A local store in Montana isn’t just a place you buy things. It’s a place that understands things. The people. The winters. The distance between towns. The scale of homes. The way communities gather. The way families live.

Unique Lighting & Home Decor in Butte, MT is that kind of local store. And the person behind it is Kellie Gribben; raised here, living here, and building her business here for nearly two decades.

Butte-Raised Means More Than You Think

Kellie and her husband Shawn didn’t choose Butte as a market. They grew up with it as their home. To this day their kids and grandkids move through the city like everyone else. Local Life. Real Places. No Rehearsal.

The Gribben family doesn’t just support local. They participate in local:

• Spring Saturdays often start at the Butte Farmer’s Market, browsing handmade leather, local honey, copper-crafted goods, and homegrown produce.
• In March, they’re uptown for St. Patrick’s Day, green decor everywhere, and green beer in hand like half the town. They celebrate loud because Butte always has.
• Summer weekends pull them to river floats — the Madison, Big Hole, and Jefferson rivers — where coolers bump, water splashes, and the sun refuses to set early. They’ve perfected the art of the lazy float and laughter on the water.
• July evenings mean backyard fireworks at Shawn and Kellie’s house, homemade snacks on the counter, grandkids running in the grass with sparklers, and the community fireworks blooming above the M on the East Ridge, the place everyone in Butte looks when the sky gets loud.
• Fall is neighborhood sidewalks and sugar runs. The grandkids carry cool costume buckets now (unlike the pillow cases the kids uses), filled with candy from friendly neighbors. Porch lights glow, dogs bark, kids sprint, and candy trades like currency.
• Winter returns them to Uptown Butte for the Christmas Stroll, where every store window glow warm and small businesses shine alongside each other.

Montana lighting makes sense to Kellie because Montana life makes sense to Kellie.

The Local Businesses That Fill Their Calendar

The Gribbens don’t just run a local store. They support them, too. These are some of their favorites, part of the regular loop of life in Butte:

• Steele’s Furniture
• Stix and Stonz Carpet
• The Meat Block
• Florence Coffee
• Real Deals
• Casagranda’s Steakhouse
• Sparky’s Garage
• The Rib & Chop House
• The Pekin Noodle Parlor
• 5518 Designs
• Butte Floral
• Butte Copper Company
• Twisted Sisters
• Shepard’s Candy
• and more…

They tune into KOPR 94.1, wander the local town. Every stop is intentional. None repeated. All part of the community that keeps dollars and identity circulating through town.

The Gribben Grandkids: Butte Activities, Big Personalities

Their grandkids are part of Butte’s everyday rhythm. Their activities aren’t marketing copy, they’re real-life community touchpoints that show how rooted this family truly is:

⚾ Little League Baseball

Spring and summer evenings are spent on local ball fields. It’s dusty cleats in the truck, concessions shared in bleachers, early game mornings, mid-day rain delays, championship brackets taped to the fridge, and whole families cheering for a 9-year-old rounding third like it’s the World Series.

🏈 Mining City Little Guy Football

Fall weekends start early and end loud. Helmets clang, shoulder pads are oversized, and Butte bleachers fill with hometown pride. It’s not just a sport, it’s community: pancake breakfasts before games, equipment bags stuffed with hand warmers, post-game fries as reward, and coaches shaping kids one practice at a time.

💃 Dynamic Dance & Tumbling Academy

Weeknights include hair buns, rehearsals, tumbling mats, and glitter. Dance recitals bring bouquets grabbed last minute from Butte Floral, family photos snapped too fast, applause echoing through community halls, and the kind of small-town pride that fills a room when you see someone’s kid perform.

🎹 Piano Lessons

Lessons happen with a local teacher, one song at a time. Practice happens at home between homework and games, the keys becoming the quieter rhythm in a schedule usually anything but quiet. It’s half-learned songs turning into inside jokes, family gatherings ending in impromptu performances, and progress measured in confidence, not perfection.

These kids are raised by Butte calendars, Butte teachers, Butte teams, and Butte applause. This family is Butte Raised, Butte Supported, and Butte Proud.