After 10 years, a family-owned furniture and design store at Mayfaire Town Center is moving on.

Luxe Home Interiors is holding a moving sale before its lease at 6859 Monument Drive in the center ends in February, preparing to relocate the Wilmington store to the Brunswick County store that Lynn Leake's family opened two years ago at the Waterford planned community in Leland.

Brunswick County's growth is one of the reasons for the move, Lynn Leake said Thursday.

Because of that growth, she said, "there are hundreds of people moving here every month, and they come with nothing because they’ve left their dark, heavy textures in New York and Connecticut and New Jersey and Ohio ... When they get here, they're ready for a lighter, brighter look and that’s what we offer."

In addition to selling furniture, the store offers home accessories and design services. Leak said Luxe has four designers, including herself and lead designer Julie Bray. 

"We work with people all with way through the whole process from the day they get here," Leake said.

She said a lot of the store's customers are coming from Brunswick Forest and Compass Pointe in the Leland area, and farther south from St. James near Southport. She said that lately, Brunswick Forest in particular "is a beehive of activity. There's lots of entertaining, lots of social gatherings at everybody's houses."

Luxe has leased additional space, doubling in size from about 2,000 square feet to more than 4,000, at its Waterford location, 270 Old Regent Way in Leland next to a Harris Teeter grocery store.

Another reason for the change, Leake said: "I learned that I can't do two stores. It was too much, and so we decided to focus on the place where the people really are in need of help."