If the approach of fall is making your home feel dreary, you can soon head to Hertel Avenue to spice things up. Two new home accessory stores are slated to open mid-October, bringing new life to an ever-advancing stretch of the strip.
The stores n Accentric and Oddball n will surely be as intriguing as their names for those in search of fun, original and personal home dEcor items.
Accentric, owned by longtime interior designer Kim Hazelet, will house lamps, vases, mirrors and furniture for every style. And if you canit find just what you need? Hazelet will special order it just to make you happy.
iIn here itis not what you see is what you get,i she said. iI want each person who comes in to find the perfect pieces for their own home.i
A few doors down at Oddball, the warmth of the owner, Lynn Perillo is visible throughout n and everything in the store is guaranteed to be as creative as she is.
Thatis because Oddball will specialize in ipreviously lovedi furniture and accessories n from desks to paintings to hat boxes and more. Perillo refinishes and reinvents pieces she finds at garage sales and thrift stores. She makes another manis junk her own treasure n and now it can be yours too.
Both stores will open around the same time as Empire Grill, directly across the street, to hopefully bring vitality n and more foot traffic n to their stretch of Hertel between Norwalk and North Park.