Marking furniture for the move - How did you do it?

  • Erstellt am 2020-09-27 11:47:12

kati1337

2020-09-27 11:47:12
  • #1
Hi everyone,
we are currently thinking about how we can label our furniture to indicate where it belongs (i.e., in which room).
We will prepare plans of the ground floor and upper floor for the movers, showing which rooms there are and what should be set up where, but we would also like to label the individual pieces of furniture with notes about which room they belong in. I think this will be easier for the movers than constantly having to look at a note and then figure out exactly which cabinet it is.

How did you attach something like this without damaging the furniture?
Maybe I’m missing something, but the only thing I can think of is Post-Its, which certainly wouldn’t cause any damage but also don’t hold very well.
All kinds of labels that stick better carry the risk that when removed, either half of the label stays on the furniture or the paint from the furniture stays on the label.
 

chamäleon

2020-09-27 11:51:41
  • #2
Search, for example, on well-known online retail portals for "labels removable". There is surely something. During our last move, we protected many cabinet fronts with cardboard or bubble wrap and attached notes there with [Paketbank].
 

FloHB123

2020-09-27 11:59:23
  • #3
Aren't you coming to help with the move? Otherwise, that would be too much effort for me. I would only label the boxes. The movers aren't stupid and should know which room most of the large furniture belongs to. You have to tell them anyway exactly where the things should go.
 

Pinky0301

2020-09-27 12:19:40
  • #4
I only know it this way: the movers wrap the furniture in foil to protect it. Markings on the furniture don’t help then, because they can no longer be seen. Label the moving boxes, you can also use different colors. For example, label the room doors in the new house. At least one of you will be there during the move, right? Then you just tell the movers where everything goes. I had stuck masking tape on our Pax cabinets and doors and numbered them so the assembler knew exactly how to set them up.
 

kati1337

2020-09-27 12:38:20
  • #5
Yes, we are involved. Maybe I’m overthinking it. Last time the crew was insanely fast, but it will be fine. They probably know where most things should go, we just have quite a few universal pieces of furniture like Ikea shelves and Besta and such, which come in different colors and should go into different rooms.
 

FloHB123

2020-09-27 12:55:51
  • #6
That's right, here cabinets were also wrapped in foil, so a marking wouldn't have helped. The important thing is really just that the furniture doesn't end up on the wrong floor. Everything else can be changed quickly.
 

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