New Business Update: Tallulah's
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Partners Mary Stauffer and Melissa Alabach operated a booth at the King’s Daughters Holiday Festival last year and decided the timing was right for them to open their own place.
“Everybody has been wanting a kitchen store for a while,” Alabach said.
Stauffer dreamed up the idea for such a store more than a year and a half ago and asked her close friend to join her. Both women came to the endeavor with their own skills and expertise. Stauffer has worked in marketing for Cumulus Broadcasting and the Columbia Daily Tribune and as a publisher for Columbia Home & Lifestyle magazine. Alabach worked in interior design and dabbled in art and mosaics.
Both women took breaks to spend more time with their families but came together for a little while with a small “on the side” jewelry company named, fittingly, On the Side.
Having a booth at King’s Daughters, Stauffer said, “was a way to feel out what people are going to want, do a little research and see what people’s responses were going to be. … Everybody is very excited. The response has been tremendous.”
Tallulah’s will sell kitchen products, cookware, linen, tabletop décor and home goods from Wüsthof, Staub, All-Clad, Mauviel and Kuhn Rikon, to name just a few. There will be in-store demonstrations of many products and gadgets. Bridal registry will also be available.
After moving into the space in March, Stauffer and Alabach have been busy remodeling the interior and making it their own and adding cabinetry from Dimensions in Wood and lighting from Bright City Lights. With a few weeks of remodeling remaining, the store is set to open in April.