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Where is the Tyler Texas Halloween Store This Year?

August 25th, 2011

Spirit Halloween Costumes in Tyler

If you go down Broadway across from Discount Tire there is this furniture store with a gold painted roof. The store was called Tiny Treasures or something like that. There you will find the new Spirit Halloween store.

This store has it all, kids costumes, adult costumes, costumes for your dog. Keep in mind if you wait until the last minute most of the good costumes will be gone. Also these stores are kind of expensive and the masks probably have little kid and big kid/adult snot on them by the time it gets further on into October.

If you want to save money go ahead and shop for Halloween costumes online but we all know Spirit Halloween is in town only because they know better then many of us that we will procrastinate until the last minute.

I usually go into this store and buy some fake blood or something like that and just look around at all the gruesomeness. It’s fun just looking in there but I probably won’t be buying any masks or adult costumes and we are more likely to make my sons costume than to buy it at a store.

As a side note you may save a little money on your Halloween costume by going by the Card and Party Factory over by Super 1 Foods across from Casa Ole and Chick-Fil-a.

 

Western Heritage Interiors in Tyler TX

June 2nd, 2010

As the owner of a small house with a couple extra rooms, I have often made a habit of trying to keep a boarder or two to help pay for expenses. Mine is a bookish house, ok that just sounds snobby… I have too many books! Now I’ll never be featured on TLC’s Buried Alive or anything, I’m at least neat, but there are books in just about every room save the restroom. Periodically I go through and prune but it doesn’t take long before I’ve replaced what I cut. Ok so I digress. It was probably about five summers ago when I and my cousin, who was living with me at the time, went looking for a new book case. It was June or July and we were dressed appropriately for the summer heat i.e. shorts and t-shirts. We stopped off at a local and well known furniture store, and were greeted by an elegantly dressed, attractive, youngish woman, with an attitude that was anything but. As we entered the establishment the woman looked us over and inquired rudely, “What are YOU looking for today?” “Just looking for book cases,” I replied sheepishly and a bit sarcastically. She told us with mock disappointment the store didn’t carry bookcases. We chose to take her at her word even though we could see they had several on the sales floor.

Furniture stores are funny that way. There’s often a great deal of pretention that goes along with selling furnishings. “I don’t think we sell that sort of thing here… We sell exclusively Carl Farbman’s designs. Did he ever design book cases?” Well I found a furniture store with incredible merchandise and without all the snobbery. Western Heritage Interiors is located on highway thirty one, just off the west loop. The products they carry are all western themed and highly unique. The merchandise is all beautifully crafted, and while it is rustic in appearance, it is unlikely that you’ll find too many examples of this kind of quality in an old bunk house. And Western Heritage carries much more than just furniture. The store is filled with all manner of art, from paintings, to sculptures and everything in between. Ok, so lamps and tables made of elk racks, deer antlers or steer horns are a bit too rustic for me. But many people appreciate that sort of oddity. Overall this is a great store where patrons are sure to find all sorts of conversation pieces.

At the time of my visit I was accompanied by a two year old, and had no intention making a purchase, I was simply there for the purpose of writing this review, a fact I didn’t mention by the way. But the gentleman I spoke with was gracious and seemed unconcerned by the presence of a child in his store. Try that at another furniture store in Tyler. I should also mention that the store is locally owned and operated, so most of what is spent there, stays home in Tyler. Western Heritage also has a website, but it appears to be under construction because it doesn’t scratch the surface of the inventory the actually carry in store. I suggest visiting in person for a more realistic look at what they offer. Their web address is www.westernheritageinteriors.com. To reach them by phone, call 903-592-9803.

Ashley Furniture Homestore in Tyler TX

February 4th, 2010

Ashley Furniture Homestore

5007 Old Bullard Road
Tyler
75703
903 593 4161

Ashley Furniture sells furniture for the living room, bedroom, dining room and office, plus home accents such as rugs, lamps and some soft furnishings. They have a mixture of contemporary and traditional designs, some rustic styles and also furniture especially for kid’s rooms.

When we bought our new house we needed lots of furniture. We wanted something low cost, contemporary and yet something that would last a good few years and withstand abuse from kids! We looked and looked and in the end, kept coming back to Ashley Furniture.

Ashley Furniture Homestore in Tyler

Ashley Furniture Homestore

Ashley furniture in Tyler is the number one selling brand for furniture in the US. They are able to offer great value for money as their enterprise is enormous – they have their own designers, warehouses and even fleet of trucks for transport so they can keep costs low. The negative side of this is that you know when you buy from Ashley that thousands of other families have the same furnishings as you and that you are not in any way innovative in your interior décor.

On our visits to Ashley in Tyler we were jumped upon as soon as we opened the door by enthusiastic salesmen. I’m not sure if they get commission but there must be something that motivates them to be extra attentive to their customers! Luckily we struck up an easy rapport with one of the salesmen and asked for him by name on subsequent visits. He was, it has to be said, very helpful and knew his stuff about the Ashley stock. He did his best to get us the best deal and negotiated within his limitations to get us a discount and reduced cost shipping as we were buying more than just one item. The kids loved being offered a drink and a freshly baked cookie and were happy watching a cartoon sitting on a comfy sofa whilst we looked at the furniture all around them.

One thing I hate about Ashley is that there are no catalogues or swatch samples available. I was desperately trying to match colors for curtains to match the sofa we had ordered but there was no help available. There is also absolutely nothing custom, you just have to take what they sell as it is, no changes or additions to sets etc. There is no chance of an extra leaf for a table and so on.

You are also stuck if you want something that isn’t in fashion at the time – originally I had this notion that I wanted a blue couch but there were none in their inventory. However there were plenty in creams, fawns browns and reds – I just had to alter my taste to suit the current fashion! The website is really not very well designed either, it is almost impossible to get a good look at the furniture online and no prices are listed as they vary from state to state.

The furniture itself is – on the whole, good quality. Certainly our Durapella suite has withstood a lot of serious wear (and even a small child’s puking incident!) It really does clean up as easily as we were promised. We had a minor issue with the kitchen table but someone was sent very quickly to fix the problem and he was most apologetic. I must say, Ashley’s after sale customer service was very good.

Tyler TX Furniture Stores

December 18th, 2009

When shopping for furniture in Tyler one of the biggest pet peeves me and my brother agree on is how annoying it is when the furniture sales person hovers over your shoulder while touring the store. It is that furniture establishments store and so they can have their sales people do whatever they want but it is a sales philosophy I really cannot stand. I won’t go into great detail which store I absolutely hate the most that does this but if you are reading this and would like to make a comment I would be glad to accept local Tyler peoples criticism.

Swann’s

I visited almost every furniture store in Tyler trying to find a good office desk. The best desks I found were at Swann’s but the desks were also astronomically priced. I could not justify spending $4,000 – $5,000 on an office desk when that would cover almost a year of mortgage payments. Who in their right mind would pay that much for an office desk? Why do I ask this question when there seem to be a million homes in Tyler worth over $300,000. Obviously there are plenty of doctors and lawyers in Tyler that can afford desks like this but I am not one of them.

Furniture Row

My next stop was Furniture Row. This furniture store had some good selections on couches and accessory tables and furniture at good prices but not a good selection of office desks that appealed to me. The office desks were okay and priced decent but nothing that I wanted to take home. Overall my impression with Furniture Row is that they are not overly aggressive in hovering over you while you look at furniture. I was not becoming increasingly stressed the longer I was in the store as I felt at a more higher priced establishment.

Lazy Boy

I went into Lazy Boy Furniture Studio and did not see a wide selection of office desks but they did have some well built recliner chairs and some nice looking couches. Lazy Boy has some good prices and some prices on certain things that are a bit out of my budget. I did pick up a nice trendy looking leather recliner chair while at Lazy Boy that I still enjoy to this day. Lazy Boy was not a great help for finding an office desk but their sales staff was not pushy and I got a great leather recliner.

Ivan Smith Furniture

Ivan Smith furniture has your typical selection of couches and recliners I saw at several other stores like when shopping at Lacks. Ivan Smith downtown had too many darker colored chairs and too many leather selections for my taste. When visiting Ivan Smith in South West Tyler I found a better selection of lighter colored furniture and a bigger overall selection of pretty much every type of furniture you might need for a house. I ended up buying a TV stand that was discounted by 75% which was an amazing deal. Ivan’s prices were good but I could not find a couch or chair that interested me there. I was impressed with the sales staff as I did not fill overly pressured when talking to the sales lady. Ivan’s selections are good I am just picky and they didn’t have exactly what I wanted.

Lacks Furniture

Lacks furniture had some very good recliner chairs over by their TV’s and some unique longer cloth fabric couches I had not seen at other furniture stores in Tyler TX. I decided to buy a light green couch from Lack’s and have been very pleased with it. The sales lady at Lack’s was very friendly and easy to work with. I did not feel pressured by her although we were followed around it was not overbearing. When we needed time to ourselves the Lack’s sales professional keyed in on this and backed away to give us time to look around and decide what we wanted to do. My overall experience at Lack’s was a good one and I appreciated the help from the sales lady. The prices at Lack’s are very good on some items although some of their nicer stuff could be out of some peoples price range.

Cheapest Furniture Store in Tyler

After comparing some of these popular furniture stores in Tyler it seemed to me that Furniture Row had some of the cheapest furniture prices. Every furniture store had good prices on certain items and I would encourage everyone to price shop and ask for cheaper prices than what you see on the sticker. If you have to I would leave the store and come back on a sales day if the sales person will not budge on the price.

Feel free to leave a customer review about furniture stores in Tyler that you like or don’t like to help shoppers find the best place to buy their furniture.