Linly Designs, a Chicago-area interior design and luxury home products company, is launching a new online storefront this week showcasing fine furniture and home accessories. Despite rumblings of a weakening US economy, the company expects to see increased sales and says an active online presence may be the solution for other luxury retailers.

Fine Furniture Sales Expected to Increase Through Online Presence for Linly Designs Logic may tell us that when the economy is slowing, consumers are less likely to spend money on luxury products. Yet the Illinois-based interior design specialists at Linly Designs expect to see increased sales of their fine furniture and home accessory offerings through the opening of a new online storefront launching this week.

“We’ve enjoyed a successful run in our Westmont store, and decided that it was time for Linly Designs to expand,” says Janet Linly, the company’s President and namesake. “Opening an online storefront was a natural move to make. It will give us reach beyond the Chicago area, while also giving our customers a better and more interactive shopping experience, letting us increase business without having to build more brick and mortar showrooms.”

Customers in the Chicago area have an added benefit – they can order their fine furniture or upscale items for their home online, and then pick them up at the Westmont store to avoid waiting for (and paying for) shipping.

“The added reach isn’t the only reason we expect our product sales to increase,” says Linly. “When consumers start to worry about the economy and costs, they also often gain a greater appreciation for quality that can come with luxury products like our fine furniture lines. They understand that ‘cheap’ home products may end up costing them more in the long run through replacements, and when they start looking for value, they don’t want to purchase things like furniture that will have to be replaced every few months to every few years. That means finding high-quality merchandise at reasonable prices becomes a priority, and that’s what we aim to give our customers both online and in our showroom.”

Linly isn’t alone in feeling the growth potential for luxury markets on the Web. Nielsen research reported that, around this time last year, less than 10% of consumers were using online shopping as a way to counter rising costs. This year, that number is closer to 20%.

The new online showroom is expected to be a hit not only with homeowners, but also other interior designers. While Linly Designs offers interior design services locally, their new Web presence will allow designers/decorators from all across the country to obtain access to their unique merchandise and one-of-a-kind pieces for their own clients. By viewing items online, the designers and customers can get a feel for what specific pieces will look like within their design concepts without the cost of added face-to-face meetings to review each product or gas costs of trips to showrooms. The product pages and details can be sent to design clients, who can then review each item 24-7 from the comfort of their own home.

Linly Designs is a Chicago-area interior design firm launched in 2002 by Janet Linly. The company opened its first showroom in Westmont, IL in the fall of 2007, and an online showroom in the summer of 2008. Linly Designs offers interior design services, fine furniture home accessories and lighting, faux finishes and murals, custom bedding, floral arrangements and specializes is Window Treatments and Real estate staging.The new Linly Designs online storefront for fine furniture and luxury home accessories will be located at www.LinlyDesignsOnline.com

David Chase Rugs & Furniture, formerly Chase Oriental Rug Co., is the only showroom of its size in Colorado featuring hand-woven area rugs, textiles and furniture. The 12,000 square foot showroom, located in Steamboat Springs, Colo., offers pieces reflective of western-transitional and mountain-contemporary styles.

“Changing the name of the business best represents what customers will find in our showroom,” said David Chase Scully, founder and owner. “In addition to fine rugs, we offer distinctive furniture, unique tribal art and architectural pieces. Our rugs are only the beginning, the expansive showroom elevates the presentation of the design elements we offer.”

David Chase Scully has held a prominent position in Steamboat’s home-furnishing business for more than 14 years. In 1994, he started Nandu Imports, specializing in ethno graphic art and central Asian tribal rugs. Five years later Scully focused exclusively on area rugs opening Chase Oriental Rug Company. In late fall 2006, Chase Oriental Rug Company moved to downtown Steamboat Springs, where David Chase Rugs & Furniture is located today.

David travels extensively to hand select extraordinary rugs from around the globe, working with established importers such as Woven Legends, Michaelian & Kohlberg, and Odegard. Notably, a Kilim rug of Romanian origin was recently featured anchoring the great room of Steamboat home profiled in LUXE Magazine. Additional design projects have appeared in Architectural Digest (twice), SKI Magazine and Steamboat Magazine.

David Chase Rugs & Furniture is the only dealer in the region to offer furniture pieces from both American Leather and Environment Furniture. Both company’s designs provide elegance through simplicity and are well known for their environmentally sustainable manufacturing practices.

David Chase Scully has established an experienced and knowledgeable sales team who are available to provide inspiration, helping fulfill client’s interior design visions. In addition to personalized service, David Chase Rugs & Furniture offers: in-home design consultation; special orders, delivery and instillation; custom rug pad fitting; rug cleaning, repairs, restoration, appraisals; and global shipping. To preview the extensive rug collection, visit www.davidchaserugsandfurniture.com.

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With the ever-growing popularity of tapestry wall hangings as a stunning alternative to traditional wall décor, Art & Home continues to expand their collection of available tapestries for consumers.

Partnering with one of the most respected tapestry manufactures in the U.S., based out of Lynn, North Carolina, www.Art-and-Home.net has continually added new tapestries in a variety of styles, sizes and colors, and has now reached the collections largest size in Art & Home’s history. With nearly 1,400 tapestry wall hangings currently available (and more being added on a regular basis), customers can select from contemporary, traditional, abstract or classical.

“Tapestries are more than just décor, they are woven pieces of art,” says Paul Stainton, Owner of Art & Home, located online at www.Art-and-Home.net. “Where else can you get all the beauty of a painting, the acoustic benefits of a rug and the uniqueness of a hand-crafted artefact all in on. It’s no wonder that tapestries are becoming more and more popular as our customer’s choice for wall décor.”

The tapestry collection began with less than 200 pieces, and has grown over time. With the most recent additions, the collection now includes 1,398 tapestry wall hangings, plus a large collection of tapestry throws and woven tapestry throw pillows. The tapestry collection is divided into various categories, including traditional, contemporary, landscapes and more.

Art-and-Home.net is an online retailer specializing in unique and stunning décor products for the home and garden. A family owned and operated business, they are always seeking new, fresh and decorative products in order to provide their customers with a unique shopping experience.

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Hand made with earthy love from recycled wood, Chaba Décor wishes to announce the release of their 2008 summer collection. View the all new range of picture frames, home accents, mirrors and multi-functional boards in a variety of different color schemes, now all available online! Choose from jigsaw and solid styles that complement and accent any coastal, country and chic design scheme, just to mention a few.

With Chaba Décor, summer is Green at the New York International Gift Fair® August 16 – 21, 2008 brings a beautiful and vast array of new products and collections to New York. Among them, Chaba Décor, a BAOlink.com Featured Premium Vendor, will be showcasing a new collection of unique, earth-friendly, recycled wood creations at the summer Fair. Be sure to visit Chaba Décor, and their vibrant frames and products, in the At Home division, Pier 94, in booth space #47058.

See the BAOlink Market News – New York International Gift Fair® for more information about the Summer 2008 Fair, exhibitors and events.

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Purebathrooms.net the UK based leading bathroom supplier and retailer announced the start of its bathroom summer sale 2008. The summer sale is said to offer up to 50% discount on essential bathroom items. This offer applies till 31st July 2008. The home owners and bathroom designers based in Birmingham, UK will be greatly benefited by this greater discount offers.

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The leading online bathroom supplier with 35 years of experience announced that many of its bathroom items are available at discount prices. The idea of this bathroom summer sale 2008 is to cater the bathroom products at reduced costs so that the home owners can get pleasure from their bathrooms the most of this summertime.

Purebathrooms.net is a leading online bathroom super store with massive collection of up to date bathroom furniture, accessories, taps, showers and many more sourced from all over the world.

“This is a great opportunity for the home owners to save this summer with discount bathroom products”, said Mr.Virdi, Managing Director of purebathrooms.net. Enjoy the summer today and save up to 50% discount on bathroom products and this summer bathroom sale will continue till 31st July 2008.

For trouble-free bathroom shopping home owners can purchase online or visit the online bathroom shop based in Birmingham, UK.

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Knoend’s lite2go lamp is not just an ordinary lamp. It has been remarkable from winning an international design excellence award from International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) that is co-sponsored by Business Week and IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America). Out of 1517 entries 207 were given, Knoend’s lite2go lamp won a Bronze eco-design award and shares the stage with 5 other silver and bronze winners in this category.

The packaging itself of the lite2go becomes the shade for the energy saving light bulb and fixture contained within. It is intended to be flexible in use, be it a pendant or a table lamp. Not like other lamps, lite2go is a one-step ready to use since the item contains the electric cord and light bulb. The lite2go offers astonishment and sophistication in an uncomplicated, inexpensive and lightweight package. From its original price of $65, lite2go lamps are now on sale until August 31 for a discount of 20% off. The lamp measures 10″ x 11″ x 10″ when assembled. The materials used includes Recyclable Polypropylene Shades, 7 W CFL light bulb, standard electric cord and socket, recycled paper label and manual, hemp twine for assembly.

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When you have a big room in your home and you need a space for some other uses. Why not try placing a divider.

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There are several types of dividers for you to choose. If you want something for privacy or just for decorative purposes, Room dividers is an inexpensive way to separate a large room into small rooms or private areas.

If you are looking for a way to separate a large room into small private areas, then it is advisable to use dividers that are sliding or “sliding room dividers” this gives you more flexibility by allowing more options.

Or perhaps, you might need something that is just smaller room to separate. You can choose different type of dividers which comes in four panel screens. Unlike the sliding room dividers, room divider for smaller rooms are comes in different type of design to compliment the rest of the room.

The general design of room dividers is portable, these is to increase the usefulness of a room by turning a large area of your home into smaller rooms. Good thing is, installation of room dividers doesn’t require any skills to install them. Just unfold them and put it into place.

Room dividers are much cheaper rather constructing a wall. So if you need privacy and versatility from your large area, then room dividers are the way to go.

Homeowners who want to help keep the Earth healthy are changing out everything in their homes from the floor to the heating and air conditioning and now even window coverings. In an effort to help provide customers who are looking for the highest style but more renewable sources for window coverings, Payless Décor is now offering a full range of bamboo products that can offer just the support needed.

Payless Décor offers a wide range of products including window coverings that are traditionally made from wood products, roman shades and much more. The current line of bamboo blinds has a design with all of the quality and style of any other products on the market, but these are made from an easily renewable source.

Bamboo is a renewable source of wood, which is widely available throughout the world. Because it grows so quickly—compared to more traditional wood and wood-like plants—products made from bamboo are more Earth-friendly.

Those looking to invest in these products will find low costs and high quality available through Payless Décor. This retailer offers customizable bamboo products as well as standard style window coverings.
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About Payless Decor: Payless Décor is a leading retailer of wall covering products, including a large line of bamboo blinds and shades, horizontal and vertical blinds, and much more. They lead the way in quality, affordability and style in every product they offer.

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A lot of newly wed couple feels that they need to embellish for a more modern, beautiful or antique looking home. Even so, there are also several people who would like to integrate a couple of pieces into their home, but doesn’t know how to react to the prices of the things that they desire to possess. Bear in mind that you can go for a low-cost without appearing in poor taste.

When it concerns the physiological views of the home like the painting, the wallpaper, the paneling, flooring, etc you’ll prefer to shop to some of the local hardware stores, but you’ll likewise want to go to some of the local mom and pop stores so that you’ll be able to find the least costs. Keep in mind that remodeling and home embellishing does not come cheap. Whenever you don’t prefer to go catchpenny, then you need to get a line on how to figure out your budget. If you’re rattling to have something, but it just doesn’t conform to the budget, then you need to continue decorating, but spare to acquire what you’d like at a subsequent date. Even if they are no longer in stock by the moment you get back, you possibly be able to arrive something entirely distinct, but a great deal.

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You also need to reckon about the décor. The idea on choosing the color theme is the first thing to consider prior to selecting your fabrics, candles, flowers, pictures, and so on. You might prefer to leave the color scheme alone until you come across what is on hand for you when it refers accessories and you will also find that there are many ways that you can mix and match colors, patterns, and items.

Always remeber that there are great deals of antique stores, discount stores or even salvage stores that offer several good items that you’ll prefer to try to add into your interiors and their costs are at a steal. There are things that you can make by yourself that wouldn’t cost much too rather than purchasing everything that delights your eyes. Just by dragging a bunt of some textile in a door way or window can create an impressive touch, but will not hurt your pocket. Items like mirrors, frames and candles are just examples of inexpensive things that you can incorporate in your homes and could lower your decorating bills. They can be cheap but can create a focal point into your place. Keep in mind that ornamenting doesn’t necessarily mean to break off your budget but rather making your place as comfortable and inviting to everyone.e, but not break the budget.

The use of Oriental or Persian carpets is one of the best kept secrets on decorating the “Mexican Style”These carpets date back to the fifth century B.C. in ancient Persia it was specially made for a Scythian Prince by the name of Pazyryk. There are three main types of carpets, the Farsh or ‘Q?lii’ which is a carpet 6×4 feet or larger, the Q?licheh which are rugs 6×4 feet or smaller, and nomadic carpets known as Kilim or Zilu, meaning rough carpet.
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Most carpets are hand woven and can take over a year to complete. These rugs are hard to find and are usually sold at upscale galleries and auction houses for outrageous prices.

Floral designs and patterns and intricate wines are woven into the fabric of Herat rugs. The colors they are crafted with are charming Persian carpets are all woven by hand using the same single knot technique. Nomadic tribes in Iran are the weavers of Baluch rugs. These rugs are created using rich colors such as red, ivory, and navy blue, and have been in creation for over 2500 years.

It is very easy to tell carpets that are hand woven from those that are made by machine. One look at the back will tell you the whole story. It takes many, many hours to make one of these beautiful Oriental carpets.