Lifestyles Furniture • Cedar Park

Lifestyles Furniture • Cedar Park

Written by Mandy Hobby Wednesday, 07 February 2007

Furniture store changes with demand of city

When Daniele Lang, owner of Lifestyles Furniture, hosted her first garage sale on a rainy day almost 20 years ago, she was shocked to see her front yard crowded with shoppers looking for used furniture.

“I never realized how serious people were about garage sales,” Lang said. “I sold out of everything within a couple of hours. I realized there must be quite a demand for used furniture.”

Lang was born in Switzerland and moved to Texas with her family in the 1960s. As a child, she visited Lake Travis on the weekends and fell in love with the area. She moved from Houston to Cedar Park 18 years ago when she decided to move into a rental property she owned.

Shortly after selling all of the old furniture in the rental property through a series of successful garage sales, she knew she wanted to open her own business.

“In 1988, there were no other furniture stores in the area,” Lang recalls. “There weren’t even any grocery stores.”

Lang said she convinced the landlord of her current space to let her open a used furniture store, then called Homeless Furniture. Almost two decades later and 10,000 sq. ft. larger, Lifestyles now offers new and used furniture, special fabric orders, unassembled or fully assembled products and an on-site warehouse.

“Over the past few years, the demand changed and there was a request for new furniture for the many new homes being built,” Lang said. “People wanted a new look for their new homes. That’s what led us to change our name.”

As one of the oldest locally-owned businesses in Cedar Park, Lang has watched not only the demand change, but her customers, as well.

“Some of our clients came in when they were children. It’s fun watching and seeing how they have grown up and changed,” Lang said.

Lang attributes the store’s longevity to the regulars who keep coming back, along with their unique approach to customer satisfaction. They sell items from the floor, deliver by appointment and also will store purchased furniture in their warehouse until a move-in date so customers don’t have to move twice.

“We are helpful, but without the high pressure; we give people room to breathe,” Lang said. “We always like to say, ‘browsers welcome, buyers adored.’”

“We get new items in all of the time. We have regulars that always come back to see what new things we get in.” - Sheila Morris, store manager

What makes Lifestyles unique:

• Items sold right off the floor
• On-site warehouse
• Purchased furniture can be stored until move-in date
• Offers new and used furniture
• Sells furniture assembled or unassembled
• Special orders fabric designs
• Delivery by appointment at a specific time and date
• Layaway offered

Lifestyles Furniture, 600 S. US 183, Ste 19, 331-4455