RESORT INTERIORS OPENS EXPANDED SHOWROOM FACILITIES

Tuesday, May 20, 2003~Resort Interiors will open its new and expanded  showroom on May 1st, at its location on Emerald Coast Parkway, west of Silver Sands Factory Stores. The new showroom will include 12 galleries and a sleep center. The new Martha Stewart line, the new Bogart collection and a new Resort Gallery are featured in  three of the twelve galleries. The expansion brings the store’s total space to 60,000 square feet.

 “With our new, additional showroom space, customers will find the largest selection of furnishings on the Gulf Coast from Tallahassee to Mobile,” says Frank Kovach, president of Resort Investments, Inc., parent company of Resort Interiors. “We offer over 700 lines of quality home furnishings, and our customers will be able to see a wider selection of these.”

In the 12 new galleries, Resort Interiors will feature the top names in furnishings today. In addition to Martha Stewart, Bogart, the Resort Gallery and the new sleep center featuring Sealy and Stearns & Foster bedding, there is a gallery dedicated to Hemingway, Thomasville, Henredon, Lexington, Bernhardt, Century and Susan Sargent, plus a Finishing Center for the selection of accessories and a state-of-the-art Design Center where Resort Interiors’ designers offer full interior decorating services, providing customers with complimentary design services in furnishing everything for the complete home interior from carpet, cabinetry, lighting and custom window treatments, to furnishings and accessories. To meet the continually growing demand for design services, Resort Interiors has enlarged the design and sales staff to a total 24 and have plans to add additional staff.

Since its beginning in 1995, Resort Interiors has designed and furnished interiors representing over $900-million in real estate along the Gulf Coast from Panama City to Gulf Shores. An award-winning design firm, Resort Interiors has been voted best furniture store on the Emerald Coast three years in a row by readers of Emerald Coast Magazine, and enjoys a 96% customer approval rating. Resort Interiors was ranked in the Top 100 fastest Growing Companies in Florida in 1999 and 2000 by the University of Florida and was named the Top Retailer in the state of Florida in 1998. The store was nominated for the INC 500 in 2001. Resort Interiors is involved in the community, donating to numerous charitable organizations and is dedicated to the success of the new Sacred Heart Hospital of the Emerald Coast in South Walton, making a $100,000 contribution with a matching donation bringing the total to the hospital to $200,000.

Resort Interiors offers a five-star guarantee that includes a lowest price guarantee, free six-month financing,  complimentary design services, a fourteen-day return policy on all standard items.