Get your electronics under control with Control4

O’Neal Builder’s home in Waterstone was featured in the Peoria Parade of Homes this weekend (which continues this weekend as well, there is a link below to view). Our HomeWorks team installed a whole-house Control4 system in this beautiful house, which I stopped by to see on Friday. I have grown up with electronics, but I’ve rarely escaped the complex operation of high performance theater systems or whole house sound. That’s why the simplicity of Control4 systems like the one in the O’Neal home never ceases to amaze me. The Waterstone model home features:

· Whole house audio, with access to thousands of digital music titles/radio stations

· A home theater room
· Lighting control, with one-touch “scenes” adjusting lighting throughout the house
· Heat and Air Conditioning Control from every room

The best part is the simplicity of operation: there is one simple method of control, either on a touch screen in the room or using a single remote when watching TV. It really is amazing; anyone could operate these systems with very little to no instructions. Most of our customers barely have time to enjoy their electronics; they sure don’t need to spend unnecessary time learning complicated operating procedures. Stop by O’Neal’s beautiful home from 1-5 this Saturday or Sunday. And if you’d like to find out more about how Control4 can help you get your electronics under control, call our HomeWorks folks at 309-691-4100 x160.

http://www.peoriahba.com/pohpics/08%20Parade%2027.pdf

Preparing for Progress

Pictured here is what used to be the back half of our Peru store, coming down to make room for our new store construction. Sherman’s Peru team and our whole family is excited to begin this project that has been in planning for years. With a targeted opening in Spring of 2009, this new store will be Sherman’s largest and will bring a selection of furniture, appliances, HDTV’s, audio and mattresses unlike anything presently in LaSalle/Peru. During construction you’ll find the same great products and sales staff you’ve known at our Peru store (with a slightly consolidated product display!). Ironically, since we don’t have a warehouse at our Peru store during construction, we can actually deliver more products faster to the LaSalle/Peru area than ever before: near daily trucks running from our Peoria warehouse and its multi-million dollar inventory offer daily access to thousands of in-stock products. Please pardon our dust during construction while we expand to offer you more!

Custom Order Furniture Without the Customary Wait

A new customer bought her Sofa from Sherman’s a few weeks ago, and it was interesting listening to her story. She’d shopped for furniture all over town, and she quickly found that no store stocked the exact style and color she was looking for. Now that’s pretty typical if you spend the time to really think about what will best fit your tastes, family’s use and décor. Rarely will that style and color happen to be in stock or even on display at a store, so you’re kind of settling for “good enough” when you pick from in-stock product. So as is often the case, she had to go the special order route. The trouble was, everywhere she went she found special order furniture took 10-12 weeks to get. And she wasn’t too excited about that. Here are her exact words: “I have a couple stories I could tell you about ordering furniture and was told it would take 12 weeks and it ended up that I either never got it or it took about 6 months to get.” She was excited, though, to hear how fast Sherman’s could deliver a special order sofa: “I was floored to hear at Sherman's it only takes 3 weeks.” And sure enough, her new sofa was custom made and delivered in exactly three weeks. Our Custom Comfort Center features exclusively England furniture (a La-z-boy company). Every Monday we order a truckload consisting of the special orders from the week prior, and it’s manufactured to specification in about two weeks, leaving one week for transport to us and for us to deliver it. In fact, at all times we have an electronic message board in the store giving our customers the exact date we can deliver any custom furniture ordered on that day. It’s all made to exacting standards by quality craftsman right here in the good old USA (New Tazewell, TN to be specific) which is a nice departure from all the furniture made in China these days. If you need a new living room, want exactly what you have in mind, and want it fast, Sherman’s Custom Comfort Center just might be the answer.