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Martin's Flowers / Florist
Martin's Flowers has been rooted in the Junction for 110 years, surpassing pretty much every other flower shop in town in terms of longevity and quality. It's unusual in this city...
507 Antiques
507 Antiques is one of those places you've seen a million times but never really looked at. Hiding beside the Don Valley expressway in a huge, clearly labeled building,...
Mjolk
Mjölk, barely open a month, is an interior design store in the Junction. Pronounced mi-yelk and meaning, wait for it...milk, this seemingly odd moniker perfectly befits the aesthetic and...
Bluebird Handmade / Design Accessories
Bluebird Handmade is a veritable cornucopia of handmade goods and craft supplies that opened in The Annex at the beginning of the year. Originally devised as a retail-fronted, workshop-backed operation for...
Coriander Girl
Coriander Girl, a new interior design store in Parkdale, selling furniture, home accessories, cards and locally grown flowers, opened about a month ago. I'd initially thought the store operated as...
Cubeshops / Design Accessories
Cubeshops has finally opened and Toronto is better for it. Let me explain.... There are people who travel the world uncovering cool designs. I am not one of those people. Don't...
Black Pug DMK / Antique Furniture
My aversion to antique stores started early. I can remember being dragged into them by my parents who, while road-tripping across the country, wanted to see if there were any...
Forever Interiors / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
Trash is a subjective kind of thing. There are some people who think a broken, overused table is garbage. ("Some people" being me, a girl that nearly flunked shop class...
GREEN Design Studio / Green
GREEN Design Studio is a family painting company gone big time. They just opened this past summer, and they're already a standout addition to Liberty Village. Co-founder Miranda Cervini told...
Drake Hotel General Store / Design Accessories
Since almost the day Jeff Stober sunk millions into rejuvenating the Drake Hotel, gossip has been following him around as he sought to buy up real estate in the area....
Haveli Home / Asian Furniture
The word Haveli refers to mansions in northern India, with courtyards and lost of fancy frescoes and ornate stonework. They're for rich and powerful Indian people. But step into Haveli Home...
Ma Zone / Design Accessories
First, it's pronounced "May-Zone", not "Mah-Zone". I made that mistake and was quickly corrected by Armin. Armin is the nervously cheerful, charming and absolutely serious owner of this shop. He's the...
Home Atelier / Contemporary Furniture
A first warning: There's not much to see here. Really, the showroom is always in a state of flux and, as they say, it's a "working showroom". At any given...
Roomy Interiors / Contemporary Furniture
We're all living in condos, now. We're each doing the ecologically friendly and politically proper thing by single-handedly densifying the downtown core. "Home" ownership is rising as fast as builders...
Queen West Antique Centre / Vintage Furniture
It's a testament to human ingenuity that old stuff which outlived its obvious usefulness can be creatively recycled and add richness to the world. Truly, it can be said, one...
Hardware / Custom And Re-furbished Furniture
I walked in and immediately thought, wow, did these guys name their business well. Hardware is the perfect one-word summary for their aesthetic. There are no gentle curves in this space,...
Morba / Vintage Furniture
It's a furniture store. No, it's a home design store. No, wait - it's a furniture and home design store on drugs, a lot of different drugs at the same...
Elliott and Ward / Vintage Furniture
It's a museum. It's an art gallery. It's your Grandmother's lounge. No, wait - it's the newest furniture shop on Riverside's Queen East strip. In Riverside, you could almost call this...
Stylegarage / Contemporary Furniture
O.K., so Stylegarage looks like it was once a garage. At 1500 square feet, it's a pretty damned big garage, but you could imagine some sort of car collector parking...
Studio Brillantine / Design Accessories
It doesn't matter where they put this store. It's a drive-to destination. If you want what they have, you'll drive to Wawa to shop here. Alessi, Iittala, George Jenson, and...
MADE / Contemporary Furniture
Since opening up shop in September of 2006, MADE has already secured its position as a staple within Toronto's, as well as Canada's, design community. Slightly disguised by means of...
Kid Icarus / Cards, Paper And Stationery
Nassau is one of my favourite streets in Toronto. In one little block between Bellevue and Augusta there's the original I Deal Coffee, eco-friendlies Heart on Your Sleeve and Left...
Blue Banana Market / Design Accessories
I've often thought that Toronto could use a really good artists market. I'm thinking something like Madrid's Mercado de Fuencarral or the Market NYC in Lower Manhattan. So I was...
Designer Fabrics / Fabrics
Contributed by Jessica Bartram Designer Fabrics is a Parkdale landmark, a mecca for those who make their own clothes or are planning an interior design project. Its massive size and mind-blowing...
Pavillion / Contemporary Furniture
Contributed by Steven Carver Since my mother is overwhelmed with decorating the spare bedroom, I tell her I'll help her find an occasional chair for the room. She agrees....
Ministry of the Interior / Contemporary Furniture
Ministry of the Interior is a funky (but not cheap) furniture and design store on Ossington Avenue between Queen and Dundas. The store stocks items from furniture to wallpaper created...
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- EQ3 WOW! This store is amazing! Can't wait to start furnishing my new condo here! All my friends have EQ3 furniture and its holding up great. All retail chains have horror stories, DON'T...
- EQ3 After 4 weeks waiting for my new sofa it arrived (yeah 4 weeks for a custom sofa!) I am thrilled with it. I paid $799 plus tax delivery ($1004.57)...
- EQ3 I just got my bed from EQ3 and I LOVE IT!!!!! The new collection like the staff is amazing. Easy to assemble the quality is good, prices are good. I will be...
- Alternative Arts I have been a customer of this store since my University days, when I couldn't afford to pay the full price up front, and the owner was generous enough to...
- Alternative Arts I have been a customer of this store since my University days, when I couldn't afford to pay the full price up front, and the owner was generous enough to...
- EQ3 I came to the eq3 website to look at show room pictures, but wow did I get an ear full. I'm shocked to say the least. I want to...
- EQ3 Slow delivery, very slow delivery. Won't buy there next time unless I have really no rush or urgent needs. I was told 6-9 weeks made plans to clean the living room...
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- EQ3 I dont think Jimmy even works for EQ3 anymore, he has never answered any of my emails. We have thousands of dollars worth of this EQ3 crap in our house...
- The Monkey's Uncle The store is closed. =/
- Filter Corinne - I might be interested. In the dining table & chairs anyways, if they fit with my apartment. Do you have photos?
- World Headquarters Forget about blowing hundreds of dollars at Commute Home because World Headquarters is the best shop to find the greatest treasures! I found the most beautiful floor lamp at World...
- EQ3 I purchased a chair for my living room from EQ3 last year. I ordered brushed nickel legs and it came with black plastic legs. I called the store...
- Toose Art Supplies Toose is convenient. Just don't count on the best service. For friendlier waters opt for Gwartzmans or Above Ground.
- EQ3 Last year we bought a Nest bedroom set. We paid about 3500.00 for the whole set. We havw gone through four sets of rails and two dressers, and still they...
- Gwartzman's Art Supplies Prices are good. Quality is often very low. Customer service is often poor. Know what you want when you go there. Don't respond to suggestive selling.
- Phil'z 20th Century Design They have been known to feign 'nice', to get what they want - your money - you've been their next target and just been had. Don't fall for it. Their...
- Fawn Ceramics hand crafted ceramics 'wow' . we like the art ceramics.me and my wife are art ceramic artist. coming your country having interest to work on art ceramics. wana to visit your...
- Clay Design nice trendy enthusiasm art ceramic galley. for your information me my spouse art ceramic artist from fine arts institute of dhaka university,bangladesh. coming your country by may june,2010 through immgration. wana to see...
- Gwartzman's Art Supplies Went there on Sat Fe 27/2010. It was amazing. Mrs. G helped out and the 3 yards by 3 yards unprimed SOOO CHEAP. The student type GESSO to prime it,...
- Alternative Arts Still can't get over how rudely I was treated at this store. One of the worst customer service experiences in my life. And for what?
- Roomy Interiors I am also having the same delivery issue with this particular store. I ordered a piece of furniture at the beginning of December. I paid in full and was told...
- Demarco-Perpich I would have felt less bad about ripping up two $100 bills and flushing them down the toilet then for my husband to have spent it on a boquet of...
- Roomy Interiors We're sort of in a similar situation. We ordered our couch 7 weeks ago but haven't heard a single peep from Roomy until I called them. They now...
- InDesign Furnishings wow!! what a gem! first store i’ve seen in toronto with canadian product! (not the run of the mill china crap that is everywhere else). marvelous designs,...
- Queen West Market Definitely closed ages ago. Thanks for the update Blog TO, much appreciated...
- 507 Antiques Ok, I'm a bit shocked at your review. First, yes, this is an AMAZING place to visit. However... I'm surprised you got a reception upon your visit. When I visit, after...
- Koma Designs Is the rivet kick press still for sale? If so I'm interested. Do you have more images? Stephen
- Cubeshops You don't have to be Japanese to love and share the culture. Just because he may or may not be of asian decent doesn't mean he's exploiting the culture for...
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