A UNIQUE PROPOSITION BY DANISH HOME STYLISTS
INTERVIEW WITH YOUR HOME STYLING OWNER MARTIN RANCE
Your Home Styling started up during the pandemic. Tell us more about this. Laura and I met in September 2019 and shortly afterwards we became a couple. We had a dream to start a business together offering turnkey solu tions and interior design but, as nobody could leave their homes due to COVID-19, we started out as personal shoppers for customers, buying fur niture from various retailers, putting packages together and installing the furniture into people’s homes who couldn’t be there themselves due to the restrictions. We even took photos and videos to help our clients see how their homes were progressing. We realised that this is something homeowners re ally appreciated so we continued to do this using our storage unit to keep our clients’ furniture safe and secure before installation. Since then, we have opened our showroom on the Mijas Road and, even though we have a wide range of our own furniture in the Your Home Styling showroom, if clients like a piece of furniture or decorative item from else where, we will incorporate it within the design to create the perfect home for the budget set by the client, which is why we consider ourselves as stylists within the interior design world.
How did you become so popular in such a short space of time? I have been working here on the Coast within the furniture industry for some years and I really love to network. As I already had so many contacts here on the Costa del Sol as well as from my home country, Denmark, among other Scandinavian countries, it made sense to get in touch with them, informing everyone who I thought would be interested in the services Your Home Styl ing could bring to them. Of course, we are always interested in meeting new people and forging good relationships to create happy collaborations, and this is something we very much enjoy doing.
What is it that you feel your clients particularly like about how you work? I think our clients have really bought into our level of service. They trust us and have faith in what we deliver. Both Laura and I have worked tirelessly to set up solid foundations so that the business could have the best opportunity to thrive and I think people have soon realised that we were serious about our work and we go the extra mile for our clients. When we have been required to do so, we will work around the clock to en sure a job gets done properly and on time, which is something our customers
have recognised about us – our efficiency, attention to detail and the fact we genuinely care a lot about their homes. Many of our clients have become our friends and we often meet up socially for dinner and a catch-up. When you style someone’s home, you have to really try to understand that person’s artistic style and individual living requirements, which naturally brings you and the homeowner closer together.
What does 2023 have in store for Your Home Styling? Many things but we are currently working hard on our website so that we will be able to show everything we have available in our showroom on the site, and customers can peruse the webpage and buy immediately anything we have available in-store. We have plans to offer our clients interesting inter national brands such as Bolia, Tine K Home, Skagerak by Fritz Hansen, Fritz Hansen, Houe and Umage. We also have plans to buy some lovely new items for the showroom in the early part of the year which, of course, we plan to showcase on our website also.
Mijas Road has many home decoration showrooms. What do you think sets you apart from the others? Even though our primary styles are contemporary, Nordic and boho (like many other showrooms in the area), we also gladly cater for other design preferences. We would also consider our prices to be generally more com petitive than in other stores and, where other shops charge for an initial de sign proposal, we have chosen not to go down this route – thus making us more approachable to clients. We want to be considered as the friendly fur niture company that offers a personal service with a high standard of service. We are very versatile and aim to help with everything and anything. That’s the major difference, and this makes Your Home Styling unique on the Costa del Sol.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10am to 6.30pm and Saturday by appointment. Carretera de Mijas, KM 4.5, Centro Nórdico, Local 15, Mijas Tel. (+34) 623 261 843 info@yourhomestyling.com www.yourhomestyling.com
