June 2018
Madison Park Times
Serving East-Central Seattle since 1983
Real Estate
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Gray & Gray Home opens in Madison Park Family brings back antique, interior design business in former retail space next to Ewing & Clark office By Brandon Macz
Madison Park Times editor Debra Gray is back in the Madison Park storefront she left seven years ago to focus on family. Now, her family is in on the venture. “Not many people like their mother-inlaw enough to also be business partners, right?” said Cary Gray, co-owner of Gray & Gray Home, which had its soft opening on Thursday, May 24. Debra Gray and her friend Dottie Pearson ran the Pearson & Gray antique shop and interior design firm for 12 years, starting in a storefront where the old British phone booth sits, she said. They later moved to a space at 4110 E. Madison
St., next door to the Ewing & Clark real estate office. Debra walked away from the business seven years ago, she said, when her children went off to college in California, and her husband was traveling a lot. “Now, my kids are back in town, and Carly loves the same things I do,” she said, “so, round two.” Carly and her mother-in-law took over the former Pearson & Gray space — last occupied by the Guesthouse home decor shop — in April. “Every surface has been redone,” Carly said of the five-week renovation process, which was followed by hours of setting up Gray & Gray’s collection of antiques, jewelry, furniture and miscellaneous knick-
Photo by Brandon Macz Carly and Debra Gray opened Gray & Gray Home in Madison Park on Thursday, May 24. Debra Gray used to run a shop there seven years ago. knacks. “It feels very comfortable,” Debra said. “It’s almost like we didn’t miss a beat. Gray & Gray Home’s inventory includes a collection of “one-of-a-kind antiques,” acquired over the years and through various domestic and international trips,
Carly said. In anticipation of the store’s opening, Carly said a lot more items were purchased, and the duo has a list of trusted painters, upholsters and carpet installers at the ready for customers’ interior design needs. GRAY, Page 7
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