special sign, clean look This well-positioned Little Rock home, previously featured in CUE, has a garage door that opens onto a pool deck.
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BY KATHERINE WYRICK PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN CHILSON
HOME SHOW T get’s the Royal Treatment
BY KATHERINE WYRICK PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN CHILSON
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he Home Show took place last weekend, and Royal Overhead Door, Inc. again made a big impression. Bob Strahan, general manager of Royal Family of Companies, says “The Home Show is the biggest event for us. We have one of the largest if not the largest booths full line of fireplaces, stoves, HVAC and garage doors. We also usually show something out of the ordinary like a nice high-end, attractive door. For a little money, you can transform the way your house looks with the right door.” Of what’s trending now, Strahan says that direct vent fireplaces offer a more modern look and are continuing to gain popularity. “They come with convenient thermostats and are also very efficient,” he says. Glass sectional doors (retractable “garage doors”) are also now being used both residentially and commercially. They’re practical and make quite a strong design statement. “We just did a remodel at Sushi Café and have used them at several homes along the river,” Strahan says (see photo above). Many homeowners are having them installed in family rooms so that they open up onto a deck or patio, expanding living space and letting the outside in.
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he other morning a lone cowboy stood at the corner of Cantrell and T. Street, that odd pie-piece of land across from Crazee’s Café. Wearing a sandwich board that read Nouveau Cleaners, he smiled and waved to oncoming traffic. That cowboy was Larry Wilkerson, owner of Nouveau Cleaners, located in the building formerly occupied by Eclectic Gift Co. (now next to Taziki’s). He and his wife Diane opened shop in mid-February, a business Larry describes as “a boutique laundry.” Yes, the urban cowboy caught my eye, but the sign he was holding made me turn around. And therein lies the magic of a sign by Steve Perry. You know one when you see one—the signature script, the retro appeal. The sandwich board is swell, but the pièce de résistance is the sign on the building itself, which looks like an illustration excised from a vintage text book. Bravo, Bruscraft Signs.
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