Red Wing, Minn. — Apropos Home, owned by Cecily Disana, opened at 311 Bush St., selling new and antique furnishings and high-end consignment pieces.
Enid, Okla. — Hobby Lobby is being remodeled, adding 9,000 square feet, and increasing its inventory of home accents, wall decor and ceramics.
Oklahoma City, Okla. — Adam and Brittany Branscum are opening BD Home, a home furnishings and gift shop.
Columbia, S.C. — Local designers Anna Kemper and Marnie Clayton opened MACK Home, a furniture, home accents, lighting, art and jewelry store, at Trenholm Plaza. Previously, Clayton was a principal of M.C. Interiors and Forty-One, a design firm and home interiors store. Kemper most recently was principal of Biba Interiors, a design and retail business offering home decor, art, jewelry and fashion accessories.
West Des Moines, Iowa — Artis Home Gallerie opened on the north side of West Glen Town Center. Products include furniture, gifts and home accessories. Founded over 80 years ago, the family-run business operated up until August as Artis Home Furnishings.
Freehold, N.Y. — Tip Top Furniture held a grand opening in November to celebrate its remodeled store and remerchandised showroom. The 26,000-sq.-ft. building, at 9477 Route 32, also has a newly redesigned exterior. The retailer has added and expanded its home furnishings and accessories lines and offers free interior design services.
Holland, Mich. — Big Lots opened a new 22,600-sq.-ft. store at 2353 North Park Dr. Big Lots currently holds the number 15 spot on Home Accents Today’s list of the Top 50 Home Accent Retailers by sales volume.
Natchez, Miss. — Morgan Alexandra’s opened at 102 Front St. on the Vidalia Riverfront. Owners BeBee Tiffee and Dana White previously owned Martha’s Vineyard in downtown Natchez. The store carries gifts, jewelry, home décor and children’s items.
Chattanooga, Tenn. — Kirkland’s opened in a 7,200-sq.-ft. space at 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd. Headquartered in Nashville, the retailer operates 295 stores in the U.S.
Edwards, Colo. — Vanessa Lyons and Mary Pleasants opened Vintage Magnolia at 295 Main St. in the Riverwalk. The shop, in addition to being a full-service florist, carries gifts and home accessories.
Kansas City, Mo. — Thirty-two-year-old housewares and home furnishings retailer Function Junction reopened in a larger, redesigned space at its location in Crown Center. The additional space includes a demonstration kitchen.
Albertville, Ala. — Sticks ‘N’ Stuff opened a location in the Midway Plaza shopping center. The 15,000-sq.-ft. store carries furniture, accessories and bedding.
Hingham, Mass. — Suzanne’s Home Furnishings and Gift Boutique opened at 132 North St.
Sacramento, Calif. — Veteran Sacramento interior designer LeSanne Lindborg opened a 2,000-sq.-ft. design studio and home furnishings store at 810 Alhambra Blvd.
Pelham, Ala. — Issis & Sons Carpet and Oriental Rugs opened Issis & Sons Furniture Gallery in Pelham on Highway 119.
Atlanta, Ga. – Crate & Barrel’s seventh CB2 store is opening in Atlanta in a new 12th & Midtown mixed-use development center. The 14,000-sq.-ft. store is scheduled to open in the summer of 2010.
Susan Dickenson is the editor in chief of Home Accents Today, where she has spent more than a decade covering trending topics, best practices and news items pertaining to the manufacturing, retail and interior design segments of the home furnishings industry. A graduate of UNC, Dickenson spent 15 years in the Washington, D.C., area, writing and researching in both the public and private sector. After relocating to her native North Carolina in 2003, she freelanced as a writer of general interest, business, garden and home items for local and national publications before joining Home Accents Today in 2006 as retail editor.
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