This Old Couch is situated at 342 Belfonte St. in downtown Russell, Ky. (The Ironton Tribune | Mark Shaffer)
RUSSELL, Ky. — Jenny Stevens enjoys home furniture.
She and her spouse, Jason, possess the home furniture consignment store, This Old Sofa, in downtown Russell, Kentucky.
“This Previous Sofa has been open because 2005. In Could of 2017, we acquired it from the Fletchers,” spelled out Stevens.
She had been a regular shopper at the retail outlet and had entertained the thought to open up her own shop because she preferred the small business so substantially.
“I shopped her all the time and I had been fascinated in the consignment business,” she stated. She contemplated opening up a shop in the aged Dottie’s Pies keep, because her brother owns the making, but it was a little bit small. “I went and looked at it, but I never know if it is even 1,000 sq. toes. When you are talking furnishings, that isn’t much home.”
She was in This Outdated Sofa one particular day and she and Lisa Fletcher had been speaking.
“She told me she didn’t know how significantly longer she could do this. She experienced some wellness troubles herself and her mom-in-regulation was obtaining some difficulties as well,” Stevens stated. “So, I arrived again to pick a verify up right after I experienced bought one thing. I requested her if she at any time believed about providing and she claimed ‘We would really like to market.’ And that is how it started out.”
Although she wanted to acquire the small business, she was not absolutely sure what her partner would say about it.
“I seriously considered he would say no,” Stevens explained. “I went residence and informed him ‘Lisa Fletcher explained to me she did not know how significantly longer she could do it.’ And he claimed ‘Did you check with her if she required to offer it?’ It stunned me when he mentioned it. I said no and he claimed ‘Why never you request?’”
They begun in December 2016 and it took until Might 2017 to get everything transferred about.
The constructing was at first crafted in the 1950s to be a grocery retail store and then it became a cafe in the 1990s when the Fletchers bought it right before they turned it into This Previous Sofa.
She mentioned consignment is a tricky organization occasionally. Jason has two other work opportunities and is even now her principal aid for choosing up and providing furnishings.
“All of that can make it more durable, but as much as loving it, I locate this to be a ministry,” she said. “The Lord led me in this article. I requested him to shut the doorway if he did not want me to do it — he opened the doorway. And I am incredibly a great deal a people today particular person, so I like all my shoppers.”
She claimed a person of her prospects arrives in excess of and they will sit and check out for hours.
“I love that section of it,” Stevens claimed.
As for what her customers are on the lookout for, it is older furniture made from wooden, although antiques don’t promote as very well as they utilized to.
“I like to get sofas in, since they are so hard to locate proper now,” she said. “Stuff from the 20s is extremely well known.”
Know-how is a huge part of her organization, with persons sending photos of goods Stevens may perhaps be intrigued in. They also offer with people who are possessing estate product sales and finding rid of objects. But they nonetheless go to people’s houses to check out out what may well make a superior addition to the retail store.
This Outdated Couch is open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday. It is located at 342 Bellefonte Street, Russell, Kentucky. Their cellphone quantity is 606-836-0800.
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