The Trade Lab.
Access to lines you can't source anywhere else in Chicago from Little Greene Paint & Paper, David Hunt Lighting, to Mind the Gap. Confidential professional pricing, client-ready space, Mood Board Drawers, distinctive materials, and one local team to help move your projects from inspiration through order.
More than a discount. A working resource behind your studio
The Trade Lab gives design professionals access to the material libraries, presentation space, and sourcing support of a larger studio, across Heritage Home Supply and Bloom & Co.
See materials together, develop and store project selections, meet with clients, and receive confidential professional pricing with participating makers.
For products purchased through us, our team can assist with samples, specifications, quotes, maker communication, ordering and delivery follow-up. You retain the creative direction, client relationship, and control over your client pricing.
Built for how designers actually work.
Use our sample drawers and worktables to bring paint, wallpaper, fabric, tile, stone, hardware, and finishes together.
Develop a project in the showrooms, reserve a Mood Board Drawer for active selections, meet with a client or invite your client to return and review documented selections when you cannot be here.
Different by design.
Most trade programs stop at a discount. The Trade Lab adds the space, materials and local support that help independent designers and boutique firms work with greater capacity. Use two connected showrooms for inspiration, client presentations, and sourcing. Then rely on one team for samples, specifications, quotes, ordering and vendor follow-up.
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See, touch and compare materials that are difficult to evaluate online—and, in many cases, difficult to source locally.
Our showrooms bring together distinctive makers across paint, wallpaper, textiles, lighting, tile, stone, hardware, plumbing, cabinetry, furniture, upholstery and home accessories.
The collection includes Little Greene Paint & Paper, MINDTHEGAP, David Hunt Lighting, Rubinet, Barber Wilsons & Co., Modern Matter, Buster + Punch and many more.
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Tell us what the project needs, even if you do not see it on the showroom floor.
For products purchased through us, our team can help locate materials, request samples, confirm specifications, prepare quotes, communicate with makers, place orders and track them through delivery.
You remain focused on the design and client. We help manage the vendor side.
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Your clients are welcome to return to Heritage Home Supply to review documented selections, even when you cannot accompany them.
Our team will follow the project direction and selections you have provided while protecting your professional pricing and client relationship.
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Use our team as an extension of your studio when a project requires detailed product knowledge.
We can assist with finish options, product specifications, availability and coordination across cabinetry, stone, tile, lighting, hardware, plumbing, paint, wallpaper and window treatments.
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Reserve a Mood Board Drawer to organize and store active project selections.
Bring together paint, wallpaper, fabric, tile, stone, hardware and other finishes so you and your client can evaluate the complete scheme—not isolated samples.
Our team can also help request project-based samples. Sample availability, fees and timing vary by maker.
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Visit Heritage Home and meet with your clients, with materials available to share.
Or book Bloom & Co. on Mondays and Tuesdays for private client appointments. Use the bungalow to present materials, review finishes, and make decisions in a calm, client-ready environment away from the Merchandise Mart and everyday showroom traffic.
To reserve the space, email hello@bloomand.co or contact our team directly.
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Through Chicago WindowWorks, Trade Lab members have access to custom shades, blinds, drapery and window treatments—from initial specification and measurement through fabrication and installation.
Our team can help coordinate fabrics, trims, hardware, lining, light control and operating systems alongside the other materials in your project.
One team manages the process, so you do not need to coordinate a separate window-treatment vendor.
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Approved members receive confidential professional pricing across participating makers at Heritage Home Supply and Bloom & Co.
Pricing varies by maker, product and customization. Approved members receive access to The Trade Lab Pricing Guide, which includes current trade discounts and typical lead times.
You may establish your own client pricing and markup. Trade pricing is confidential and should not be shared or published.
Start here.
One application. Access to Heritage Home Supply and Bloom & Co. for paint, lighting, hardware, tile, wallcovering, textiles, furniture, and objects. Same ownership, same block. We review every application personally and follow up within two to three business days. Come in before you hear back if you'd like, just mention you applied.