Sally Guare Hunsinger of Shish Interiors is a curator of beauty, form and function, and the stunning result of her curiosity and travels to find the items that fit our homes and our lives are generously displayed at her Centreville store.

Throughout the showroom there are farm inspired tables, vintage goods, furniture pieces, hand-made and fair-trade rugs and pottery, candles, bedding, home and gift items and all of it – every single item – is an object that combines durability, function and elegance.

“Shish Interiors is about creating environments that allow us to live our best lives and offering meaningful gift items to be shared with others,” Hunsinger said. “All of our products are well made and useful and they fit with the way we live.”

Hunsinger, whose career background was in applied behavior analysis, opened Shish Interiors out of her home in 2008 and moved to her first storefront in the Highland section of Wilmington a few years later. Since 2016, Shish Interiors has been a mainstay in Centreville offering home décor and interior design, combining function and elegance that melds with her clients’ household needs.

“I love going to antique stores and trade shows,” she said. “I love to refinish furniture. I love choosing fabrics. Interior design has always been my true love, from the time I was very little when I had doll houses and loved to rearrange our bedrooms. Now, I get to spend my life working with others to create spaces and offer products that allow them to live in beautiful, functional spaces -- the durability of tables we can eat and work and play games on and rugs that we can walk on and throw into the wash.

“Shish is the culmination of a lifetime of doing what I love.”

As an interior designer, Hunsinger is gifted with skills and experience, and she begins most appointments by listening.

“I come to my clients with an open mind and open ears,” she said. “It’s about fitting budgets and tastes and lifestyles together. Beauty is subjective, so a customer’s idea of beauty may be completely different than mine, but this is about helping people create spaces where they can live in a way that they desire. We work together. I give choices and ideas and remind them not to settle because for every idea, there are so many other ideas.”

Shish Interiors is located at 5714 Kennett Pike in Centreville. To learn more, visit www.shishinteriors.com.