Welcome to Austin’s SMART BUY for Office Furniture.
At Smart Buy, we aim to make your office furniture purchase a SMART one. With trained and knowledgeable staff to help guide you with picking out the perfect piece, planning your office space, and even with the delivery and installation! We are there every step of the way to ensure your experience is great. We serve all business sizes, from several hundred-employee companies to home offices, so whether you need low-cost, budget-friendly furniture or high-end executive office and boardroom furniture, we have you covered.
What Makes Us Different?
Smart Buy Office Furniture is family-owned and operated, with roots that run deep in the furniture industry, giving us the knowledge to serve you best. That expertise allows us to offer our clients extras, like complimentary office space planning with every purchase. Check out the video to the right to learn more about planning your ideal office space!
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The Smart Buy Story
Founded by three Hoosier friends, Smart Buy Office Furniture opened its flagship location in Austin, TX, in October 2007, with the mission to provide surprisingly high-quality office furniture at amazing prices.
Tom Doane grew up in the office furniture Industry. His Dad, Terry, was the Vice President of Sales for two different office furniture manufacturers in the 1970s before establishing his own office furniture wholesaler along with a former co-worker, Ray Keyes, in 1981. After graduating from Indiana University with a BS in Marketing, Tom joined the family business in 1990, where his elder brother, Mark, had already worked as an outside sales rep.
Tom represented his father’s company in the Southern Indiana and Western KY territory, serving office furniture/supply dealers for the following 19 years, during which he honed interpersonal skills, product knowledge, and CAD skills that he draws on today while serving his beloved Austin clients.
While working for his father’s company in 2004, Tom witnessed a dramatic shift in consumer preferences, with consumers moving away from domestic manufacturers toward low-cost, higher-quality global manufacturers. This inspired Tom to ask for his father’s blessing to leave the family business and open his own office furniture business. His father granted the blessing contingent on Tom leaving the 5 Midwest states that his company served.
Tom, his wife, Twyla, and their sons, Christopher, Terry J (TJ), and Isaiah, set off on a prayer journey to seek God’s direction on a location.
After much prayer, it became apparent that God was directing them to Austin, TX. In April 2007, he landed on Austin soil for the first time, where he set out on his journey with God in this new season of life. By October 2007, they had located their retail showroom near Burnet Road and Research Blvd. (Hwy 183).
Tom is passionate about his faith in Jesus Christ and genuinely desires to emulate true, compassionate Christianity in business practices, where he hopes to earn the right to share the reason for the Hope that is in him. Tom is often heard reminding the Smart Buy team that “God hates dishonest scales.” Tom has a strong desire to educate consumers about product engineering and to extol the virtues of multiple options.
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