Home design studio Lemon Drop Interior Design and Renovations is moving to its third brick-and-mortar location in downtown Georgetown.
The popular shop will be relocating just a few feet around the corner to 56 Main St. at the start of next month.
This shift is a bit of a homecoming for owner Julie Dulyea. Her life on Georgetown’s central spine began sometime in 2014 at 49 Main St., where Pink Nails and Beauty is now. After the landlord sold that property, Lemon Drop moved to its current home at 3 Wesleyan St. around 2021. But she always kept one eye on her first home and waited for the day she could return. As soon as the Dini & Co. and Casa Lena spaces became available, Dulyea pounced.
Lemon Drop Interior Design pulls together all the resources one needs to polish their home. The business boasts roughly 14 different kinds of local tradespeople to help with customers' renovations.
Dulyea herself is a trained interior designer and can provide advice on something as solid as cabinets to more intangible things like the feel of a room.
“We pretty much have it down to a science when it comes to the renovations," she said.
The boutique part of Lemon Drop is the retail shop where customers can buy the little things they need for their homes.
The much larger space in the new location affords Dulyea some freedoms.
“The boutique side of things will have a little bit more space. So we’ll be bringing home a bit more decor items,” she explained.
She's also considering investing in more stone samples for fireplaces and backsplashes, and partnering with more suppliers to grow the inventory as well.
Both she and her husband James – who is helping with the design of the new shop – are originally from Brampton. Over the years of moving around a lot, which took them as far as Cambridge, she said she would “fall in love” with redoing the house. Things like “getting to pick all of the kitchen cabinets, the quartz and all that good stuff.”
“I would have family and friends say, ‘You should be doing this (interior design),'" Dulyea recalled.
After taking a few courses, her entrepreneurial life began in a humble spare bedroom of her Georgetown home, before opening a shop in the downtown core.
For further details, visit lemondropinteriordesign.com.
