Years ago, the biggest question about a new piece of furniture was “Where in the room should it go?”
Increasingly, the biggest question is “How do I put it together?”
Ready-to-assemble, or RTA, furniture has become a fact of life. It is less expensive to buy and, because it can be shipped flat, less expensive to deliver. [...]

MARTINSBURG - A Hagerstown furniture store will occupy what was once the largest sock manufacturing facility in the world after renovations are complete at the former Interwoven Mills complex.
Laber’s Office Furniture, a retailer that specializes in new and used discounted office furnishings, has already acquired a loyal customer base in the Martinsburg area, store officials [...]

WINSLOW - Fortin’s TV & Appliance plans to both consolidate and expand by spring in a new facility on the corner of U.S. Route 201 and the Carter Memorial Bridge approach, offering customers twice the showroom space of its two current stores combined.
Customers also will find a much greater selection of electronics, furniture and home [...]

State investigators are expected in Iuka later today to try to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed a furniture store in Iuka.
Firefighters were called between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. to Town and Country Furniture at Highways 25 and 172. Fire Chief Brian Grissom says the fire began in the store’s warehouse, which [...]

Black-tie shopping will join dining and dancing at Gala XXII to benefit Decatur General Hospital Foundation.
Partygoers will be able to bid on one-of-a-kind items — the kind that would make extraordinary Christmas gifts — at the Dec. 8 dinner-dance fundraiser at Decatur Country Club. Decatur General Foundation presents the 7 p.m. event.
The list includes original [...]

Kinky Friedman may have lost the governor’s election, but his furniture is still popular.
His staff posted a notice about their campaign office furniture on the Web site Craigslist _ “None of it is TOO horribly ugly, some of it even matches, and all of it is FREE!”
People started showing up Tuesday more than three hours [...]

Expanding business has called for an expanded location for HESTER’S, the office furniture and supply business that is now open in the former Luskey’s location at 2310 W.Michigan.
General manager and shareholder Mike Cayce said Hester’s had been renting a warehouse on south Industrial Loop but needed larger quarters, prompting the move to the 10,000 square [...]

Rents Former Rhodes Furniture Shop on Gallatin Pike
Price Point Furniture signed a lease for the 31,192-square-foot former Rhodes Furniture store at 2235 Gallatin Pike in Madison, TN. The grand opening is scheduled for December and it will be the company’s second store. Price Point’s other store is located in Columbia, TN.
Brian Jernigan of Eakin Partners [...]

Think again if La-Z-Boy isn’t the first place you think of for trendy furniture.
The company name is synonymous with those reclining chairs nearly everyone’s grandfather had in front of the TV. Now the company has aligned itself with furniture designer Todd Oldham. He has created a line of sofas, rugs, lamps and a large [...]

For nearly half a century, furniture maker Buck Barnett handcrafted exquisite armoires, entertainment centers, tables, beds and other pieces.
The piece Barnett says he’s proudest of is an entry table supported by two hand-carved women. The piece is so detailed that Barnett styled the women’s “hair” with pin curls.
“I started doing this kind of work in [...]