Every interior project ends the same way: months of orders from a dozen vendors must arrive somewhere, survive inspection, wait their turn, and then appear in the client's home in one choreographed day. That somewhere is us: freight received and inspected as it lands, stored by project, and delivered white-glove on the installation date you promised the client. Designers describe the difference simply: install day stops being terrifying.
Your orders land here instead of the client's garage: checked against POs, damage caught on arrival, and held until the reveal.
The Back-of-House Your Design Practice Has Been Missing
Design projects generate a freight problem no client's home can absorb: sofas arriving in March for a July install, lighting from three vendors, casegoods on a truck with a four-hour delivery window, and the certainty that something will arrive damaged and must be caught while the claim window is open. Royalty Moving & Storage runs receiving the way design workrooms need it: deliveries accepted on your behalf, every piece opened and inspected against the PO, damage photographed and reported the day it lands, and everything logged to your project so you always know what is in and what is outstanding. The reporting matters as much as the shelf space: a weekly received-versus-outstanding view tells you which vendors to chase while there is still calendar left to chase them.
Pieces hold in secure storage organized by project and client, for weeks or for the whole procurement season. When installation day comes, the entire project loads in reveal order and delivers white-glove: blanket-wrapped, carried in clean, placed to your floor plan, assembled, and the debris hauled so the photographs can happen the same afternoon. Reveal-day staging can include art and mirror placement support, area rug rolling and placement, and the patient repositioning that styling sessions demand.
Six pieces of the back-of-house service design projects run on. Each piece removes a failure mode every designer has lived through at least once.
Freight Acceptance
Vendor deliveries land here on your behalf, with dock hours that fit carrier windows your clients never could.
Arrival Inspection
Every piece opens and checks against the PO on arrival, so freight damage is caught inside the claim window, not at the install.
Damage Reporting
Problems are photographed and flagged to you the day they land, with the documentation a vendor claim needs.
Project-Based Storage
Inventory holds organized by client and project, visible to you, for as long as procurement takes. Storage reports list each piece by vendor and PO, so project billing reconciles in minutes.
Install-Day Delivery
The whole project loads in reveal order and arrives white-glove on the date you set with the client. Multiple-phase installs, furniture week one, art week two, sequence from the same held inventory.
Placement and Debris
Placed to plan, assembled, styled-ready, and every box and blanket gone before the camera comes out.
Four stages from first PO to the finished room. Most practices open their next project's receiving before the current one installs, and the loop simply continues.
01
Open the Project
Tell us the project and the vendors; deliveries start routing here.
02
Receive and Inspect
Each arrival checked, photographed, logged, and reported to you.
03
Hold by Project
Everything stores together, inventoried, until the install date.
04
Install-Day Reveal
White-glove delivery, placement, assembly, and a debris-free room.
Receiving serves design practices across the metro, with install crews delivering to projects from city condos to Eastside estates. Studio moves, sample library storage, and showroom logistics ride the same project-organized structure between client work.
Every designer has run the garage version once. Once is usually enough. The garage system works exactly until the first damaged-freight claim dies of old age.
Typical Movers
The garage system
Freight damage discovered at install, claim window long dead
The client signing for boxes they should not see
Deliveries scattered across the garage, the basement, your studio
Install day spent unboxing instead of styling
No record of what arrived versus what is still floating
Royalty Moving & Storage
The receiving system
Damage caught and claimed the day it lands
The client sees nothing until the reveal
One inventory, one location, organized by project
Install day starts with placement, not cardboard
Live visibility on received versus outstanding
Included With Designer Receiving
The back-of-house standard, per project.
Freight Acceptance
Carrier deliveries received on your behalf.
PO Inspection
Opened and checked against orders on arrival.
Same-Day Damage Reports
Photographed and flagged while claims are live.
Project Inventory
Held and tracked by client and project.
White-Glove Install
Reveal-order delivery, placement, and assembly.
Licensed and Insured
Washington UBI #605117720 and permit THG070945.
Give Every Project a Back of House
Open a project, route the vendors here, and meet your client on reveal day with everything perfect.
Per piece received and inspected, plus storage by volume and the install-day delivery quoted flat. The structure is transparent enough to pass straight through to project billing, which is how most practices use it.
2. Do you inspect everything that arrives?
Every piece, against the PO, on arrival: opened, checked, photographed, and logged. Freight claims live or die on that timing, which is most of the service’s value. Oversized and crated pieces get the same treatment with the appropriate equipment on hand.
3. Can you hold a whole project until installation?
That is the standard pattern: months of procurement accumulating in project-organized storage, then the entire job delivering in one coordinated install day. Client gifts and personal purchases can ride the same project inventory when you want everything landing together.
4. What happens when something arrives damaged?
You hear about it the same day, with photographs and the documentation a vendor or carrier claim needs. Replacement orders then route through the same receiving loop.
5. Do your crews do the actual installation?
Placement, assembly, and positioning to your plan, yes: furniture set, casegoods assembled, art and mirrors staged for your hang decisions, and the room debris-free for photography. Call (206) 278-2134 to walk through an install-day scope.
6. Can you receive for multiple projects at once?
Yes, with each client’s inventory held and reported separately. Established practices run continuous receiving with us across their whole project slate. Practices with steady volume get standing rates, which makes proposal-stage budgeting simpler.
7. Are you insured for high-value designer goods?
Yes. Royalty Moving & Storage operates under Washington UBI #605117720 and household goods permit THG070945, with declared-value coverage suited to the pieces design projects actually contain.
