OUR COMMUNITY AND the enviroNment is always a concern… EVEN WHEN STAGING A HOME FOR SALE.

Each and every day, we, like you, wake up and look at ourselves in the mirror. If we failed, on a daily basis, to stage homes in an environmentally conscious manner, we would not be able to look ourselves in the eye.

Whether we are sourcing products, or purchasing vehicles for our designers to travel to your home, we are thinking deeply about how what we are doing is affecting the earth. We know that the best way to stage a home beautifully is to do so in a conscious, sustainable way. 

Environmental leadership

Our founder is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional and implements environmentally conscious business practices throughout Spade and Archer.  These initiatives reduced our paper usage by 90% over the course of a year.

Our most recent innovations include:

  • Providing screen based devices to all our employees

  • Online, pricing, booking, signature and payments systems

  • A web based inventory tracking system

  • Instant pricing system to reduce drive times for site visits

REDUCING Product Miles

Spade and Archer stages homes using either vintage or locally made furniture. By doing so, we aim to reduce the “product miles” of each item. While it would be cheaper to buy Chinese made furniture, it would be lower quality, filled with dangerous chemicals, and would not support our local economy. Doing so would also ultimately add to the amount of furniture being thrown away. Lower quality furniture will not last as long as the beautiful, locally made pieces we use with our clients.

REPURPOSING & UPCYCLING 

We love taking otherwise useless or broken items and reworking them to find a new place in our inventory. Tired outdoor furniture may find a new life as a picture frame. The inner workings of a vintage radio can become filler for an empty bowl. By avoiding throwing these seemingly useless items away, we are able to reduce our impact even further.

Fuel Reduction

By providing instant pricing without needing to see a project before we provide pricing we reduced our fuel consumption by a full 25% over the course of a year.

giving back to the Community

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Instead of trying to make an extra buck by selling our products in massive parking lot sales, we donate excess inventory to non-profit organizations like Community Warehouse or Humble Design. We also donate every week to various charities to promote timely causes we believe in and align with our core values of Graceful, Adept, Tenacious and Thoughtful.