Green Picture Framing Project with ASID Home Tour this weekend

Here is one good example of “green” thinking at The Frame Maker being not just good for the environment, but good for business, too.

Over the last year, The Frame Maker made over two thousand frames for just one of its professional clients. The amount leftover of nice but unusable maple moulding (due to length of leftover vs. lengths required by job) was staggering despite our best attempts to be efficient. Its a dilemma many shops are familiar with: what to do with a thousand ends of prefinished moulding less than 15″ long? (the smallest lengths spec’d on the job).

Instead of the usual two options (dumpster or leave it stashed to gather dust until the next big shop clean-up), we took a new one, and made as many 5×7 promotional frames as possible out of the scrap, resulting in minimal landfill and the perfect gift for the ASID Home Remodel Tour giftbags (coming up next weekend).

Here’s the insert in the frame:

insert for green frame gift

And here’s the info on the ASID tour, click the image to go to ASID site:

ASID home tour