In Business of Home ’s series Shop Talk , we chat with owners of home furnishings stores across the country to hear about their hard-won lessons and challenges, big and small. This week, we spoke with Shane Brown, who owns four home stores in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties.

Brown has been buying and selling antiques for more than 30 years, opening retail locations across the U.S. “Wherever I feel like opening a store, I do it,” he tells BOH . “If it does well, I stick with it. If it’s just OK, then I move on.” But Southern California seems to be his sweet spot: Big Daddy’s Antiques operates from Culver City, and in the last five years he has opened three locations of his indoor-outdoor home and garden store, The Well , in Summerland, Montecito and Santa Barbara. Ahead, B

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