The former Rogers Department Store buzzed Thursday with more than 200 workers transforming the 28th Street SW behemoth into one of the Midwest’s largest independent furniture showcases.

This is where Klingman’s, a storied name in Grand Rapids’ history as Furniture City, will be reborn after more than 112 years in business.

If all goes according to plan, the doors will open on a showcase of more than $15 million of furniture on Sept. 15.
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At some point, you may sell your house. Right now, you want it to work for you.

The tiled kitchen counters and polished brass hardware must go, but what to put in their place? Up-to-date features with good resale potential, in places that buyers care about most — the kitchen, bathrooms and closets.

When renovating a home that you might sell, go neutral, says Shawna Roorda, vice president of design at Crawford Renovation. Think beige, taupe and white. Make crowd-pleasing decisions when it comes to hard finishes, such as flooring, tile, countertops and cabinetry.
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Zeroing in on one portion of the health care market and doing it well has paid off for Cindy Heit-Welch. As president and majority owner of Centerville-based Gem City Home Care, she has led the company to a jump in revenue, a pending relocation to a larger office and a healthy optimism about the future.

Heit-Welch opened the company seven years ago with a plan. Having two health care businesses behind her, one in Dallas in the 1990s and another in Dayton later that decade, Heit-Welch had the experience and a strategy to grow her third firm to high revenues.
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Dining room is part of our house the always we visit, because dining room is room specially we apply to eat. Interior design dining room must fulfill others aspect, because dining room not only as place of eats family, but room eats also we to apply for guest to mess together.

Designs dining room always is followed determines dining room furniture applied for dining room supply. Therefore we must choose and determines some furniture which can give balmy nuance when we eat.
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Arranges room place of we ready to require specialty, so that all supplies of house we seen as according to our desire and seen is compatible between furniture and concept designs interior which we to wish.

Gets collection furniture matching with room concept which we have made sometimes very difficult. Therefore we require some references and information about shop furniture providing quite a lot of collection furniture, that we can choose as according to our appetite.
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