This July 6th, 2023, marks 25 years for Village Home Stores at 105 S State Street in historic downtown Geneseo, Illinois. Village Home Stores has expanded and grown quite a bit since arriving in Geneseo in 1998. As Village Home Stores passes a 25-year milestone in Geneseo, next year will mark 40 years of a business that began just down the road in Cambridge, Illinois, in 1984.
In July of 1998, we opened our appliance storefront at 105 S State, and that location has since evolved and expanded to three storefronts and two floors of showroom and offices all within one location. In addition to the appliance storefront that opened in 1998, Village Home Stores now offers a complete one-stop-shopping experience to both remodel and new home customers. Customers can shop all of our departments from one location. Village offers Appliances, Appliance Service/Repair, Cabinetry, Countertops, Lighting, Flooring, Wall Tile, Cabinet Hardware, Custom Window Treatments, and, beginning this year Custom Closet Systems.
Since the very beginning, our focus has always been listening to our customer base and adapting as necessary to serve our region better. This guided us to add departments like lighting, floorcovering, window treatments, and now closet systems. One of the fastest-growing services at Village has been our project management remodels. Feedback from customers purchasing products for remodels over the years led us to expand our offerings again to include providing full remodel project management services from start to finish.
Over the last ten years, this remodel service has become a core offering for Village Home Stores by providing start-to-finish kitchen and bathroom remodel projects where we handle everything from specifying and ordering products to scheduling the subcontractors. As a visual extension of this service, Village Home Stores produces and airs a weekly 30-minute television program called the “Village Home Show.” This program began in 2014 and airs every Sunday morning at 10:30 am on WQAD News Ch. 8 (ABC) featuring real kitchen and bathroom projects our team has worked on. You can watch all episodes of the show anytime here on the Village Home Stores YouTube channel. We have grown from handling just a few dozen completed projects in a year to now hundreds each year. This has also led to continued employee growth in our business.
“We are proud to now employ over 35 people at Village Home Stores. We are very excited about what the future holds in the next 25 years for Village Home Stores and our employees and are very appreciative of all the local support we get,” says one of our co-owners Jim Ries.
Village has been family-owned and operated since 1984, beginning with Art and Cindy Ries at Village Hardware and Appliance in Cambridge, Illinois. Village Home Stores is now fully based out of their Geneseo, Illinois, location at 105 S State Geneseo, Illinois, and co-owned and operated by brothers Rob Ries and Jim Ries. The showroom is open Monday-Friday from 9 am to 5 pm and Saturdays from 9 am to noon. You can visit this website online anytime at villagehomestores.com and start the conversation about your own project using the webchat feature in the bottom corner of your screen. You can also complete this short online form, and a member of our team will be in touch.
Thank you, Geneseo, for 25 amazing years! Cheers to 25 more!