Lulu’s Household furniture and Decor will open up close to Trader Joe’s in the Cherry Hills Market. (Lily O’Neill images)
Decorating an individual else’s new residence will come in a natural way to Christy Brant and Caitlin Marsh.
And right after the mother-daughter duo moved their household furniture and decor business enterprise from the Wellshire neighborhood to Greenwood Village, it was their turn to adorn their personal new property.
The house owners of Lulu’s Furnishings and Decor plan to open their new 4,200-square-foot place on July 8 at 5910 S. University Blvd. in the Cherry Hills Marketplace.
Owners Christy Brant, left, and Caitlin Marsh
“It’s been an unsettling yr, so we’re thrilled to eventually open up our doors once again,” Brant said. “Having a store is like internet hosting your individual party just about every working day.”
Lulu’s provides in-home style products and services and sells vintage finds, personalized upholstery and household furniture, artwork, jewelry, lights and rugs. It sells upholstery manufacturers this sort of as Norwalk, Rowe and CR Laine, and home furnishings manufacturers these as Noir and Arteriors.
The new, larger sized Lulu’s shop offers far more area for a showcased fabric wall, where by people can personalize upholstery for furniture parts in the shop.
Brant initially opened the home furniture retail outlet in a strip shopping mall at 2553 S. Colorado Blvd. in 2007.
“I grew up in the home furnishings small business,” Brant reported. “My dad was a household furniture salesman, and so was my brother, brother-in-rules, and uncles. I indicate, there is like 30 individuals in the organization in the relatives, and my sister experienced opened a keep with her daughter in California. So I was normally like worst scenario, I’ll open the retail store. And I could not obtain a job, so I signed the lease on my 50th birthday.”
“She opened it in the middle of the economic downturn by herself, and the reality that she’s survived at any time given that is quite remarkable,” mentioned Marsh, who joined the business in 2010.
Lulu’s has moved all around a bit because its 1st place. The organization invested 9 several years at 2050 W. 30th Ave. in LoHi, just before going in 2018 into 2,600 sq. ft on the corner of University Boulevard and Hampden Avenue in Wellshire.
The pair claimed they received a new landlord when COVID hit, and taxes went up, so they made a decision to commence on the lookout at other alternatives.
The 4,200-sq.-foot place will feature classic furniture, tailored upholstery, rugs, lighting and add-ons.
They closed the retail store in February soon after doing work out a deal with the landlord, and in the meantime opened up a tiny interim spot at 1071 S. Gaylord St. in Wash Park.
The organization also leases a 2,000-square-foot warehouse close to the I-25/Alameda Avenue interchange, wherever they shop inventory.
Gross sales have been hard above the earlier calendar year, given that they’ve been shut portion time thanks to the go and the pandemic, the pair mentioned.
There’s also a nationwide furnishings shortage thanks to congested shipping and delivery ports, staffing shortages in factories, and the Texas deep freeze in February that has due to the fact delayed chemical crops that supply required elements to make foam.
“Our best-marketing chairs are not obtainable until eventually February, so the hardest component is seeking to influence men and women that it’s worth the hold out,” Brant reported. “Although we want people to be ready to market items on the ground, we just can not.”
But Brant and Marsh are hopeful that the new Greenwood Village locale will help convey again a perception of normalcy.
“We felt like much more of our buyers at the other shop had been coming from this space, so it produced feeling to go exactly where the persons are that like us,” Brant said. “And this is a terrific searching centre since you have a fantastic blend of every little thing, like Trader Joe’s and all the dining places.”
