AN AWARD winning interior design and retail business is embarking on an expansion programme after growing sales by five per cent to more than £2.1million.

Harrogate-based Richard Grafton Interiors, which was launched in 2012, has reported consistent growth of revenues from its furnishings and interior design showroom and studio, and is now diversifying into furniture manufacturing.

Director and founder Richard Grafton, a past winner of The Press Business Awards, said: "After three years building our showroom and interiors businesses, we have spent the last 12 months planning the next stage in our development. We are looking to expand outside Harrogate and also to manufacture our own designs of furniture for the first time.

"We are now in the final stages of planning the opening of a second showroom in Yorkshire and we are also in the process of finalising a deal that will see us launch our own range of high quality furniture."

The firm’s joint venture interior architecture company, Grafton Freestone, has also expanded since it relocated last year to a new 1,000 sq ft showroom on the corner of Montpellier Street and The Ginnel, next to Richard Grafton Interiors’ main 4,000 sq ft showroom and offices.

The firm also has a further 2,000 sq ft warehouse showroom which it opened in 2013 at the Beech Avenue Business Park in Harrogate.