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Celebrate
Spring with a New Wardrobe for Yourself and Your Home
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Shop designer
outlets and ‘Design Destination’ in Shelby County, KY
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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.
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Wakefield-Scearce
Galleries specializes in fine English antiques.
Credit:
Wakefield-Scearce Galleries
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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 |