Home Interiors & Gifts

Home Interiors & Gifts no longer appears to be active as a direct sales company.

Original Npros business profile for Home Interiors & Gifts, preserved below for archival purposes:

Home Interiors & Gifts was founded in 1957 by Mary C. Crowley and became one of the best-known home-party direct-selling companies in the United States. The Carrollton, Texas-based company sold home décor and decorative accessories, including candles, framed art, mirrors, sconces, shelves, artificial flowers, small furniture, figurines, and related household accents. Its products were marketed through in-home parties and personal-selling relationships rather than traditional retail stores.

Home Interiors operated as a party-plan direct-selling company with a compensation structure built around independent sales representatives, historically known as displayers. Representatives earned commissions on their own sales and could also earn smaller commissions tied to the sales of people they recruited. At its peak, Home Interiors sold through more than 140,000 representatives in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and earlier company-history sources describe annual sales reaching hundreds of millions of dollars.

Home Interiors is no longer active as a standalone U.S. MLM company. In 1994, the company was sold to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst in a leveraged buyout valued at about $1 billion. The business later declined, and Home Interiors & Gifts and related entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 29, 2008. After the bankruptcy, Home Interiors' U.S. business was combined with Home & Garden Party to form Celebrating Home. The original Home Interiors & Gifts estate was liquidated, and Oak Point Partners later acquired remnant assets of the HIG Creditor Trust in October 2014.

Home Interiors' legal/regulatory history includes its 2008 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the Northern District of Texas, Case No. 08-31961. The bankruptcy covered Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc. and related entities, including Dallas Woodcraft Company, House of Lloyd Sales, and Santa Surplus. A plan of liquidation was confirmed, a creditor trust was created, and the remaining estate assets were later sold. No stronger FTC, SEC, state attorney general, or DSSRC enforcement action against Home Interiors & Gifts was identified in the sources reviewed.

Joey Carter, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Mike Lohner, President and Chief Operating Officer

Christi Carter Urschel, Vice Chairman and National Spokesperson

Mary C. Crowley, Founder

Don Carter, Founder