Home Accessories and the Housing Market
Sales of decorator accessories at F.O.B. St. Louis go up and down with the tumultuous housing market.
Kay Wallace sells accent furniture and adorable trinkets for the home, items she calls the “finishing touch” for anyone decorating a house. She is the owner of F.O.B. St. Louis in Town and Country’s Lamp and Lantern Village. Wallace said her business is tied closely to the ups and downs of the housing market. When she opened her store nine years ago, new homes were a hot item. Many of her customers were realtors looking for trendy accent items to stage a house they were selling or were people decorating a new home they had just moved into. “The housing market really hit us,” said Wallace. She said that when houses stopped selling, people seem to have less need for her merchandise. The good news for Wallace is that she is now seeing …
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8:42 am on Sunday, February 12, 2012
Poor Kay and her business woes. Oh wait, she refused service to a disabled little boy. The insensitive hag deserves to go bankrupt. more ›