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The Times and Beaverton Valley Times
May 16, 2013
SALUTE TO BUSINESS
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16 Years
423134.051613 STB
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11 Years
Open 8am-10pm Everyday
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15705 SW 116th Ave.
King City, OR 97224
Tony & Tina Slyter
Independent Operators
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12 Years
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received an
Stop by for
lunch
and a tour!
On our state
survey for
resident care.
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Administrator
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, Inc.
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23 Years
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BEAVERTON
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26 Years
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beaverton, or 97005
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Retirement Community
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park-like
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22 Years
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17 Years
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503.641.0911
Serving with love, respect
and integrity...and that
is only the beginning of
what makes Hearthstone
of Beaverton so special.
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friendly advice on senior care.”
~ Jo Anne Baumann
COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER
earthstone
of Beaverton
Charming Boutique Assisted Living
Family
Owned &
Managed
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|
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11800 SW Bvtn-Hillsdale Hwy., Beaverton
503-646-5181
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20 Years
423132.051613
Medical Care for the Whole Family!
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503-644-1171
John Gilligan, MD
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Mon-Fri......7:30am-7:00pm
Saturday......9:00am-1:00pm
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Wendy Hawthorne, ANP
Burton Silverman, MD
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10 Years
www.BaliFurnishingsDirect.com
10825 SW Avery Street, Tualatin • 503.720.5088
Open M-F 11-6, Sat. 10-6, Sun 1-5
BEST PRICED POTS and UNIQUE
TEAK FURNITURE in PORTLAND!
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9 Years
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10 Years
A Beaverton-Aloha Family Since 1937
Only Family Owned Funeral Home and Crematory in
the Aloha, Beaverton and Hillsboro area
Aloha Funeral Home
&
Crematory
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23 Years
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you need us!!
423183.051613 STB
503-625-4100
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Come in and Meet Dr. James Matthews
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Q
Now accepting New
Patients
Q
On contract with most
major carriers
Q
Open 7-days a week
Q
Convenient Walk-in
hours
Q
Membership available
for discounted services
11860 SW King James Place, Suite #30 in King City
Bali Home Furnishings brings
quality products to Tualatin
By Scott Keith
J
ava and Bali may seem like exotic, far-
away destinations, but you can bring a
little bit of Indonesia into your living
room by visiting Bali Home Furnish-
ings in Tualatin and chatting with owner
Norm Keller.
In business since 2003, Bali Home Furnish-
ings offers teak products, including dining ta-
bles, chairs, desks, shelves, screens and cabi-
nets.
“We are, I think, one of the more unique
home furnishing shops around in that we im-
port solid teak furniture out of Indonesia,”
Keller said. “The indoor furniture is re-
claimed, which is a very green resource — it
has already been cut, some of it 200 years ago.
It’s being used instead of a new tree.”
The products are reclaimed out of old struc-
tures, such as buildings, bridges and barns.
Teak is a wood that continues to improve
with age. “Teak has the highest natural oil
content — which allows no water penetration,
no rotting. Insects don’t like to eat it, because
of the oil,” said Keller.
Teak is a product you don’t find in a lot of
stores.
“The price of teak is so high,” said Keller. “I
was looking on Craigslist today, and some-
body was selling teak for $70 a board foot.”
Keller said his teak wood is not a rainforest
resource but is a tree that’s in great supply in
Indonesia because of the plantations.
“It’s not like they’re cutting down rain for-
ests,” Keller pointed out.
Bali Home Furnishings has outdoor furni-
ture that’s plantation-grown, kiln-dried teak,
Keller said.
“It’s beautiful outdoor furniture which real-
ly is a lifelong investment. It’s something
that’s going to last for generations, quite
frankly.”
Keller and his co-owner wife, Jana, travel to
Indonesia at least once a year on a buying
trip.
“We go to Bali where we visit a village
called Ubud,” Keller said. “There are literally
thousands of small family ‘mom and pop’
shops that do the ducks, or they specialize in
baskets — we go into hundreds of shops to
source the crafts. We have those packaged,
wrapped and put on a truck (for the two-day
trip) to Java, where they’re consolidated with
the furniture that we buy.”
Pots, great for the garden, are another pop-
ular product offered at the Tualatin shop.
“We’ve been bringing in containers of pots
from both Vietnam and China for the last five
years,” Keller said. “The two best pots come
from Vietnam and China. They’re high-fired,
meaning they get up to about 1,800 degrees.”
Bali Home Furnishings also offers an uphol-
stery shop where you’ll find Barb Riley, who
has been in the upholstery business all her
life, helping customers. A few years back, Bali
added a cabinet shop. You’ll see artisan Alex
Velazquez there working with his brother-in-
law and his son.
It’s been a decade since Bali Home Furnish-
ings opened in Tualatin. Keller likes the com-
munity.
“It’s been a great location for us,” Keller
said. “We have absolutely a ton of repeat busi-
ness. As customers have gotten to know us,
they like not only our product, but our ser-
vice. We basically will do whatever it takes to
make them happy.”
Business has, in fact, been picking up for
Keller, thanks in part to expanded space and
word of mouth.
“Our best two years have been the last two
— we have a very strong following, and word
of mouth has definitely kicked in for us,”
Keller said, pointing out that his business has
taken part in the popular Street of Dreams.
Customers come to Bali Home Furnishings
from throughout the Pacific Northwest.
“We pull from as far away as Eugene, Van-
couver and Seattle. Our Internet sales have
really started to pick up as well,” Keller said,
adding that his store ships primarily to the
lower 48 states.
Keller said he offers unique, high-quality
products at a very reasonable price, and he
calls his business “world treasures from afar.”
IMPORTANT DETAILS
What: Bali Home Furnishings, which offers handcrafted
teak furniture, tropical décor, accessories and Asian gar-
den pots.
Where: 10825 S.W. Avery St., Tualatin.
Phone: 503-720-5088
Web: www.balifurnishingsdirect.com
Bring a little Java and Bali into your home
SUBMITTED PHOTOS: SCOTT KEITH
Norm Keller, owner of Bali Home Furnishings
in Tualatin offers teak products from
Indonesia as well as a variety of pots from
both Vietnam and China.