic budget looks like.

Furniture is a budget on top of the purchase price and it appears in no figure anywhere on this site, so the most useful thing we can do is help you put a real number on it early. That happens before you talk to a designer and it is not charged for, whether or not you go on to use anybody we recommend.If you would rather organise all of it yourself, the recommendation and the contacts are still yours. That has never been conditional on anything.If the property is already under our management or being let by us, the practical side of a fit-out uses that: keys, access cards and somebody at the property for a delivery are part of those services rather than something extra bought for the fit-out.

The designer's recommendations and our furnishing advice are free of charge.

To be frank

When you should spend less than this page suggests

A new build arrives finished, and a lot of owners need far less than they think. The kitchen is installed, the bathrooms are done, the wardrobes are often in the walls. If you have a sofa, a bed and a table you like, buying a package because a package was offered is how people spend twenty thousand euros on a property that needed eight.With an older resale property, be careful about the order. Expect to replace the kitchen and the bathrooms at some point, and expect something unexpected to appear once work starts, which often takes the total to the same money as a new build or higher. Furnishing a room that is going to be rebuilt in eighteen months is money spent twice, and the honest advice is sometimes to buy the minimum now and do it properly after the renovation.There are no prices on this page, and that is a choice rather than an omission. We do not sell the fit-out, so any range we published would be a guess dressed up as a quote, and the only thing this site says about the size of it is deliberately qualitative: the cost can differ by tens of thousands of euros. Your number comes from a plan for your property. What we can tell you for nothing is whether the number somebody has given you looks like the job you described.We are not an interior design studio and we do not pretend to be one. We recommend a designer we have worked with for a long time, they quote you and they invoice you, and the project is between you and them. If you want a second opinion on their plan you can have it, and if you would rather use somebody else entirely, that is a perfectly good answer and nothing on this page changes.And a fit-out for renting is not an investment that automatically pays for itself. Better beds and real blackout do show up in reviews and reviews do show up in bookings, but anybody who tells you a specific spend returns a specific yield is selling you something. What we will say is which items reliably appear in complaints, which is a shorter and more useful list than a catalogue.Furnishing is also the one part of the after-keys picture we do not do ourselves. Three things are ours: managing the property and holding the keys, renting it short term, and cleaning it. Furnishing is not on that list and this page is not trying to add it. If somebody has to be at the property for a delivery and nobody is, that is a management question rather than a furnishing one, and it is worth solving before the first lorry is booked.

The most common questions about furnishing a property

How long does it take from the keys to a furnished property?: It is set by the slowest supplier rather than by us, and the slowest supplier is almost always the sofa or anything made to measure. A topping-up job can be days. A full fit-out planned in advance, with the ordering done before handover, is usually weeks rather than months. A full fit-out started from a blank page in August, when suppliers are on holiday, is the version that goes badly. ⚠️ Real timings from our current projects go here once Samuel confirms them.
Does anything come with the property?: It depends entirely on what you bought. New builds are usually handed over bare, sometimes without even light fittings, though the kitchen and the bathrooms are installed. Resale properties vary from completely empty to fully furnished, and where furniture is included it should be listed on an inventory and that inventory is checked before handover. What is on it is the starting point for everything else.
Can I choose the finishes in a new build before it is completed?: On most developments, yes. You typically choose materials, surfaces and colours, most often in the kitchen and the bathrooms, and some developers will allow layout changes such as moving a partition. The window closes long before handover, so it is worth asking about early rather than discovering it has passed.
Should I buy furniture in Spain or bring it from Czechia?: Buy here, in almost every case. Transport costs more than people expect, a warranty claim on something bought in Czechia is close to unusable from Spain, and anything that breaks needs to be replaceable locally, which matters far more if the property will be let. The exception is a small number of things you personally care about, and those travel in a car rather than in a lorry.
Can you help if you did not sell me the property?: Yes. The recommendation and the advice do not depend on where the property came from and there is nothing to buy from us either way, so there is no reason for it to be conditional. The one practical limit is geography: a designer who has to stand in the property has to be able to get to it, so this works on the Costa del Sol rather than anywhere in Spain.
What if I only need a few things?: Then say so, because a full fit-out is the wrong shape for a short list and it is the most common mistake on this page. Tell us what is missing and we will tell you where to get it. For a handful of items ordering them yourself is often faster than involving a designer at all, and that is a legitimate answer rather than us declining to help.
Who deals with the community about the lift and the deliveries?: Whoever is running the fit-out on the ground, which in practice means the designer or their fitters, coordinated with whoever holds the keys. Larger buildings usually require the lift to be booked and protected for a delivery, some restrict the hours work can happen, and a few require notice in writing. It is a small thing that stops a delivery dead when nobody has done it, so ask who is responsible for it before anything ships. If the property is under our management, the access side of that is already ours.
What does this cost me?: Nothing. Recommending the designer and advising you on the furnishing are free, and there is no membership, no retainer and nothing to sign. What you pay for is the design work and the furniture, quoted and invoiced by the designer and the suppliers.

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