Who says you can’t go home again? Cristina Dos Santos has opened a home décor shop at 39 N. Moore, where she lived during the first half of the last decade (she has since moved to the Financial District). “I lived right above here!” she says, laughing and pointing at the ceiling.

Having worked at ABC Carpet & Home for ten years, as a senior buyer and then in product development, and then at Gracious Home, where she led a team of six buyers, Dos Santos says her love of home goods runs deep. Her new store, called Cristina Dos Santos, is a work in progress—at 3,800 square feet, it’s a big space to fill—but she envisions it divided into zones: living room in the front, then dining, bath, and bedroom. Like the former tenant, More North, she’s using many of the walls to show art.

Instead of furniture, she’s focusing on everything else—towels, objets, soaps, decorative pillows, candles (and some smaller furniture such as end tables and stools)—that makes a house a home. Many of the wares make excellent gifts. “The other night, a guy came in who needed a hostess gift for a dinner party,” she says. “He found something beautiful for $25.” Downstairs, she thinks, will be devoted to childrens’ bedding and design.

As sparse as parts of the space currently are, there’s certainly enough merchandise to get a sense of Dos Santos’s style, which tends toward the fresh, even a bit eccentric, and rich with color. “I love color,” she says, even if she acknowledges that she mostly wears black, gray, and brown. “Throw a purple picture frame and a purple throw pillow into a room and it adds a pop.” Plus, she points out, if you get tired of a $60 orange picture frame, then you simply change it—something that’s harder to do with furniture.

Which isn’t to say that colorphobes won’t have reason to visit the store: “I can’t carry everything, but I know where to get it,” she says. A recent customer was bored with his sofa but didn’t want to buy a new one—“so I loaded him up with pillows and throws.” He was looking for black-and-white pillows but Dos Santos didn’t have any, so she found some just-right ones through her contacts.

Sourcing unique pieces is increasingly hard in a world where so many people travel and so much is available online. That’s one reason Dos Santos is developing sheeting under her own name. Like a new mother, she proudly showed off a preliminary design for the label and photos of the women in Italy making the linens, which will be in coolly elegant colors with contrasting stitching. They look like they’ll be gorgeous.

Cristina Dos Santos is at 39 N. Moore (bet. Varick and Hudson; 212-219-8780, cristinadossantos.com.