I don't know how one can do better if shopping for fine quality area rugs in the Treasure Valley…read morethan working with owner Tamera Bennett at LOOM. She carries a large selection of handmade natural fiber (mostly wool) rugs, many if not all of them hand knotted and some vegetable dyed in traditional, transitional and modern designs as well as Persians, all responsibly sourced. She has displayed in her store rugs in a surfeit of sizes and shapes from runners to hard to find over sized. The price points on these rugs start out being good for the quality they represent, some great items are on sale from time to time and she is also open to negotiating prices on other items. OWNER EXPERT Tamera is worth her weight in gold as expert on rug sources, construction and design making her an absolute pleasure to talk with about the rugs available. Finding a rug merchant with her knowledge about rugs and passion for them is a gem of a find in any city, but particularly in Boise. Who knew? STORE The store itself is in a great location, right off of Chinden, with a big parking lot for convenience. And it is very "zen" peaceful inside to be able to take some time looking through the beautiful rugs, which are truly like pieces of art for your floor. OPEN TO ALL I wish we had found Tamera earlier in our time in Boise. It was our interior designer who referred us in here when she was at the home of another client and admired their beautiful rugs and asked where they got them. So passing along the good word, you don't need an interior designer to shop here. I know of only one other specialty store in Boise that focuses exclusively on rugs like this and not only do they not carry the array that Tamera does, I think they are 'to the trade only', which means you'll need an interior designer to purchase from them. IN HOME REVIEW In our conversation with Tamera we learned she is happy to have "the" rug or the shortlist of options go home with you to see how they look in the space before making the final commitment. If you own hand knotted area rugs you know how important this is be able to see the item in the room. If you're investing in your first one, it's something learned and a reputable merchant will be happy to assist with that step. HIGH TOUCH / LOW TECH Tamera is a "high touch / low tech" approach to her business so you won't find a web site for her. But I think you can find her store on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/loomfinerugs/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf THIS N THAT: 1) PARKING: Ample amount in private lot. 2) ACCESSIBILITY: "Workable" parking in the lot if not fully ADA compliant. (This is the building owner's issue not the store owner's). The shop is level in and all on one floor with access space to see products. 3) NEIGHBORS: Garden City has some cool little businesses sprouted up and Wildflour Bakery is not to far from LOOM and the tasting room for Telaya and Coiled Wineries are close by too. So if you need a break to think about which of the beautiful rugs to take home with you, either of those are good stop ins depending on the time of day!

Previous visit (Winter 2019) was 'tire kicking' the inventory at what was then a newly opened…read morefurniture store. This time we were hunting for hard to find size chairs to replace a pair of 25yo Baker brand chairs (yes, we are replacing not reupholstering them given the style just doesn't work for being comfy seating for me now even though a premium brand) for home office tv viewing and reading. This time we experienced this Basset store as possible buyers and in that view my original 4 star bumps up to 5 star experience. DESIGN PROFESSIONALS STAFF & GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE: Although we gave it a good try thanks to the help of one of the designers, Jamie who has been in the design industry and knows her stuff as well as the Bassett inventory, we couldn't find the right fit of style and fabric combined. But we appreciated the bright large space with ample space to navigate around the items on display as well as the handy design center with fabric samples...custom carpet corner pieces too...and that we could take home large fabric 'memo samples' to look at in our space. The young owner-manager, Chance, models top notch customer care, also weighed in to answer a question that Jamie wanted his help to answer for me. And his looking out for customers was also so for all the store employees. THEIR NICHE & AUDIENCE: The Bassett brand is on the mid range, maybe lower mid range, in prices and for what it is the quality seems very good with customization available in some pieces for wood finishes, fabrics and cushion fills. Some pieces are bench made in the U.S. They offer custom dining table sizes sometimes only found in higher price brands. If you're in the market for furniture in the Treasure Valley, Basset is definitely worth the look and in particular if you're a CHF or RC Willey or Bungalow Home audience shopper I think you'll find options here that may be better quality in similar price points. STYLE OPTIONS: Borrowed from my first review - "From mid-century, to tailored casual, to transitional, to rustic, to modern, to traditional, there are styles for all tastes. Whether you're shopping for apartment or condominium, a whole house or one room in a home or looking for just one piece to finish off a room there are options here scaled to work in almost any space. Whether you're furnishing for hipster single or young couple or growing family or empty nesters or senior living, there seems to be something for everyone..." in this mid range price point. LOCATION: Convenient, just south of The Village, in the former Pier 1 store space, near Bed Bath and Beyond. PARKING: Lots of it in private lot. ACCESSIBILITY: ADA parking in lot. Store is fully accessible.

Absolutely fantastic store! Chance the manager and the…read morestaff were extremely helpful, patient and knowledgeable. They were not "salesy". I wasn't hounded or followed. I had always assumed Bassett was extremely expensive but I was pleasantly surprised! I have been to many of the high-end name stores in the treasure valley and their prices were two to three times the amount for the exact same furniture that Bassett sells. I wish I knew about them sooner! So far I've ordered six dining room chairs and a sectional and have plans to order a console, Ottoman and a coffee table from Bassett. I got to choose from a ton of custom fabrics...many of them performance and Crypton. Thanks Meridian Bassett crew!​

Amazing selection, excellent customer service, great quality furniture. We purchased a sectional…read moreand are very pleased with the purchase. It was a custom order, made in the USA and delivered back to us in 4 weeks. Awesome turnaround on delivery. They also gave references for a mover to deliver our sectional, which also had excellent service. We would highly recommend them and return for another furniture purchase.

We are new to the area and were referred to Model Home Furnishings from one of the Realtors we had…read moreworked with- and after feeling frustrated by the sales people at another local furniture store we decided to check it out. Thanks to Jeff, we furnished most of the new home we are buying with quality furniture. I will come back and update this once it's been delivered, but I highly recommend this store based on its staff, quality and selection.

I have fallen in love with this store but I have to limit my visits because I always see something…read morenot in my budget that whispers to me "Take me home." Today I was shopping for a unique birthday gift for a friend. I finally settled on a colorful martini glass made in the Republic of Czechoslovakia, but the three red leather art-deco counter stools almost made it into my car. Service was so nice and the display designs imaginative. It was so much fun to browse and find hidden gems.

We came, we saw, we did not buy at this new locally owned resale store. There are a couple of…read morereasons why.. Firstly, the store was sparsely stocked. But mostly because the woman manning the store (yes, I did intend that to be a pun) didn't bother to ask if we were looking for anything or if she could help us. This in spite of the fact that there were only two other shoppers in the place, so not as if there was a crush. Given this is newly opened within the last several months, maybe they are still learning the customer care ropes. But they have a lot of competition in the area as resale stores go so one thinks they'd be interested in top notch help for both buyers and possible consigners. We were in for both reasons, actually. I'm shopping for accessories for particular home location. And I have a hand knotted, vegetable dyed, Pakistan originated, wool area rug that I'm hoping to consign. They did have some rolled rugs standing in the store, so it may be they would take mine. But since the person working there ignored us, only a cursory hello in response to my "hi" to her, I think I'll continue looking for both consignment and buying. Ending on a high note, the place is spotless and some of the accessory items look as if new. THIS N THAT: 1) PARKING: Private lot. 2) ACCESSIBILITY: Once you get in the door, the store is all on one floor with mostly ample clearances between items. But the parking lot here is another of many Boise area examples of parking that does not meet Federal ADA rules or Idaho Accessibility Building Code minimums. Neither for scope nor for design. However, that failure is the the strip mall owner's and not the store's. 3) NEIGHBOR: At the other end of the strip mall you'll find Model Home Furnishings which is recently under new ownership. You'll get a great welcome and helpful assistance from the women working there.

It was great! Cutest. Very friendly help! Would go back. Cutest thing I have is from there!read more

The MOST beautiful furniture with the funnest designers. You have to come see it!! They also sell…read moreeverything off the floor which is a life saver

This Tuesday Morning is a go-to shopping spot for me. It's a place that takes time. By that, I mean…read moreyou don't want to run in here and expect to find what you need. There is reason to the layout, but like most stores of this ilk, you need to spend a minute to look over the items on the shelves to see what's in stock. The pleasure comes from the seeking and finding, so there needs to be time to do that. Otherwise, things can look jumbled and mismanaged here. Things I like: you can find some really great brands for a decent discount, the baby section can provide good gifts, and it's possible to find foodstuffs from Europe that are hard to find elsewhere. If you're looking for new pillows, they typically have a nice section. Items go on sale after a long while, so don't expect extra discounts on something you spy for months down the road, if it's still there. The store has a bit of a warehouse feel, so don't expect a lot of ambiance. But if you're looking for gifts and need to see something to know you want it, Tuesday Morning is a good hunting ground.

If TJ Maxx Home Goods store is Cinderella then this Boise Tuesday Morning store is the the ugly…read morestep-sister. It feels like one is sometimes playing shopping cart bumper cars in TJ Maxx Home Goods with other shoppers that include local interior designers cruising for good design items at value prices. But it feels like one could shoot a cannon off in the aisles of this Tuesday Morning and about 90% of the time not hit a living thing. That this location of discount, odd lots chain retailer Tuesday Morning is so little shopped is both inexplicable and understandable, all things considered. Not that one might make this a destination but if you're in the neighborhood it might be worth the pop in. THE GOODS There are good buys to be found here IF one knows what one is looking for and looking at for price point and quality. There is not the breadth of items to be found here as a TJ Maxx (a furniture piece or two here as opposed to many furniture options there) nor the depth of options within any given category (as example a handful of large framed mirrors or table lamps here as opposed to dozens of choices for each there). But there are good buys for some things. For example, Tuesday Morning has a contract with high end, luxury linens company Peacock Alley to sell their discontinued lines and colors. Most stores in the Tuesday Morning chain get some of these to sell. Depending on demographics some stores get more or less of these. In the Tuesday Morning in my old stomping ground in Bend (OR) there were typically dozens of Peacock Alley items including sheets, blankets, pillows, duvets and bed covers. This Boise store had but couple of handfuls of Peacock Alley items. But if you're in the market and willing to go back each week to see what might come in. They also have items here you might not find or find as many of at TJ Maxx. For example, they have multiple aisles of children's toys and "stuff". A very little girl today was excited to have found just the right lunchbox as her birthday gift. That children still recognize and use lunchboxes and can get excited over one in a pink princess motif made me smile in light of...well...everything. They also have things like gift bags and wrap, "fat quarters" of fabric (quilting folk will know what those are), scrap booking and craft paper supplies, kitchen tools, area rugs, woven baskets, plant pots, glassware, patio items, coffee table books (very few and you need to know where to look), cookies and candy bars, trays in assorted sizes and materials and different brands of paper wrapped soaps that even if you don't want to use them look and smell lovely(vetiver, anyone?) tucked a glass bowl or assembled on a tray in a bathroom...and the list goes on. Overall the quality of items here seem to trend middl to lower end. THE SERVICE The staff is super friendly and helpful and keep the store in good order and cleanliness. . They greet every customer with "Welcome in to the store!" and always ask at the end if you found all you were looking for. Very nice. THE RESTOCK DAY For this store trucks arrive on Tuesdays and merchandise is moved to floor by Wednesday they tell me. (Bend's staff reported deliveries at least twice a week.) THE MUSIC Seriously. I love the background music mix here. Today I got to sing along (well...almost) to Donovan and had to stop myself dancing along with Average White Band. THIS N THAT: 1) PARKING: Private lot that always has spaces. 2) ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible parking in lot. Level in from walkway through door. All on one level. Ample aisle space to meet ADA clearances makes is easy for all shoppers to have good and equal access. 3) NEIGHBORS: Asian Cuisine, a very good little restaurant, is "around the corner" of this same strip mall.

I have been shopping with Ethan Allen for over 10 years. The two main stores I used were corporate…read moreowned and in Scottsdale and Chandler Arizona. We moved to Boise last year and purchased about $7000 worth of furniture and this year about $3000 worth of art. We were not happy with two of the art pieces (which were about $700) and asked to return them. I was told I would be charged a 30% restocking fee and basically was advised by the designer "you should have used our free design services." We were told unceremoniously by the store manager they would not waive the $200 restocking fee regardless of how much we have spent at EA or planned to spend (had been looking at about $13k of additional purchases). What I have learned from this experience is a) don't purchase from this store as it is not corporately owned and you will not really receive a high level of customer service or grace. b) Stick to corporate stores like RH.com in Salt Lake, Utah or Pottery Barn (Boise) who do offer a high level of customer service. One of the reasons we shopped at EA was the excellent customer service we received in Arizona. The quality as some reviewers have discussed is not really any better than Pottery Barn particularly in their "wood" products. We purchased a 'teak' outdoor coffee table and two matching chairs (were going to buy the matching stools but will not be doing this now) and they are already 'chipping'. Good quality teak should not 'chip.' I agree with some of the reviews about poor customer service in store -- I found that up until you buy something the sales people in Boise are very attentive, after that good luck finding out when your product has arrived. Lead times for products are very long. I don't recommend purchasing from the Boise store. Unfortunately they just don't give you much leeway if you want to return something which is not the case at corporate stores. Let's face it sometimes you may think something will work in your home but it doesn't -- most stores allow returns with no penalty. RH is one store that excels at free returns even when it means shipping large items or picking them up. This experience with Ethan Allen Boise has unfortunately been strange and very negative -- the store/manager lost the sale of a $1500 (I cancelled a still in process piece after the debacle over the restocking fee) art piece and future purchases of $13k for a $200 restocking fee. I worry they may need the restocking fee more than the sale of furniture.

This review is about the Ethan Allen store but also is a 'fan letter' for talented interior…read moredesigner Val Hartl who is on staff there. Working with Val was as joy-filled an experience for professional interior design and home goods buying as we've had across the six cities we've lived in with eight homes among them where we worked with skilled independent interior designers. Rewarding for us too as Val guided our decisions for an update of our home office and in the process we discovered finishing touches of pillows and ottoman for our great room.  Also spirit lifting for us because Val made it easy and fun as she created design schemes to consider with options assembled for us to take home to look at in our spaces. The result is something that feels "...just like us only better..." in ways we could not have envisioned without her help.  Val's listening and communication skills are great as was her patience and good humor in dealing with a couple "at the end of their designer rope" by the time we walked in the showroom.  (In our defense, this was after dilly-dallying with an independent designer who across three months and several hundred dollars fee had delivered to us no usable result.)   It required only a couple of visits to the Ethan Allen design workroom in a week's time and with Val's creative guidance we had selections made and orders placed for area rug, chairs, upholstery fabrics, leather and even details, Val sees every detail, like finishing trims on custom pillows.   If I could still dance (we'll get back to this), I'd do a happy one.  FREE DESIGN SERVICE = PRICELESS:  Design service is free here and it is also priceless for homeowners to work with an experienced professional.  The drill at any Ethan Allen is when you walk in the person at the showroom desk will welcome you and if you don't have a designer appointment scheduled, they will call up a designer to offer as much or as little assistance as you want as you browse the store. You can call and schedule an appointment with Val, and we recommend it, but she assures us that all of her colleagues at the Boise store are great to work with if you walk in. (All have design bona fides. See Boise store page: https://www.ethanallen.com/en_US/store-details?StoreID=816&utm_campaign=google-my-business&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google&utm_term=816 ) Ethan Allen corporate runs the web catalog main page and there is something they could improve. Fer shure. So a designer in store can also help provide insight that the web catalog cannot, not just for furnishings but also fabrics, area rugs, lighting and window coverings. BRAND / BUYING AUDIENCE:  Perched at the upside of mid-range or low side of up-range for price point with products for buyers across all ages and stages of home ownership from starting out to feathering family home nests to scaling down in empty nester mode and with styles from mid-Century to contemporary to transitional to classic. But Ethan Allen was not a brand we used much in other homes in cities where we lived and shopped furnishings in premium brands above this price point working with independent interior designers to make it easy to do given my limited mobility. (I have had multiple sclerosis since college days and umpteen decades later mobility and energy are both challenged and design professionals did the 'legwork', metaphorically and actually, to narrow down options.  There's the "if I could still dance..." tie in from opening.) Ethan Allen wasn't on their professional radar (the brand didn't offer incentives to 'the trade') and that means only occasionally was the brand on ours when buying on our own.  But limited access to quality furniture options in Boise led us to the Ethan Allen here in 2016 and the good product and customer care experience then led us back now. LOCAL STORE OWNERSHIP MAKES THE DIFFERENCE FOR CUSTOMER CARE:  This is one of very few Ethan Allen stores that are not corporate run but with local franchisee and the proof to customers of local ownership is sometimes in the pudding of problem resolution.  To share example from our 2016 experience when a handsome leather ottoman arrived with welt seaming problem the store offered apologies and immediately proposed the option of a leather tradesman fixing the seaming or having the item replaced.  We chose the latter and they let us use the original item while we waited on replacement to arrive.  Very nice. This kind of customer care supported by local ownership makes all the difference. If you have heard or read online of bad experiences with Ethan Allen service elsewhere, those are likely corporate run stores. Here local owner calls the shots. All good. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible parking spaces alongside the building meet ADA standards. For the most part furniture in displays is spaced to maintain 36" clear as ADA requires - and is more comfortable for all shoppers. Loo is accessible. PARKING: Spacious, private lot, woohoo!

They sold me too much wood flooring and they wouldn't take it back!…read moreI'm stuck with almost two boxes of flooring that I have no use for! I'm not made out of money, okay! This was for a different business but I can't delete this review.

Mark and his crew do great work and the pricing is much better than the big box stores. They've…read morebeen around quite awhile and they know what they are doing.