MY FAVORITE THINGS

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Customers who walk into My Favorite Things know they are entering a leader of the home fashion industry, based on the store’s captivating layout alone. The showroom consists of a 10,000-foot open floor space hosting furniture and accessories, alongside the Cobblestone Shops of individual specialty stores lining a sidewalk.

“Along with providing services in all areas of interior design, we also provide gifts for everyday and seasonal occasions,” explained Tom Ulshafer, the president of retail operations at My Favorite Things and director of design for Forch Group of Kentucky.

“While we’re beginning our 19th year in Lexington, it has been the people of this community that I’ve grown to appreciate so much.”

After so many years serving as the leader of such a unique business here, Ulshafer has learned that the future may be uncertain, but that planning and execution will always bring rewards.

“The future of the design and furniture business is difficult to predict, as online shopping and the supplies of products continuously change,” he reflected. “But I will always be motivated by the chance to have my vision fulfilled through effective planning and efficient work.”

“Dream, Design, Reality” is the motto of Norwalk Furniture & Design. With a 3,500 square foot showroom and custom design center offering over 300 vendors from local to couture, no one is better equipped to take a client’s vision and bring it to fruition. Norwalk is proud to be a female and LGBTQ owned and operated business, which boasts a full range of professional design services, stunning showroom store, and its own warehouse with a fleet of delivery trucks, could best be described as a design firm within a retail furniture store. Their passionate team of award-winning, professional designers will come to your home, business or venue and guide you through any venture, big or small. Norwalk is eager to accommodate any style and budget with its fine furniture, custom upholstery and bedding, window treatments, antique rugs and gifts. Between them, the owners and staff have degrees in design, communication and public relations degrees, as well as 15 years of business ownership and over 40 years of design experience, all working together to bring you “modern design with southern charm.”

Owners Kellie Clarke, Justin Morris, Tawana Palmer and Bryant Stanley bring their elegant aesthetic, community connections and straightforward approach to business to the company, as well as BBB accreditation. When it comes to leading a company, these “design quadruples” say, “It is all about building relationships, enjoying people, loving creativity, being confident, being a great listener…and, in the end, that your client will be happy. Lexington is home to us and the people and relationships are unmatched.”

The team at Norwalk understands that being a leader in the fast paced, ever-changing field of fine furnishings entails knowing that “change is constant, and flexibility is key.” Therefore, they strive to always be on the “cusp of the latest style and design.” However, the design crew says they receive their greatest inspiration from the customers themselves— “We are newly inspired everyday by each and every lovely person that enters our showroom doors.”

Norwalk believes what sets them apart is “the passion we have for people, originality of design, and the pursuit in our commitment to providing high quality products and exceptional service.”

In closing, the Norwalk team stresses, “We always want to be welcoming, comforting and helpful. We never want anyone to feel intimidated to begin a design project or buy a sofa. We want to build relationships, forge pathways and develop generational homes and spaces for an array of budgets and tastes. We want everyone to know that this will be a seamless and painless experience. Our clients become our friends.”

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