BVM July 2016 - page 121

Business View Magazine - July 2016 121
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Serving the Closet,
Home Office, and Garage
Cabinet Industries in the
United States & Canada
156 territories in the U.S. and another 37 in Canada.
Key to Tailored Living’s modus operandi is its proprie-
tary, 3D software that allows its franchisees to tailor in-
dividual designs for its customers’ garages, entryways,
mudrooms, closets, pantries, family rooms, and home
offices. “You won’t find any two designs from Tailored
Living exactly alike,” Tafoya exults. “They’re always
different because we’re
going to tailor that design
to fit their needs. And our
franchisees do a great job
of cross promoting all prod-
ucts. So if they’re in there
talking to them about the
garage, before they leave,
they make sure they know
that we also sell products
for the home.”
All Tailored Living franchi-
sees have their own box
truck – racked and pro-
fessionally logoed. Some
have storefronts and most
have between 2,000 and
2,500 square feet of ware-
house space. When an or-
der comes in, product is
delivered to the franchisee
from one of the company’s
national manufacturing
partners. “When they or-
der product, it’s delivered
to their warehouse,” says
Tafoya. “There’s not a lot
of inventory because the
product, for the most part,
is ordered by the job. So
when it’s delivered it’s side
marked with the owner’s name.”
One of Tailored Living’s important partners is Sika, a
multi-billion dollar Swiss company. “Sika is one of the
leaders in commercial flooring,” Tafoya says. “We have
an exclusive relationship; we are the only company in
our space that Sika is allowing to put their commercial
products down in the garage. And that’s what makes