New furniture stores open in three area towns |

Father-son home furnishings aficionados Joseph and Jeremy Danner, of Albany, are reviving retail areas in Norwich, Oneonta and Unadilla. The relatives procured the previous Catalog Outlet web sites, launching J & J Home furnishings in November 2022.

John Tammero, a single of two general managers in the company along with Terri Slater, explained the Danners provide a long time of knowledge. In accordance to jandjfurniture.com, the enterprise was started in 1989.

“Joe was functioning for what was referred to as Previous Brick Furniture Organization for 25 many years or so, so he’s bought 25 several years of expertise, and he constantly had that eyesight of opening up a household furniture keep his way,” he claimed. “That was his passion. and what he enjoys to do is come across exceptional goods — like a Bon Jovi jukebox — so there’s a topic of antiques mixed in with our furniture and that’s always been his vision.”

Tammero said, structured as it is, a single of the 4 house owners or administrators is often in one particular of the stores, however he usually manages the Oneonta web-site.

All J & J Furniture web sites, Tammero said, function renovated interiors with home furniture for “all different areas” of the dwelling.

“When I commenced on Nov. 1, and so did Terri, we had very little in the shop and we experienced to remodel and paint and we’re even now accomplishing some remodeling, so we started off with a contemporary, clean slate and experienced to develop all the home furnishings that was in here,” he stated. “We have (household furniture for) the dining area, living home, bedroom and we have mattresses, occasional tables … and we have an Adirondack room listed here in Oneonta with log cabin home furnishings and that’s genuinely nice. We’re placing that up with a complete concept of rustic-on the lookout cabins. It’s a tiny little bit of anything.

“We also have raise chairs, which is a huge 1, for the reason that people today have to have them,” Tammero ongoing. “We’ve met with RSS, Springbrook and ARC, so we’re attempting to just take treatment of them for the reason that of ‘buy nearby,’ and, through the chamber of commerce, we bought their contacts and are trying to take care of them.”

“We’re continue to tests the market place to see what people today like, but a big thing that we’re doing is … (offering) several colour choices and fabric, so if they just cannot find accurately what they want, we can make it to be what they want,” he explained. “Not for every little thing, but some we can improve sizes or swap pillows and which is a huge offer you. Special purchasing goes a lengthy way, mainly because you can not have almost everything every person needs.”

Tammero reported J & J Home furnishings is offering 23{7e5ff73c23cd1cd7ac587f9048f78b3ced175b09520fe5fee10055eb3132dce7} off pick merchandise by means of Feb. 28, with product sales tax paid on all other in-keep merchandise.

Consumers, Tammero mentioned, are delighted to see the shops reopened and restocked.

“We concentrate on distinctive consumers,” he stated. “We want to make it (uncomplicated) for the more youthful technology just setting up out getting home furnishings who haven’t carried out it prior to … and we know technologies is a big component, so we do present a site to obtain and, for the more mature people to arrive in facial area-to-facial area, we’ll choose treatment of them and it’s not large pressure at all.

“It’s really how you take care of the individuals household furniture is home furniture, so it is (about) developing these associations,” Tammero ongoing. “We’re covering anything I have bought to college or university learners up to older men and women with lift chairs, so it is each individual demographic. We never goal just one, and which is how we shop our home furniture. You have to target everyone’s different fashion … and show many distinct models in just the enterprise.”

“Our instant (intention) is to get open up and working and set, which we are, but it requires time,” he said. “The very first 12 months is challenging, we know that, but we’d like to expand to other regions, probably toward the Albany space where by the house owners are from, just to have another showroom.

“We want to develop, but not at the price where by we improve who we are: a mother-and-pop. We’ve worked corporate and the 4 of us see the identical vision, (of) staying with that mother-and-pop way of wondering.”

The Oneonta shop is at 7 Chestnut St. Norwich, 7348 state Freeway 12 and Unadilla, 35 Railroad St. All web-sites are closed Sunday, open up from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday by means of Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday.

Visit jandjfurniture.com for far more information.