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But perhaps the most interesting contributor is the increase in furniture and furnishings for home staging.
FORBES: Sales Growth Despite Consumer Spending Sluggishness
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There are several possible contributors to the growth in furniture and home furnishings sales including new constructions that were delayed, frustrations with old furniture that should have been replaced earlier, etc.
FORBES: Sales Growth Despite Consumer Spending Sluggishness
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If that is the case and the increase in sales among private furniture and home furnishings retailers can be attributed at least in part to home staging, then that should be a hopeful sign that the housing market is picking up.
FORBES: Sales Growth Despite Consumer Spending Sluggishness
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Matahari Cottages has six flamboyantly themed rooms, including the 'Batavia Dacha' and the 'Indian Pasha', stuffed with Balinese furniture and colourful soft furnishings.
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The big design news in Stockholm this fall is the expansion of the flagship store of Svenskt Tenn, the 87-year-old home-furnishings label known for the modernist furniture and fantastical textile patterns of Austrian-born architect Josef Frank (1885-1967).
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They were able to salvage the wooden furniture and some antiques, but anything made of fabric all the mattresses, couches, soft furnishings, carpeting, drapes and linens were thrown out.
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Because many pieces of so-called American Empire furniture were mass-produced by later, lesser makers than Phyfe and Lannuier, interest in collecting American Classical furnishings has been at a low ebb for several decades.
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