Allenton Interiors

Friendly proprietress.Great selection, too, including quite a bit of Uttermost. A bit high end for Bethany? Maybe. I tend to associate this part of town with religious junk, cutesy crap, and tacky craft malls posing as "antiques" places. (Needless to say, my partner and I were VERY pleasantly surprised to find a shop of Allenton Interiors' caliber where and when we did.)We'd come to this part of town to eat at the Diaz restaurant just two or three doors to the east of Allenton Interiors, else we'd most likely never have found this place.Parking can be less than ideal here, so think ahead and park along Peniel or one of the other adjacent streets.

I absolutely love Allenton Interiors! The most unique style I have ever seen inside a small business. I couldn't resist coming here when I moved into my new office. I needed all of the things!

Driving through downtown Bethany Allenton Interiors stands out. Their store front says "new and exciting". While only open for about a month, I have wanted to stop several times. I love interrior design stores and was excited for the possibilities this new boutique held. Oh the possibilities! Wowzas! (can I say wowzas for such a fine store?) I was a tad intimated at first. Their store front boasts modern decor and afluency. However, once in the store I was greeted warmly and quickly found several items I would have loved to carry on my back (if need be) home with me. I believe truly they have something for everyone. I was quite surprised as well to see the reasonable prices. Such as a beautiful lantern like vase for around $30. Trendy muslim stamped large throw-pillows for $35 (that I have seen in up-scales shops and online boutiques for $75+) Paintings, chandeliers, furniture, ... I loved the mass majority of it. It all looked to be very high quality, reasonable priced, high style. I asked a particular item that I really loved, but simply couldn't purchase yesterday. The sales associate walked over to the piece with me and told me that it was definitely something they can get again if it is sold when I come back for it. It kind of reminds me of a smaller scale Z-Gallerie, which I love.

So, a week after I bought my octopus candleholder I decided to measure it to see what size candles to get for it and I noticed that one of the eight arms was wobbly, compared to the others that didn't move much. So, I started inspecting and noticed that the arm was broken. Had it just been cracked I would have accepted the possibility that it got damaged on the ride home, but upon close inspection you could see the leg had been completely broken off and glued back on. I debated whether to try and return it or not or just re-glue it, because I hate the hassle of returning things and I had already had it for a week and had no proof that it was broke when I purchased it. Also, I didn't know what the stores return policy was. Specialty stores like this are usually "no returns" stores. Considering the price tag though I decided it was too expensive an item to have received damaged, since it was not marked as damaged or even discounted when I bought it. I'm not going to assume that the store knowingly sold a damaged item and tried to pass it off as new, since it's possible it was sold to them that way too. Had the glue not started coming loose I wouldn't have even noticed it was even broken and didn't notice it at the time of purchase, so it's possible they didn't either. Who knows.I took the item back to the store and immediately was greeted by a female employee (I didn't get her name or title) who asked, "Did it not work out for you?". I showed her the item and explained to her what happened and she immediately with no questions asked refunded my money. I was shocked! I've never had a return go that easy. I was really dreading taking it back too, because I was expecting an argument, but there wasn't one. I appreciate the fact that they took me at my word and made it right, because that determined whether or not I would return. Luckily for them they kept a repeat customer with expensive tastes and little self-control.

Unfortunately not everyone ends up with a beautiful finished house like these. We closed over 2 months late and 4 months later we're still waiting on a long punch list of items to be completed. Subcontractors won't come back to do the work because they aren't being paid. Even a small check written to us bounced. The staff did a good job helping us develop the floor plans and pick the interior designs. But as closing approached and it looked like it would be late we couldn't get answers to our questions. Subcontractors stopped coming to work on the remaining punch list. We were told the owner preferred communicating through email but he never answered ours. The lights on our front porch posts blew off in October and so far only one has been replaced. We've never had hot water at our kitchen sink. The master shower has been leaking for weeks, luckily we're on well water but that's a whole other depressing story. When it rains, red dirt flows into our pool because the yard wasn't graded correctly. The red dirt has also clogged our sprinkler heads so the yard isn't getting watered, contractors won't come fix them. The paint on our house is streaky and they knew right away it would need to be repainted but that was 8 months ago and nothing has been done. It's a custom home and we paid $3k for the floor plan but still haven't gotten our copy. We don't even have keys! I could go on and on with more problems. Every time we press them for a plan to get things done there is another excuse. All trust has been lost. It's just a never ending sad story. So far the owner/builder doesn't seem to care and I don't see that changing. Good luck to you if you use this builder.