“We wanted to stay in Hamilton,” Pease said. “Our customers know us as a Hamilton company and we’re kind of strategically located.”
The company offers many national brands of cabinets, countertops, doors, windows, trim and other home remodeling products.
While slightly smaller than the previous location, the new storefront offers a more convenient place to shop in a fully-heated and air conditioned building with plenty of up front parking.
“This new location allows us to arrange our products more efficiently in well-lighted displays so our customers can find what they’re looking for more quickly,” said Steve Pease, John Pease’s son and the company’s vice president.
As the business has grown, it has drawn customers from a wider radius, some from as far away as Dayton or northern Kentucky, making an easy-to-find site even more crucial for the Pease family.
The move to the new location is expected to be completed sometime this month. An inventory reduction sale at the Van Hook location will continue until Sept. 1. A celebration to mark the store’s grand opening is planned for September.
The company is working to install an expanded kitchen showroom, one of the largest in the Tri-State area. It has also added Bertch, an upper-end, vanity line of cabinets and accessories, and ironed out a new truckload buying arrangement with Anderson Windows to stock their line of products, including sub-brand Silverline Windows.
The new site also will “dramatically increase” the amount of options for a growing category: alternative flooring products, Steve Pease said.
Pease said the company works hard to be more than a box store by offering a number of value-added options on site, including a production area to cut and assemble counter tops, pre-hung interior door units and exterior doors.
The company got its start as Pease Building Products in dowtown Cincinnati in 1893, then moved to Northside before coming to Hamilton in the 1940s.
At one time the company had three plants in Butler County – the Van Hook location, a pre-fab home plant on Bobmeyer Road and a steel door manufacturing plant on Muhlhauser Road in Fairfield – before selling off the door plant to Pella Windows and Doors and selling the pre-fab home plant to Nisbet Brower.
Pease said he moved from the Van Hook location because he sold it four years ago and the lease was up.
Jeff Jenk, owner of Fairfield-based Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling, said he liked the new location and called Pease Warehouse and Kitchen Showroom “a great company.”
“You can get lots of things here for the projects that we do that really fit well within the budgets,” he said. “(It’s a) good selection, very nice people and a great place to come. Glad they’re here.”
For more information, call (513) 867-9926 or visit www.peasewarehouse.com.
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