From furnishing an empty room to refreshing one, designing a space can be a daunting challenge. That’s where Ballard Designs steps in with a variety of services aimed at helping anyone with their home design needs.
“Customers come in and they don’t know where to start,” store manager Vincent Scavone said. “That’s where we come in. We can break it down for them on how to get it done.”
Ballard Designs is a design studio that helps individuals “realize their design dreams,” Scavone said. It offers nearly everything that is needed in a home for every single room, including furniture, pillows, table settings, bathroom linens, bedding, chandeliers, wall art and a variety of decorative pieces.
Ballard Designs, located in the Americana at 1900 Northern Blvd., opened in March but held a ribbon-cutting at the end of September with the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce. The company relocated from its former site at Roosevelt Field in Garden City and is the only location in the state.
All the upholstered furniture in the store is custom-made, with customers able to select the furniture piece they want and change the fabric to meet their home design needs. With more than 300 fabrics available to choose from, design options are bountiful.
All 300 fabric swatches are available to view in-store, either in a large fabric piece option that can be draped over the furniture in the store for design visualizations or as small square swatches customers can bring home to consider.
With more than 300 fabrics offered, Ballard Designs consistently adds new and seasonal fabrics to its collection in exchange for others in the collection. Even with changes in the fabrics over time, there remains a core offering of classic fabric materials and colors.
Due to the customizable features of its furniture, Scavone said Ballard Designs can cater to a multitude of interior design styles.
“Folks have different taste, so we can adjust to whatever it is that they have in their home currently whether they just want to add to a room or they want to do a complete makeover,” Scavone said.
Throughout the store are multiple vignettes, or floor sets displaying ways to style Ballard Designs’ furniture and decor for every room. Every March and August these vignettes are changed to show evolving trends but will be tweaked and added to throughout the year to cater to the shifts in seasons and rotating holidays.
With Christmas creeping up, Ballard Designs has begun introducing Christmas decoration throughout the vignettes to show how one’s home can be decorated for the holidays.
Ballard Designs both works with customers directly as well as with designers, or trade partners, who have their own clients they work with and bring Ballard Designs to potential projects. Multiple designers staff the store who are able to work with customers to fulflll their design needs.
Multiple services are offered, including design consultations in the showroom, virtual consultations to show the customer’s home to an in-store designer, in-home consultations where products and swatches can be brought directly to the room that needs some redesigning and BD3D, a three-dimensional online design software to visualize the furniture in someone’s home.
Scavone said what sets Ballard Designs apart from other home furnishing stores are its diversity of fabrics and variety of complimentary design services that cater to the customers.
The store also holds free events to teach individuals various design aspects, like an upcoming one about picking out the right draperies at the end of the month.
