$500 Shopping Sprees All Day Long During Ashley Furniture HomeStore Galleria Grand Opening Featuring Home Style Guru Torie Halbert

HOUSTON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashley Furniture HomeStore's (www.ashleyfurniturehomestore.com) July 4th Galleria grand opening will be sprucing up Houston homes one at a time with HGTV Design Star finalist, Torie Halbert, who will be on-site.

Saturday July 3rd, Ashley Furniture HomeStore will announce the winner of their $25,000 "Drab to Fab" home transformation contest with Torie Halbert. Halbert will be conducting home design clinics from 12 PM - 5 PM on how to revamp your room in just five steps. Hourly drawings will be held for $500 shopping spree giveaways beginning at 1 PM. The opening of the Galleria location will include an electronics center and a new Urban + Home Collection featuring Ashley's selection of stylish, contemporary and functional furniture.

ABOUT ASHLEY FURNITURE HOMESTORE

Ashley Furniture HomeStore has become one of the fastest growing furniture retailers in Houston. In Furniture Today's publication of the Top 100 U.S. furniture store rankings (May 24, 201 issue), Ashley Furniture HomeStore, operated by Hill Country Holdings, LLC, climbed the highest of all furniture retailers by moving up 35 spots to the #40 ranking, posting the highest percentage gain and net increases of all ranking furniture retailers. With the Galleria opening they will have 8 locations and are positioned to open 2 more locations (one additional fully furnished showroom and one new clearance center) before the end of 2010.

The store's merchandise is a complete selection of furniture for the living room, bedroom, dining room, casual dining, home office and a newly added full line of electronics. In addition to operating the Ashley Furniture HomeStore in Galleria, Hill Country Furniture Partners operates Ashley Furniture HomeStores in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Rio Grande Valley, and Washington.

SOURCE Ashley Furniture HomeStore