Ashley Home Furniture

It's a well-played out scene. The happy couple enter Ikea/John Lewis/Habitat/Heals (delete as appropriate) hand-in-hand with that "we're moving in together" look, only to explode a few hours later into a public display of vicious bickering over what colour the feature wall is meant to be or whether scatter cushions are really necessary.

Setting up home, whether it's moving, redecorating or renovating a property from scratch, is stressful enough when there's only one of you; add in your other half, complete with their own ideas of what your joint home should look like, and those stress levels risk going sky high.

Jenkinson says the key to couples keeping arguments at bay when it comes to decorating decisions is to make sure you both voice your opinions on what you would and wouldn't like, and compromise, so you each get a chance to inject your individual styles in different parts of your home. Luckily my own experience of merging two styles into one home has been without complication (so far) – my fiancé trusts my judgement and we appear to share similar tastes that haven't clashed (yet).

But while he's expressed relief that he can confidently trust I won't cover our home in Cath Kidston florals, which we both loathe, he has still vetoed a few of my product selections (coloured glasses from Toast and, bizarrely, a simple wire letter holder from Rockett St George). Similarly, there's one or two things of his choice I've vetoed too – namely, a boring black coffee table which will be going on eBay soon.

Yours, mine, ours... - The Independent

Dallas - Retail trade organization Home Furnishings Independents Association (HFIA) announced the members of the organization's 2011-12 board of directors. Verona Mair, owner, The Emporium, Ponca City, OK, will succeed Stephen H. Kidder as chairman of the board effective immediately.

Serving on the board's executive committee with Mair are Bob Bolton, general manager, Ashley Furniture HomeStore, Beaumont, TX; Frank Brame, general manager, Carroll Furniture, Alexandria, LA; Karen Craig, manufacturer's representative, Houston, TX; Randy Greengus, owner, Sun Furniture City, Shreveport, LA; Stephen H. Kidder, general manager, Ashley Furniture HomeStore, Williston, VT and David Lively, owner, The Lively Merchant, Lancaster, OH.

Additional members of the board include Melissa Bunker, general manager, Crazy J's Bed Shop, Wichita, KS; Amy Castleberry, Castleberry's Ethan Allen Home Interiors, Tulsa, OK; David Davis, CEO, Provencal Home, Austin, TX; David Dodd, owner, Dodd Home Furnishings, Guin, AL; Richard Glabman, president, Deere Park & Associates LLC, Northbrook, IL; Glynn Irby, Irby's Home Furnishings, Clute, TX; David Jacobs, owner, Bedford Furniture Galleries, Bedford, IN and Kerry Peavey, owner, Garland Furniture, Garland, TX.

Kids products that combine high play value and a design sensibility that blends with mom and dad's house are sure winners for specialty shops, who can market themselves as an alternative to cheap plastic imports and their problematic safety records.

HFIA Names New Board of Directors - Gifts & Decorative Accessories

Ashley Furniture worker Matt Izzo helps deliver five mattress sets to a Tampa family Thursday. The family received the free mattresses through Ashley Furniture's A Hope to Dream program, which focuses on children and families in need.

Ashley Furniture worker Matt Izzo helps deliver five mattress sets to a Tampa family Thursday. The family received the free mattresses through Ashley Furniture's A Hope to Dream program, which focuses on children and families in need.

Through its program A Hope to Dream, Ashley Furniture delivers free beds to children in need who are ages 3 to 16. Comforter sets are included.

That includes 409 mattress sets in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Clearwater and Brandon. "Helping children has always been one of the passions of the owner, Todd Wanek," said spokeswoman Ruthie Bautista of Ashley Homestores in Brandon.

Bed program doesn't rest - Tbo.com

That includes 409 mattress sets in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Clearwater and Brandon. "Helping children has always been one of the passions of the owner, Todd Wanek,'' said spokeswoman Ruthie Bautista of Ashley Homestores in Brandon.

Free beds help hundreds of poor Hillsborough students - Tbo.com

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