Five Join Resort Interiors Staff

Furniture World Magazine

Resort Interiors, Inc. has added five new associates, including a manager for its new Patio Gallery, three new Design Associates and one new Sales Associate. Hired as manager of the new Resort Interiors Patio Gallery, Julie Lee was most recently with Cox Pools. A native Floridian from the Orlando area, she has worked for Disney Cruise Lines and holds an Associate of Arts Degree from Valencia Community College in Orlando. She attended the University of Florida, majoring in Landscape Architecture. Becky Wagoner has joined Resort Interiors as a Design Associate. Coming from Tim Bryant Interiors in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she has worked on the Decorator Show House in Chattanooga in 2000 and 2001, is an Allied A.S.I.D. Member and is working toward her NCIDQ license. She holds a B.S. in Interior Design from the University of Tennessee. Tapped as Design Associate for Resort Interiors, Tara Bowen has worked as an interior designer in Cape Girardeau, and as an independent designer while finishing her degree in Interior Design from Southeast Missouri State University. Teresa Richburg is a new Design Associate at Resort Interiors. She has formerly served as an Interior Designer with Bay Furniture and Design and Vaughn’s Paint and Decorating, both in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She previously worked for Richburg & Sons in Fort Walton Beach. She attended Okaloosa Walton College. Resort Interiors recently welcomed Bill Carter as a Sales Associate. He has owned his own firm and worked as a sales associate for Home Place Furniture in Panama City, Florida. Colleen Barrett, General Manager of Resort Interiors, says, “At Resort Interiors we have experienced phenomenal growth, and will continue to staff up to assure that our customers’ needs are met with consistent high-quality service.” Resort Interiors, in Destin, Florida, is the largest, full-service home furnishing and design center on the Emerald Coast with over 60,000 square feet, offering the top names in furnishings including Thomasville, Henredon, Bernhardt, Lexington, Century, Drexel Heritage, Hemingway, Tommy Bahama, Lane and more. The store offers a Patio Center featuring Tommy Bahama, Brown-Jordan and Braxton-Culler outdoor furnishings. Resort Interiors has been voted the Number One Furnishing Center on the Emerald Coast for the past five years and was a Parade of Homes winner in 2002 and 2003. Resort Interiors offers a five-star guarantee that includes a lowest price guarantee, savings from 30 to 60%, complimentary design services, a fourteen-day return policy on all standard items, and free local same-day delivery and free delivery up to a 500-mile radius. An award-winning design firm, Resort Interiors has designed and furnished interiors representing over $900-million in real estate along the Gulf Coast from Panama City to Gulf Shores, since it was founded in 1995.