TRYON – Customers who have stopped by Mimosa Flooring on the state border in the last few weeks will have noticed new owners Sarah Fink and Kevin Webb.

Fink and Webb, along with their daughter Kaya, became owners of the flooring store in the middle of July due to the previous owners, Jack and Linda Campbell, getting older in age and looking towards retirement. The Campbells’ son, Mark, helps Fink and Webb at the store.

“We’ve been working with the Campbells since the middle of July to start switching things over,” Fink explained. “We’re still doing a few logistics with switching accounts over, but pretty much the middle of August we moved in. Both Jack and Linda are in their 70s and had to scale things down and I believe put the business up for sale a few years ago and have been looking for someone to take over.”

Fink said she came in contact with one of her vendors while working in Brevard, N.C. and told her about the opportunity to head the Tryon store.

“We sat down at the table and made an offer,” Fink said. “We’ve always been in the flooring business. I was about 25 years old when I started assisting with tile and porcelain, and I guess it’s been my trade for the longest amount of time. I’ve done tile in California, Florida, Texas and North Carolina.”

From there, Fink said she spent six years with tile and learning how to do hardwood flooring in order to redo flooring for residential homes in Colorado.

“I then had a grandson born here and I decided I was too far away,” Fink said. “So, for the last year we’ve been consulting and managing for Rice Furniture in Brevard and we live in Flat Rock so this is a much closer commute for us. It’s been really great as we’ve been able to come in and seamlessly transfer things over for the community.”

According to Fink, Mimosa Flooring handles flooring contracts for the Polk County Schools system and Fink said she will continue to honor this contract moving forward. In addition, higher end carpeting like nylon and shower builds and backsplashes are items Fink wants to add to the inventory in the future.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to cater to more solid wood installations and they weren’t doing a lot of porcelain tile so being able to incorporate that is what we look forward to,” Fink said.

Webb said he wants to continue the legacy left by the Campbells for the last 20 years with the addition of new things into the mix.

“We’re just hoping to continue the flooring business the way they have had it for the last 20 years, but we’ll try to build on to it by adding things like ceramic, vinyl and things like that,” Webb said.

Bigger projects like an octagon-shaped home in White Oak have been on the list of to-do items for Fink and Webb during their first few weeks working in Tryon.

“It was kind of like a Mickey Mouse house that has ears on it as well, so it was really cool,” Fink said. “That was pretty fun. We did a big tile demo and had to match a tile replacement for a house which was a little tricky, and we’re working on a 1,700 square feet of a wood project due to water damage. It’s been busy.”

Although the new owners are registered as State Line Flooring, LLC, Fink said she and the business were able to register to do business as Mimosa Flooring because it was important to the Campbells to keep the original name.

“They actually adopted that name Mimosa from the owners prior to them. The state line runs through the middle of the building, which is why we’re registered as State Line Flooring, but we can use the Mimosa name,” Fink explained.