This is how writer Nancy O’Malley described our
retail store, Chattel, in the magazine Forth Worth, Texas:
“Pam Flowers has restored
Aledo's old mercantile store and stocked it with unique treasures. Customers entering Chattel, a sturdy two-story limestone
building in downtown Aledo, step out of the bright Texas sunlight into a lush and colorful past. The old store, built in 1893
and once part of the Texas and Pacific train depot, was originally Aledo's General Mercantile Store, stocked with the
necessities of life - - fabric, tools, food and general supplies. Restored by interior designer Pam Flowers and opened for
business in September 1998, the store is once again bursting with merchandise, maybe not the essentials of life in the 1890s,
but beautiful furniture and accessories nonetheless.”
“The mood is old and nostalgic, from the first
step through the original double wood and glass doors, all the way up the stairs into the design studio and library on the
second floor.”