Residential Refresh

4 easy ways to make your home a better, more beautiful place to live

With January winding down, it’s time to reinvigorate those 2015 resolutions. Before you lose momentum, pledge to spruce up your home this year. We all feel better when our surroundings bring us a sense of peace and order — and look nice to boot.

Here are four things Delivery Limited — Dallas’ premier white-glove relocation and storage company — recommends to renew and revive your residence:

Edit
We all have a problem place, such as an overstuffed closet, a messy garage or a guestroom full of dated furniture. Sometimes an outside perspective can help you winnow the clutter and establish order where there was once chaos. Call in a professional organizer for help.

Store
Just as clothes you no longer wear accumulate in your closet, no-longer-needed furniture can collect at home. Store it until you need it again for that larger home, vacation place or child’s first apartment.

Share/sell
Grandma’s china taking up too much space? Have other family heirlooms that don’t fit your lifestyle? Maybe those out-of-town relatives would appreciate it more, or eBay collectors would pay to take it off your hands. Just be sure that these often-fragile collectibles are packed perfectly and shipped reliably.

Rediscover
We all get into ruts where we don’t enjoy our surroundings because they seem stale. Breathe some new life into your space by rearranging your art.

“You’ll be amazed at how a painting changes when placed in a new location,” says Alex Lyle of Delivery Limited’s Fine Arts Services.

Delivery Limited and its specialty services can help with these resolutions. It has the experts and resources to transform your home from dull to dynamite.

The company picks up and stores furniture and furnishings and deliver when needed. Its Personal Spaces staff of professional organizers can whip any space into shape — and do the shopping to make it even better.

Crating and Shipping constructs custom crates for those heirlooms that someone else may love more. And Fine Arts Services can rehang your art and even help with conserving artwork that may need repair or cleaning.

Help is at hand to make those resolutions into realities.

Delivery Limited is the premier white-glove relocation service in Dallas.

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Delivery Limited is the premier white-glove relocation service in Dallas.

Toy News

Japanese collector toy store to open at Firewheel center in Garland

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A new store for people who like to collect small plastic objects is coming to Garland. It's called Gashapon Bandai Official Shop, and it's opening in June at Firewheel Town Center, where it will sell "capsule toys" — miniature plastic toys packaged in clear plastic capsules.

Gashapon is a type of vending machine that dispenses capsule toys. The concept is popular in Japan, with machines found in train stations, arcades, convenience stores, and other locations. (The name "Gashapon" is derived from the sounds of turning the handle ("gasha") and the capsule dropping ("pon").)

The toys inside Gashapon capsules can be characters from cultural realms like manga, video games, or Japanese anime franchises. Or they can be coasters, or food miniatures, or charms you attach to your purse or notebook, or little animal figures, or little whimsical animal figures, or little statues, or an assortment of little plastic hats, or a quartet of tiny jewelry stands in pastel colors (buy them all!).

The machines take tokens which cost $2 to $2.50 each; most toys "cost" 2 to 4 tokens each.

The idea of capsule toys — coin-operated vending machines — actually originated in the U.S. in 1907 along with bubble-gum machines. Japan embraced it in the 1960s, and the Gashapon chain was launched in Japan in 1977.

The first U.S. Gashapon Bandai Official Shop opened in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo district in February 2023.

The entire thing is driven by collector frenzy. The toys are produced in limited quantities, and in sets, which encourages customers to acquire every member of the set.

Customers do not know what they will get until they turn the vending machine handle — not unlike slot machines. Like gambling. Or as Gashapon says more delicately, "The element of surprise brings excitement during the purchase and gets everyone hooked!" … furthering the frenzy even further.

Garland will make the fifth location in Texas; following Hurst, which opened in May; Grapevine Mills Mall and Houston, which opened in 2024; and Mitsuwa Marketplace in Plano which opened in 2023 (There's also a kiosk at Grapevine Mills Mall.)

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