All Style No Bougie Can Paint The City In Every Hue
SAINT JOHN – All Style No Bougie offers everything one could want for home renovations, from specialty paint to refurbished furniture to DIY workshops.
Owner Tammy Petrie opened the business in October 2018, which developed out of her interest in décor, renovations and decorating.
“I knew that I wasn’t going to start really earning an income right off the bat, so I was prepared for that,” says Petrie. “We started off small and had one product at the time, Fusion Mineral Paint, and it’s still our number one selling product.”
Petrie says All Style No Bougie now carries three different lines of paint. She says like most home renovation businesses, she has been very busy throughout the pandemic.
“Toward the end of the lockdown we got to the point where we only had the least popular colours of paint in stock,” she said.
Petrie also sells furniture and giftware, creates commission pieces for customers, and offers DIY workshops where people can customize home décor and furniture with stamps, molds, transfers and stencils.
Petrie says the workshops are mostly seasonal and offered from the beginning of January until mid-May, with some people looking for something to do during the winter months or perhaps prepare their cottages for the summer.
Examples of workshops include coasters, custom doormats, signage and stamped tea towels.
“Every once in a while, you’ll get somebody who comes in and they’ll throw what you may think will be the oddest combinations of things together, and they just have a knack for making it work,” she said.
Prescheduled workshops aren’t held during the summer, but Petrie says if a small group is interested in doing a project, they can reach out to All Style No Bougie and can book a time.
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