New Buffalo has a new hot spot — a bedding store.

Basically Bedrooms: The Sleep Store around the Shore carries everything needed to make the bedroom the most comfortable room in the house — from linens, lighting and beds to sleepwear and jewelry.

“It’s a one-stop shop for the room that’s always the last to get done,” said interior designer and storeowner Lani Myron.

Myron says the bedroom gets short shrift in the decorating process.

“People spend all their money on their living rooms and dining rooms and family rooms and kitchens,” she said.  “Then, all of a sudden, there’s no money left for the bedroom.  Your bedroom should be your refuge.  I wanted to find a way people could do it without making it a big deal.”

The store is set up with four bedroom settings, complete with nightstands, lamps, bed covers and art, so folks can get the feel of the design.

“It’s not just a bed next to a bed, next to another bed,” Myron said.  “It’s easier for people to picture it in their own house.”

Having been a “cottager” for many years, Myron knows how difficult it is to outfit vacation homes.  Shipping is troublesome with no one home to receive packages, local bedding stores are scarce, and carting it to and from a second home gets wearisome.  Custom order is another option, but can be expensive and complicated, often with long wait times.

“I wanted to make it easy,” she said.  “I wanted a place where someone could walk in the door and say, ‘I like that,’ and buy it and leave.  You don’t have to wait 14 weeks, and you don’t have to put it together in little swatches.”

Where she can, Myron uses local sources.  Many of the down products she carries come through a Grand Rapids company, with the down itself coming from Indiana farms.  She also features art from Coloma artist Randall Higdon.

Basically Bedrooms is the culmination of a back-burner dream, something Myron thought about but didn’t act upon until a series of events made her take it more seriously.

First, she and her husband, Tom, moved from Chicago and made their second home their primary residence.  The four-hour commute to Chicago, where she had a design clientele, quickly got old.  She didn’t want to retire.  The long dreary winter didn’t help.  And then one day, she noticed the “For Sale” sign on a building she had long admired.  She made a call and bought it outright.  The dream became actuality.

“It was a dream, but it fell into place at the right time,” Myron said.  “Finding the building really gelled it.”

Myron has been an Allied member of ASID for 40 years and offers design services.

Basically Bedrooms is located at 211 South Whittaker St., in New Buffalo.  The store will be open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by appointment, through the month of January.  Hours will be by appointment only in February.  Spring and summer hours have yet to be determined, but will be available by calling (269) 231-5090, and on the website, basicallybedrooms.com.