We moved twice in one year and used a moving company to move the furniture and packed boxes. DH and I packed boxes of all items not furniture and the movers moved those with the furniture. They shrinked wrapped all the furniture to keep dings and scratches from happening. The drawers stayed packed as is. The only furniture they took apart were the beds. The only tip I know is by packing everything ourselves ready to be moved saved a lot of money. The movers charged by the mile plus the time an how much we had to move. A person from the company came and looked at what we had to move to where and gave us the cost before we signed.