“S uccessful thrifting can, at its essence, be boiled down to perseverance, some basic knowledge and pure luck,” says Bridget VanWart, founder of and finder behind Holy Roller Vintage—a furniture and accessories seller that’s online home is Instagram. In just 10 months, she’s taken her obsession with home decor, deal hunting and bringing vintage pieces […]
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Nine vintage-loving accounts to shack up with
Bloomfield Vintage (@bloomfieldvintage) Lesley MacKay calls herself the wicker kween, and if that’s not enough to earn a follow, I don’t know what is. Her curated vintage shop is accessory- (and wicker-) heavy. Relove (@relovehalifax) Born again, salvaged furniture, upcycled finds and straight-up vintage. Shop on its website, creep on its social media. Holy Roller […]
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Neptune Theatre’s giving major props
It’s been seven—maybe 10—years since Neptune Theatre has had a Props and Costumes Sale but this weekend its ready to part ways with some treasures. “It’s a dusty old job but we have to make room. We have a new artistic director with different ideas and different tastes and we have to make him some […]
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Who’s the boss?
Katherine Cherry knows a thing or two about starting over. She’s moved a lot, and the arduous process of packing things, shipping things and leaving things behind has taught her a lot about furnishing a home, and investing in pieces that are worth holding onto. After studying at NSCAD, Cherry moved on to working in […]
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Abode settles in on Almon Street
The new year brought the end of Daun Windover’s source for mid-century modern furniture and accessories boutique, Abode—or so we thought. The 5431 Doyle Street shop closed its doors the face of the soon-to-be construction zone at Spring Garden, Queen and Doyle with no new location to speak of, until now! It turns out Abode […]
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Statement’s moving to Sunnyside Mall
Longtime Agricola Street shopping staple Statement (2606 Agricola Street) is looking on the Sunny side of things. The Sunnyside Mall (1595 Bedford Highway), that is. The furniture store, which has been sharing a space with FRED. food beauty art for about a year, will make the big move on May 31, with the hope of […]
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Abode moves to Doyle Street
Daun Windover works hard to bring you the throwback beauties that deck out her furniture boutique Abode, travelling to auctions across the continent collecting Mad Men-esque mid-century modern gems. The shop, which had been living non-permanently at 1664 Granville Street (the Roy Building) since this fall, has packed up and re-opened at 5431 Doyle Street […]
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KEW oughta know
“It was just kind of happenstance,” says Ray Frizzell of how he and David McQuaid teamed up to create downtown Halifax’s newest furniture store KEW, which opens this Saturday (December 7) at 1861 Granville Street. “We happened to bump into each other and started talking about furniture and products we loved and it just went […]
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Best Second-hand Furniture Store
“We’re just a year older and deeper in debt,” says John Beatty, owner and operator of the popular antiques and furniture store. He’s joking about the debt, we think. “Business is booming,” he confirms, which he says is largely due to the store’s policy of ensuring there’s a change-over in inventory every 90 days through […]
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Best Antiques Store
“We’re just a year older and deeper in debt,” says John Beatty, owner and operator of the popular antiques and furniture store. He’s joking about the debt, we think. “Business is booming,” he confirms, which he says is largely due to the store’s policy of ensuring there’s a change-over in inventory every 90 days through […]
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Best Furniture Store
Attica is the dream of NSCAD grads Suzanne Saul and Christopher Joyce, who have taken their keen eye for design over the years to fill four floors with the best in handmade and manufactured furniture and home accessories. “Business has been good this fall, and our sales are up from last year, so we’re really […]
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They’re back….University students return
We’re all about to get hit. No, not with a hurricane, necessarily—even though we have seen a couple of tropical storms already in August. We’re talking about the storm of the student body, Hurricane Academe. Most businesses in town will be boosted by the sudden increase in the local population, either directly or indirectly. Some […]
