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WICHITA — About five years ago, businessman Herb Krumsick sat down his friend Tony Ferraro for a talk.

Ferraro is a contractor – his business is Ferraro’s – who started his career more than two decades earlier as a finish carpenter and cabinet maker.

“It was an interesting conversation,” Ferraro says. Krumsick pointed out that “everything I was doing was building for other people. I really wasn’t creating my own thing.”

Three months later, Ferraro stopped into a millworking shop in Belle Plaine where he lives, and the owner said everything he had was for sale.

“Next thing I know, I bought the millwork company,” Ferraro says. “It really was on a whim.”

Now, Ferraro is going a step further and opening Logan St. Fine Wood Products in Wichita to sell the high-end wood products he creates. That includes furniture, cabinets, doors, floors and staircases, among other things.

“Anything you put in a house with wood, that’s us,” Ferraro says.

The store, which opens Monday, is at 1824 E. Douglas just down from the American Red Cross Midway-Kansas Chapter. It’ll be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and by appointment on Saturdays.

Ferraro hopes to attract homeowners, designers and builders.

“It’s going to allow us to build more pieces and actually generate more work for Ferraro’s,” he says. “We can sell the product, and Ferraro’s can install it.”

Customers can buy off the showroom floor or custom order what they want.

“I tried to model it after somebody, but I couldn’t find anybody doing the same thing,” Ferraro says.

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WICHITA — The end of Three Pea Interiors means the beginning of a couple of new businesses and the expansion of a third.

Jolene Holdaway closed her Three Pea shop late last year and is preparing to open Red Nest Interiors in the former Esprit de Fleur space at 2907 E. Douglas early next month.

“I absolutely had to have more room,” Holdaway says of showroom and storage space.

She had been sharing space with Three Pea Staging and Design in the former Crandall’s Interiors furniture space on East Second Street.

Owners Gary Streepy and Kirsten Awe were wanting to expand their business as well.

Monty Stuber, whose Montage salon also is in the Esprit building, offered Holdaway some storage space that eventually turned into a lease agreement.

Holdaway thought making a complete split from the Three Pea name would be less confusing for customers.

Also, she’s changing her business slightly by incorporating some older pieces into her showroom.

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