Official Blog of Gallery Furniture's Mattress Mack of Houston, TX

Gallery Furniture Customer Carol Dougherty Showcases Two Upholstery Lines for Mack

Gallery Furniture's great customers have been fanning out all over the High Point Market - the world's largest furniture market - and more than just finding new and exciting products, these great customers are also expressing the latest and greatest in styles in trends for living room, dining room, leather, upholstery, children's furniture, and occasional tables and more.

In the videos below from High Point Market, Gallery Furniture customer Carol Dougherty goes over her finds and discusses topics such as upholstery design and scale of style.  

Carol Dougherty is a shining example of the  greatness of each and every member of the Gallery Furniture buying  team - all of them insightful and a joy to work with with their style and their observations into the various styles of the customer demographics of the world's greatest customers.  This valuable insight is something that has been flowing freely to the core vendors of Gallery Furniture as well as the staffers of Gallery Furniture.

Carol Dougherty Goes Over her Children's Furniture Finds for Gallery Furniture

Gallery Furniture's great customers attending the High Point Market had a meeting about a week ago wherein they spoke with Mattress Mack himself and waxed strategy on the various items being sought after for Gallery Furniture, and one of those was some new and innovative ideas in children's furniture, especially since so much of what is seen these days can often be seen as the "same old same old." 

Gallery Furniture leads the way in innovation and finding exciting new products in the children's category lines, and to showcase that, see the exciting items that Gallery Furniture carries in the children's category such as Berg Furniture.

In the video below, Carol Dougherty, a member of the Gallery Furniture High Point Market Team, goes over a children's furniture find from In Room Furniture.

Gallery Furniture's customers are hard at work in the High Point Market, and the continued excitement is literally invigorating the industry.  It's been a benefit no matter what category - children's furniture, living room furniture, bedroom furniture, and more.  

Gallery Furniture Customer Lori Murphy Recaps her Jonathan Louis Experience at High Point

Gallery Furniture customer Lori Murphy shares with everyone her collection likes over at Jonathan Louis, a line she became more familiar with on a late Friday afternoon visit to their showroom in beautiful High Point, North Carolina during the annual High Point Furniture Market (no officially in its 100th year).

"The first thing I noticed, Mack, was the gorgeous use of blue, and I mean that in every shade and color of blue.  Blue, for lack of a better word, is the hip thing this market, and I let Chris and Gil know that it seemed almost every nice piece that I viewed had some hint of blue in it - and I thought it would be nice for Gallery Furniture customers to know what the next trend is - and I wanted to show Houston what they could expect to see in terms of palettes and color schemes that will really start hitting the scene soon."

"I think Gallery Furniture customers will like what many manufacturers seem to have done this particular season is to bring the use of shades of blue and incorporate that with such a wide range of other colors that, at first glance, we might not think of.  Just look how the cute kidney pillows above sort of bring it all together."

"Again, the kidney pillows bring this look together for this set, I also love the fact that this set did not show a loveseat, chair, ottoman, etc. in the kid of traditional sense - I love this sofa and two chairs and cocktail ottoman combination.  Very light looking in terms of size, and as many of my fellow inner-loop Gallery Furniture Houstonians know, you are very tight on space inside the 610 Loop.  A set like this gives you lots of ways to move the seating around and not consuming a massive amount of floor space.  Heck, kill the cocktail ottoman and replace it with something a bit smaller, and you have a real space saver with plenty of comfy seating. "

Lori Murphy is happy to be a part of the Gallery Furniture High Point team, and she is enjoying her experience as a buyer, adding "you definitely don't like everything you see at High Point market, it can really overwhelm you - but what I like, I know I like an I do not dawdle.  Like it, know why I like it, and I move on - go, go, go!"

That is one thing Gallery Furniture loves, decisiveness.  Gallery Furniture is lucky to have great customers like Lori Murphy and the rest of the customers yurned buyers on the High Point Market trip.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner!

 
World renowned  interior deisgner Bill Stubbs is coming to High Point, North Carolina as part of the Gallery Furniture buying team and he's bringing his ideas, his style, and his eye for all things beautiful to the Gallery Furniture High Point market team.

He's a hard-working member of the Gallery Furniture family, and Gallery Furniture is obviously honored to have him part of the High Point market team and the customers who have joined us as buyers are giddy with anticipation for his arrival today.  Personally, we all are awaiting Bill, and we can't wait.

Unassuming and down-to-earth Bill Stubbs is a designer who stays true to his Texas roots by being a gentleman and kind and always being a listener and understanding the needs of his clients.  In short, he shares Gallery Furniture values of being customer-centric and committed to bringing quality and improving your life through furniture and design.

Bill Stubbs will be here later, and we'll hear from him as the weekend goes on.  He'll be dining with the Gallery Furniture team later tonight.

Gallery Furniture is a proud sponsor of Bill Stubbs' show Moment of Luxury, which you can see on Houston's on KUHF PBS Channel 8.

The Gallery Furniture Ty Pennington Experience at High Point Market

 
Gallery Furniture customers got to walk through the upcoming Gallery Furniture exclusive Ty Pennington line coming to Gallery Furniture for the world's greatest customers.  Jim Davis, the Gallery Furniture Howard Miller rep, was delighted to showcase the over 68 packages that comprise the entirety of the Ty Pennington line to the Gallery Furniture team of buyers (composed of Gallery Furniture's great customers).

The number seemed overwhelming at first, a fact not lost on the crowd as you could see on their faces that the sheer volume of pieces - even with their breathtaking beauty, fabulous configurations, and wonderfully dressed up room settings - was a bit intimidating at first.  Gallery Furniture customers do love to shop with an eye on speed - after all, Gallery Furniture is all about the customer and getting them the furniture they bought with their hard earned money TODAY.  Now was the Howard Miller Ty Pennington Line at Gallery Furniture going to be something cumbersome, or was it something fun and easy to go through?

Quick answer:  fun and easy and beautiful.  Turns out the Ty Pennington Line at Gallery Furniture is so easy to mix and match, that the nine wonderful ladies that accompanied Gallery Furniture to High Point as a buying team were overjoyed by the fact that you could easily take a room as it is shown - a total home solution - or you could mix a piece from one set to another because Ty Pennington designed the system for flawless, effortless combining.

One thing Gallery Furniture truly loves is innovation and style - and the Ty Pennington line from Howard Miller provides both with an eye to making a purchase nearly effortless for the world's greatest customers.

 

From travertine topped nightstands, sofa tables, cedar lined understorage on beds, to sofas and accent chairs that have upholstery covers whose texture is an artform in and of itself... the Ty Pennington line by Howard Miller (soon to be an exclusive line at Gallery Furniture) has everything a customer wants.  From a transitional feel that blends effortlessly in any Houston home (from suburban home to downtown Houston loft to a small Midtown apartment) to a color scheme that allows a Gallery Furniture customer to pop colors into the neutral patterns without overkill.

Gallery Furniture Gets Groovy!

 

There's exciting and new furniture at Gallery Furniture - your one-stop Houston furniture shop for the latest and greatest in furniture, accessories, rugs, home theater and electronics, and all things… Groovy.  Gallery Furniture now carries something you won't find anywhere else - a line of solid wood furniture that retains so much of the wood's natural look and feel, it's like living art ready for your home TODAY.

 

Gallery Furniture's own Michael Burnes, a man instrumental in creating the beautiful vignettes and displays at 6006 I-45 North between Tidwell and Parker, was a key person in bringing this line manufactured by Groovy exclusively to Gallery Furniture.  "To be honest," Michael says, "I need to give credit to Jeremy Hunt for finding Groovy - he fell in love with it first and kept hounding me about it, so one day while at furniture market I was just minding my own business when this man introduced himself to me and it turned out he was the owner of Groovy Furniture.  I took him up on his offer to tour his space.  I have been working at Gallery Furniture for about 20 years, and one thing I learned is to always check everything out, you never know where the next idea will come from."

"When I walked into their company showroom, my first thought was how this furniture has its own niche, it's not easily categorized, and it really was just something that you could do almost anything with.  A lot of people may immediately look at it and think that Groovy Furniture belongs more in a ranch house or hill country setting - and believe me, it would work there - but you need to take it a step further.  These pieces easily blend into an urban loft or contemporary look, they can serve to add natural warmth to a contemporary look."

To prove his point, Michael points out a Groovy end table mixed with a highly contemporary couch on display at Gallery Furniture "You see how this just pops?  The eclectic look of the Groovy natural wood just fits anywhere, and it works and it lends life and depth to the whole look, and is a great accent piece or focal point in a contemporary setting!"

Today, Gallery Furniture is bringing in some dining table chairs, stools, some benches, and a host of other items from Groovy to go along with the beautiful wagon wheel benches, wagon wheel tables, wooden swings, and host of other types of furniture - all ready to go into your Houston home today.  Whether you have a ranch home you are decorating, a contemporary downtown Houston urban loft, or a cozy suburban setting, this gorgeous solid wood furniture from Gallery Furniture with its natural features fits in anywhere.  "This furniture is unique, it's gorgeous," adds Michael Burnes, "it's like taking a snapshot of nature - with thousands of different ways it can work in your home, it's beautiful, and you simply will not find this look anywhere except at Gallery Furniture."

Here's A Little Gallery Furniture Inside Information...

On September 3rd, when Gallery Furniture held the grand opening of Phase II of the Big Showroom at 6006 North Freeway - the great celebration of being 100% open - it came as no surprise that the Bill Stubbs inspirational rooms were not just stunningly perfect, but a huge hit.  Furniture, accessories, rugs, bed spreads, flooring, the art work and pictures, all combined in harmony to make the perfect home.  The effect was so powerful because Bill is a master at tying at everything together to create the perfect look - after all Bill, Stubbs is an artist in his own right.  This perfection then led Bill to make me promise him not to sell any of the floor models for at least three months so that the showroom would look brand new for some time to come. 

Well, no sooner had the Gallery Furniture showroom opened at 10:00 a.m. following the live broadcast of Houston's very own Great Day Houston with Deborah Duncan that a customer entered the inspirational showrooms at 10:30.  Well, she was so inspired by the work Bill Stubbs had done with the Gallery Furniture inspirational room that she turned to a salesperson and said "I want to buy all of this, just as it is shown in this room." 

I shamelessly told Bill Stubbs "Sorry, Bill, I gotta make the sale." 

The customer's order of Bill Stubbs' inspirational home was completely, flawlessly, and precisely delivered to the customer about to two days later.  At this point, Bill was scrambling to refurnish and redecorate the now empty inspirational home - and I am pleased to announce Bill had that Gallery Furniture inspirational home back to 100% in true Gallery Furniture fashion - fast, fast, fast.  I told Bill, "You know, your furniture and accessories look great in those rooms… but I gotta take care of the customer!"

Bill smiled.  I am pretty sure he understood.  After all, at Gallery Furniture, it's all about taking care of the customers - TODAY and every day.

[Photo, inset above. from left to right: Deborah Duncan, Bill Stubbs, Mattress Mack, and Michael Burnes]

Gallery Furniture - Total Home Furnishing, Design, and Installation Experts

 
The pictures you see in this blog are Houston and Galveston homes decorated by Gallery Furniture design experts.  If you are in need of decorating assistance, let Gallery Furniture's team of experts decorate your Houston - or Texas - home beautifully, stylishly, and with the wide selection available at Gallery Furniture.  From furniture to rugs, from accessories to home theater seating and electronics, Gallery Furniture can install and decorate a house full of product for you at no additional charge!

What's more, you can rest assured that the installation of your beautiful new furniture, accessories, rugs, and home theater electronics will be conducted by Gallery Furniture experts - seasoned professionals in the home furniture industry with decades of combined experience and thousands of hours of professional training in every field.  Installation and completion of these beautiful homes shown here were conducted by Gallery Furniture experts with teams of six to eight Gallery Furniture installation professionals who worked 12 to 14 hour days to please and delight the world's greatest customers at no additional charge.

These homes, fully decorated with Gallery Furniture living room pieces, dining room sets, bedroom suites, rugs, accessories, and home electronics, were done at no additional charge and to the complete and total satisfaction of the customers.  You can expect the same level of experience, expertise, speed and service when Gallery Furniture brings in your house full of furniture, accessories, rugs, and electronics.

Great furniture, great accessories, world class rugs and the latest in home electronics - even total home automation systems like QWebL  - Gallery Furniture does it all for you with expert decorators, installation professionals in every field, for folks just like you when you buy a house full of furniture at Gallery Furniture.

And oh, by the way, Gallery Furniture does road trips!  Gallery Furniture has delivered a house full of furniture and conducted installations around Texas and across the globe - from Austin, Dallas, San Antonio to New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. and from New York, New York to Hawaii & Cabo San Lucas, if you need a houseful of furniture and more delivered and professionally installed, then Gallery Furniture IS YOUR ONE-STOP SHOP for furniture, accessories, rugs, home electronics, and interior design.  Whether it's Houston or anywhere in the world, your fully furnished dreams begin at Gallery Furniture TODAY!

Customers Find the Rug they Need at Gallery Furniture!

     Gallery Furniture has experts in all areas of furniture. Rug Expert Fred was able to help Scott, who came  to buy a rug for his home.  Fred was was more than happy to use his extensive knowledge of rugs to help the customer find the perfect rug for his home. 
    Returning customer Scott shops at Gallery Furniture because of the great customer service he receives. He often mentions how comfortable the Temper Pedic mattress he purchased at Gallery Furniture is, and how it helped lessen his back pains.  Scott compliments the movers who delivered his bed, because of how friendly and helpful they were. 
    When referring to Gallery Furniture, Scott always has great things to say. The reason I keep coming back to the store is because it is a great place to see friendly faces and I love the great selection". Come to Gallery Furniture today where you can buy it TODAY and get it TODAY!

Aico Dining Room Furniture

It’s the New Year and which means change; why not start in your home?  Gallery Furniture has a wide selection of dining room furniture, including Aico sets.  Aico Furniture Company is known around the world for its style and top quality and Gallery Furniture is pleased to be a part of it.  Aico designs beautiful dining room sets that are sure to bring elegance to your home.   Theses pieces are built for people with exquisite taste. So stop by GALLERY FURNITURE TODAY and remember if you buy it TODAY it will be in your home TODAY.