Home-furnishings retailers CB2 and Trohv open in D.C.

It’s been a long, lean period for local home-furnishings shops, with recession-related closures all around town. But two new shops have finally opened.

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Georgetown's newest home furnishing store, CB2, markets itself as a younger, hipper and more affordable sibling of Crate & Barrel.

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