Tom Nadeau likens buyers in his furniture stores to people on a treasure hunt.
“Customers find something new every time they visit,” said Nadeau, who started his business in 1991 by buying and reselling unique wooden furniture acquired from producers around the globe.
Nadeau opened his 36th store last week by expanding into the Chattanooga area with a 6,000-square-foot store at 2288 Gunbarrel Road, which is near Shallowford Road and close to Hamilton Place mall.
The new furniture outlet is across the street from Rooms to Go and near more than a half dozen other furniture stores, including Ethan Allen, Ashley Homestore, La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, Basset Home Furnishings, Total Concepts Furniture and others. But Nadeau is far different from the other furniture retailers, offering unique wooden tables, shelves, dressers, desks and other items at discounted wholesale prices from furniture makers around the world.
“It’s very eclectic furniture, probably 90 percent of which is wooden furniture, and the prices are just fantastic,” said Donna Mitchell, the general manager for the new Nadeau store who previously managed Total Concepts Furniture. “We bring items in by container and try to keep the prices of what we have as low as possible, especially for some very unique and special furniture items we offer.”