Home-staging company expands into props.
What do you do when you’re based in one of the country’s major hubs for film production, and you have a warehouse full of furniture and home accessories? You open a prop shop. That’s what Kelley Bowden and Ricci Taylor did in October 2023 when they teamed up to debut Everly Props, a onestop prop rental house on the Upper Westside.
The pair, who have been friends since the fourth grade, had always talked about running a business together, and when Taylor moved back to Georgia in 2020 to open an Atlanta office of her successful home-staging business, Everly Design Company, they seized on the opportunity. The idea was to open a prop house that made Everly Design’s vast collection of couches, chairs, rugs, artworks and other home interior pieces available to production designers for the various movies, TV series and commercials being filmed in the area.
Bowden, a Dunwoody resident, says the company’s 8,400-squarefoot warehouse houses close to 10,000 pieces. “We hit $1 million in inventory last year,” she says. But one of the things that makes Everly Props stand out, she notes, is that the majority of its inventory is cataloged online, making it easy for clients to pick and choose what they want if they can’t make it to the warehouse.
Given that Everly Props piggybacks on its sister company’s home-staging business, which works with real estate agents and homeowners to get properties ready for market, most of the pieces in its inventory are in the Hollywood Regency, midcentury modern, art deco or contemporary industrial style. “We’re not capitalizing on the entire props industry. Ours is a more curated and modern collection,” Bowden says. Also unlike a lot of other local prop shops, Everly provides design services to its clients who might need an on-set stylist. “We can help them choose which items to use and can help them style them on set as well,” Bowden says.
Most of Everly’s pieces come from wholesale vendors. “We go to the Atlanta and High Point markets, and we went to the market in Vegas in 2023 to prepare for the launch of the prop shop,” Bowden says. “We love to shop locally, too, when we can, like at Kudzu. We also get pieces from Nadeau in Buckhead. The people who own it are great to work with.” Everly also sources items from local candlemakers, potters and other artists. But its pieces can come from anywhere. For example, for a commercial the company Solo Stove was shooting in Dahlonega, they found a vintage typewriter in an antique store there that is now a permanent addition to their inventory.
Some of the other clients Everly Props has worked with so far are Capital One, Coca-Cola, Edible Arrangements, Publix and HGTV. “It’s so exciting to see our pieces on screen when things come out,” Bowden says. “We’re thrilled to be a part of such an exciting industry.”
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