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Above Ground Art Supplies (Junction) / Art Supplies
Above Ground Art Supplies in the Junction is the second location of of the original art supply store on McCaul Street near OCAD. While the first Above Ground planted its...
CB2 Toronto / Contemporary Furniture
CB2 opened its first Canadian store this week in the frame of what was once the Big Bop on Queen West. There are hints here and there of the place that...
Tosho Knife Arts / Kitchen & Bathroom
Tosho Knife Arts is probably one of the worst places to visit in Toronto with a clumsy coworker or toddler in tow. That's because the Mirvish Village latest addition proudly...
ARTiculations / Art Supplies
ARTiculations is an art supply store that's more than an art supply store. It has its own semi-enclosed gallery space, a back room studio, and a roster full of workshops...
Hanji Handmade Paper and Gifts / Cards, Paper And Stationery
Hanji Handmade Paper and Gifts is a petite little shop straddling Koreatown and the Annex. Inside, there are soft touches of olive green on the walls, juxtaposed by colours, shapes,...
Arts Market / Local Artisans
Arts Market is Toronto's first year-round artisan market, if you can believe it. And admittedly, I couldn't. I had to pause to think about it, but indeed, there are only...
Haveli Home (the Junction) / Asian Furniture
Haveli Home is making a slow move from Liberty Village to the Junction. While the original location on East Liberty Street still remains open (for now), the new (and soon...
Scout / Design Accessories
Scout is a quaint little Roncesvalles gift boutique specializing in local and handmade goods. For some reason, the plum purple ceiling seems to tell me all I need to know...
Suite 22 / Contemporary Furniture
Suite 22 is a Markham design shop offering modern Italian furniture and decor. Exclusively. While the trend in furniture shops nowadays seems to be offering a bit from here and...
Green Light District Design / Contemporary Furniture
Green Light District Design is an import from Ottawa showcasing contemporary furniture from across the globe. While the recently opened Roncesvalles floor looks like the living room of a seasoned...
Julien Armand / Contemporary Furniture
Julien Armand has a truly outstanding collection of chairs. Lucky for you, high-end furniture-buyer, they're displayed dramatically up the height of the showroom's walls. Just look up; no shuffling required....
Door Store / Vintage Furniture
The Door Store, despite its name, is not simply a warehouse of reclaimed doors. Granted, much of its inventory, especially that which is concentrated by the entrance of its Castlefield...
Miracle Thieves / Design Accessories
Miracle Thieves is a new creative space and retail consignment shop at the corner of Dundas and Crawford. It's rather ambiguous-looking from the outside peeking in, but that's kind of...
Canadian Salvaged Timber / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
Canadian Salvaged Timber is a haven for lumber lovers. As both a design shop and reclaimed wood wholesaler, CST serves a whole range of clients including homeowners, restaurateurs, interior designers...
Fiber Living / Outdoor And Garden
Fiber Living is a new downtown boutique offering casual and sleek indoor and outdoor furniture. The 3,000-square-foot space on Berkeley Street was once home to an auto-body repair shop and...
Elte (Second Floor) / Contemporary Furniture
Elte has a new second floor showroom that's a little more modern, a little more hip, and a little less expensive than its main floor retail. Elte is known for...
The Arthur / Vintage Furniture
The Arthur is a vintage decor shop stocking unique pieces tagged with individual histories. Liz Ikiriko, owner of the new store on College at Euclid, tells me the shop was...
Blackbird Vintage Finds / Vintage Furniture
Blackbird Vintage Finds in the Distillery District is owner Paula DiRenzo's second take on vintage décor. She decided to close up her previous store, Fleur de Terre, which was on...
BYOB / Kitchen & Bathroom
BYOB is just like your favourite kitchen knick-knack store, but instead of your countertop, everything here is for your bar. That makes BYOB a dangerous place for someone such as...
BoConcept Toronto / Contemporary Furniture
BoConcept has arrived in Toronto, bringing with it its contemporary line of functional furniture. At Adelaide and Jarvis, the Denmark-based furniture chain, has more than 340 sales units worldwide, and...
Domison Toronto / Contemporary Furniture
Domison Furniture Boutique has opened a showroom in Toronto - branching out from its flagship store in Montreal. The furniture strikes me as part comfy/classic, part modern, and part retro....
Love the Design / Vintage Furniture
Love The Design, the new Leslieville shop opened by artist and designer Christine Flynn, combines Flynn's signature stationary and photography art with 1920's finds and chic industrial vintage furniture. "Everything in...
Sweetpea's / Florist
Sweetpea's has brought eco-friendly, contemporary floral design to Roncesvalles. Finally. "There really wasn't anything like this before," owner Sara Jameson tells me, leaning over the counter. Jameson has lived in...
Magic Pony / Design Accessories
Magic Pony has moved down the street, but co-owner Kristin Weckworth assures me it's the same Magic Pony that has brought funky toys, original prints, books and other art to...
RE:Style Studio / Fabrics
RE:Style Studio is the answer to that hideous inherited floral loveseat that just refuses to cooperate with a tidy modern decor aesthetic. It's an anti-IKEA. It's a hub of DIY...
Cabinet Furniture / Contemporary Furniture
Cabinet Furniture in the Distillery District feels just like a timeless cottage retreat. As I enter the showroom off the main square, all I can see is wood--everywhere. Cabinet Furniture...
Home Craft Decor / Contemporary Furniture
Home Craft Decor, having moved one door east into the former space of macFAB fabrics at Queen and Bathurst is a fun, mishmash of furniture and design styles, certain to...
Klaus by Nienkamper / Contemporary Furniture
Klaus by Nienkamper, on the east end of the design corridor along King East, is a chic, sophisticated showroom of modern furniture and hip design elements. The store feels like...
Chief Salvage Co. / Vintage Furniture
The Chief Salvage Co. has appropriately opened in one half of the storefront that housed the Dufferin Smoke Shop, a business that, even when it was still open, seemed like...
Kiosk (King East) / Contemporary Furniture
Kiosk has opened its latest store in Toronto, this one near King and Berkeley just a stones throw from Klaus. The new showroom is essentially a multi-level museum of avant-garde...
Calligaris / Contemporary Furniture
Calligaris has recently opened a location in Toronto. Found on King East, it's a bright but tight showroom stocked with their signature chic Italian furniture and design. Most items are...
Shelter Furniture / Contemporary Furniture
Shelter Furniture is a new store in the Eglinton-Lawrence area that's sure to find itself in good company amongst the many design, kitchen, bathroom and home re-modeling stores around Caledonia...
HorseFeathers Home / Contemporary Furniture
HorseFeathers Home has recently relocated from its liquidated warehouse-sized store in the Castlefield Design District to the former Artcore space in the Distillery District. The new collection is a much...
Kendall & Co. / Design Accessories
Kendall & Co. is an interesting urban hybrid. It's probably best described as a work/shop. On one side of the long space is a fine gallery of well-chosen, surprisingly...
Russet and Empire / Design Accessories
Russet and Empire, in the Junction, just north of Dundas West, is a great stop for anyone looking for some unique vintage pieces or fun, locally-made gifts. The new store...
Pixel Print / Cards, Paper And Stationery
Pixel Print is a new, local graphic design and print shop that can be found on Dundas West between Ossington and Dufferin. Inside, the hybrid shop happily offers a range...
Distill / Design Accessories
Distill is a store specializing in Canadian designed goods. It's a near perfect mix of crafts, jewelry, and clothing, all made in Canada. I feel the need to begin with...
Design Republic / Contemporary Furniture
Design Republic is a new furniture shop that opened in the Burroughes Building on Queen West. This welcome addition to the strip sells a wide mix of stools, chairs, sofas,...
OneTwenty Modern / Contemporary Furniture
OneTwenty Modern is a high-end furniture and design store on Lower Ossington. The smallish space is a fun journey into the world of eclectic decor, designer collections and fascinating pieces...
Avenue Road / Contemporary Furniture
Avenue Road is a palatial furniture and home decor store located, oddly enough, on Eastern Avenue. I don't use the word palatial lightly. And, forgive the superlatives in this post,...
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- Cabinet Furniture Dufferin and Hwy 7 , custom cabinet shop. In house designs and free consults.
- Jacaranda Tree Very charming store! Every time I go, I always catch my eye on something. Instantly when you walk, you feel welcomed by the warm and friendly staff.
- Bloor Village Flowers Good Blog i m feeling smell like flower
- Nella I would never recommend Nella Cucina. I received a gift of a class for my fiance and me and when I discovered close to 35 hours prior to the class...
- The Paper Place Yah, the shorter white guy is not friendly at all. I slipped up in describing a 'half' sheet as being smaller than the 'quarter' sheet and he was quite condesending....
- Jacaranda Tree I walk by here all the time and finally went in the other day. So glad I did...and so is my roommate whose birthday present I picked up! Such a...
- Kimberley Jackson I love the look, How can you not... You can have the pieces look country chic, urban cottage, rustic, real rustic.. I love the idea the pieces are made from...
- Jacaranda Tree Grew up going to this store. Every Christmas my Dad and I would search for something special for my Mum and would always find something. But what kept us as...
- Coriander Girl You're completely correct with this blog..
- Woolfitt's Art Supplies Looking for molds and plaster, is this something that the store sells? If so is it very expensive?
- Jacaranda Tree you have to go here! a little gem in Toronto. I have an obsession with pretty things, and this store is FULL of them! Jacaranda Tree is the perfect place...
- The Queen West Antique Centre I’m a long time watcher and I just believed I’d drop by and say hello there for your very first time.
- Alternative Arts This is a set of words, not an essay. you are incompetent
- Twice Found Lately, I didn’t give lots of consideration to leaving feedback on blog page posts and have placed comments even much less.
- Ministry of the Interior My spouse and I stumbled over here different website and thought I should check things out.
- Homefront I have a few question to you, write to those I do not e-mail
- Jacaranda Tree Your One Stop Shop for Stunning - This store has everything you need such vintage china and furniture, chandeliers, bedding, table linen, one of a kind items that can be...
- Jacaranda Tree My favourite spot in TO to pick out gifts for my girlfriends and treat myself! The staff go above and beyond to make you feel welcome and fing exactly what...
- Jacaranda Tree Wow! If you are looking for something special, unique and fun this is the place to go. You can find anything for anyone in here that will make them smile...
- Jacaranda Tree Great spot. Found some amazing Christmas gifts.
- Jacaranda Tree Amazing store. Great place for gifts! Friendly and very helpful staff!
- Jacaranda Tree I love love love love this store!!!! You can always find that perfect gem, the ladies are so helpful and I always seem to run into a girlfriend while shopping...
- Good Egg I love this store. It is a wonderful way to spend an hour in Kensington Market. They bring in food books from the UK that no one else carries, and...
- Above Ground Art Supplies (Junction) The store IS relatively small, but when I wanted a couple of tubes of Rembrandt oil paint, which this store doesn't carry, they were sent over from McCaul in just...
- Above Ground Art Supplies (Junction) Good selection of art supplies, but I did get mildly claustrophobic with the tiny ailles.
- East West Futons If your experience was not good, I respect that. At the same time, don't denigrate the comments of people who have had good experiences. My experience with them...
- East West Futons I have had nothing but good experiences at this shop. I moved back to Canada and into my own place and needed to furnish my apt so I went...
- Forever Interiors TOTALLY agree with Mas, this guy may be a master carpenter but is also a master of communication disorders and as such the worst salesman of the products that he...
- Arts Market wow - wish we had something like this here - glad there are people like you out there (another artist) who knows the difficulties involved - I just recently opened...
- CB2 Toronto Be happy that US chains are coming here to Toronto and giving people work. stop being negative and embrace change .
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