Looking to spruce up your home, perhaps by adding in some pops of color? In the market for fun decorative pieces to infuse your personality into your place? Or considering replacing your furniture with some new items?
Chaise & Home, which opened in September 2024 in the Garland District, serves as the retail space for owner Wendy Nolan's interior design company 509 Design.
"When we moved our studio to the Garland area, we saw there was a lot of foot traffic," Nolan says. "We decided to open our doors to the general public, and we opened the decor store and custom home furnishings just kind of as a separate branch."
Nolan says that her love for interior design sparked at a young age, when she was 13 years old taking home economics classes that focused on design and architecture.
After getting her bachelor's degree in Salt Lake City and working in commercial design at architecture firms for a number of years, she made the transition into residential design, opening 509 Design in 2015.
While 509 Design focuses on design projects for individuals' homes, Chaise & Home has a designer on staff who can help shoppers find the right pieces for their specific aesthetics and goals.
"We show how people can incorporate color and really push them beyond what their limits might be in terms of combining patterns, colors and textures," Nolan says.
Chaise & Home stocks new and antique furniture, as well as pillows, side tables, glassware, lanterns and much, much more.
"We try to provide things you don't normally see anywhere else in town," she says.
Nolan says she wants the store to feel welcoming and inviting to all.
"You'll come in and you'll see some really high price-point items, but we've mixed them in with some lower cost items, and we try to do that on our projects too — not everything has to be the best or the most expensive," she says. "When you have good quality foundational pieces, you don't notice that you might have skimped on the end table that's not superb quality or something that was made by a craftsman, but I think it blends well and it helps the budget stretch further for clients."
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