Like us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterNewsmaker Alert is on Pinterest
Back To News/PR Index
|
|Celebrate Spring with a New Wardrobe for Yourself and Your Home
|
Celebrate Spring with a New Wardrobe for Yourself and Your Home
|
Shop designer outlets and ‘Design Destination’ in Shelby County, KY
|
Shelby County, KY – March 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Celebrate spring with a shopping spree and get the latest fashions for yourself and your home in Shelby County, KY. Find a new and lighter look at The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass in Simpsonville, home to 90-plus choice designer shops. Give your home a seasonal spruce-up at Shelbyville’s downtown Design Destination – 18 shops in a two-block radius with everything you need to decorate or redecorate your space. Browse all the possibilities at www.VisitShelbyKY.com.
|
Celebrate Spring with a New Wardrobe for Yourself and Your Home
Wakefield-Scearce Galleries specializes in fine English antiques.
Credit: Wakefield-Scearce Galleries
|
Design Destination
Head to Shelbyville’s charming downtown to find everything from flooring to wall art to antiques and more among the locally owned shops of “Design Destination.” Step into Tracy’s Home Furnishings, a one-stop home decor shop where owner Mike Tracy offers assistance with furniture selections, new home finish selections and paint colors. Poke among the booths at Calico Cat Antique mall for unique finishing touches.

The Tipsy Gypsy is where “country chic meets Main Street” with a selection of merchandise from vendors from across the country. Among the homespun home decor at Stacey’s Simple Stuff are handcrafted rag rugs and woven and hooked rugs. Find regional art, glassware and more at Spruce and buy, sell, trade and consign at Pennyman, known for its eclectic home furnishings selection.

Designer Labels
Kentucky’s only outlet shopping center, The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass, offers savings of 25 to 60 percent in 90 well-known designer outlets: Coach, Banana Republic, Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, Ann Taylor Factory Store, J. Crew, Nike, North Face, Under Armour, Vera Bradley, Charlotte Russe, Kate Spade, Michael Kors – the list goes on and on.

This premier 374,300-square-foot outlet shopping center features not only everyone’s favorite designer labels, but lots of dining options as well and all in an upscale setting – think lushly planted courtyards lined with bistro tables, walkways trimmed with lamp posts, arched roofs providing shade.

Fine design
The Wakefield-Scearce Galleries offers the unique experience of shopping for high-end antiques in a former school for young ladies. Known as Historic Science Hill, the galleries house one of the largest collections of antique English furniture, antique silver and antique home decor in the United States. Rounding out the collections are objects d’art including garden and architectural items, miniature chests, Oriental accessories, pottery and china, vases and urns and more.

Celebrate spring with a new wardrobe for yourself and your home in Shelby County, a small town that is a charming mix of country and cosmopolitan. See ShelbyKY’s list of shops for all the possibilities, then click into www.VisitShelbyKy.com/Lodging to make it a weekend shopping spree.

Media Contact:
Katie F. Fussenegger, CTP, Executive Director
502-633-6388
ShelbyKY Tourism Commission & Visitors Bureau, www.VisitShelbyKy.com

Hi- and Low-Res photos available.

About ShelbyKY
Tucked between Louisville and Frankfort, Ky., Shelbyville/Simpsonville/Shelby County (ShelbyKY) form a community of small-town charm and world-class equestrian events. Designated the American Saddlebred Capital of the World, its rolling landscape is home to dozens and dozens of historic Saddlebred horse farms and breeding and training facilities where visitors can go behind-the-scenes for a rare peek into the world of these captivating show horses. ShelbyKY’s dining landscape includes culinary icons Old Stone Inn and Claudia Sanders Dinner House; overnight choices include, among many others, Walnut Grove, a lodge tucked into a renovated dairy barn; Chandler Ridge, ideal for family reunion and wedding groups; and Yellow Carriage House, a bed and breakfast made for romantic escapes. Outdoors, there are water sports, including fishing, canoeing and paddle boating, horseback riding, golf and fall-fun pumpkin patches. A pastoral gem with rural roads and uptown downtowns, ShelbyKY is also known as Design Destination for its wealth of interior design, antique, home accessory, fabric and furniture shops, including the highly regarded Wakefield-Scearce Galleries as well as the new designer outlet mall, Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass. www.facebook.com/VisitShelbyKY

|
Placement Dates: 03/17/15 – 05/17/15
|
Back To News/PR Index
|
Hospitality Newsmaker Alert