BY LINDA BARRETT
The Gallery’s services aren’t just limited to furnishings. Their fullservice design team headed by designer Rick Harvey helps with the entire design experience, from painting, lighting, wall and ceiling art, music, and whatever else is needed to create a stunning space. “Our designers have the capacity to work with any budget, from six-figures for a single room to a $10,000 budget for four rooms,” Khan says. McLean Furniture Gallery takes their service yet a step further by offering a refurbishing/remodeling division. Projects include completing unfinished basements, state-of-the-art kitchens remodels, and adding skylights, among others. They are proud of their work to refurbish and furnish ambassadorial residences in New York, Washington, D.C.,
McLean Furniture Gallery is
All That and More LOCAL BUSINESS CELEBRATES 30 YEARS
Since 1984, McLean Furniture Gallery has been a stalwart of our community, well known for providing top-quality furnishings. Yet they do so much more.
Singapore, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Lahore and Bombay.
Obviously, they sell furniture. Their 25,000 square foot gallery at 8500 Lee Highway showcases fine furnishings from over 100 manufacturers, including top designers and well-known brands.
And as one more service, MFG offers a furniture leasing division. “We work with people in transition, as with the diplomatic corps, military and corporate accounts, bringing brand-new inventory to every job,” Khan says.
Clients are not only local, they are worldwide. “We are the provider for dignitaries, ambassador residences, 7-star boutique hotels, heads of state, military clubs and residences, private country clubs, Fortune 5 executives, and well-known international glitterati,” says Tehmina Khan, owner and designer. Yet, they have furnished several schools for underprivileged children in Washington D.C. The economy forced many area furniture stores to close, but not the McLean Furniture Gallery (MFG). As the only design-focused furniture showroom in our area, MFG sells so much furniture that, in fact, three major manufacturers paid them the biggest compliment possible in this industry: naming collections after them. For example, Kindel Furniture named a bedroom suite the Tehmina Group, and Harden Furniture honored them by dedicating a European-style wood-frame settee and sofa, the Tehmina.
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The American Success Story Tehmina Khan’s personal story is the true American Success Story. “Growing up in Pakistan, girls didn’t have the same educational opportunities as boys,” Khan explains. So she started her own business providing an haute couture collection featuring precious and semi-precious
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