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By Christine Graf
Local home furnishing and interior design business Saratoga Signature Interiors is celebrating 30 years in business.
Owner Nancy Moultrie Smith, a native of Georgia with a degree in design from San Jose State, owned a design showroom in Atlanta before moving to New York.
“When I moved to New York, I went to work for another company,” said Moultrie Smith. “I had quite a few designers working under me, but I really wanted to be on my own. So in 1992, I ventured out and started a company. I chose Saratoga Springs because I happen to love the town and thought it was just beautiful.
“It has proven to be a wonderful place for a home furnishing store. When I opened here, there was no one else in town but of course now we have a lot of fabulous designers.”
After opening her store at 260 Broadway, she came to realize that the spot wasn’t conducive to operating a retail business. Five years later, she relocated to a space at Franklin Square that had been home to a funeral home.
“It was a gorgeous building, but the only trouble with that was that there was a big staircase. My delivery people with the furniture would not come in and deliver to the second floor,” she said. “That was problematic, and getting things in and out of the building was just impossible.”