St. Petersburg Times Jan 15, 2007 Need furniture to fit your smaller space?
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Little surprises are plentiful at Doma, a new home furnishings store the owner says is more of "a resource." David King sits in a slender yellow chair and pushes on its arms to make it stretch into a long recliner.
"It's a Barcalounger," said King, 44, who opened the store two months ago at 2540 22nd Ave. N, "but it's not your dad's Barcalounger."
It's not your dad's furniture store, either, with other unexpected items like a bed that opens like a car's hood, a table that rises on legs like an ironing board or a simple footrest that conceals a storage compartment. King said the business is an appeal to the city's changing marketplace of condos and refurbished bungalows.
"We have to be space-conscious, but we don't have to sacrifice design," King said. "There are many choices that people didn't know were out there."
Doma is more than just a store, King says, but not quite a studio. He can provide much more than the Tema, Star, Calligaris, Carter and other "urban contemporary" pieces his showroom displays.
