Forsyth County resident Jo Carr is trying to blend bohemian and rustic styles, and so far, the public is responding.

Carr opened The Gypsy’s Farmhouse, located at 598 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, on Friday, March 1, and said the store has gotten a good response from the community for selling products from local vendors.

“I am so honored,” Carr said. “This is just the greatest thing to be a part of all of these talented people, to be the person that has brought everybody together. I love it. It’s such a great feeling, and I feel like Cumming and Forsyth County needs more of this.”

While Carr has a background in selling furniture, the store carries a range of products including antiques, pottery, soaps, candles, printing, signs, woodcuts and more from about 24 local artists and crafters who rent space at the store.

“We’ve got old. We’ve got new,” Carr said. “It’s just a fantastic mix of all kinds of stuff.”

The store’s unique name fits both the antique furniture and colorful artwork available for sale and comes from differing styles of the two youngest of Carr’s six children and explains what she is trying to make the space into.

“The youngest has a very bohemian, colorful feel in her apartment,” Starr said, “and then my next daughter is very Pottery Barn, kind of minimalist. Everything is very clean. But I love both. When I’m in each of their apartments, I’m in heaven because they’re so beautiful.”

Carr said the store has gotten a swift response since it’s opening, which she said was preceded by a hectic few weeks of getting the store ready.

“It was like the first week of February, and I was like, ‘I’m just going to try to be open by March 1, that was my goal,” she said. “And I think we did it. I think we pulled it off pretty decently.”

She credited some of the response to a popular Facebook group she manages.

In 2013, she started the group “Forsyth County Used Furniture Online,” which has grown to more than 25,000 subscribers.

“I buy pieces and will just tighten the legs, sand them down, stain them or paint them, and that’s why I started the page, to sell my stuff,” Carr said. “I would have never guessed it would grow to be so large. Over 25,000 members is a lot.”

Along with Facebook, being on heavily-traveled Veterans Memorial Boulevard has also played a role.

“I’ve been asking people, where did you hear about us? How did you know that we were here,’ and it’s either Facebook or ‘We just saw all their activity the last few of weeks and were dying to know what was going in,” Carr said.

Though the store is still pretty new, Carr said she hopes it becomes a fixture in the community.

“I think everybody is in this for the long haul,” she said. “I think we’re all going to be pretty successful, and I think we’re going to stay a little village for a long time. I really do. It’s just a nice fit with everybody in here.”