Home products store now open downtown

Sun People Bed & Bath Co., a locally-owned and operated retail store focused on organic and natural products for the home, has opened at 19 W. Main inside the Saranac Commons building, says owner Juliet Sinisterra. 

The Sun People shop features organic bedding and mattresses, soaps and candles as well as regionally-made beauty and bath products. The store also offers nontoxic cleaning products made for the home. 

Sinisterra says she hopes the store will become a place people in Spokane go for advice from sleep experts. She has two employees working in the store. She previously operated a similar retail shop that was located in the former Spokane Public Market, which occupied an old brick warehouse at Second Avenue and Browne Street. That store, which opened in 2011, was closed in January 2014 because Sinisterra says her lease was up and she chose not to renew it. 

Besides being a retail store owner, Sinisterra is the project manager for the Spokane Parks Department’s Riverfront Park renovation in downtown Spokane. 

The new store is the fifth business to open at Saranac Commons and took the last available space there. Other businesses located there are Mediterrano Restaurant, Caffe Affogato, Common Crumb Bakery and Black Label Brewery. 

The layout at the Commons is open, with common seating areas and an open woodwork ceiling. Sun People Bed & Bath is centered roughly in the middle of the building in about 850 square feet of space, which includes an office and storage space. 

Sun People will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

—Judith Spitzer

Cosmetics business opens in Liberty Lake

Sarah Hamilton is a registered nurse who once worked in the neonatal intensive care unit at Sacred Heart Medical Center. After leaving nursing, she turned her attention to cosmetics, and now, after more than a decade, Hamilton has opened her own facility.

Sarah Hamilton Face launched last month at 23403 E. Mission in Liberty Lake. Her medical spa and boutique specializes in treatments such as Botox, Juvederm, and Restylane. The boutique also offers medical grade skin care products, Hamilton says.

She says the demographics of her customers have been changing in recent years. 

“We’re not talking about housewives with a lot of discretionary income,” Hamilton says. “Ten percent of my patients are men, and most of the women are business professionals.”

She adds, “They are in professions that require them to do a lot of thinking, and with that, the natural tendency is to ruffle the brow, which causes lines in the face over a period of time.”

Hamilton says that injections and skin-care products have become a more popular alternative to cosmetic surgery due to their lower cost.

Sarah Hamilton Face is working in collaboration with cosmetic surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Stiller, of Moscow, Idaho. Hamilton offers pre- and post-surgery treatment for Stiller’s patients. Hamilton says demand for facial services is the highest she’s seen since entering the field.

“It offers me a different level of satisfaction,” she says. “It’s rewarding to have patients who leave feeling good about themselves and their appearance.”

 

—Kevin Blocker

Kiss & Makeup opens on West Riverside

Esthetician Alexa Jourdan has opened a makeup artistry and full-service beauty salon called Kiss & Makeup at 227 W. Riverside in downtown Spokane, offering “big city spa treatments,” Jourdan says. 

In addition to her, Jourdan currently employs six part-time stylists at the spa. 

The spa treatments at the 1,400-square-foot salon include airbrush makeup applications, eyelash extensions, and waxing treatments, among others. Kiss & Makeup also features several types of facials and airbrush, or spray-on, tanning.

Jourdan says she offers group party packages and bridal packages, including a honeymoon package that features a Brazilian wax and eyebrow wax for $55, and a pamper package for the bride that includes an eyebrow wax, facial, and back treatment. 

The store carries skin-care products that are mineral based, hypoallergenic, and provide full coverage makeup, she says.

It’s open by appointment, although she works there most days.

A Spokane native, Jourdan received her esthetician license at the Portland School of Beauty, where she says she challenged herself to learn the most modern techniques for makeup application and skin-care treatments. 

Jourdan says she provides styling and makeup for photo shoots for Apple Brides, a local wedding planning company.

 

—Judith Spitzer

Duo to open pub in Garland District

Barry Anderson and Byron Christiansen plan to open a pub named filt in the Garland District.

Filt will occupy 850 square feet of space at 911 W. Garland, Anderson says. The opening date for filt is contingent upon approval of a state license, he says.

“We hope to be open within a couple of weeks,” Anderson says.

The bar will have 20 seats and will double as a gallery with Anderson’s artwork on display, he says.

Filt will carry 12 craft beers, and also will fill growlers, Anderson says.

“We like the water and beer here in Spokane,” he says. “We’re shooting for getting local (brews) and possibly some from Oregon. They’ll all be from the Northwest.”

As of yet, filt has no other employees, but Anderson and Christiansen likely will hire a daytime employee because both owners have day jobs. Anderson says he works for an equipment rental company, and Christiansen works for a bank.

 

—Mike McLean