By: Deborah Johnson Wood
Last March, Fountainhead Gardens set up a garden furnishings showroom and studio in downtown Zeeland. This month, the showroom opened its doors under the new name On the Terrace, offering an expanded product line of high-end garden statuary, fountains, and other outdoor furnishings.
Fountainhead Gardens will retain its landscape design/build studio in the rear of the store at 138 E. Main Street, says Chris Heiler, landscape designer and owner of both businesses.
"There's a lot of potential for both the landscape design/build business and the showroom," Heiler says. "I don't want to be known as a landscape design/build company that happens to sell garden furnishings. To do both the best, they have to be separated."
Heiler expanded the product lines from one manufacturer to eight, establishing a who's who lineup of swank cast limestone fountains, urns, and English lead planters, including Haddonstone, Bromsgrove Lead, and Tournesol Siteworks. Because the showroom is a modest 375 square feet, Heiler has select items on display and custom orders the products clients wants.
While clients are mainly landscape architects, contractors, and developers, a few homeowners have found the showroom as well.
"A homeowner will go to the Haddonstone web site and find a fountain they love, they'll contact Haddonstone, and the company directs them to me," Heiler says. "I have the item shipped directly to their home, and, if the item needs installation, I arrange for a contractor to unload and install it."
Source: Chris Heiler, On the Terrace
Photo courtesy of On the Terrace
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Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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