by Christy Heitger-Ewing | photos by Adam Gibson Architectural Photography
The curtain is finally being pulled back on a brand-new expansion at Ferguson Home’s showroom. The space was gutted in March 2024 in order to create a gorgeous, much bigger area for homeowners to browse lighting, bath, and kitchen options.
While the Ferguson showroom has always spotlighted a number of wonderful appliances, models, and products, now with their expanded 22,000-squarefoot showroom, they have the space to accommodate additional brands, enabling them to better help their clients make selections that are right for them.
“We have been excited about this expansion for well over a year,” says Natalie Gertiser, Senior Showroom Manager for Ferguson Home. “We knew it was coming and are so elated it’s finished for everyone to enjoy.”
The showroom experience begins by drawing inspiration from a wide range of designs, colors, and products. Experts are always close by to consult with in choosing kitchen, bathroom, and lighting products that fit your style. With so many brands on display, it’s easy to “touch and feel” your way to the right fit, which is hard to replicate online.
Homeowners can now browse a wider variety of appliances, including Gaggeneau, Dacor, LG, Perlick, LaCornue, and Aga. In addition, Ferguson broadened their on-site lighting, faucet, and cabinet offerings. For lighting, they added Palacek, a high-end designer look, and Waterford by Visual Comfort.
“We’re also adding three new lighting trends that we discovered at the Dallas lighting market,” says Gertiser. “They include architectural white, colored glass, and floral.”
Gertiser describes architectural white as more of a textured rather than a flat painted look.
“It’s a softer white,” she says.
“The glass fixtures include single or multiple colors; sometimes vibrant and other times pastel,” says Gertiser.
Floral lighting, which has floral motifs and designs throughout the fixtures, creates a soft, diffused light. “The design in floral lighting invites the outside element in,” says Gertiser.
As for plumbing, Ferguson will have custom-painted fixtures from Waterstone in one of their live kitchens. They carried Waterstone faucets years ago and are thrilled to bring them back so that clients can custom finish their faucets.
Their two new cabinet lines include River Woodworking and Grabil.
“We’re delighted to add brands that in the past we didn’t have the space for,” says Gertiser. “To be able to showcase so much more under one roof is an amazing capability for our customers.”
Plus, the expanded showroom gives Ferguson more office space to continue to grow.
The new addition of a third live kitchen is a centerpiece to the expansion. Guests can now sample tasty dishes while seeing top of the line kitchen appliances in action. The main floor live kitchen features Subzero/ Wolf/Cove and Thermador, the second-floor kitchen features Monogram and SKS, and the brand-new live kitchen in the expansion will feature Miele.
“With how big our space is, we needed a third live kitchen for when we have events,” says Gertiser, noting that this spring they plan to start up their live cooking demonstrations for customers.
About every four weeks, usually on the last Thursday of the month, Chef Kat graces the Ferguson showroom with her talent as she cooks an entire meal while demonstrating the unique features of the appliances she’s using. These are typically two-hour sessions in which Chef Kat instructs customers on how to cook on and care for the various kitchen appliances. As she’s working her delicious magic, she highlights the capabilities of each of the brands, then answers any questions people have on the benefits of using them.
“She often focuses the meal around a certain theme or holiday, depending on the time of year,” says Gertiser.
She demonstrates her cooking using steam ovens, induction and gas, or sous vide (a cooking technique that heats food with water).
Another high point to the new showroom is the incorporation of a wine tasting bar with built-in wine dispensers.
“We are calling it our own little Napa wine bar, and it will house different manufacturers,” says Gertiser. “The biggest feature is showing the dispensers because there is not another brand out there that has that capability from a residential standpoint.”
The wine bar will unquestionably be a focal point for when Ferguson hosts builder events, and they plan to do more of them now that they have the expanded showroom. They will kick off their events in June with the magazine cover party that will coincide with the grand reopening of the showroom.
Check out the amazing bath, kitchen, and lighting options today at Ferguson’s expansive showroom. Call today to schedule a meeting with an expert consultant.
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Ferguson Home
200 S. Rangeline Road
Carmel, Indiana 46032
