For this Germantown designer, more is more
John Mark Sharpe is the owner of John Mark Enterprises. In addition to having a storefront on Poplar Pike in Germantown, his business provides holiday decorations for homes and businesses, and decorates for wedding and events. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
If you’re heading east on Poplar Pike on a Sunday afternoon, and you’re right before Forest Hill Irene Road, you might witness a party.
During this party, a Germantown parking lot is full of people watching a visionary work his magic, creating an elaborate tablescape or, if it’s the right time of year, adorning a Christmas tree.
That visionary’s name is John Mark Sharpe.
Sharpe is a jack of home-and-garden trades and master of them all: He decorates homes, businesses and weddings; he arranges flowers and he sells most of what you need to try these endeavors yourself. People from as far away as New Zealand come to visit his store.
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Nick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has bylines in Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor in chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
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