This Capeville chair is a fresh “new traditional” slipcovered look for a dining area. It could be combined with other wood chairs or benches, or made with solid fabrics, if you prefer to keep everything from looking too patterned. The scrumptious tailoring has a flounce and mini-skirt with double pleated corners and a bordered edge. [ read more… ]
Our representative Katie Harker, from the fabric house Robert Allen, was in our stores last week to present their new fabrics. It’s always inspiring to see what’s new. This fabric is called Roman Circle, shown in Honeysuckle. The Robert Allen design blog has some inspiring photos and commentary. Speaking of new… So many items are [ read more… ]
Charlotte, who came shopping with her mom this morning at the Wheaton Toms-Price, said, “I’d like to live here”. Wouldn’t we all appreciate our lives more, if surrounded by comfortable and beautiful furnishings – wherever we might find them.
This is our design studio in the Wheaton Toms-Price store. Eventually these hanging fabric samples are discontinued and put out to pasture, so to speak. Imagine what can be done with hundreds of these textile squares, left over from our Toms-Price showroom samples. This wonderful non-profit organization, called Re:new, is making them into beautiful new [ read more… ]
After vacationing in the canyons of Utah last week, this fabric lept out at me while walking through the Toms-Price design studio. The orange rocks of Bryce canyon were something to behold! Try sprinkling a great accent color like orange here and there in your home. It may be just the right thing to add [ read more… ]
If you are out and about in the northwest suburbs this weekend, stop by THE OPENING of our new South Barrington, Illinois store in the Arboretum shopping center at Rte. 59 and Higgins Road. The new store has the best of Toms-Price in beautiful skylit surroundings which you will love. If you plan to [ read more… ]
As Cole Porter described her… You’re the top! You’re the Coliseum. You’re the top! You’re the Louver Museum. You’re a melody from a symphony by Strauss You’re a Bendel bonnet, A Shakespeare’s sonnet, You’re Mickey Mouse. You’re the Nile, You’re the Tower of Pisa, You’re the smile on the Mona Lisa I’m a worthless check, [ read more… ]
The kids are back in school, summer vacations are turning into memories, can you believe it’s almost Fall? If you are smart, you will be thinking ahead to the holidays. “What? My turn to have the family over again?” This really fantastic looking table, from Stickley’s Metropolitan Collection, has just the right “next generation” quality [ read more… ]
The news is out – Toms-Price is opening a brand new store in South Barrington this fall! We will be in the Arboretum shopping center at Higgins Road and Route 59. The Arboretum has wonderful restaurants, shops and landscaping that lives up to the name. Right now the new space is being painted and built [ read more… ]
Pantone, the global authority on color, has selected turquoise as the color of the year in fashion and home design. “Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same [ read more… ]
