Discover the Top Furniture Store in Lexington, KY: Marais Home
The phrase “furniture store in Lexington, KY” covers a wide range — from national chains on Nicholasville Road to the small handful of designer-led independents tucked into neighborhood retail strips. Marais Home falls in that last group: a boutique furniture and design showroom at 882 East High Street in Chevy Chase, founded by Lexington-native designer Katie DesMarais after a decade designing residential, hospitality, and luxury-development projects in New York and Austin.
A floor curated the way a designer would spec a project
The clearest way to describe the showroom: everything Katie would put on a client project, set up where you can sit on it. The furniture floor centers on Rowe, Gabby, Four Hands, Made Goods, and Wesley Allen — designer-trade lines and a few smaller studios that don’t sell to most Lexington stores. Custom upholstery is available on most frames: your dimensions, your fabric pull from our library, 6 to 8 weeks from approval.
Layered lighting from Hudson Valley, Troy, Mitzi, and Arteriors hangs on the same floor at real ceiling heights, so you can see how each fixture casts light before committing — most of these brands aren’t carried at all by other Lexington lighting stores.
Design help on your terms — hourly, not retainer
Most projects start with a 90-minute in-home consultation: a flat-fee visit scheduled directly with Katie. We walk the rooms together, take measurements, and leave you with clear direction — even if you don’t take a next step with us. From there, most work moves forward on an hourly basis. Renovations and whole-home programs get a written, flat-fee scope so you know what it costs before we start. Most one-room edits settle in well under what a flat-fee “refresh package” would have cost at a typical design firm.
The small-layer floor — where most rooms actually get finished
Furniture anchors a room; the smaller layer makes it feel like yours. The decor floor rotates art, mirrors, vessels, ceramics, and decorative objects from small-batch makers most local stores don’t carry. The textile edit runs pillows, throws, bedding, and rugs from Pom Pom at Home, D.V. KAP, Chilewich, and Nordic Knots — natural fibers chosen for how they hold up in year five, not how they photograph in week one.
The tabletop and kitchen shelves carry Hawkins New York, Kinto, Bloomingville, Creative Co-Op, and Fredericks and Mae — and the scent & self bar at the front of the store is one of the most-shipped categories online: Maison Louis Marie, Flamingo Estate, and hand-poured local candles new to the Lexington market.
Where to start if you’re shopping for a gift
A few gift categories that move fastest around Keeneland weeks and the holidays: a Maison Louis Marie candle and the matching diffuser, a Pom Pom at Home throw, a single Chilewich runner, Hawkins New York linen napkins, a Kinto pour-over set. Or the curated housewarming gift sets the team assembles when you want one decision instead of five.
Why people drive across town for it
The honest answer: the editing is the product. Most of what’s on the floor at a chain furniture store is also available on twenty other floors in town. What Marais Home offers is a tightly held point of view, real brand depth, and a designer’s eye on what works together — applied whether you’re buying one lamp or planning a six-room renovation. The address helps too: 882 East High Street, ten minutes from almost anywhere in Lexington, with parking on the street and in the side lot. Tues–Fri 11–5, Sat 11–4, Mon by appointment.
If you’d like a starting point: work with Katie as your Lexington interior designer — 90-minute in-home consultations, clear direction, no retainer required. Or stop by the showroom on East High and browse the floor in person, or pull from our best sellers online before you visit.
