Home is where the Heart is.
“Home is where the heart is” is a proverb we have all heard and it’s true! A home is a safe place you spend time with your family. It’s where memories are made, and where food is served on the table every day. It’s where you put the kids to bed every night. Where you rest your feet on that soft pillow after a long day of hard work. It’s where you dream at night and get creative on the weekends. Your home is where your artistic side comes out. Where you feel most comfortable to be yourself!
At Creative Home Store, we hope to be apart of the heart that fills your home, by not only offering you a unique variety of Artisan made home decor & gift items for your family home and friends alike, but also by providing you with interior design and remodel services to help transform your home into something you’ll love to come home to! A place where you can relax to dream big, or if a problem comes up, have someone you can call and trust to come over and take away your “headaches” so you can go back to living a stressfree life in your home. No tasks are too big or too small! The best part is, since all our items are handmade, handcrafted and hand-curated artisan-made, designed and crafted products, you will also be supporting a local and global artist to be able to make a living doing what they love! So whether you need some honey for your tea, a custom wood table for thanksgiving dinner, someone to fix the broken porch or a redesigned kitchen, Creative Home Store is your friendly neighbor, here to help with all your home needs!
As a Savannah College of Art and Design summa cum laude graduate, being an artist and designer is the beat to my drum. Thinking in shapes and colors, mixed with spaces is what drives me whether we’re talking about a floor plan, typography on a t-shirt, composition in a photograph, or the curves to finish off a handcrafted piece of furniture, design and art is my passion and career. As a child, growing up in Cape Town, South Africa, making things by hand was just a part of life for me. Whether it was painting large paintings for my school, hand sewing or knitting, making jewelry, or building 3-dimensional art pieces from scratch, design and making art was a way of life. Anything and everything I could think of I would try and make. I even remember attempting to make my Barbie doll’s own wood furniture from scraps of wood my grandfather had in his backyard. I did indeed make my first couch and had it for many years too! If anyone would have told me then that over 20 years later I’d be fixing up old couches, restoring chairs, repainting dressers and restoring old homes and building my own Barbie Dream House, I’m not sure I would have ever believed them.
Just like half of America who spends their lives watching tv, in my late 20’s I found myself bench watching almost every show on HGTV. The boring House Hunters, the funny Property Brothers, the fascinating Rehab Addict, and of course Chip and Joanna on their magical farm in Waco Texas on Fixer Upper, were all my guilty pleasures. At that stage in my life, I’ve already had two dream jobs. Working as a compositor and animator for the Always Sunny in Philidelphia scripted animation series called Unsupervised, and the Emmy Award-winning animation series Archer on FX. But as I spend 6 months on the job making a mouth move every day, I realized that being stuck to a computer screen as a 9 to 5 was not my heart’s desire, so I released myself on the dream position to give the opportunity to someone who truly loved it more than me, and made the drastic decision to jump into a career I never thought would even be possible! I worked my way up from the bottom into the “Hollywood of Atlanta” that was growing so rapidly. Many years before I gave up on the dream of ever having a chance to work in Hollywood, since I couldn’t afford to move to California, but now I didn’t have to! I was back to working for minimum wage as an “extra” as I asked, poked, and even begged any production assistant to help me get to the “big man” for a chance to work on set. I got my break after landing a full-time stand-in gig on a scripted tv show, The Originals, the highly anticipated spin-off of the long-running Vampire Diaries show on the CW network. I learned everything and anything about the film industry and soon later moved up to be worthy enough as a set-dresser on and offset, and even as a buyer for to the decorator. As I worked on several different films and tv shows over the years, I learned how to work grueling hours, carrying items twice my size and weight, driving over 100 miles almost every day on the hunt for the most unique pieces of furniture and decor to complete the look and feel for the set. It was there, in the film industry, I fell in love with the beauty of storytelling. Where I learned not only about staging but how each character reacts and interacts with space or the set. But in the end, it all made me realize that my heart is still yearning for… something of my own!
While still working in the film industry, I reconnected by chance with one of my best friends from high school, who clearly was my match made in heaven. After 10 years passed, he showed up on my doorstep at the right time and place and we’ve been inseparable since! Little did I know at the time, I finally met my “Chip” and not only was my heart filled with love, I soon realized I met my creative soulmate who just happens to have been flipping homes with his brother for those 10 years, learning and practicing the ins and outs of every aspect of a home. Not only was David amazing at building things, he is a true creative problem solver when it comes to practically fixing/repairing anything, so I began a new dream for us. To restore old homes together!
My point is, a home is where creativity sparks, and that’s why we want to help you fill your home with beautiful unique, well build and crafted items that not only compliment you and your unique taste, but help support other artisans and families who uses their artistic talents to also support their families too!
If you have no idea where to start, what to hang,
Bring beautifully handcrafted, handmade and hand-curated products for everyday life from all over the world that is not only high quality but affordable and unique to customers locally and online!
We offer a variety of products from handcrafted furniture from exotic woods, to handmade animal shaped candles, to clay roll beaded bracelets, mixed in with beautiful framed art among vintage and antique finds from all over the world. We want to help spark your creativity by providing you with a variety of a well-curated selection so you can either tackle that dresser you wanted to paint over the weekend and restore it with our beautiful hand painted ceramic knobs, or add some unique vintage inspired home sewn throw pillows to that sad couch that needs some color and life. Whatever your budget, whatever your style, we have something that everyone will love! We also have not forgotten about your loved ones, and therefore continue to grow our gift selection, so whether it’s mom’s birthday, dad’s retirement, or the new baby, you won’t leave our shop empty handed without the perfect gift.
Lastly, we do provide interior design services and custom build furnishings and fixtures, so if you have an idea, but no way to create it, why not asks the experts! We’re here to help any creative way we can. 
Support Artists to be able to make a Living.
At Creative Home Store, our mission is simple.
Give Artists an oppertunity to make a living, doing what they love!
We want to not only provide Artists with an affordable way to sell their product inside a brick and mortar store but also online through our website. Contrary to the belief, customers still want the opportunity to
Seeing is believing.
Come on down to our brick and mortar location where you will be able to truly appreciate our Artisan made products by using all your 5 senses in person. You will be able to see for yourself the quality of the craftsmanship, the love and the detail that is poured into each product.
Location:
* Our NEW LOCATION will be opening December, 2019! Just in time for Christmas, so please like and follow our Facebook Page, join our email list, or check back our website often for future updates as well as we get closer to opening day!
968 Hwy 85 Connector, Brooks, GA 30205
(The big white house at the stop sign in downtown Brooks. Can’t miss it!)
Hours:
Mon – 11:30 – 6:30pm
Tues – 11:30 – 6:30pm
Wed – 11:30 – 6:30pm
Thur – 11:30 – 6:30pm
Fri – 11:30 – 6:30pm
Sat – 11:30 – 6:30pm
Sun – 1pm – 5:30pm
Phone Number:
(678) 723-8274
Design is our Specialty.
At Creative Home Store, we are more then just a Home Decor & Gift Shop! We want to take the headache out of any design and construction job, so you can rest assure your home will be a dream every evening you walk through those doors. Before you ask, that does not mean we’ll do your laundry or dishes (Sorry! ;), but it does mean that if you’ve been setting a project on the back burner, why not give us a call, so your problems can be our problems and we’ll make it beautiful again!
Here is a breakdown of the work we offer:
– Interior Design: Small to large remodeling of spaces inside or out.
– Interior Decorating: Redecorating rooms or a whole home inside & out.
– Staging: For selling your home professionally staged or assistance with staging of model homes.
– Interior Decorating Consultation: Help walk your through redecorating the space and ways to redesign or rethink the space.
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– Custom Barn Doors & Installation: Available with the purchase of our Antique Egyptian Door Sets.
– Custom Build Furniture: Whether it’s a Vanity, Bench, or Sideboard, we’d love to help make your ideas come alive.
– Rehab/Paint Furniture: Revamping an old piece of furniture, to give it a second life!
Whatever your needs, we’d love to work with you to make your dream home & project a reality! Each project is quoted individually, so pricing varies. If you have a project in mind, please contact us at Projects@CreativeHomeStore.com and give a detailed description on what you had in mind. We will get back to you as soon as possible!
