Grand Designs Live NEC Birmingham Equipment Hire | Expo Hire

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Stand Equipment for Grand Designs Live

Grand Designs Live at the NEC Birmingham attracts homeowners, self-builders, and renovators over its multi-day run. Exhibitors include kitchen and bathroom designers, architectural materials suppliers, smart home technology brands, and interior design specialists. Stands need to showcase products in realistic room settings while handling sustained visitor footfall.

Our EventPro® furniture range provides the structural and aesthetic quality expected at a consumer interiors show. Institutions including the BBC and Cambridge University trust our inventory for high-profile events, and that same standard applies to every Grand Designs Live order.

Furniture to Style Your Stand

Grand Designs Live exhibitors often dress their stands as show rooms rather than conventional trade stands. Our sofa hire range includes contemporary and classic styles that work within room-set displays. The black single sofa and matching Chesterfield suit modern and traditional schemes. Pair with a coffee table for a complete lounge configuration.

For dining room displays, our banqueting tables come in round and rectangular formats, dressed with fitted tablecloths in white or ivory. Combine with our banqueting chairs including the Wishbone chair in beech to create a complete dining vignette.

Outdoor and Garden Display Areas

Garden furniture, landscaping materials, and outdoor living brands are well represented at Grand Designs Live. Our outdoor range includes garden furniture hire suited to natural or contemporary styling. Bistro-style seating and poseur tables work well in outdoor kitchen and entertaining product displays.

Catering on Stand

Food and drink brands, cookware manufacturers, and kitchen designers frequently offer sampling or demonstrations at Grand Designs Live. Our catering equipment hire covers barista coffee machines to induction hobs. Our Send It Back Dirty policy covers all crockery, glassware, and cutlery.

Delivery at the NEC

We deliver directly to your stand number during your allocated build-up window. An SMS with an estimated arrival time and live vehicle tracking link arrives on the morning of delivery. Delivery is calculated from £40 ex-VAT based on road distance from our Birmingham depot.

Online Ordering

Expo Hire covers NEC Birmingham event hire and wider conference and exhibition hire across England and Wales.

All stock availability and pricing is visible live on our website. No quote required, no minimum order. Add items to your basket, confirm dates, and order online. No security deposit charged. For bookings over £500, a 25% advance secures your inventory. Every order includes a Free Minor Damage Waiver.

About the NEC

he National Exhibition Centre is located in Marston Green, Solihull close to both Birmingham International Airport and Birmingham International railway station. Opened in 1978, it has gone through various expansions and improvements to become the internationally renowned exhibition space it is today.

The NEC has a total of 20 interconnected halls offering a total of 190,000 square metres (2 million square feet) of floor space. There are 16,500 parking spaces spread out around the site, with a shuttle bus operating to and from all the car parks. Construction of the HS2 railway project will see a new railway station at Birmingham Interchange built close to the NEC and connected to the exhibition centre by a people mover.

Along with the Resorts World Arena, which is located on the NEC site, the National Exhibition Centre is operated by the NEC Group. The NEC Group also owns and operates Arena Birmingham and ICC Birmingham based in central Birmingham. Previously owned by Birmingham City Council, the NEC Group was sold to private investors in 2015 and is now owned by American investment company Blackstone.

At Expo Hire, we can appreciate the stress involved with setting up and breaking down a stand at an important exhibition and we want to do everything we can to help prevent it. We can deliver exhibition hire directly to your stand – simply confirm your event, hall and stand number when placing your order and we will do the rest.