When trying to furnish an apartment on the cheap, interior designers say these are things to avoid:
• Rent-to-own: Probably not a good option. You’ll be forking out daily interest on furniture you’ll eventually own, which means you’re overpaying. There’s always the chance you won’t want the item once you’ve paid it off, too. Buy when [...]

THERE’S SOME juicy news about home interior palettes. It’s about our crush on orange.
A popular color for serveware used in outdoor entertaining, the citrus hue has graduated to stylish furnishings indoors. And it’s looking good.
The sometimes playful, always warm, marriage of primary red and yellow now is living large on walls, furniture, lighting, rugs, [...]

M’Lyn Walther’s crafts are everywhere in her Ridgefield home: lined on her mantel, stacked on her CD holder, clustered on an end table.
But don’t get the wrong idea. These brightly colored knitted objects aren’t clutter. They’re home decor.
Not everybody has time for a 24-hour reality-TV-style home makeover or a $10,000 room refurbishment. But as a [...]

Home Décor Products Inc. has launched cliquidate.com, an online liquidation Web site for home improvement and home goods.Serving as an outlet for manufacturers, Home Décor Products will take vendors’ excess stock, discontinued items and refurbished or slightly distressed products into its warehouse on consignment, sell the products via the Cliquidate online marketplace, pack and ship [...]

Alexander “Sandy” Bryant of Orangeburg Furniture Exchange became the president of Southern Home Furnishings Association at the organization’s recent annual meeting in Williamsburg, VA.
Bryant will serve as SHFA’s president until June 2007, when he will become executive committee chairman.
Bryant has served on the board of the organization and its executive committee for more than a [...]

Thailand’s furniture business has been sluggish along with a slowdown of the property sector, according to an industry executive.
Somnoi Yuekyen, Manager of Udom Furniture Factory Partnership, said on Sunday that many furniture shops which are members of the Thai Furniture Association admitted that total sales of the product this year had dropped by 20-30 per [...]

Have you noticed that your living room is looking a little tired? Has your dining room lost its zest? Would you like to redecorate, but can’t find the time or the money?
You’re not alone. In our travels around the country, my co-host, Shari Hiller, and I have found these to be common concerns. And we [...]

Most businesses have landmark dates in company history.
For Simpson Furniture, Jan. 11, 1983, is one.
That was the day the original store in the 500 block of Main Street burned to the ground in the largest fire the city had seen in a decade.
“That’s when the real refurbishment happened,” said Dale Emmert, president of Simpson Furniture.
The [...]

With the expansion of large-scale furniture stores in the Kansas City area, Brian Martin still believes shoppers can get what they want in Lawrence.
“I try to carry everything that people need — from things geared toward college students all the way to the upper end,” said the owner of Affordable Home Furniture, 708 Conn.
Martin recently [...]

Developers of a furniture industry showplace wrapped up their third convention in two years Friday and talked of adding millions more square feet of space and casting a wider international net for buyers and sellers.
Across the country, the new head of a venerable old furniture show in North Carolina said he was less worried about [...]