Most of us have developed a unique personal style and we know what fashions work for us. But when it comes to decorating or remodeling our homes, particularly our kitchens and bathrooms, style preferences can be harder to pin down.

“Consumers are spending more time — and money — to customize kitchens and bathrooms,” says Ginny Long, director of online and direct marketing for Moen. So how can you identify your personal decorating style to incorporate it into these rooms?
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Lisa Spencer, a Whatcom County interior designer with experience serving residential and commercial clients, recently launched Lisa Spencer Interiors.

Spencer has been an owner and co-owner of an interior-design business in the county for 12 years. She previously worked as a managing senior designer for a firm in Carmel, Calif., and as the primary consulting designer and coordinator for The Pebble Beach Company Resort and Golf Course on California’s Monterrey Peninsula.

Lisa Spencer Interiors offers a variety of services, providing turn-key service for new construction, renovation projects and model homes that covers design coordination, planning, budgeting, purchasing and installation.

Touring model homes, have you ever longed to take some of the furniture with you?

Now you can in Chandler.

Tempe-based home builder T.W. Lewis is getting rid of items from model homes that have sold and has opened a showroom on the northwest corner of Arizona Avenue and Elliot Road.

“We pretty much have everything you would expect in a furniture store, from furniture to accessories to designer bedding sets,” said Tracy Lucas, the builder’s director of marketing. “We have a lot of one-of-a-kind pieces.”
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Right now, the front of a furniture store along Corridor G leaves something to be desired.

Shattered bricks litter the ground around the store’s entrance, and cement blocks are exposed where white bricks used to be.

A temporary blue banner with the store’s name and logo hangs over the entranceway.

But that’s the price of progress at Wells Home Furnishings, where business continues to flourish amid a $1 million expansion project.
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Bob’s Discount Furniture, a fast growing furniture retailer in the northeast, with stores in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, announced the grand opening of the 30th Bob’s Discount Furniture location to take place in the Crossroads Shopping Plaza in Bellingham, Massachusetts on Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 10 a.m.
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