Archive for May, 2009
I think that one of the most important aspects of sucessful business is a listening ear. The only way you can truly move forward is by listening to your clients and meeting their spoken needs.Throuhgout every day, I spend a lot of time listening to our clients, and I gain so much information from them. Customers can be so very helpful in creating sucessful businesses if we only take the time to listen to all they have to say. Listening to our customes closely determines how we run things around here in AdenWorks, Teak City.After spending a lot of time talking with our customers over the phone, at our showroom or at shows over the years in Las Vegas, Dallas, High Point, Denver and more I have gained so much. Pieces have been tweaked due to our customers’ requests. We developed a custom rich brown stain specifically for our recycled teakwood furniture. We were the first in the industry to design an upholstered line of recycled rustic furniture. All of our designs are created to help our stores and designers sell our furntiure effecitively and effortlessly.It is a pleasure designing furniture for our customers. Thank you for helping us know how we can better serve you. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do for you to help you have great success with our furniture.We thank all of our customes for choosing AdenWorks. As always, it is a pleasure serving each of you.Feel free to call or email me at any time!
Dallas company going green, using recycled materials for furniture
DALLAS – Who would have ever thought that old, broken, used farming tools could be transformed into stunning pieces of rustic furniture? Well, over nine years ago, AdenWorks’ President and CEO Richard Dobrey realized the potential in transforming old farming tools such as ox yokes, plows, wagon wheels, feeding troughs, ox carts, fence posts and dilapidated barns into one-of-a-kind home furnishings.
“At AdenWorks, we believe that using recycled teakwood can not only be environmentally friendly, it can also create stunning furniture with a unique look,” Dobrey said. “We have been utilizing recycled farming tools and wagon wheels for years. These recycled pieces enable AdenWorks furniture to tell stories from the past while also being green.”
Dallas-based AdenWorks has been providing sustainable home furnishings for over nine years to retailers and designers throughout the US. Focused on protecting and preserving the earth, AdenWorks designs and manufactures furniture from an eco-friendly standpoint. The handcrafted rustic furniture is thoughtfully designed through the combination of recycled antique farm implements. AdenWorks constructs furniture from pieces of history that will continue to remain highly durable for generations to come.
The process begins with AdenWorks in-house designer Aynsley Kindig, visionary and founder of the Aynsley Elizabeth Collection. Aynsley enters into the drawing room with sustainability in mind. After deciding what she will create, Aynsley pieces together various recycled materials to create stunning pieces of rustic furniture. One of the artists’ recent designs consists of worn stacked fence posts creating a rugged and organic head and footboard ideal for those who greatly appreciate the qualities and characteristics of teakwood in its most natural form.
Sometimes Aynsley will spend hours at a time in the studio studying everything from plow handles to discarded fence posts in order to create innovative designs. The recycled farming tools provide endless possibilities to bring her visions to life.
“As an artist, it is exciting for me to watch my ideas move from concept to reality,” Aynsley said. “I am inspired by the recycled wood that we use, and it is exciting to know that AdenWorks is providing quality furniture as well as being a green leader in the furniture business.”
Once the designs are completed the drafts are sent to AdenWorks manufactures in Thailand for construction. Antique farming tools have been gathered and stored for the eco-friendly furniture production. AdenWorks uses all of the resources available to compose furniture that is environmentally friendly. None of the old farming implements go to waste during the construction. AdenWorks has found ways to craft furniture from all of the sources available. For example, one of AdenWorks most popular side tables is made from an old genuine feeding trough. The trough has been turned upside down displaying its worn backside. Recycled teak has been used to create the legs of this piece so that it can act as a small end table, bench, or foot stool in homes across America. It is pieces like this that prove AdenWorks ingenuity and attentiveness to the various recycled elements available today.
AdenWorks looks forward to continuing its mission of being sustainable and environmentally conscious. They seek to bring more awareness to the dire importance of sustainable lifestyles not only with regards to home furnishings but to the way people operate in their daily lives. AdenWorks believes this world can become a safer, stronger and greener place to live.
About AdenWorks Ltd.
Established in 2000 by Richard J. Dobrey, AdenWorks is a wholesale furniture company with a variety of styles and a constant goal to manufacture, design, and distribute sustainable teakwood furniture handcrafted from antique farming artifacts. AdenWorks provides retailers and designers with rustic, western, lodge and rustic contemporary furniture collections for both indoor and outdoor use. Functionality, sustainability, creativity, and longevity form the foundation upon which each piece of AdenWorks’ furniture is built.
Dallas-based AdenWorks was created to provide top quality recycled teak furniture along with proactive service and integrity to retailers and designers throughout the United States and Canada. AdenWorks’ environmentally-friendly collections utilize recycled rustic teakwood that accent a variety of indoor and outdoor living areas. AdenWorks’ permanent showroom is located in the
Give your customers what they really want: Unmatched quality furniture that can be enjoyed by many for years to come. This month we want to help you sell outdoor furniture. To help you get jump started, we are offering you savings on some of our most popular tables! Take advantage now! Now that spring has arrived everyone is moving activities outdoors. Pool parties, BBQ cookouts with family and friends, and lazy evenings on the back porch are here. Most likely you are transitioning some of your focus to outdoor furnishings as the warmer weather melts the snow away. We are keenly aware that most customers are being careful with their cash. So, when consumers are looking to buy outdoor furniture, they are focused on value: furniture reasonably priced but made to last. Many of them have already had forgetful experiences with cheap outdoor furniture. This time around they are not willing to throw money away on furniture that will be rickety, rotted and ruined by the end of the this season or next. Perhaps your customers are searching for a: Cozy bench made from a genuine wagon wheel to enjoy their gardens. Swing to relax in the evening breeze. Rugged bar and swivel barstools for their poolside parties. New outdoor dining setting to enjoy family cookouts together. Are you prepared to address your customers’ outdoor living wants and needs? With us by your side you can confidently reply yes! You can without reservation solve their wants and needs by suggesting rustic teak furniture. Each of AdenWorks’ pieces is handcrafted from aged recycled teak wood from farm implements. In fact, the wood has already been exposed to the elements for up to half a century which goes to show its quality, durability and longevity. So, for those customers who are tired of iron and prefer the warmth of wood furniture, show them our wide selection of rustic teak furnishings. We are confident that once they see and touch our furniture they will be more than willing to part with some of their cash. Just think, you can gladly explain to your customers that they will no longer have to worry about their outdoor furniture collapsing by the end of this summer or next. Instead they can take home individual pieces and settings of AdenWorks furniture to enjoy for this summer and many more to come. Now that’s value you can sell! Happy spring to all!