Gold Winner Black Market Boutique Silver Winner Kept Gifts & Housewares Bronze Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Long-time manager turned co-owner Lauren Parsons has worked for Black Market Boutique since 2002. Parsons, along with colleague Wiebke Kungl, has been in the process of taking over ownership for the last five years. In that time, it’s […]
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Kept Gifts & Housewares Silver Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Bronze Winner Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio Dartmouth’s Kept has a little bit of everything, but its housewares really enamoured BOH voters this year. “In the face of online shopping and big-box retail, we strive to uphold the forgotten art of […]
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Kept Silver Winner Black Market Boutique Bronze Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Kept is all about “pride of place,” says owner Charlotte Jewer. Both she and her husband have lived in Ontario temporarily and missed the seaside deeply while away. When they moved back to Halifax, the two considered the question “How can […]
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Give it away now: 10 gift ideas for everyone on your list
For the co-worker who’s always stealing your favourite mug JAW Pottery mug, $38 The Trainyard General Store, 53 Portland Street Sattva Boutique, 2453 Agricola Street For the homesick ex-pat JAMPY baltic birch ornament, $12.50 ($45 for set of 5 designs) jampy.co For the analog lover Keephouse Calendar Tea Towel, $28 Made in the Maritimes, 5527 […]
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Bronze Winner Kept The relationship between home decor and furniture is the same as between clothing and accessories. “It’s like when you add jewellery to an outfit,” says Attica Furnishings co-founder Suzanne Saul. “Pillows, lamps, rugs—they really make a space shine.” Winning gold in Best […]
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Best Home Decor
Gold Winner Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Kept Bronze Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. “We started our store because Chris makes furniture,” Attica co-owner/co-founder Suzanne Saul says of her partner, Christopher Joyce. That was 20-odd years ago, and since then Attica has grown from a one-room furniture workshop and showroom (see also Best Furniture store) to […]