About Gerixaq
Six people in Austin decide what earns a place on a catalog kept under thirty items
We are not a department store and we are not trying to become one. Gerixaq is a small curated home goods catalog run out of one packing room on Oak Lane, and every person on the payroll can tell you why each item is there.
Who runs this
Gerixaq is a small retail catalog business, trading at gerixaq.com, based at 157 Oak Lane
Gerixaq is the trading name of the catalog you are looking at, and the whole operation sits inside one address: 157 Oak Lane, Austin, Texas 45808. There is no second location and no franchise. It is a warehouse and packing room, not a showroom, and if you called ahead we would tell you that plainly rather than let you drive out for nothing.
The company started in 2016 because the founder was tired of buying home basics that looked fine in a photograph and fell apart in a Texas summer. Nine years later the address hasn't changed and neither has the rule: nothing goes on the site until someone here has actually used it at home.
What we actually do
We source, test, pack and ship a short list of home goods, and we say no to more than we say yes to
Gerixaq buys and resells household basics, storage pieces, care kits and a handful of home essentials, chosen in materials that hold up in Texas heat: solid bamboo, pressed wool felt, linen, cedar, stoneware, seagrass. We do not sell furniture or décor, and we do not carry plastic storage bins at all — they crack and yellow in a hot garage or a sunlit closet, and we would rather stock nothing than stock something we know will fail. That refusal is written out in full on the storage page.
We work on inquiry, not on a shopping cart. Every item page states a price basis — per caddy, per pair, per set of six — and a call or a form submission gets you the number that actually applies to your order, including any volume basis on the kraft boxes. Nothing on this site is a binding quote until we've said so directly, by phone or by email.
Source and test
They find the makers, negotiate the run sizes a catalog this size actually needs, and live with each new candidate item at home for a minimum of thirty days before it is allowed anywhere near the site.
Pack and ship
They build every order at the Oak Lane worktable, wrap it the same way each time, and get it out the door the same day if the call or the form comes in before four on a weekday.
Answers the phone
One person takes the calls and the inquiry-form replies. If an item is wrong for your space, or we simply don't carry what you're asking for, you will hear that directly instead of a soft redirect.
Keeps the books
Six people, one small warehouse, one set of accounts. No investors to please and no reason to pad the catalog past what the team can actually stand behind on the phone.
The thirty-day test
Every candidate item lives in a staff member's own home before it is allowed on the site
There is no lab here and no certificate. The quality process is a person taking a bamboo caddy or a set of felt dividers home and using it the way a customer would — on a kitchen counter, in a closet, by the back door — for at least thirty days. If it scuffs badly, sags out of shape, or just annoys whoever has it in month one, it does not get listed, and we don't run a second trial to talk ourselves into it.
This is why the catalog stays under thirty items. Testing at this pace does not scale to a warehouse full of SKUs, and we're not interested in changing that trade.
Sourcing review happens on the same worktable where orders get packed. Linen rolls, cedar offcuts and stoneware glaze samples get laid out side by side so the two people who source can compare weight, weave and finish directly, not from a supplier's photograph. A linen that feels thin under the fingers gets rejected here, before it ever reaches someone's home for the thirty-day stretch.
The two-stage process — bench review, then thirty days in an actual house — is slower than most catalogs bother with. It's also the entire reason the list stays short. We would rather ship twenty-six items we've genuinely lived with than ninety we've only photographed.
Packed at 157 Oak Lane
Orders are packed by hand at the same table where the catalog gets tested
There is no fulfilment contractor and no third-party warehouse. The two people who pack orders work from the same room where new items sit through their thirty-day trial, which means a packing mistake gets noticed by someone who actually knows what the item is supposed to feel like.
Call before four on a weekday and a caddy, a set of dividers or a kit ships from Austin the same day. Call after that and it goes out the next morning. We don't promise a delivery window we can't see from here, and we won't quote one on the phone that the warehouse can't back up.
Reach a human
Call, write or fill in the form, and one of us answers directly
One person on the six-person team handles the phone and every inquiry-form reply. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 Central. There's no after-hours line and we won't pretend there is one.