For small, independent store owners, figuring out how to compete with mega-chains has always been a challenge.
Now more furniture and home-furnishing stores are taking a bigger-is-better mentality and opening showrooms of their own to compete directly with their largest rivals.
Rather than asking customers to look through catalogs to find the sofas, chairs, dining room sets [...]

Phil Lowe has received some pretty neat commissions during his 35 years as a furniture maker.
The Beverly resident made chairs for Abraham Lincoln’s childhood home in Springfield, Ill., desks for the Immigration Museum at Ellis Island and a Chippendale bed for the Derby House in Salem.
Last summer, though, his dream job fell into his lap, [...]

Construction is under way on Evansville’s East Side on a new major furniture store called Ashley Furniture HomeStore.
The seven-acre building site is at 1441 N. Green River Road, next door to Kinkos and across the road from Rafferty’s Restaurant.
The location is where the old Colonial Bread outlet formerly sat.
Dean and Karen Bosler, licensees of the [...]

A furniture shop in leafy suburbia is selling replica guns, an Argus investigation has revealed.
Walking into the Brighton Furniture Centre in Woodingdean, there is little to suggest a vast array of imitation firearms can be ordered there.
But alongside the polished tables, grandfather clocks and classic jukeboxes, a catalogue featuring scores of replica guns is available [...]

Make no mistake, Interior Woodworking is no Pottery Barn.
Yes, both offer high-end furniture and home accessories, but when Jeff Chopp opens his high-end, custom furniture showroom and workshop to the public for the first time Saturday, customers will have a chance to see one-of-a-kind furniture handcrafted by artisans throughout Wisconsin.
“I searched the state to [...]

Wood, plastic or cotton. It’s a choice every student contemplates as he or she enters the Commons area in John C. Hodges Library. Slowly kicking the old out and bringing in the new, more modern look, the Commons offers a variety of choices of chairs ranging from the classic swallowing chairs and loveseats to the [...]

In an effort to streamline transactions and better serve their customers, New River has combined their U.S. corporate office and the furniture warehouse into one location. The new address is 5909 Thurston Ave., Virginia Beach, VA 23455.
“We believe this move is essential to our continued growth and supports our ongoing strategy and strong commitment to [...]

What seemed like a normal group of Christmas carolers turned into something more as Erika Delgado and her family stepped onto the front porch to be greeted with music and a new set of furniture for their house.
More than 30 local residents gathered, singing “We wish you a Merry Christmas” as they told the family [...]

North Carolina-based furniture retailer Boyles Distinctive Furniture has partnered with The Dr. Phil Show and DIY Network’s DIY to the Rescue to design and furnish interiors for three families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The Dr. Phil Show features three New Orleans homeowners whose homes were damaged and/or destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. After the [...]

WASHINGTON — Today, the nation’s fire marshals and victims of furniture fires are launching an awareness campaign meant to pressure the commission to set national fire safety standards for upholstered furniture.
The federal government first reported in 1972 that standards were needed, but efforts by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to adopt enforceable rules have [...]