It's easy being green

During a recent trip to Atlanta I visited a slew of great stores. Interestingly enough I found a common denominator among several of them, which ranged from predominantly gift stores to furniture and home accent to home and garden.

Limetree

Limetree is a fun gift store with a healthy mixture of tabletop, accents and more. Owner Angel Brown's Vietri display is a pyramid and offers multi-levels of product and interest. The whole store popped with color and excitement and was in the midst of a Christmas in July celebration.

Erika Reade is a home furnishings and accent store that carries everything from beds and bedding to tabletop, soaps and lotions, original art, lamps and more. A chartreuse table setting is but one of many great displays scattered throughout the store. This one features tabletop as well as fruit-shaped soaps and a shabby chic

Lush Life

Tall vases filled with colored water — green of course — draw the eye up in a layered display full of live plants at Lush Life Garden & Flowers. The plants themselves provide the verdant color theme, which is highlighted by the elegant oversized vases. The store is part home accents, part garden accessories and part greenhouse. It has a contemporary feel in that its clean-lined merchandise and elegant displays aren't cluttered or over the top.

Erika Reade

What's great about these displays is that they took something as common as the color green and made it the key ingredient in their merchandising. The varying hues, product and stores prove there really is more than one way of doing something, and the displays don't use props or ideas that are unattainable. All it takes is a little work and some ingenuity and you end up with some great eye candy bound to make your registers sing.

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Lisa Casinger, Retail Editor