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 [...]

Local furniture retailer Harry Gregorie got a bird’s-eye view of Summerville’s explosive growth during a recent small-plane trip over the area.
During the flight, he said he was struck by the vast number of new homes and neighborhoods cropping up around the town. “It’s just unbelievable,” said Gregorie, president of Charleston-based GDC Home.
The upscale home-furnishings company [...]

Oak Express ready for relocation from University Drive
Furniture Row and its four specialty stores for home furnishings are coming to Madison.
Furniture Row, which will open Aug. 4, has Oak Express, Bedroom Expressions, Sofa Mart and Denver Mattress Company stores. Based in Denver, Colo., Furniture Row Companies is the parent company to Oak Express and Bedroom [...]

When Jennifer Selby Long relocated from an office with leased furniture to an unfurnished one in February, her decorating problems began.
After shopping at different stores, all that the 43-year-old San Francisco resident could find was furniture made with a “5-feet-10-inch man in mind.” Long, who is 5-feet-6, ended up doing a lot of improvising, buying [...]

Tony Howell kept his eye on Greenville for some time as a potential site for an Ashley Furniture HomeStore. Now that the doors are open for business, his instincts about the city being an ideal market have been confirmed.
The independently owned store that sells the Ashley Furniture Industries brand opened Saturday in the former location [...]

Furniture Row Companies of Denver, Colorado, which currently owns and operates 330 stores in 32 states, plans to open four jointly located home furnishing and bedding specialty stores in Clarksville.
To house the stores, the furniture retailer plans to build a one-level, 53,440-square-foot Furniture Row Shopping Center.
Crews have begun erecting the structural steel for the new [...]

When Jennifer Selby Long relocated from an office with leased furniture to an unfurnished one in February, her decorating problems began.
After shopping at different stores, all that the 43-year-old San Francisco resident could find was furniture made with a “5-foot-10-inch man in mind.” Long, who is 5′6″, ended up doing a lot of improvising, buying [...]

La-Z-Boy and England Custom Furniture Direct operations will remain open.
The owner of Gerondale’s Home Furniture Galleries in Shoppes at the Village shopping center, 2605 S. Oneida St., Ashwaubenon, said Wednesday it will close.
Bruce Gerondale, the third-generation owner of the 54-year old furniture store, said Gerondale’s La-Z-Boy and England Custom Furniture Direct operations, 2665 S. Oneida, [...]

When Jennifer Selby Long relocated from an office with leased furniture to an unfurnished one in February, her decorating problems began.
After shopping at different stores, all that the 43-year-old San Francisco resident could find was furniture made with a “5-feet-10-inch man in mind.” Long, who is 5-foot-6, ended up doing a lot of improvising, buying [...]

When Jennifer Selby Long relocated from an office with leased furniture to an unfurnished one in February, her decorating problems began.
After shopping at different stores, all that the San Francisco resident could find was furniture made with a “5-foot-10-inch man in mind.” Long is 5-foot-6. “Everything is too masculine, edgy, too modern and heavy on [...]