Interior designers and furniture

Mimbres Rattan on the Cabarete side of Sosua.   Super quality furniture and they create built ins.  The company was founded by a German cabinetmaker and designer, very well trained in Germany.   It's run today by his widow and most efficiently.    They will make chairs etc. or work with you on custom designs.   Not cheap, but then you are paying for good wood materials and rattan and quality.   

@maxdoxie If you are talking about bringing in a container with residency, it is definitely worth it! If not with residency and the exoneration of import duty on personal/household items, it will be quite expensive!

Hi crz300 and ddmcghee,

Thank you for your replies and information contained therein.

I'll check out Mimbres Rattan - they sound great.

If we do decide/cost out a partial container from Miami to the DR we'd use an intermediary with Dominican residency asuming our own is delayed until the final payment on the property we've "bought" goes through early next year - when we'd want to be moving furniture in.

I've found a few useful comments in older post along simialr lines to my own - alas as yet no website where someone has consolidated all the information - might be tempted...

Max 

@maxdoxie Just to be clear, the exoneration of import duty is a one-time deal and must be done in the first 6 months of your residency. If the timing works with the other person’s residency and they want to go through the process with Aduanas on your behalf, that's great, but they would be foregoing their own container, or if you combine in one container, you risk it not being approved for exoneration if there are duplicate items that tip them off that its two households.

I want to add to the comment from DDMcghee.  Why does it matter if there are 2 of the same appliance (for example).  If you have a big house, you might want one fridge in the garage, one in the kitchen, another in a room in the other end of the house, maybe even on the covered patio outside,   Although they might question it, maybe its not a good idea and they should do as recommended.