Breckenridge, Granby and Dillon: Three Mountain Homes Installed from Denver

Furnishing a house in the mountains starts a long way from the mountains. For one Colorado interior design firm, every mountain home furniture installation begins at our Denver warehouse, where the firm's vendors ship each project's pieces weeks before install day. Since January 2025 the firm has sent our Denver crew to more than 20 homes in the high country. This case study follows three of them: a Breckenridge home in June 2025, a Granby home the following week, and a Dillon home the week before Thanksgiving.

The three projects at a glance

All three orders were received, held and loaded at our Denver warehouse, and our own Denver crew carried every piece into each house.

One warehouse for every vendor

A mountain home is furnished from dozens of sources, and a house at the end of a mountain road is a poor place to take in a stream of freight deliveries. The firm has its vendors ship to our Denver warehouse instead, under each project's name. Each delivery is checked in, photographed in its packaging and checked against the list the firm sent us, and the pieces stay with us until the install dates are set.

Breckenridge: three days in June

The first home is in Breckenridge. On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, the truck was loaded at the Denver warehouse by about 7:30 in the morning, with the rugs and the larger pieces going on first. On the way, the crew collected a rug and boxed artwork from the design firm that had not been shipped to Denver, and it reached the house late that morning.

The house sits on several levels joined by open timber stairs. Before anything came off the truck, the firm's placement boards went up on the walls, one printed sheet for each room showing its furniture, rug, lighting and art. The crew also carried a printed floor plan and placement guide, so every piece had a known room before it was carried in, and drop cloths covered the new wood floors.

Everything from Denver was carried in on the first day, and the crew worked into the evening. The living areas got two sofas facing a stone fireplace, a gray modular sectional and four leather lounge chairs, and a long dining table took twelve chairs. The built-in wood beds and the bunk room's timber bunks were fitted with two king, two queen and six twin mattresses and then made up. On the decks, an outdoor sofa, lounge chairs and a dining table with ten chairs face the forest.

The order also carried what a guest-ready home needs, from cookware, small appliances and tableware to towels, bedding, luggage racks and books for the shelves, along with framed art and a floor mirror. The second and third days went to assembly, placement and the finishing touches, and the work was done by early afternoon on Friday.

Granby: two days the following week

Four days later the crew was in Grand County, at a home in Granby with walls of glass looking out over aspen trees. The route from Denver crosses Berthoud Pass, so the truck was loaded by about 7 on the morning of Tuesday, June 10. The day before, our team had collected an ottoman with a sliding tray top from a local furniture store, so that it could go up with the rest of the order.

The first photos at the house are of the empty rooms and the terrace, taken on arrival before anything was carried in. Over two days, the crew brought in and placed 134 pieces.

The living area got a cognac leather sectional, two plaid swivel chairs and a rocking chair, and a live-edge wood dining table with a matching bench stands along the windows. The bedrooms received two king beds, a pair of wood beds, dressers and nightstands, and pairs of antique skis went up as wall art. Outside, six tall Adirondack chairs went around the stone fire pit.

A few pieces were still on their way to our warehouse when the install was finished. We held them in Denver as they arrived, and they went up in smaller deliveries over the summer.

Dillon: the week before Thanksgiving

The third home, in Dillon, was installed in late November 2025. Two days before the install, our account executive and the designer held a pre-install call to go through the scope. The firm shared its furnishings presentation, with the floor plans and the layout for every room, and its own receiving report, which our team checked against our inventory of what had arrived in Denver.

A custom table made by a woodworking shop had not been shipped to the warehouse, so the crew collected it from the shop the day before and loaded it with the rest of the order. Inside, the house has four flights of stairs, including open timber stairs between the floors.

On Thursday, November 20, the first photos were again of the empty rooms, the wood floors and the stairs, taken before anything was carried in. The rugs went down first that afternoon, from a large pale blue rug by the stone fireplace to runners in the halls and cowhides in the bedrooms. The furniture followed, and the install continued on Friday, November 21.

By Friday evening the photos show a gray sectional on the blue rug, a curved chaise by the fireplace and a long trestle dining table with a pair of bird-print armchairs. The custom table sits beside a built-in window bench, and in the study two leather-topped desks face the windows over a cowhide rug. Mattresses went into the upholstered king beds and the bunk room, with its graphic wallpaper and reclaimed wood walls, and bedding for every room came on the same truck.

On Wednesday, November 26, the day before Thanksgiving, the crew made a short return trip with the last few pieces, which were dining chairs, a sheepskin rug and bedding. The crew called ahead, collected a few items at the house that the firm wanted removed, and was finished before noon. Over the three days, the home received 215 pieces.

What made it work

The first reason was one address for every vendor. Each project had a single home in our Denver warehouse, so nothing was left on a porch in the mountains while the rest of the order was still on its way. The second was a plan for every room before the truck left Denver, whether that was placement boards on the walls in Breckenridge or a presentation and a receiving report checked against our inventory in Dillon.

Pieces that were not in the warehouse were collected on the way or the day before. Finally, each house was photographed empty before the work began, and the install days ran back to back so that each home was finished in one stretch.

Our white glove installation page describes install day, and our Denver receiving warehouse page covers how we receive and hold orders for Colorado projects. For deliveries around the city, see white glove delivery in Denver. Design firms can read about our receiving warehouse for interior designers, and furniture storage covers holding a collection until the house is ready. For other whole-home projects, see our estate install in East Hampton, New York or our whole-home install in Paradise Valley, Arizona.