Sęk: solid wood furniture made to measure · Bydgoszcz

02What I did

1. 01

   A folding rule that measures the whole shop

   The first screen shows a table photographed from above, and a wooden carpenter’s folding rule unfolds on its top, segment by segment, up to “200”. Next to it appears “200 cm, seats up to 8”. The animation plays once, and with reduced motion the rule is simply shown unfolded. The same rule comes back in the configurator, where you set the table length by dragging its end, and in the footer. Anyone who has ever measured a piece of furniture gets it at once: everything here is made to measure.

2. 02

   A configurator with a price nobody can tamper with

   Length from 120 to 300 cm is set by dragging in 5 cm steps or typed to the centimetre, plus width, wood (oak, ash, American walnut), top thickness, edge, legs, oil and a 50 cm extension. The top and side drawings of the table change at once, and so do the number of seats (60 cm per person), lead time and price. The price is worked out by the shop’s server from rates set in the dashboard, and the basket calculates it again from the dimensions, so nobody can change it in the browser. A finished design can be sent as a link, for example to the rest of the household.

3. 03

   “Will it fit?”

   After the price, the second question every table buyer asks is whether it will fit their dining room. The planner answers with a drawing: enter the room size and it shows the table, chairs and walking space behind the chairs (75, 80 or 90 cm) from above, including a version with the table against a wall and a bench. The result is spelled out in words, for example “The largest we recommend: 270 × 110 cm”, and one button carries that size over to the configurator. It works in centimetres or inches.

4. 04

   Three languages and three currencies with no subscription

   Translations run on the free version of Polylang with my own WooCommerce integration: every piece of furniture, category and variant has a Polish, English and German version, price and stock are shared, there is one basket for all languages, and the order arrives in the buyer’s language. Prices in the dashboard are in zlotys, and the shop converts them to euros and pounds itself at the National Bank of Poland mid rate, fetched once a day, with a margin and rounding set in the dashboard. Each order stores the currency, the rate and its date. The owner pays nothing each year for language or currency plugins.

5. 05

   Honest delivery to four countries

   A table shows delivery time and cost for Poland, Germany, Austria and the UK, separately for courier and pallet. A UK customer sees the price without Polish VAT everywhere, the same in the configurator, basket and order, and the site says plainly that they will pay UK import VAT and a clearance fee on delivery, with the GOV.UK source. Returns are clear too: furniture from the regular range can be returned within 14 days, a made-to-measure table cannot, which is why the customer gets a drawing to approve before any wood is cut.

6. 06

   A dashboard every shop owner knows

   The shop runs on WooCommerce, so products, variants, orders and stock are handled in a dashboard most shop owners already know. The site shows screenshots of it: the furniture list in three languages, an order in euros with the NBP rate, and the rates the table price is calculated from. For the undecided there are samples of the three woods, refunded when a table is ordered, and a form for an unusual size or shape, where buyers can attach a photo of their dining room.

7. 07

   Honestly labelled

   The business, reviews and contact details are made up, which the bar at the top of the page and the footer both say. An order can be placed all the way through, but the payment is a test one and takes no money, and instead of an email the confirmation page shows a preview of it. VAT is simplified: 23% for Poland, Germany and Austria, while a real shop would account for sales to other EU countries under the OSS scheme, which the site also says. The photos are AI-generated.