fyi Duluth Design Studio Brings Cooperative Spirit to Home Decor
Frugally Yours Interiors marks three years in Duluth and renovates its Main Street space into a state-of-the-art showroom.
When Stacie Stamper and her family arrived in Duluth, it was via a number of places worldwide, including London, Germany, Texas, and Singapore. While residing in the latter, she developed an interest in Oriental rugs.
As a result, when it came time to decorate her home in Sugarloaf, she was unable to find anything to her liking, despite a search of over a year. One day at a gas station, she spied a Liberty Oriental Rug truck, asked to take a look at their cargo and was smitten. Unfortunately, they were not a retail dealer, so she couldn’t purchase from them. “I followed the truck back to the warehouse,” Stamper remembered, “and just kept talking my way in farther inside."
Stamper persuaded Liberty to make a deal: If she could sell $20,000 worth of their rugs in a month, they had to hire her. “That was my first day of eight years with them,” she said.
Unfortunately, when the real estate market collapsed, her rug sales and many of the contacts that she had made in the home improvement, interiors, and decorating industry, went with it. “So many couldn’t keep their showrooms open. Some went Internet only, and others closed.” Stamper, along with some of her friends and associates in the design industry decided it was time to try something different...
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