Stepping inside the store is like stepping into one of the pages of Beautiful Home Magazine —with the added bonus of knowing that you can bring all of it home.
If you are looking for décor and accessories to create your own tropical paradise and portray total island flair inside your home, end your search at Monika’s Furniture.
The dynamic team of Monika Nugent and daughter Sandy Weaver joins efforts to furnish homes and create a tropical oasis inside their homes at an affordable and reasonable price.
The duo makes it their target to make homes beautiful with a blending of native and contemporary design with unique furniture pieces from Indonesia, as well as local artwork.
Take home a four-poster bed from Indonesia made from teak wood and complete it with colorful handmade bed covers and pillow cases. Hung tapestries and accessories made from coconut wood and native materials all add to the Island living.
Shy away from the usual tile-and-cement look of your bathrooms and accessorize it using unique marble and river stones to add to the tropical look. Accentuate your backyards with sand-stone statues and ornamental plants to complete the picture.
Nugent opened Monika’s Gallery on Saipan in 1990 at the present location of Coffee Care on Capital Hill. The store moved to different places in Susupe, Beach Road, Middle Road before they closed the business here for over three years and moved to Guam. Nugent’s experience in retail of furniture and home décor spans for over two decades. Monika’s Gallery became Monika’s Furniture when they reopened here just last October 1.
They still maintain the Guam outlet. Weaver said that even they had been gone for a long time, former clients are slowly finding their way back to the store.
“Despite the bad economy, people are coming back to us and buying things for their homes. It has been good so far,” Weaver said.
Weaver said that everything in the store is hand-made. There is nothing that’s machine made from the bed coverings, bedroom sets, dining sets which are made from solid teak wood, and other home furnishings such as sculptures, pillows and curtains, tapestries, wood carvings, handmade jewelry by Laila Staffler and local paintings by Weaver’s husband Joe.
All items at Monika’s Furniture are handpicked and not mass-produced, and you don’t have to be a millionaire to buy anything from Monika’s Furniture because everything is reasonably priced.
Monika’s Furniture is not only your furniture store but it is a one-stop gift shop. To meet the demands for the coming holidays, Weaver said they are expecting a big shipment from Indonesia in a couple of weeks.
Monika’s Furniture is located on the ground floor of Chongs Building in Gualo Rai on Middle Road just across from the Commonwealth Development Authority office. They are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The shop is closed on Tuesdays. For more information, call 233-4402 or email [email protected]@hotmail.com.
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