At Austin Window Fashions and Window Fashions of Texas, we feel strongly that it is better to buy locally made products than spending your hard earned money on an inferior products imported from China. In case you needed one more reason to shop local- take a look at these photos. This HUGE pile of trash is the packaging that came from one order of 14 Chinese made shutters. Sure, they might be slightly cheaper to your pocket book- but when you consider the total costs to our economy and our planet- most of this packaging is going to end up in the landfill- maybe you would reconsider your purchase.
When the shutters are coming from China, they have to be very heavily packaged to protect them during the long journey. It took two and a half months for these shutters to get here. But if you ordered locally made shutters from Austin Window Fashions or Window Fashions of Texas, you would have already been enjoying beautiful real wood shutters in your home for the past month. And, to top it all off- one of the Chinese made shutter panels arrived damaged and it’s going to take and additional six to eight weeks to get a replacement for it.
When producing our locally made shutters, we don’t create even 10% of this much trash. The millwork is done in Lubbock and shipped to our factory in reused plywood containers. And it takes a lot less fuel to ship shutter parts from Lubbock to Austin than it does to ship from China to Texas! If you’re just looking for the cheapest shutters you can find, you might find they aren’t so cheap after all.
Shop local and buy locally made- it’s a better value for you and a better deal for our planet!
This huge pile of trash is the packaging from one order of Chinese shutters!
This huge pile of trash is the packaging from one order of Chinese shutters!
