PAGE 8, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24, 1983, WHITBY FREE PRESS Personal toucli offered at Dison Decor ShoD "Y IM AIfAN please our customers." COmmunity Eiitaor Two local women are glvlng a personal touch to the wallpaper business, with the openlng 'of a store, Discount Decor Shop, Iocated at 122 Athol St. Claire Fera and Anne Gailagher feel their stop is a badly needed outiet in this community: "First of ail there's nothing else like this in Whitby," said Fera. "Since we 're specializing in decor, we can give better services, advice and per- sonalization."1 "We're even wiuling to go out to homes with wailpaper and give the people an idea what it Winl actuaily- look like right in the home," ad- ded Gallagher. "We'il bend over backwards to Response by local citizens has already been trernendous. At the officiaI, store opening last Thursday after- noon, Mayor Bob Atter- sley welcomed the business to the town and presented Fera and Gailagher with Town of Whitby pins. Business was brisk in the store al day as curious shoppers wandered in and out. "A lot of people came in and told us this store was sorely needed,"1 said Fera. "One lady came in and told us that she had heard about a sale in Oshawa but then heard- about us and deeided she would rather- support our business here. " Both women also feel the downtown core of Whitby is becomîng in- RAISED PRIýNTING 3BUSINESS CARDS LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES- -.-. u.;wo - i- - upn to 50 per cent off the manufacturers sug- gested retail price. From wallpaper, the women are planning to branch out into venetian blinda, borders and plates for light swltches. They also offer paint, ut uny ui-wnites. They maintain the operation 18 just too small to get into mixing paints at the present time. Although there is p wide variety of wallpaper in stock - from prepasted, scrub- bable and stripable chlldren will also, be varieties to vinyl and provided. grass cloth papers - The Discount Decor custom orders are Shop is open Monday to readily accepted. Wednesday and Satur- Once purchases have day from 9:30 a.m. to been made, customers 5:30 p.m., and will can relax in a louzige remain open Thursdây corner with magazines -and Friday, from 9:30 and books. Toys for a.m. to 9p.m. creasingly popular. "I really didn't realize Brock St. was so busy," said Gallagher. "People are becoming more consclous of what downtown Whitby has to offer,"' added Fera. Gailagher, an Otter Creek resident, and Fera, who lives in West Lynde, have seen the in- tereat in interior decorating increase dramatically over the past few years. When Gallagher arrived in Canada fromn Ireland 13 years ago, she recalîs people just weren't wailpaperlng their homes but 'Tve recently 'found a big change, now everybody's Wall- papering. "' "People are realîzing how easy wallpaper is to put up," explained Fera. This is the first business venture for the two> women. Gailagher previously worked part- time in a wailpaper store for a. year and Fera spent six years in the retail business as weil. They are able to, un- dercut the prices in other stores by buying in- volume from such Canadian' companies as Sunworthy, 1 Ontario Wall. Covering .and Claire Fera (left) and Anne Gailagher (right) areflanked by Mayo r Bob Attersley at the officiaI opening of the Discount Decor Shop, 122 Athol St., which specializes lin wailpaper, last Thursday after- noon. urown. 'i»neir mrices qrA klif *%»lep