“I would love for you to come by and see what I have in my eclectic showroom,” Von used to tell people, and for years Coeur d’Alene did. Longtime customers called it a hidden gem among the area’s furniture and décor stores.
The showroom was a living portfolio of Von’s style, an ever-changing collection where antiques sat beside new pieces and a carved chair shared a vignette with a modern lamp. It was there to inspire, and to give clients a real, touchable look at how unlike things can harmonize.
The showroom is now closed. Von works by appointment only, at your home, your building site or wherever your project is. More on that below.
What you’d have found inside
- Quality furniture: new, antique and retrofitted
- Lamps and chandeliers
- Unique prints and original art
- Rugs and accessories
- Exquisite stemware for entertaining
- Sets of vintage flatware
- Distinctive dinnerware
- Decorative vases, gifts and seasonal holiday décor
From the showroom floor
A few favorites
Three addresses, one point of view
The showroom through the years
2002 · Northwest Boulevard
Von Nash Interiors opens in Coeur d’Alene, promising “exquisite design interiors, unique gifts and distinctive furniture.”
2008 · N. Fourth Street
A move into the 6,000-square-foot former Graves Appliance building.
2012 · W. Kathleen Avenue
A larger showroom next door to Fisherman’s Market & Grill, with parking front and back. Home to Von’s eclectic collection for more than a decade.
A footnote for the curious
The landlord’s letter
Landlords have a way of rewriting Von’s plans. In 2012 it was the Fourth Street landlord, who declined to extend her lease; the Coeur d’Alene Press reported he had other ideas for the building. Von simply moved up the road to Kathleen Avenue, into a bigger space.
More than a decade later, the Kathleen Avenue landlord had news too: the rent was going to double.
Von has been reading balance sheets since 1959, and the arithmetic was not complicated. Retail space around Coeur d’Alene had become dramatically more expensive, and doubling the rent would have meant doubling prices on her customers. That isn’t how she does business.
So she did what she has told clients to do for decades with a room that no longer works: she kept what mattered and let the rest go. The inventory found new homes, the doors closed, and Von took her most valuable asset, her eye, on the road. Semi-retirement, it turns out, means no rent and a lot more house calls.
I work with people’s budgets for what they need done.
Von Nash
Today
Now Von comes to you
There’s no showroom to visit any more, and honestly, your home was always the more important room. Von now meets every client at their own property, by appointment only: your living room, your remodel, your building site or the house you’re about to downsize into.
Seeing a home in its own light, with your own furniture and your own routines, is where her best advice has always come from. For the hands-on work she brings in trusted local trades, and for the finishing layer she knows exactly where to find the right lamp, rug or set of stemware.
By appointment only · Von comes to you. Call or text (208) 660-0553 to set a time.
