tell your neighbors and everyone where you got it
and that we are friendly. We have great furniture.”
With the assistance of Andrea (Andi) Flemming,
an interior designer, the trio heads south a couple
times per year to visit the Atlanta, Ga. Market and
another market in High Point, N.C.
“I go to Atlanta so it is more of a gift market and
try to find different things and not just run of the
mill. The three of us usually go, Rebecca and I have
a girl (Andi Flemming) who is a designer and she
goes,” Jones said. “We each have our own opinions
about things and it keeps things fresh and lively
when you have three different opinions.”
“I have always loved interior design and she (Alice)
is great at it too,” Barry said. “We just try to get
unique things, something that no one else has. We
have three different tastes, mine, Alice’s and Andi’s
so, you know, we try to get a little bit of everyone’s
taste.”
Jones said that just viewing the displays at the
markets gives her inspiration and ideas.
“We enjoy buying the little trinkets, but it is just
so hard to imagine for someone who hasn’t been
there how big that market actually is,” Jones said.
“You could stay there three months and not see it
all, so it is hard to get a mindset on what you want
to buy. But, sometimes you walk by a window display
and go who look at that! We try to get a little
bit of everything. We try to walk around the store
before we go to the market and see what we have
and what we need. We try to do that and we usually
don’t stick to it.”
Customers may notice a few figures and trinkets
keeping watch over the showrooms. These are
figures Jones finds at the markets and they reflect
character into the furniture with their placement.
“Everybody says, ‘I bet you change out your furniture
all the time,’ and I do not. I have the furniture
at my house that I bought at this store before
I bought the store. I have very eclectic stuff at my
house. I have carousel horses, I have slot machines,
barber chairs...I have nine jukeboxes in the house,”
Jones said. “That one (a figure) came from Atlanta,
Ga., market one year and she has a hula hoop. They
had her standing at Atlanta Market in the hallway
and she had a hula hoop on and I said, ‘I have to
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