’Tis the Season for Motion Sectional Savings!

Now that football season AND the holidays are under way, it’s NOT too late to get an amazing motion sectional for YOUR living room at Ivan Smith! Not only do we carry trusted brands such as Signature Design by Ashley and HomeStretch furniture. To celebrate the holidays with real panache, we’re offering you EXTRAORDINARY savings!

Living Room Reclining Sectionals Done Right

Everything from basic 2-piece reclining sectionals to a ginormous power sectional with push-button recline and real leather upholstery is available through Ivan Smith’s Ark-La-Tex stores for your entertaining and football-watching pleasure. Choose additional amenities such as neat consoles with cupholders. Seat up to six in the lap of luxury with high-density foam cushions and overstuffed armrests. Some of the seats on our reclining sectionals are 4 inches thick! 

Superb Holiday Furniture Savings!

Get your cool motion sectional THIS month as part of Ivan Smith’s fantabulous Christmas Sale! It’s this easy: SAVE 15% on ANY single piece of furniture you want! To get this price break on your new reclining sectional, just text SALE to 40213. Presto! You’ll have the ultimate living room piece to entertain your family and friends this holiday season and in time for the Super Bowl.

It’s all on NOW through Dec. 24 at ALL Ark-La-Tex Ivan Smith furniture stores! DON’T miss out!

Fall Is YOUR Big Chance to Rethink Your Dining Room Furniture at Ivan Smith!

This fall, your friends at Ivan Smith invite you to redo your dining room furniture to make it the very best for you this holiday entertaining season. The season of autumn is more than leaves changing color and the days getting shorter and colder. It’s also “homecoming” in so many ways besides a high-school and college football game. It’s the natural time to gather, cozy indoors out of the cold, to enjoy, what else? An awesome home-cooked meal or three! What with Thanksgiving and the holidays with parties in between sneaking up on the calendar, take a good look at your dining set. Is it still up to the job? Does it reflect your growing style sense now? Chances are it doesn’t. The good news is when you shop dining room furniture at one of Ivan Smith’s many well-appointed furniture showrooms, you can ALWAYS afford a fantastic renewal of your dining decor.

Don’t Forget Our Furniture Financing

Whether you’re investing in a full dining set complete with massive extension table or some cute counter-height stools for your everyday meals, furniture financing at Ivan Smith is never a problem! Checkered credit history? No credit? No problem! We offer hardworking households like yours the perfect chance to start over, buying quality affordable furniture now and paying later. Better still, no matter if you’re buying dining furniture this season or renovating your TV room, you’re building a solid financial future through establishing good credit, something we’re glad to help you with!

Check out the myriad of dining room furniture styles on offer always for less at our Shreveport, LA store and other Ark-La-Tex Ivan Smith locations!

For Our Select Brands, Special Orders Are NEVER a Problem!

When it comes to special orders for our home furniture customers, Ivan Smith Furniture has the connections with name brands to make it happen easily and even with awesome customization options. Klaussner Home Furnishings and Mayo Furniture are among several brands our team routinely special orders to make customers’ interior design fantasies come true.

Among the Brands We Special Order

• Stanley
• Klaussner
• England
• Hooker
• Mayo
• Best
• Riverside

Ask About Custom Upholstery and More

One of our most adaptable special order brands at Ivan Smith is Craftmaster furniture, offering the discerning buyer many options they can personalize from basic furniture design to of course upholstery and finishes. No matter if your preference is paisley pattern and cherry or midcentury avocado and walnut, our select furniture brands make it happen and all for a fair price.

For more details about our furniture special orders stop by our Shreveport, LA store or any other Ivan Smith location serving Ark-La-Tex!

Cool Outdoor Benches to Enjoy Pleasant Weather

Consider the fun and romance of well-made outdoor benches next time you’re upgrading your patio furniture at Ivan Smith. When the summer days are waning as they are now, there’s nothing like snuggling on a park-style bench in your own yard to share the sunsets as the crickets sing. You might even see a deer or two depending on where you are. Lucky for you, you can get your choice of fine outdoor seating at Ivan Smith for less. Your selections include both the park style and the fun dining benches optional in many outdoor furniture sets. Kids seem to take a big liking to these sturdy picnic-style benches so they can resume playing after enjoying your barbecue, or dry off poolside! The possibilities are endless with well-chosen outdoor benches from Ivan Smith.

Traditional Wood Outdoor Benches Perfected

If like us you’re a big fan of the look and feel of classic wood outdoor benches, our selection of park-style models made of solid hardwoods have a coat of lamination applied on top of the finish to keep mold and other threats to natural wood at bay.

Extra Protection: Polywood Outdoor Benches

Throughout Ark-La-Tex, Ivan Smith customers looking at outdoor benches are saying, “Hooray for Polywood!” This patented material takes the ruggedness and weather resistance of polymers to the next level. No matter if you prefer a traditional or contemporary design, your new Polywood outdoor bench is guaranteed for 20 years with no cracking or other weather damage. Better still, Polywood is made from all recycled plastic so your new park-style bench, while man-made, is earth-friendly!

Check out the outdoor benches in-store and available on order from our Tyler, TX furniture store and all our other Ark-La-Tex Ivan Smith locations, where savings are a given!

Awesome Kids’ Desk Study Spaces Made EASY!

When planning your kids’ room furniture needs, don’t forget to include functional but fun pieces for your budding scholar to make homework easier and study time almost like a game. Accomplish this with a fine kids’ desk set and cool accessories so that your child finds learning enjoyable in a comfortable environment. Schoolwork doesn’t have to be a drudge! In today’s blog post, your experts from Ivan Smith Furniture will help you plan cool kids’ study nooks for the upcoming school year. We can’t guarantee that your youngster’s grades will go up. But when you put thought into your kids’ desk including seating and fun accents to personalize the space, a little inspiration and even relaxation might help.

Measure for Your Kids’ Desk Space Carefully

While choosing practical yet diverting kids’ desks has an element of fantasy to it, first you have to look at your prospective study nook or room practically. Realistically, how much square footage do you have to spare? Can you use a lot of wall space, or will your children’s homework station be tucked away under the main stairs or even in a disused walk-in closet or pantry to minimize distractions? Time to break out your trusty tape measure plus pencil and paper to write those numbers down! Once you’ve got your dimensions for your kids’ desk and more, now you’re ready to check out Ivan Smith Furniture’s great selection.

Fun Kids’ Study Office Selections

Once you’ve sorted out your kids’ desk floor and wall space, the fun part of shopping begins. Your doctor-to-be can master her biology lesson of the day reading at a trim white rolltop desk in wood just like the full-sized antiques. Or you can opt for a small computer desk just for parking your rugrat’s laptop to get in some learning about parts of speech or long division. Make sure the kids’ desk chair is comfortable for your child and has literal room for him or her to grow. Our kids do change fast! Once the basics are down, try some kids’ room bookshelves as your child’s knowledge and collection of materials expand. Finally, add some flair plus space for study breaks. Your kids’ workstation should have an inviting soft accent rug in colors that “pop.”

Fit out YOUR home for a great kids’ study station affordably at our Shreveport, LA store and all of our other Ivan Smith Furniture locations serving the future scientists and artists in Ark-La-Tex!

Which Home Office Desk Is Right for You?

Our selection of home office desks is as varied as the kinds of careers you can now do from the comfort of your abode thanks to the Internet and mobile devices. If you’re an office furniture newb, you might be daunted by the task of picking a home office desk for a new phase of your employment or as a household command center or study space. Information overload can be a problem in a place of plenty as Ivan Smith Furniture is to Ark-La-Tex telecommuters. Here’s a quick guide to home office desk essentials to make your new workstation its most attractive and functional.

What Will You Use Your Home Office Desk For?

Yes, we know, you’ll “do work” on your new home office desk, but here are some crucial factors to keep in mind when shopping for your furniture addition this time at Ivan Smith. Does your job generate a lot of printouts on paper or is it online-only all from your laptop? That figures in how big a physical desktop your home office desk must have. How big will your workstation be? If your quarters are cramped, you may not have a dedicated room for your office but one of our corner desks might be just the thing to keep you relaxed yet productive throughout the day as you create content, code, or crunch numbers. How much storage does your job require? Again, is it reams of papers or stuff that fits on a chip or memory stick?

Accurately Measure So Your Home Office Desk Will Fit!

Once you’ve assessed your job’s needs for your new home office desk, it’s time to do some measuring. For example, if the executive desk you want for your at-home legal or medical practice has doors or big drawers, can they fully open in your allotted square footage? When literally sizing up home office desks, make sure you have at least 3 ½ feet of space behind the desk so you can push or roll out your chair without any problem. To have the optimum desk height, when sitting at it, check to see that you can lay your hands on the desktop with your arms hanging straight down with your elbows bent at a right angle.

Fantastic home office desks and their accompanying pieces such as seating and hutches are always a bargain at our Shreveport, LA store and other Ivan Smith Furniture locations. See you soon!

In Praise of Performance Fabric for Your Upholstery and More

You might be thinking, “Why do I need performance fabric?” With today’s synthetic fibers being relatively easy to care for, even removable for a good cleaning, that’s understandable. However, high-performance fabric for upholstery and other home furniture uses has revolutionized the industry. If your household is high-energy with kids and dogs doing a number on YOUR furnishings, this scientific fabric solution is the best answer. Of course we at Ivan Smith Furniture carry many items boasting this wonder material adding years of longevity and a perennially new appearance to your favorite pieces and sets. Names to look for when shopping for performance fabric include Nuvella and Sunbrella.

Get Performance Fabric for Your Living Room Sofas

For your living room sofas and chairs, high-performance fabric simply can’t be beat to make your front room a true family room where children and pets are totally welcome. Never worry about spilled food or drinks again, because “these colors don’t run”! The performance fabric used to clothe select Ivan Smith living room furniture is entirely solution-dyed. That means when the artificial fibers are still in the liquid, molten plastic state, the color is directly added. By using the dye this way, it permeates the fiber completely. Because this vivid color is infused into each fiber, stains can’t penetrate and damage it! The answer for almost all mishaps is just wipe it off with soap and water, or for tougher stains (such as red wine on a white sofa), a diluted bleach solution. This weak bleach won’t hurt your color either.

Beat the Sun with Performance Fabric for Your Outdoor Umbrella

The colorfastness of performance fabrics means it won’t fade in the sun, meaning these fabrics are also ideal for your outdoor furniture and accessories from awnings to patio sets to huge cantilever umbrellas. One leading manufacturer tests its performance-fabric items for 1,000 hours, far beyond the industry standard! Sun damage is usually because it fades the fiber’s top layer, revealing its base color. Because these recyclable fibers are saturated, they simply cannot fade. Outdoor furniture is at our Tyler, TX furniture store and we can order it from any of our locations.

Whatever your performance fabric requirements, you’ll always find the answer at Ivan Smith Furniture's Ark-La-Tex locations.

Your Cantilever Umbrella: A Sunny Spring Guide

Here’s why a cantilever umbrella is a fantastic idea for your deck or patio this season. Spring’s here, so the sun’s out more and there’s the scent of flowers in the wind. You want to stay outside longer, maybe even firing up the grill on the first balmy weekend. We get a lot of those nice days in Ark-La-Tex. But you need shelter from the oppressive glare and rays, especially on our famously humid afternoons. Plus with our famously turbulent weather, fierce pop-up storms and all, don’t let a rain squall put a damper on your festivities. So here’s Ivan Smith Furniture’s handy guide to choose the ideal outdoor umbrella for the next big alfresco party at your house.

How Cantilever Umbrellas Work: Cool Engineering

With cantilever umbrellas, the fabric shade is suspended on a yardarm attached to a pole and counterweight, unlike a typical table umbrella in which the pole is central. It can also be affixed to a sturdy wall. With our giant free-standing umbrellas, the counterweight is often sand in the base. That makes sure a strong gust will never topple your new umbrella or send it flying across the yard! Best of all for you and your guests, you get maximum room underneath without a pole in your way.

Some Cantilever Umbrella Features to Consider

We recommend a free-standing rotating cantilever umbrella if you’re on your house’s deck at different times of the day. As the sun takes its course overhead, you can adjust these outdoor umbrellas easily because they rotate 360 degrees. To facilitate this, some high-end models give you a foot pedal. A ginormous cantilever umbrella can easily do what two or more ordinary patio umbrellas can! If you go the wall-mounted umbrella route, your purchase will be able to rotate 180 degrees.

Our selection of cantilever umbrellas are square or octagonal. Your shade coverage ranges from 9 to 13 feet. As big umbrellas cost less per square foot, that’s likely your best option.

If you plan on opening your cantilever umbrella when the sun is close to the horizon, say, for sunset dinners, consider buying a tilting model to best shade your gathering.

When you need to upgrade your deck furniture and accessories affordably, our Tyler, TX store and the Ivan Smith website are here to serve you!

When You Want to Go Retro: Furniture Ideas

While of course Ivan Smith Furniture carries the most and best in transitional and contemporary furniture, some of you might yearn for a romantic past, a certain era. Love BBC historical dramas? Maybe Victorian furniture and decor would be your thing especially if you live in a house from that time. On the other hand, if your trim little ranch house went up during the Eisenhower era, why fight it? Midcentury modern’s HOT especially since popular TV shows such as “Mad Men” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” brought it back to the public’s attention. But why pay a bundle for antiques, often in fragile well-worn condition? Our selection of reproduction retro furniture affordably brings the glamour of America’s past back to life for you and with modern materials that are family-friendly.

Retro Victorian Living Room Furniture: When Opulence Reigned Supreme

If you feel that you missed out on intricate Victorian furniture design such as exquisite woods carved into details such as medallions and plumes, and rich, soft top-grain leather, don’t fret. You can get it all and more thanks to reproduction retro furniture, such as a leather-upholstered chaise longue like a fainting couch in Sherlock Holmes’s study. When retro designs are so reasonably priced, you don’t need to be to the manor born to make your design fantasy come true.

Space-Age Bachelor Pad Cool: Retro Home Bars Serve Style!

On the other hand, you may thrill to retro-futurism, as in 1950s sci-fi flicks or “The Jetsons”: how did 1959 imagine 2019? We’ve got retro furniture for that too! An excellence place to show off this design flair in your choice of home bar furniture, such as ultra-futuristic bar stools with sleek vinyl cushions and gleaming with chrome.

Stop by our Shreveport, LA store or any of our Ark-La-Tex locations to see how you can incorporate beautiful, durable repro retro furniture into your lifestyle.

Reassemble Your Dining Room Decor at Its Classiest

Your dining room could be so much more and you know it! While it may seem acceptable to grab a long wooden table and some semi-functional side chairs, and call it a day, think of how formulaic that can feel!  When you’re decorating your dining room, you have the perfect opportunity to assemble furniture that reflects you at your classiest. So today, in honor of the new year, and new beginnings, we’ll be covering all the ways you can formalize your dining room, and maximize your style.

Allude to Duality: Colors Augment Your Dining Room

It’s no exaggeration: you can infuse sophistication into everything you do and own. And in the case of a dining experience, the only limits here are ones you impose upon yourself. Before settling on a table or buffet for your dining room, ask yourself how it will enhance or deflect the balance of light and shadow inside of the space.

Subtle shades, like the navy blue of an upholstered bench or side chair, can ease the dichotomy of black and white. Always think about the tones in a room, and how they can work with (or against) each other.

Blend the Casual and the Ceremonial All in One Space

Unless you feel the itch to host a social gathering at least once a month, you probably don’t always dine at your dining room table. But the question automatically arises: Why is that? If you find your dining too formal for everyday eating, then that’s your signal to blend more casual elements into the room.

Own a grandiose dining table that’s perfect for large family meals, but a tad lonely on your average night alone with the spouse and pets? Then relax a bit, by connecting your kitchen and dining room via a piece of handy furniture—a dining room server, for example.

Dine in a Room As Comfortable As It Is Chic and Stylish

You could invest hundreds and hundreds of dollars into your dining decor, only to realize soon after it’s just not a space you feel like inhabiting. To avert this conundrum, pay some heed to the comfort of your seating. As you can guess, we highly recommend upholstered chairs and classic benches, because of the sheer difference of their fabric, versus the plain old wooden seating of yore.

By balancing the light and dark, fusing together the casual and the formal, and thinking about where you actually sit when you’re dining, you can truly transform your dining room, and embrace 2019! As always, our Ivan Smith Furniture stores, spanning cities like Arkadelphia, AR and the greater US, are here to greet you into the new year.