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At AdenWorks, we have one amazing in-house designer. If you have worked with us in the past, chances are you know her. She is the kind of designer that furniture companies spend years searching for. Want to know the greatest thing about Aynsley? She found us! Four years ago, she came to us with design expertise and business know-how. Obviously, we snatched her up as quickly as possible. We know that for a wholesale furniture company to stay ahead of the curve, we need someone in-house who thinks that way. That’s where Aynsley comes in.
Today, we truly could not imagine AdenWorks without her. She turns countless customers’ dreams into realities every day. How does she do it? Let’s imagine that you have a customer that wants something very specific. Give Aynsley a call! She can work one-on-one with you to create a piece to match your client’s specifications.
It is an awesome process to watch. Whether Aynsley is creating a new piece for AdenWorks’ line or working with a client on a specialty item, her artistic eye is impeccable. She begins each piece with a sketch. The drawings are so incredible, I have many times mistaken them for photographs.
While she is sketching, she always keeps the customers’ comfort in mind. Whatever it is, a chair, table or swing, the client is continually at the forefront. Aynsley asks herself a slew of questions in order to see from the client’s perspective. Who would buy this piece? Where would they put it? Is it best in a home, hotel, ranch or cabin? How often would this piece be used? What is this client’s overall style? Is it an accent piece or a focal point for a room? Is this ideal for indoors, outdoors, or both?
This is only a small taste of what goes into designing a piece of teak furniture, and at AdenWorks, we feel blessed to have such a talented artist on our team!
All teak is made equal… right? Wrong! All teak is not made equal, and at AdenWorks, we have set out to offer you the highest quality, most stunning pieces in the industry.
Here is how we do it:
First, all of our teak arrives to our Dallas-based warehouse unfinished So, it hasn’t been stained. This process allows us a strict quality control, something on which we pride ourselves.
After arriving, our craftsmen hand-sand and hand-stain each piece. We debuted our custom stain in January of 2010, and for those of you who have not tried the new stain on your floor, this fall is your ideal time!
Having been in the furniture business for over ten years, AdenWorks is well-versed in the art of staining. Our in-house designer and craftsmen joined forces to develop a stain that highlights the natural elements of teak. Our stain emphasizes teak’s fluid grain along with its rich golds, browns, reds and blacks.
After the stain is applied, it’s time to seal the piece. If you order a piece for the outdoors, our craftsmen use a dual coat of polyurethane to protect the piece from the elements.
If your piece is for the home, you have two options in polyurethane. One look offers a matte, more rustic feel, while the other provides a bit more sheen to the furniture.
Whatever your needs, AdenWorks is here to make your floor the best it can be. Try out the new stain, you and your customers won’t be disappointed!
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!
As a designer or rustic furniture, I am constantly trying to come up with new ideas and different looks that aren’t necessarily expected. This type of mindset has proven to be successful as our designs are doing quite well in stores and commercial settings. Rustic furniture remains a popular choice among all types of buyers.
As I said yesterday, rustic furniture was definitely a popular choice at the Dallas and Las Vegas Markets. The rustic teak furniture caught buyers eyes throughout both shows. In our line of furniture, we create pieces that fit within different styles. This way you aren’t simply provided just western furniture or just lodge furniture.Our furniture is a generous blend of rustic, western, transitional, rustic contemporary, and lodge pieces. The rustic look is popular among many different motifs. It simply has to be designed correctly to fit into particular settings. This is why at furniture shows, we attract various types of buyers. Our line is not limited to one style and that has been one of the main reasons people continuously look to us as their provider for all things rustic.Today I am going to expand upon our latest collection, the Aynsley Collection. You may be able to tell by the name, that I have designed this collection. When I look over our line of rustic furniture I am constantly wondering how I can take it to the next level. I want to give our furniture something that will make it stand out in your store, client’s home, or commercial projects.Of course the ruggedness of our rustic teak furniture line is one of the most fascinating aspects of our line. The furniture is made from recycled teak wood and includes antique farm implements in its construction. Therefore, the furniture’s construction, uniqueness, and handmade touches easily make it an eye-catcher to clients.Well, what better way to bring out the ruggedness of our teak wood furniture than to juxtapose it with upholstery. I have stayed within the bounds of rustic by adding brown/white, black/white, and brindle cowhides to the backs of chairs, while the seat is covered in a rich brown leather.With this in mind, I created some dining chairs and a rocking chair that combine the rustic qualities of the wood with the softness of natural cowhide. However, if you have projects or clients that are desiring a different look other than cowhide, we can do custom orders as well.This has been a long-anticipated collection and I am glad to say that we are the first to develop this combination in our designs. I look forward to designing more upholstered furniture in the future and I have a few ideas for the upcoming markets this Summer.
Furniture has always interested me. You know how it is. You are shopping one day and then, BAM! There it is, the most stunning piece of furniture you have ever seen. It just stops you dead in your tracks, and immediately you are envisioning the furniture in your home or backyard.This is the type of reaction I strive for when you visit www.AdenWorks.com or view our furniture in person. My goal is to design compelling pieces of rustic furniture that appeals to lodge, western, rustic, and contemporary rustic motifs. I want to design furniture that makes you smile and awakens your creativity. However, while all of this sounds terrific, talk is just talk. I need to discover how to fulfill your needs and exceed your desires when it comes to rustic furniture and then make sure it happens.Before I was adopted into “Teak City” I had spent a lot of time working at furniture shows. I have spent hours talking to customers about their particular needs, desires, likes, and dislikes about rustic furniture. I gathered all of the information that customers were voicing.When I joined AdenWorks, I wanted to ease myself into the job. For several months I watched, listened, and took notes about the company. As time rolled on, I started thinking back to what all the customers had said at all the shows about their views on rustic furniture. I began examining how AdenWorks Ltd. was fulfilling your needs, as well as taking note of areas we could improve.Over the next several posts I will discuss in detail what customers like you have been requesting.
AdenWorks Ltd. takes a more unique look at the furniture world. Instead of producing furniture with the new, AdenWorks constructs their handmade furniture from pieces of the past. They make the eco-friendly rustic furniture from old pieces of wood straight from history. The furniture falls into categories of rustic, western, lodge, and rustic contemporary depending on which pieces were used in construction from wagon wheels to old barns.Following my graduation, AdenWorks Ltd. scooped me up and made me part of their rustic furniture family. AdenWorks Ltd. was on the prowl for creativity and unique, one-of-a kind designs for their teak furniture line. I guess you could say they decided to give me a whirl.I have always had an overwhelming passion for design. Even when I was a young girl I would spend many Saturdays rearranging all the furniture in my room over and over again just to see what I could come up with.As I got older, my passion grew. I began my own decorating business in which I would do design and furniture placement consultations, custom wall finishes, and custom painted furniture. This experience was quite successful for four years and then I decided to focus on earning my degree.Last December I graduated Cum Laude from the University of North Texas with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Drawing & Painting. Creating art of all kinds has always been a passion of mine, but oil painting stole my heart. For all of you art lovers out there, my paintings were a combination of oil and acrylic done in a nonobjective abstract style. Color, linear qualities, and organic shapes were my defining marks in paintings and now can be seen in my rustic furniture designs. During college, painting was my life, but I knew it would never be my career. Design has always come naturally to me, but college helped further develop my abilities and understanding. And while designing furniture is not exactly like spending hours in a paint splattered studio the links between the two are obvious.
It was about this time last year that I found myself on the brink of disaster or maybe just a personal melt down. Either way, graduation was coming for me whether I liked it or not. There was nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide.That was then, this is now. Now I am a designer of rustic furniture. My designs and inspirations come from recycled teak wood resulting in environmentally friendly furniture. My boundaries are limitless as I design rustic, western, lodge, and contemporary rustic furniture for both indoor and outdoor living spaces.I have been with AdenWorks Ltd., a wholesale teak furniture company, for nine months. I have had the opportunity to design chairs, beds, nightstands, dining tables, coffee tables, hutches, and chests since I have been here. Last week we launched our brand new upholstered furniture line. (more on that later) The journey to this position as a furniture designer has been in the making for years now, though I didn’t even realize it. Design has always been a passion of mine, though it has been lived out in many different areas.I would like for you to get to know me and my story of how I went from a big-eyed college student wandering from one career idea to the next, to a focused and passionate designer for AdenWorks Ltd. I hope that I will be able to keep you filled in on what we are up to here in “Teak City.”