Gold Winner Finer Things Antiques and Curios Silver Winner Urban Cottage Antiques & Collectibles Bronze Winner Plan B Merchants’ Co-op With its incredible collection of furnishings and doodads, Finer Things has spent more than a decade helping Haligonians turn good spaces into great ones. But this year, when its Agricola Street lease wasn’t renewed, the […]
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Best Antiques Store
Gold Winner Finer Things Antiques Silver Winner Urban Cottage Antiques & Collectives Bronze Winner Plan B Merchants Co-op “There’s really nothing in here anybody needs,” says Jack Craft of Finer Things. Go someplace else for your light bulbs and garbage bags—this is the destination for 1960s industrial light fixtures or a giant clown-head trashcan cover. […]
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Best Antiques Store
Gold Winner Finer Things Antiques Silver Winner Urban Cottage Antiques & Collectables Bronze Winner Plan B Merchants’ Co-op It’s maybe fitting Halifax seems to like what’s tried and true when out antiquing. Finer Things Antiques and Curios once again tops the list for your Best Antique Store. In fact, the entire podium is a repeat […]
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Best Antiques Store
Gold Winner Finer Things Antiques Silver Winner Urban Cottage Antiques and Collectibles Bronze Winner Plan B Merchants Co-op Once again, Finer Things has been selected by our readers as the place to go for antiques and other artifacts from a bygone age. Run by co-owners Jack Craft and Julianne MacDonald—Jack is the buyer and Julianne […]
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Best Antiques Store
Gold Winner Finer Things Antiques Silver Winner Urban Cottage Antiques and Collectibles Bronze Winner The Monkey’s Paw Curio Shop Finer Things Antiques, one the gems of the north end, is a haven for lost and forgotten trinkets, knickknacks and curios of all kinds. From retro Danish chairs to *objets d’art* to furniture from the 1700s […]
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Greeting cards at the holidays
Dearest Coast readers, both holiday junkies and haters: In case you didn’t know, holiday greeting cards are still a thing. Despite our tendency to lean away from paper by sending mass emails, ecards, Facebook shoutouts and holly, jolly hashtags, the corporate card biz is still doing OK. The roots of handmade messages of good cheer […]
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Gift ideas: For the Halifax hipster
1 Margeurite Necklace From Cheryl Doucette’s Kokopelligirl Etsy site, this necklace with glass flowers on a silver chain is just one of the many handmade creations available. $19 USD on the Kokopelligirl Etsy site, etsy.com/shop/kokopelligirl 2 Clutch Culture Zippered Pouch A rad local line with rad local accessories, consider this army green- and black-printed pouch, […]
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Best Antiques Store
Gold Winner Finer Things Antiques Silver Winner Urban Cottage Antiques and Collectables Bronze Winner The Monkey’s Paw It’s been seven years since Jack Craft and Julianne McDonald opened this north end treasure chest, but miraculously this is their first BOH victory. Craft says lately nostalgia is what it’s all about, bringing antique hunters in for […]
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Best Second-hand Furniture Store
Gold Winner Urban Cottage Antiques & Collectibles Silver Winner Finer Things Antiques Bronze Winner Wyze Buys “A new surprise every time,” raves one reader about the long-standing Second-hand Furniture Store winner down on Granville. The store is like a giant treasure chest, and anything but stuffy, with towering ceilings giving the impression you’re strolling through […]
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Go Local: Agricola
Halifax’s coolest strip is a thriving mix of independent shops and boutiques (the only chains are bands and the province’s booze store), making Agricola the unofficial Main Street of the local Shop Local movement. Finer Things Antiques 2797 Agricola Street, 456-1412 Proprietor Jack Craft “urges you to peruse your attic, basement, outbuildings cubby holes and […]
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Best Antiques Store
The popular antiques destination at the corner of Granville and Duke once again takes the prize, offering a broad range of items, from furniture to fixtures to hidden treasures. But if you haven’t been there, don’t imagine it as some kind of dark cave. This is a large store with high ceilings, plenty of light […]
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Best Second-hand Furniture Store
The popular antiques destination at the corner of Granville and Duke once again takes the prize, offering a broad range of items, from furniture to fixtures to hidden treasures. But if you haven’t been there, don’t imagine it as some kind of dark cave. This is a large store with high ceilings, plenty of light […]