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Mother-daughter home decor shop finds success downtown
COURTNEY BIERMAN
Sarah Kellogg has a lot on her plate. In addition to
ner plate. In addition to co-owning interior design company Kellogg Interiors with her husband, Jason, she refurbishes furniture to sell at Nellie and Nico's Antique Mall in Shawnee.
However, her current project is home décor shop Vintage Chic, the newest addition to downtown Lawrence. Kellogg and her mother Susan Clark own the shop, which officially opened March 1.
Although Vintage Chic is one of several shops on Massachusetts Street that sells antique furniture, other businesses don't provide the same services. In addition to selling things like jewelry and wind chimes made by local artists, Kellogg and Clark do custom refurbishing and also teach classes on how to paint and refurnish cabinets and furniture. The waiting list for their custom work is already six deep.
When Vintage Chic, located at 823 Massachusetts St., had its grand opening last week, Kellogg and Clark sold every piece of furniture they had in stock. Kellogg wasn't expecting the new location to take off so soon. She partially attributes its success to consumers' piqued interest in vintage furniture. Kellogg said as people inherit antiques from their relatives, they want it updated to match their more youthful style. Older furniture also tends to be of better quality than newer pieces.
"Now you can go and get a really good quality piece that's really old, fix it up and spend significantly less money, but you have a significantly better quality piece of furniture. "Kellogg said.
Kellogg has been working as an interior designer for more than a decade, but she started out on a different path. She completed three years of a biology degree at the University before deciding to make a change.
"I had this huge creative side to me," Kellogg said. "It turns out I'm very right-brained. I'm not left-brained at all. So I decided to take a break."
After receiving a degree in interior design from Johnson County Community College, Kellogg went to work for Fine Design, a design firm in Lawrence, where she stayed for eight years.
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Kellogg and Clark went into business together two years ago after Clark lost her job at a collection agency. Kellogg had already been considering opening a business. Fulfilling her dream and helping her mother out in the process, Kellogg pitched her idea for a furniture refurbishing business to Clark.
"When she was laid off I called her and said, 'Listen, I've got an idea,'" Kellogg said. "She was like 'Okay, let's do it.'"
They opened a store in a leased 500-square-foot space on Kasold Drive. Business was good, and Kellogg decided to expand. When the spot at 8th and Massachusetts opened up, she took it. Clark couldn't be happier with the location.
Kellogg and Clark have their own roles in the business. Kellogg handles most
"There's nothing like downtown Lawrence," she said. "I've never seen anything like it."
Colette O'Toole/KANSAN Sarah Kellogg (pictured) and her mother own Vintage Chic, a new shop on Massachusetts Street.
of the artsy parts like creating window displays and doing specialty paint jobs, and Clark does the more logistical tasks, like bookkeeping. By both accounts, their working relationship is a good one.
Kellogg is surprised by the success of the new location. She and Clark also sell pieces at Nellie and Nico's Antique Mall in Shawnee. They lease a 500-square-foot space in a different part of Lawrence.
"We worked together to open this place, and we really had a ball. She worked hard; I worked hard," Clark said. "It's really rewarding to work with your daughter and come up with something like this. She's proud of it, I'm proud of it, and it's made us closer."
- Edited by Mackenzie Walker
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