Colorado Springs is the mailbox; Mexican workshops make the stock
La Fuente Imports sells rustic Mexican furniture, Talavera tile and pottery, punched-tin mirrors, lighting, and folk-art accessories on lafuente.com. The Contact page lists 3350 Chelton Loop North, Colorado Springs, CO 80909. Phones are 888.622.0939 and 719.329.0939, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time, Monday through Friday. Use orders@lafuente.com, support@lafuente.com, or info@lafuente.com. Older copy dates the firm to 1994. Furniture leaves warehouses around the United States; most non-furniture parcels leave Colorado Springs. Prices on 20 September 2026 did not include shipping. This is a handmade-import catalog with freight rules, not a next-day laminate bedroom aisle.
Order here if you can meet a weekday truck
The catalog fits a homeowner, designer, or innkeeper who already wants Southwestern rooms and can wait for handmade pine and ceramic. It also fits a remodeler who needs Talavera accents, a vessel sink, or a tin mirror and will order extra tile because colors shift between kiln loads. Gift buyers can ship to another address and request a complimentary card message in Delivery Comments; the shop does not wrap gifts. Skip La Fuente if you need a Sunday delivery, a crew that carries a dresser upstairs, a street a tractor-trailer cannot enter, or a weekday when nobody can sign at the curb.
Order Terms say dimensions are approximate and that color, texture, and design vary because the goods are handmade. The one-year furniture warranty treats small cracks, knots, and color variation as normal, not defects. It applies to retail purchases only and excludes custom-made pieces, wholesale, and furniture used in commercial establishments. Help cannot show live stock counts; if an item is out, staff call with a timeframe or a substitute. The shop does not price match. If you need a plumber to set a sink or a tile contractor with samples on a board, hire that trade first and use La Fuente as the materials vendor.
- Good fit: a casita or ranch house that wants solid pine, copper, or Talavera rather than particle board
- Good fit: a remodeler who can order tile early, buy extra boxes, and accept crazing
- Poor fit: anyone who needs inside placement, weekend freight, or a truck in a gated cul-de-sac
- Poor fit: a hotel specifying commercial-duty furniture under the retail one-year warranty
- Poor fit: a shopper who needs live inventory, price matching, or identical stain in every room
Eight furniture collections, not one honey pine stain
Rustic Pine is the default look: kiln-dried Ponderosa pine, hand-waxed, with forged iron in a dark brown patina. An older blog still mentions antique wormwood planks and Muebles Fradel after Spanish colonial models; treat the live collection page as current copy. Ranch uses the same pine with darker wax and matte-black pulls. Southwest is described as Santa Fe-styled work from Patzcuaro using reclaimed hacienda wood. The overview table advertised sixteen stain colors while the paragraph said twelve finishes, so call before you lock a color. Carved furniture is attributed to San Miguel. Copper work is tied to Villa Escalante, using recycled copper and reclaimed wood. Antique Pine and Copper adds wood up to 250 years old and hammered copper.
Barnwood is rough-sawn pine with a square, primitive silhouette. Pine Log is the cabin line in pine and birch, draw-knifed, in clear or honey finishes. On 20 September 2026 the Queen Roma Bed listed at $846.00, and Mansion Bedroom Set #1 (BEDSET01) was $3,071.70 to $3,152.70 on sale against $3,413.00 to $3,503.00. American Mission Oak still appears in a blog as quarter-sawn red oak with a cherry stain, but it is not one of the eight cards on the furniture landing page, so confirm the SKU. Samples exist only for Rustic Pine, Southwest, and Copper; the sample fee is credited on a later furniture order from that collection.
- Rustic Pine and Ranch: waxed Ponderosa with forged iron, honey or dark brown
- Southwest: Patzcuaro reclaimed wood; use the carpenter-square icon for custom stains
- Carved, Copper, Antique Pine & Copper: San Miguel paint or Villa Escalante metal
- Barnwood and Pine Log: rough timbers or draw-knifed logs for cabins
- Help says most furniture ships fully assembled by motor freight
Compare Rustic Pine, Southwest, Copper, and cabin lines on the live catalog, then add a zip code in the cart for freight before you commit.
Open La Fuente furniture collections →Puebla dishes, Dolores Hidalgo sinks, and tile math
La Fuente splits Talavera by town. A company blog still on the site says Puebla plates, platters, and place settings are handmade in Puebla, described as lead-free and microwave, oven, and dishwasher safe, with hanging eyelets on plates. Sinks, canisters, planters, and fruit bowls are attributed to Dolores Hidalgo. Do not treat a planter as a dinner plate. On 20 September 2026, small Talavera sinks around 17 1/4 by 14 inches were $147.60 on sale against $164.00, and larger bowls ran $179.10 to $224.10 against $199.00 to $249.00, including SKUs such as SNK040 and SNK301. A sink here is a ceramic bowl, not a vanity or a plumber.
Talavera tiles are listed as glazed ceramic, 5/16 inch thick, with a full box covering eleven square feet in 4.25-inch, 6.25-inch, or 2-inch sizes. A solid-color 4.25-inch tile was $3.70 each, cheaper in packs, and a box of ninety was $217.55 on sale against $229.00. A 6.25-inch tile was $8.75, with a box of forty at $215.10 on sale. Many SKUs offered free ground shipping over $199. Pages warn that colors and sizes vary and that crazing is normal. Call 1.888.622.0939 for large box quotes. Order extra and dry-lay before thinset. Use a local setter for a full shower if you need uniform caliber or wet-area ratings the website does not publish.
Tin frames, lighting, and the rest of the wall
Punched-tin mirrors are the other signature wall good. Copy says frames are handmade in colonial cities of central Mexico, often in natural silver or oxidized brown tin, with glass included. Many mix tin with Talavera tiles and hang either way; the tiles on the photo are an example, not a match to the next crate. A medium tile mirror about 25 by 31 inches was $197.10 on sale against $219.00 on 20 September 2026. Menus also list lighting, blown glassware, rugs, and weavings. Treat these as parcels from Colorado Springs unless a page says otherwise, and inspect glass on arrival. A crushed corner is a ten-day damage claim, not a sixty-day taste return.
How the cart, tax, layaway, and LTL actually work
Help lists Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, PayPal Credit, Pay in 4, checks, money orders, and wires. Checks can sit ten days; bounced checks are $50; the wire fee is unpublished. Sales tax applied to AZ, CA, CO, GA, IL, MA, MD, NC, PA, and WA, with shipping tax-exempt in AZ, CA, CO, MA, and MD. Gift certificates run $25 to $1,000, with no published expiration and free U.S. mail within five business days. Redemption is not a checkout button: note the number in Delivery Comments or call. Special orders take a 50 percent deposit and a signed custom form. Layaway is 10 percent down on stock, balance in four months; custom layaway is 30 percent down.
Furniture usually moves by LTL motor freight, with smaller pieces on FedEx Ground, from warehouses around the country. The Shipping page says most stock ships within ten business days; Order Terms say three; Help says regularly stocked furniture often arrives in ten to fifteen business days in the continental United States. Plan for that Help window unless a specialist gives a tighter date. Delivery is curb or driveway, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no carry-in, evenings, or weekends. Be home or risk a redelivery fee. Tractor-trailers may stop at the street. Residential jobs get a scheduling call; commercial drops, Help says, are not called ahead unless you pay. Shipping is cheapest when the whole cart leaves one warehouse.
Non-furniture orders generally ship FedEx Ground from Colorado Springs within two business days; Help also names USPS for some art. Regularly stocked decor often arrives within five business days. Expedited air can be chosen in the cart for eligible items. Alaska, Hawaii, APO/FPO, and international addresses are possible but not quoted in the cart; they contact you with fees before charging. Duties and taxes abroad are yours. Help quotes two to eight weeks for special, custom, and backordered goods, while Shipping still says two to six weeks; use the phone estimate before the card is charged.
Sixty days, restocking fees, and a one-year furniture warranty
Returns run sixty days from delivery if goods come back new and undamaged. Outbound shipping is not refunded, and return freight can cost more. In-stock furniture takes a 10 percent restocking fee. Custom and special orders take 30 percent, even if you cancel before they ship. Other non-furniture stock has no restocking fee, but once any order leaves the warehouse it cannot be canceled. Cancel stock furniture before it ships and there is no restocking fee. Missing cartons are allowed if the piece is still new. Note crushed boxes on the driver's slip and refuse wrecked freight. For FedEx or noted LTL damage, call 1.888.622.0939 within ten calendar days; the company says it files the claim and replaces the goods.
If you signed a clean LTL receipt and later find a broken stretcher, you still have ten calendar days, then photos. The remedy is a discretionary discount or an exchange, and extra shipping on that exchange is yours. The one-year furniture warranty covers defects in materials and construction from delivery for retail pieces that are not custom and not wholesale. It does not cover accidents, fire, misuse, harsh cleaners, neglect, alteration, theft, or commercial use. Photos decide repair, exchange, or a credit. Waxed pine wants a dry cloth, not a soaked sponge. Promotions cannot be stacked and do not apply to custom orders.
Handmade pine and Talavera look calmer on a product photo than they do on a curb. If nobody can meet a weekday freight truck, or you need every stain and glaze to match a screen, this catalog will fight you. If you want Mexican workshop furniture and can live with knots, crazing, and a sixty-day return clock, La Fuente is a serious mail-order option from Colorado Springs.
— Maya Torres
Add the pieces you want, enter a delivery zip code for shipping, and call 888.622.0939 if the cart splits warehouses or flags a special order.
Check live prices and freight on lafuente.com →Frequently asked questions
Can I walk into a Colorado Springs showroom?
The Contact page publishes a Colorado Springs mailing address and weekday phone hours, not walk-in retail hours. Older about copy said much of the inventory sits in other warehouses and that local buyers should call before visiting a public showroom. A third-party trade listing says the company is internet-only and that Chelton Loop North does pickup by appointment. Yelp still shows weekday store hours, which may be stale. Treat a surprise visit as a gamble. Call 888.622.0939 or 719.329.0939 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time, Monday through Friday, and ask whether your SKU is on site that week. If you are flying in to sit on a sofa, get the appointment by email first.
What if the freight truck cannot reach my driveway?
Assume it might not. Shipping copy says most furniture arrives on a tractor-trailer that cannot always enter residential driveways, dead-ends, or limited-access roads, and it asks you to stay flexible about the drop point. Delivery is still curb or driveway service, not a carry up the stairs. If your street has a low canopy, a weight limit, or a gated keypad the driver cannot use, tell customer service before the order leaves the warehouse. You will get advance notice of the residential window and must be there to avoid a redelivery fee. Photograph the street and the intended drop zone and send those to support@lafuente.com. Inside placement is not in the freight price.
Is Talavera from this shop safe for everyday dishes?
Treat as tableware only the Puebla plates, platters, and place settings the company describes as lead-free and microwave, oven, and dishwasher safe, and read the live SKU rather than a 2018 blog post as your last word. Sinks, planters, canisters, and fruit bowls from Dolores Hidalgo should be judged as decorative or wash-basin ceramics unless a specific page repeats the food-safe language. This is not a laboratory test. If you need documented leach testing for a commercial kitchen, ask La Fuente for current paperwork or buy dinnerware that publishes a dated certificate. Handmade glazes can craze. Crazing on a tile is expected; crazing on a food surface is a reason to ask questions before you serve tomato sauce on it every night.
Can I return a custom stain or a special-order table?
Yes, inside sixty days, but it is a costly yes. Custom-made and special orders take a 30 percent restocking fee whether you cancel before they ship or send them back, for furniture and non-furniture customs. Special orders also take a 50 percent deposit, with the rest charged at shipment. Stock furniture is gentler: 10 percent restocking after it ships, nothing if you cancel before it leaves the warehouse. Return freight is yours, outbound shipping is not refunded, and the piece must arrive back new. If you are picking a Southwest stain, order the sample first. Once a furniture order ships, Help says it can no longer be canceled.
Do they ship to Alaska, Hawaii, or addresses outside the United States?
Help says yes to any verifiable address worldwide, including Alaska, Hawaii, and APO/FPO, but those lanes are not calculated in the cart. Place the order or request a quote, then wait for fees before the card is charged. International customers pay customs, duties, and taxes; La Fuente states it does not pay or handle those. Transit times outside the continental United States should be confirmed with a specialist. The five-day decor window and the ten-to-fifteen-day furniture window are domestic figures. Expedited cart options are for eligible non-furniture items inside the continental United States, not for a motor-freight dresser to an island. Call 888.622.0939 from the U.S. or 719.329.0939 from abroad during published weekday hours.
