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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Watering.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is News Radio seven to ten WNTM. Uncle Henry
here with you once again, along with Mary for Mix
ninety nine nine. Hello, Mare and our guests from Lazyboy.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hello, Uncle Henry, Hello Mary.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello Bess, and Hello Tommy.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hello, and hello everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I just love the fact that we try to start
a show and we're all talking amongst ourselves so much.
Uncle Henry's going, Can we start to show up? Can
we get underway?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We have taste?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We need to tell people what's going on at Lazyboy?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
What is going on at Lazyboy? Best?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's scary?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well, that's the time of year we're in, isn't it Okay?
Light madness, it's right here on our doorstep this week,
this week, tomorrow. Oh we're late, closing early today, opening
late on Thursday, twelve to eight o'clock moonlight madness.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Woo. I can't do it like Rice is so low?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Mary, you don't need to shop, no, mum?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
How loo will you go?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
How loo will we go? How about twenty five to
fifty five percent off?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That sounds really good? How's that that's nice?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Gets better?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
How if you hear it?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Here? An extra five percent?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So tell him you heard it on Uncle Henry exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Woo very nice.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Whoo.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, so it's not just a simple wool anymore. I
can't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I understand that you have been busy. You've been so
busy that Tommy Mack is going to have to leave
during this broadcast. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Absolutely, to head out to a client's home. Really excited.
They've invited us in to work on a family gathering room.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay, a big sectional.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
See a lot of people just get it all reworked
so it works for them.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, Ray's wanting a sectional and I'm like, well, then
we have to have Tommy Mack come out because he said, oh,
you can just measure, and I said, you have not
listened to show you did. So you have not listened
to any of our shows, have you. Because that's the
number one problem people have when they want a sectional
is they think it's a challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It can be. I think that the big challenge on
a sectional is the corner. How to measure the way
the corner turns because it the piece itself measures one way,
but the space that it requires measures another way, and
you have to be aware of both measurements. One determines
(02:33):
the length of the sectional on each side, and the
other determines the length of wall that's required to make
the length of sectional on each side.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So you really are using the math you learned in
high school.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now I just don't use that word, but follow the diagram.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But it really does make a huge difference because we
don't want to make a mistake. No one wants to
make an expensive mistake, right.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
We help you get the look and feeling you want
without mistakes. Because if you just think, oh, this will fit,
this will work. Many times if you bring it in
then there are too many pieces, or there are times
when it's too small, and yes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You need another another piece, which of course we have
because just about all of our sexual sectionals have a
armless middle pieces.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So you can extend it exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
We build the sectionals piece by piece so it works
according to your seating needs as well as your space
in the room.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And that's the thing. It's like, everybody's needs are different.
It depends on how you plan to use the room.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
A lot of people want every member of the family
and everyone who comes over to visit to sit there together.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The entire family tree is on that one section.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What's right, right, so you can see people, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
And then usually there's someone in the family, usually the daddy,
who wants his own separate recliinent.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Of course, so we can the whole Yeah, I got
an eye on you. So this this is going to
be like a family room. How what are you thinking?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yes, they've already selected the sofa, and of course we'll
take fabric and leather samples, okay, so they can make
that choice in their home with their lighting and so
j know precisely how it's going to look. And then
I will even learn more about how they want to
use the room and how they want it to work
for them, and then I'll come up with the design
and then they'll come in and they'll see it on
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the TV screen.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And that's the cool part about it. It's not just well,
just imagine this if you.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Can, Oh no, they hear me talk a lot and
paint a picture.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, no, it has to be done, because that's really
one of the biggest questions we get, you know, our
concerns is like if I could just see it, well
you can. We're going to show it to you. You
can get it on a three d screen that will
give you the traffic pattern, the perspective, the scale, the proportion.
You get it all so now you can see. Plus
(05:13):
you've had the benefit of seeing the fabric in your
home because colors influence each other, right, and that can
be a real scary place.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, because you know, the lighting in the store is
one thing. The lighting in your home is going to
be totally different, and like you said, it's got to
play well with the rest of your ef It.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Most certainly does. It most certainly does.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And that's that's where you come in.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Absolutely, that's what we do for you. And it's fr ee.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's free to the consumer at Lazy Boy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Have you come to our homes, Yes, come in.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Work with you in the store, work with you in
your home, and then for us to pull the design
up for you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It's just because the problems at home. Yeah, oh yeah,
you know it's not where. It's not in the store.
You're bringing the problem to the store. But to solve
the problem for that room design that that's at home,
we need to sit down and look at that so
that we can have a home that looks just like.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
A picture out of the magazine.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
One that loves him. I love that filling in the
blanks with the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So tell me, Mack. Do you have any other house
calls you can tell us about.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Oh yes, I just did one for a wonderful couple
who used to live here and then they moved and
then they were relocated back to Mobile with a very
very young child. I don't think the child crawls yet.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh wow, very young, very young.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And working on a technically a playroom, okay, but it
will end up it's the largest space for everyone to
gather family and friends. So that will be their television
room and little area to if you want to play
games or if you want to eat up there. It'll
all work out just for that. And of course that's
another sectional because they love love together. So everybody has
(07:02):
a great view of that thing that comes on the
TV a football game.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I've heard that a lot of people are spending their
time with those Uncle Henry, what.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Thank you beautifully? Yes, roll time role, but television, even
for people that don't like football. They wanted the television
to be in just the right spot.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, I've just completed a
design for a room to present to a family. Their
television where they have it now placed is in the
same place where it was when they moved in from
someone else, and they worked for the previous family, but
they have not been happy with it. So they agreed.
(07:46):
I you know, just asked have you thought about the
television on this wall? And they got very excited about it.
So they're coming in tomorrow to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, And things are a lot better now than they
used to be as far as the utility being able
to move things around a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right, So if you've got modern technology, you can actually
move them to anywhere. I know, So think of the possibilities.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
You know, so.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Many times I think that's one thing we run into,
is you somebody will get a wonderful new house and
we'll go in and say, well, talk to me, what's
this room placement? Well, this is how it was when
we bought it. You know, they had the sophone this
while they had Well do you love it here? Well
not really? Okay, Well let's just sit down and see
(08:36):
what some other possibilities are. I mean, if you love
it there, that's rright, that's great. But if you're not
that pleased with the way it's working, let's explore some opportunities.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I see. That's the thing. You guys can think of
things that I mean, we think, well, that's the way
it has to be.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was born, Yeah, but that's in the world this way.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It doesn't have to be that way. You can come
up with all of possibilities to freshen things up to
you know, expand seating, expand usable space in the room.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
And on this particular one, I'm also addressing storage. So
there are no toys laying around except for the gazillion
toys of the dog. Now, while I was in one room,
I counted one, two, three dog beds for one dog.
And then when I was reviewing the pictures when I
was working on the design, I saw, oh, another pile
(09:31):
of dog toys. So we're going to I'm addressing that
so we won't have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, did you talk to the dog first? I mean, seriously,
obviously the dog.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know, pets are not a problem with us, because
we now have our wonderful pets safe fabrics.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Amen to that.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Absolutely, it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And I just want you to know that there's several
pets at our home that are thoroughly enjoying the fete of.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That off for Okay, now, Tommy mack here, I was
talking about bringing storage into people's rooms, Like, yes, now
is this because once upon a time we used to
have entertainment centers. Oh, and now we don't have them anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Absolutely, A lot of people who have them inherited it
from you know, a move into that house. Yes, and
they don't want the large that small space looking like
it's just filled in with the large piece of furniture.
So they lose that storage or they lose that bookcase.
So yes, we address that. And that's the one of
(10:33):
the first things my eye goes to when I go
into someone's home, because when you live in and you
overlook it, you know, yes, not it no, And.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It's just like I don't want to say it. I
don't say it true.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's actually the problem in my house right now, which
you will help me address when I'm reading. Once we
make decisions about you know, where the TVs. Absolutely, but yeah,
we got this great, big entertainment center that is just there,
and it's just you know, it's taking up space.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Times they look like sarcophaguses.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well I hadn't thought of it that way. But now
we're really going have to hurry get this done. But yeah,
there are things that have just been there. And then
I've got another piece of furniture that I don't know
if I move it. It's like my grandmother's.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
If I can move, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I've read it all fall apart. It's been a while.
But yeah, but you know, there are there are things
that you can help us see and solutions you can
help us come up with that we never would have
come up.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
With on the own. And some pieces that you think
can only stand in one spot can live in another room,
another area of the house.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And really sometimes moving them brings them to life. Yes,
like they're lost. They may be out of uh scale
or perspective. You know, they may just be a great
looking thing, but it's so small that it's you know,
gobbled up by the rest to the space. So to
put it in more appropriate space really brings you so, oh, well,
(12:07):
there it is, I can see it now. So that's
that's another thing that we do, is work with what
you've got, because your home is your own. But you know,
it's not just the family room, it's not just the
living room, it's the bedroom, and the dining room and
the home of and.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
What we do all of those.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
We do all of those. So we've been in the
dining room and bedroom business for over seventy years.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
So to relatively newcomers.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well against Lazy Boy, that's almost one hundred and twenty
twenty seven. That's well we're ninety eight now, I know.
And that's something that is coming for our centennial.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And that says so much about Lazy Boy's quality, about
Lazy Boy adapting with you.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Know, I mean going with the time.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean think about how recliners have evolved over
the years that Lazy Boy.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh, I know, and that's what brought us to the
days and look at where we are. It was a
great way to start, I know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But think now they've got power and articulating headrests and
cooling technology.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Amazing, the power offer for sectionals, for sofas, for love seats.
You know, it's moved out.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It's not just recliners, no, and.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's just an amazing feature to have because the furniture
is sleek, it can be contemporary, it can look more
traditional but still have some power features that are just awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I think you just blew my mind a sectional with power.
Oh yeah, who knew?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Well you should have?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I do, Now you do, now you and now I want.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
We're going to make great happy.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
You're looking at your watch, t mac Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I did, I'm fine, enjoined the jail.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, well we are. Don't be late for a house
called for something incredible to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You mentioned you mentioned bedrooms, and you mentioned dining rooms.
How comfortable could you make an office for me? A
home office, a lazy boy home office.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
We do a lot of them where it's a combination
of a guest room and or a den and an office.
So we have a wonderful writing tables. So there's a
nice piece of looking, nice looking piece of furniture. You
don't walk into the room and think, oh they work
from home. No, you know your accessories, your some artwork,
(14:37):
and a sofa or a love seed and another chair
in the room. Yeah it becomes a guest room.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah yeah, but just a sofa in there. So you
can really just what I hear you say is just
make it like a den.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yes, like.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It can be, is masculine or feminine as you want
it to be.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So if someone's thinking, oh, a home office is a cubicle.
That's not a look at all.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
No, not anymore.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We have one and it it was mine. Oh really,
and I've had an encroacher.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Someone has taken over your home office.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Somebody's encroaching.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Okay, because it's not just that comfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That that is what the story is.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You know you've done it right.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I even put some pink in there, thinking that would
be not a deterrent. No, no, just moved right in.
Just Bill's good in here. It does. It's it's lazy boy.
It's not home office, of course it does. So if
somebody's settled right in, do you want to trade rooms? No?
(15:55):
I like I like my room.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's funny, funny, but that's that's just a great thing
about lazy Boy. You can tailor any room to whatever
your need is. Oh yeah, and and make it something
incredibly fabulous as well as functional, because I think we
think of office. Yeah yeah, we think office. Take you know,
(16:18):
a home office is just functional. But it doesn't have
to be just functional. It can be fabulous enough to be.
It has to be functional, but not just.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So let's address what the function is and then let's
go to the fabulous after that spent.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Address and see all I think when that's why we
need you. I don't think outside. I think, oh this
must be functional, you know, and don't think about how
it looks, so thank goodness for your.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's all we think about. That's all we think about.
How is this gonna look? How is this gonna come together?
And we surprise ourselves.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well yeah, I mean because you got so many, you know,
different things that you can do. I know, you surprise
each other when you come up with and go look
what I did here, and you go never thought of
doing that with that, but you got so many options?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh yeah, did Tommy might do that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And they steal from you sometimes too, don't they ideas?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Oh no, I don't mind ad many of that. Look
at the other designers designs to get ideas, but I
really do.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
The beauty think that's the beauty of what we can
offer too, is we have six full time designers who
are do nothing but house calls, and a director of
design in addition to that, and a store merchandiser who's
also a designer. So we're very deep in design and
we talk about it all the time and we just
(17:39):
love it. And then all of our sales teams go
through a design program to be able to talk to
you about because we are in the fashion business, that's true,
so you know, to talk about that, and to be
able to talk to you about what's current, you know,
because I think the beauty of now, the freedom of
now is I get asked a lot, and I know
(18:02):
you do too, Tommy. You know what's current, what's good
for Chad And the bottom line is what do you love?
Let's start there, because it's all it's amazing. We live
in the I think one of the freest times as
far as your interiors are concerned and fashion and style,
because everything is appropriate if it's applied properly. Okay, if
(18:26):
you're very traditional, you can have a beautiful traditional room
that is not frumpy, you know, not like your grandmother's house.
If you're very contemporary, you can have a very contemporary
room that doesn't have to be sterile and cold. If
you love gray, which I know were trending kind of
(18:47):
out of gray and white. But you know, I've had
gray rooms in my house for I want to say
forty years.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Wow, Yeah, for.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
A long time. I've had gray rooms, you know, not
every room, you know, but they've been there, and so
it's always an appropriate color, even though trends are changing
toward a more tone, a warmer tone, and more toward
to brown, if you can believe it. Isn't that funny
that for the longest time, that's like we can't sell
brown furniture, and all of a sudden, it's like, where's
(19:22):
the brown furniture?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But it matters. What matters is what you like and
what you're comfortable.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
With because it can be making it appropriate.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And that was a great time to get some furniture
with moonlight madness.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
It's a great day to come in.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It is, it is, and plenty of time before the holidays.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, I'm so glad you brought that up. There is
still time to get your house in order before everyone
comes over.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Oh yeah, come to the storm bone head home.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
With good Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat,
but there, yes, they're absolutely there is a time now.
You know, a few years ago we were all suffering
those long delays, but Lacey boys really kicked in and
furniture's moving.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, we're almost back where we were in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's that's very impressive.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Good.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, good.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It's taking a lot of effort, but it's time. It's
time for it to be. So that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right, Well, we're just about out of time here,
so uh, before we are, before we end our conversation
one more time, tell us about moonlight, Maden.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's what I wanted her to do.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Okay, it is tomorrow, Thursday October, the night is that right?
We've been so busy, I don't even know the day,
Thursday October the night from tomorrow twelve to eight twelve.
Price is so low you don't need to shop.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No, mo that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oh yeah, it always is. It's always a lot of fun.
It's a fun day, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, best thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Uncle Henry, Mary, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And Tommy mackerel your appointment.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh I am toodles.
Watering.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is News Radio seven to ten WNTM. Uncle Henry
here with you once again, along with Mary for Mix
ninety nine nine. Hello, Mare and our guests from Lazyboy.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hello, Uncle Henry, Hello Mary.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello Bess, and Hello Tommy.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hello, and hello everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I just love the fact that we try to start
a show and we're all talking amongst ourselves so much.
Uncle Henry's going, Can we start to show up? Can
we get underway?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We have taste?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We need to tell people what's going on at Lazyboy?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
What is going on at Lazyboy? Best?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's scary?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well, that's the time of year we're in, isn't it Okay?
Light madness, it's right here on our doorstep this week,
this week, tomorrow. Oh we're late, closing early today, opening
late on Thursday, twelve to eight o'clock moonlight madness.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Woo. I can't do it like Rice is so low?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Mary, you don't need to shop, no, mum?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
How loo will you go?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
How loo will we go? How about twenty five to
fifty five percent off?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That sounds really good? How's that that's nice?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Gets better?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
How if you hear it?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Here? An extra five percent?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So tell him you heard it on Uncle Henry exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Woo very nice.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Whoo.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, so it's not just a simple wool anymore. I
can't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I understand that you have been busy. You've been so
busy that Tommy Mack is going to have to leave
during this broadcast. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Absolutely, to head out to a client's home. Really excited.
They've invited us in to work on a family gathering room.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay, a big sectional.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
See a lot of people just get it all reworked
so it works for them.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, Ray's wanting a sectional and I'm like, well, then
we have to have Tommy Mack come out because he said, oh,
you can just measure, and I said, you have not
listened to show you did. So you have not listened
to any of our shows, have you. Because that's the
number one problem people have when they want a sectional
is they think it's a challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It can be. I think that the big challenge on
a sectional is the corner. How to measure the way
the corner turns because it the piece itself measures one way,
but the space that it requires measures another way, and
you have to be aware of both measurements. One determines
(02:33):
the length of the sectional on each side, and the
other determines the length of wall that's required to make
the length of sectional on each side.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So you really are using the math you learned in
high school.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now I just don't use that word, but follow the diagram.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But it really does make a huge difference because we
don't want to make a mistake. No one wants to
make an expensive mistake, right.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
We help you get the look and feeling you want
without mistakes. Because if you just think, oh, this will fit,
this will work. Many times if you bring it in
then there are too many pieces, or there are times
when it's too small, and yes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You need another another piece, which of course we have
because just about all of our sexual sectionals have a
armless middle pieces.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So you can extend it exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
We build the sectionals piece by piece so it works
according to your seating needs as well as your space
in the room.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And that's the thing. It's like, everybody's needs are different.
It depends on how you plan to use the room.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
A lot of people want every member of the family
and everyone who comes over to visit to sit there together.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The entire family tree is on that one section.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What's right, right, so you can see people, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
And then usually there's someone in the family, usually the daddy,
who wants his own separate recliinent.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Of course, so we can the whole Yeah, I got
an eye on you. So this this is going to
be like a family room. How what are you thinking?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yes, they've already selected the sofa, and of course we'll
take fabric and leather samples, okay, so they can make
that choice in their home with their lighting and so
j know precisely how it's going to look. And then
I will even learn more about how they want to
use the room and how they want it to work
for them, and then I'll come up with the design
and then they'll come in and they'll see it on
(04:38):
the TV screen.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And that's the cool part about it. It's not just well,
just imagine this if you.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Can, Oh no, they hear me talk a lot and
paint a picture.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, no, it has to be done, because that's really
one of the biggest questions we get, you know, our
concerns is like if I could just see it, well
you can. We're going to show it to you. You
can get it on a three d screen that will
give you the traffic pattern, the perspective, the scale, the proportion.
You get it all so now you can see. Plus
(05:13):
you've had the benefit of seeing the fabric in your
home because colors influence each other, right, and that can
be a real scary place.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, because you know, the lighting in the store is
one thing. The lighting in your home is going to
be totally different, and like you said, it's got to
play well with the rest of your ef It.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Most certainly does. It most certainly does.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And that's that's where you come in.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Absolutely, that's what we do for you. And it's fr ee.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's free to the consumer at Lazy Boy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Have you come to our homes, Yes, come in.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Work with you in the store, work with you in
your home, and then for us to pull the design
up for you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It's just because the problems at home. Yeah, oh yeah,
you know it's not where. It's not in the store.
You're bringing the problem to the store. But to solve
the problem for that room design that that's at home,
we need to sit down and look at that so
that we can have a home that looks just like.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
A picture out of the magazine.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
One that loves him. I love that filling in the
blanks with the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So tell me, Mack. Do you have any other house
calls you can tell us about.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Oh yes, I just did one for a wonderful couple
who used to live here and then they moved and
then they were relocated back to Mobile with a very
very young child. I don't think the child crawls yet.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh wow, very young, very young.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And working on a technically a playroom, okay, but it
will end up it's the largest space for everyone to
gather family and friends. So that will be their television
room and little area to if you want to play
games or if you want to eat up there. It'll
all work out just for that. And of course that's
another sectional because they love love together. So everybody has
(07:02):
a great view of that thing that comes on the
TV a football game.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I've heard that a lot of people are spending their
time with those Uncle Henry, what.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Thank you beautifully? Yes, roll time role, but television, even
for people that don't like football. They wanted the television
to be in just the right spot.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, I've just completed a
design for a room to present to a family. Their
television where they have it now placed is in the
same place where it was when they moved in from
someone else, and they worked for the previous family, but
they have not been happy with it. So they agreed.
(07:46):
I you know, just asked have you thought about the
television on this wall? And they got very excited about it.
So they're coming in tomorrow to see it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, And things are a lot better now than they
used to be as far as the utility being able
to move things around a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right, So if you've got modern technology, you can actually
move them to anywhere. I know, So think of the possibilities.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
You know, so.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Many times I think that's one thing we run into,
is you somebody will get a wonderful new house and
we'll go in and say, well, talk to me, what's
this room placement? Well, this is how it was when
we bought it. You know, they had the sophone this
while they had Well do you love it here? Well
not really? Okay, Well let's just sit down and see
(08:36):
what some other possibilities are. I mean, if you love
it there, that's rright, that's great. But if you're not
that pleased with the way it's working, let's explore some opportunities.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I see. That's the thing. You guys can think of
things that I mean, we think, well, that's the way
it has to be.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was born, Yeah, but that's in the world this way.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It doesn't have to be that way. You can come
up with all of possibilities to freshen things up to
you know, expand seating, expand usable space in the room.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
And on this particular one, I'm also addressing storage. So
there are no toys laying around except for the gazillion
toys of the dog. Now, while I was in one room,
I counted one, two, three dog beds for one dog.
And then when I was reviewing the pictures when I
was working on the design, I saw, oh, another pile
(09:31):
of dog toys. So we're going to I'm addressing that
so we won't have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, did you talk to the dog first? I mean, seriously,
obviously the dog.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know, pets are not a problem with us, because
we now have our wonderful pets safe fabrics.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Amen to that.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Absolutely, it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And I just want you to know that there's several
pets at our home that are thoroughly enjoying the fete of.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That off for Okay, now, Tommy mack here, I was
talking about bringing storage into people's rooms, Like, yes, now
is this because once upon a time we used to
have entertainment centers. Oh, and now we don't have them anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Absolutely, A lot of people who have them inherited it
from you know, a move into that house. Yes, and
they don't want the large that small space looking like
it's just filled in with the large piece of furniture.
So they lose that storage or they lose that bookcase.
So yes, we address that. And that's the one of
(10:33):
the first things my eye goes to when I go
into someone's home, because when you live in and you
overlook it, you know, yes, not it no, And.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
It's just like I don't want to say it. I
don't say it true.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's actually the problem in my house right now, which
you will help me address when I'm reading. Once we
make decisions about you know, where the TVs. Absolutely, but yeah,
we got this great, big entertainment center that is just there,
and it's just you know, it's taking up space.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Times they look like sarcophaguses.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well I hadn't thought of it that way. But now
we're really going have to hurry get this done. But yeah,
there are things that have just been there. And then
I've got another piece of furniture that I don't know
if I move it. It's like my grandmother's.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
If I can move, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I've read it all fall apart. It's been a while.
But yeah, but you know, there are there are things
that you can help us see and solutions you can
help us come up with that we never would have
come up.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
With on the own. And some pieces that you think
can only stand in one spot can live in another room,
another area of the house.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And really sometimes moving them brings them to life. Yes,
like they're lost. They may be out of uh scale
or perspective. You know, they may just be a great
looking thing, but it's so small that it's you know,
gobbled up by the rest to the space. So to
put it in more appropriate space really brings you so, oh, well,
(12:07):
there it is, I can see it now. So that's
that's another thing that we do, is work with what
you've got, because your home is your own. But you know,
it's not just the family room, it's not just the
living room, it's the bedroom, and the dining room and
the home of and.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
What we do all of those.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
We do all of those. So we've been in the
dining room and bedroom business for over seventy years.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
So to relatively newcomers.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well against Lazy Boy, that's almost one hundred and twenty
twenty seven. That's well we're ninety eight now, I know.
And that's something that is coming for our centennial.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And that says so much about Lazy Boy's quality, about
Lazy Boy adapting with you.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Know, I mean going with the time.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean think about how recliners have evolved over
the years that Lazy Boy.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh, I know, and that's what brought us to the
days and look at where we are. It was a
great way to start, I know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But think now they've got power and articulating headrests and
cooling technology.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Amazing, the power offer for sectionals, for sofas, for love seats.
You know, it's moved out.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It's not just recliners, no, and.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's just an amazing feature to have because the furniture
is sleek, it can be contemporary, it can look more
traditional but still have some power features that are just awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I think you just blew my mind a sectional with power.
Oh yeah, who knew?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Well you should have?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I do, Now you do, now you and now I want.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
We're going to make great happy.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
You're looking at your watch, t mac Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I did, I'm fine, enjoined the jail.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, well we are. Don't be late for a house
called for something incredible to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You mentioned you mentioned bedrooms, and you mentioned dining rooms.
How comfortable could you make an office for me? A
home office, a lazy boy home office.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
We do a lot of them where it's a combination
of a guest room and or a den and an office.
So we have a wonderful writing tables. So there's a
nice piece of looking, nice looking piece of furniture. You
don't walk into the room and think, oh they work
from home. No, you know your accessories, your some artwork,
(14:37):
and a sofa or a love seed and another chair
in the room. Yeah it becomes a guest room.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah yeah, but just a sofa in there. So you
can really just what I hear you say is just
make it like a den.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yes, like.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It can be, is masculine or feminine as you want
it to be.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So if someone's thinking, oh, a home office is a cubicle.
That's not a look at all.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
No, not anymore.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We have one and it it was mine. Oh really,
and I've had an encroacher.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Someone has taken over your home office.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Somebody's encroaching.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Okay, because it's not just that comfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That that is what the story is.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You know you've done it right.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I even put some pink in there, thinking that would
be not a deterrent. No, no, just moved right in.
Just Bill's good in here. It does. It's it's lazy boy.
It's not home office, of course it does. So if
somebody's settled right in, do you want to trade rooms? No?
(15:55):
I like I like my room.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's funny, funny, but that's that's just a great thing
about lazy Boy. You can tailor any room to whatever
your need is. Oh yeah, and and make it something
incredibly fabulous as well as functional, because I think we
think of office. Yeah yeah, we think office. Take you know,
(16:18):
a home office is just functional. But it doesn't have
to be just functional. It can be fabulous enough to be.
It has to be functional, but not just.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So let's address what the function is and then let's
go to the fabulous after that spent.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Address and see all I think when that's why we
need you. I don't think outside. I think, oh this
must be functional, you know, and don't think about how
it looks, so thank goodness for your.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's all we think about. That's all we think about.
How is this gonna look? How is this gonna come together?
And we surprise ourselves.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well yeah, I mean because you got so many, you know,
different things that you can do. I know, you surprise
each other when you come up with and go look
what I did here, and you go never thought of
doing that with that, but you got so many options?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh yeah, did Tommy might do that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And they steal from you sometimes too, don't they ideas?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Oh no, I don't mind ad many of that. Look
at the other designers designs to get ideas, but I
really do.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
The beauty think that's the beauty of what we can
offer too, is we have six full time designers who
are do nothing but house calls, and a director of
design in addition to that, and a store merchandiser who's
also a designer. So we're very deep in design and
we talk about it all the time and we just
(17:39):
love it. And then all of our sales teams go
through a design program to be able to talk to
you about because we are in the fashion business, that's true,
so you know, to talk about that, and to be
able to talk to you about what's current, you know,
because I think the beauty of now, the freedom of
now is I get asked a lot, and I know
(18:02):
you do too, Tommy. You know what's current, what's good
for Chad And the bottom line is what do you love?
Let's start there, because it's all it's amazing. We live
in the I think one of the freest times as
far as your interiors are concerned and fashion and style,
because everything is appropriate if it's applied properly. Okay, if
(18:26):
you're very traditional, you can have a beautiful traditional room
that is not frumpy, you know, not like your grandmother's house.
If you're very contemporary, you can have a very contemporary
room that doesn't have to be sterile and cold. If
you love gray, which I know were trending kind of
(18:47):
out of gray and white. But you know, I've had
gray rooms in my house for I want to say
forty years.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Wow, Yeah, for.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
A long time. I've had gray rooms, you know, not
every room, you know, but they've been there, and so
it's always an appropriate color, even though trends are changing
toward a more tone, a warmer tone, and more toward
to brown, if you can believe it. Isn't that funny
that for the longest time, that's like we can't sell
brown furniture, and all of a sudden, it's like, where's
(19:22):
the brown furniture?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But it matters. What matters is what you like and
what you're comfortable.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
With because it can be making it appropriate.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And that was a great time to get some furniture
with moonlight madness.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
It's a great day to come in.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It is, it is, and plenty of time before the holidays.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, I'm so glad you brought that up. There is
still time to get your house in order before everyone
comes over.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Oh yeah, come to the storm bone head home.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
With good Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat,
but there, yes, they're absolutely there is a time now.
You know, a few years ago we were all suffering
those long delays, but Lacey boys really kicked in and
furniture's moving.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, we're almost back where we were in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's that's very impressive.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Good.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, good.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It's taking a lot of effort, but it's time. It's
time for it to be. So that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right, Well, we're just about out of time here,
so uh, before we are, before we end our conversation
one more time, tell us about moonlight, Maden.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's what I wanted her to do.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Okay, it is tomorrow, Thursday October, the night is that right?
We've been so busy, I don't even know the day,
Thursday October the night from tomorrow twelve to eight twelve.
Price is so low you don't need to shop.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No, mo that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oh yeah, it always is. It's always a lot of fun.
It's a fun day, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, best thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Uncle Henry, Mary, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And Tommy mackerel your appointment.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh I am toodles.
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