What DAF does not do
No interior design. No client relationship. No markup on your fee. DAF is a procurement house — the brief, the sourcing plan, the purchase orders, freight, inspection, and delivery coordination for a room a designer already spec'd.
Four things off your desk
Brief
You send the spec list — workshop selections, dimensions, fabric callouts, the timeline window. One document, not a group chat.
Sourcing plan
A costed plan comes back naming every workshop, every supplier price, every lead time. You read it. You change any line before you sign.
Purchase orders & freight
DAF places the orders, carries freight and customs inside the flat 20%, and checks each piece against the order before it ships.
Delivery
Pieces land at the door. Install is coordinated on request through vetted local partners — DAF doesn't claim to own a crew.
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Where the line sits
You run the design relationship. We run the supply chain behind it.
- Brief
You spec the room.
Selections, dimensions, fabric, timeline — one document from your desk.
- Procure
DAF runs the supply chain.
Purchase orders, deposits, production milestones, freight, customs — 20% flat, visible on the plan.
- Deliver
The room lands under your name.
Your client signs your invoice, not ours. Your fee for the design work is yours.
The question you'll ask
Why 20%, not 5%?
A 5% figure is usually a manufacturer's rep commission — paid by the brand, tied to their catalog. That's a different job than ours: DAF represents you and your client in sourcing, not the brand in selling.
20% flat covers the sourcing plan, purchase orders, freight, customs, and pre-ship inspection. The supplier price is on every line, so is our fee — nothing folded into a bigger number. Your design fee is a separate line you set, not ours to touch.
If you'd rather manage the sourcing yourself, the rep model is the right fit — and we're not. If you'd rather hand it off and bill your time to design, that's what we're for.
— how DAF explains the feeStart now, not later
Three questions, then a real Specialist takes it from here.
What “procurement” means, step by step
One Specialist places the purchase orders and holds the relationship with each workshop for the length of the project — you are not handed between departments.