Casual Living - July 1, 2007

As outdoor living expands to include all the items necessary to complete a room — rugs, wall decor, candles, lamps and more — furniture choices also move beyond dining tables and chairs and sofas and lounges. Accent pieces serve both to complete a particular look or style and a function as well.

• Departments
• CFR Web site addressing industry's future
• CFR Guest Column
• Specialty retailers can clear consumer confusion about grill buying
• CFR Q and A
• Q: Where do you see your business in five years?
• Casually Speaking
• Show season gets underway
• Editorial Sources
• Editorial Sources
• How To Column
• What your virtual front door tells customers
• News
• Paddock expands into North Las Vegas
• Fabric companies make fashion-forward introductions
• SCFMA names Apollo Award finalists
• Tropitone gets financial adviser, positions for growth
• Outdoor furniture maker JRA files Chapter 7
• FYI
• Stephen Shuford named interim CEO at Shuford Mills
• Southern Patio creates program for smaller retailers
• Tommy Bahama showroom to open at Merchandise Mart in Chicago
• CMI showroom redesign comes naturally
• Spoga portrays a lifestyle
• Lyon and Galbreath lauded for lifetime achievement
• Ancient Mosaic acquires Piage & Pieta
• Syroco closes
• People on the Move
• People on the Move

• Features
• Business Update
• Luxury segment fuels future of outdoor lighting
• Metro Report
• San Diego area offers outdoor living mecca
• Hauser's Patio & Rattan: Award-winning merchandising pays
• Saddleback: Settling in at Saddleback of San Diego
• Outdoor Style
• Indoor Style: Outdoor Rugged
• Research
• Metros with projected growth above the national average
• Brighter days ahead
• Women in Leadership
• Telescope CEO Katherine Juckett thrives under pressure