

The store is a gallery of sorts, but it’s the Whitsons’ home, outfitted with unique reclaimed and handmade furnishings, that truly illuminates the imaginative possibilities of turning trash into treasure.

She and Lee operate their interior design business from the store, and Scott oversees the wholesale side of the company, which includes furnishings he’s designed, as well as a line made from colorful, recycled Indonesian fishing boats. In their eyes, an old Coca-Cola cooler is reimagined as a sink an industrial steam press is repurposed as a side table and paint-flecked tin ceiling tiles become wall décor.ĭebra artfully displays her rescued home goods alongside jewelry, rustic garden sculptures, and a slew of other handmade found-object baubles at Warehouse 2120 in Hickory, the shop and wholesale furniture business she and her husband, Scott, own. Lee, act as a rescue squad, shopping yard and estate sales and flea markets across the Southeast to uncover cast-off furnishings and architectural elements they can transform into objects of desire. She, along with friend and interior design partner, Pamela D. Debra Whitson blushes and laughs as she lists a couple of the titles she’s earned, and rightfully so.
