Whether you’re renting, starting out with your first home or a seasoned design pro, West Queen West offers some of the city's most gorgeous and quirky home décor destinations. These neighbourhood shops provide solutions for every personal taste or decorating motif.
This is the perfect place to shop when you’re tired of the selection at the big box stores and ready to break away from the pack. The prices are budget-friendly, the goods top-quality and pieces range in style from timeless to ultra-trendy. Whether you’re looking for something as basic as a living room chair or as large as a full bedroom suite, you’ll find it here.
If the name sounds familiar it’s because the wares from this West Queen West shop have appeared on a variety of HGTV shows. Their favoured status with celebrity decorators is just one of the signs that you’ll be getting awesome stuff for your home; the friendly and unobtrusive service is another. The shop provides plenty of options for interior décor and also acknowledges Toronto’s condo boom with smaller pieces that still look great and last a long time.
If you have even the slightest interest in upgrading your light fixtures, this should be the first, second and third stop on your trip. The inside is packed with fixtures and coverings to suit every style and size, from cute little dragonfly fixtures to enormous metal chandeliers. As a bonus, you can also find chairs, bar stools, sofas, desk coverings and accessories. Your challenge will be choosing among the premium foreign imports from the locally-made goods.
Although you want to keep a unifying theme throughout your home, it’s neither possible nor desirable to decorate your bathroom, kitchen and bedroom identically. Recognizing that, Neat has categorized products and accessories by room type to make shopping easier. They also have mini displays set up so you can see combinations of pieces together to provide inspiration if you’re short on ideas. Best of all are the gadgets and gizmos you can get for pocket change.
When you have kids, the trick in decorating your home is to appeal to their playful nature and still find pieces that are sophisticated and well-themed. It’s also important to pick out décor items that can be relevant for a number of years, and this shop focuses on timelessness instead of trendiness. There’s everything you could possibly imagine for kids, toddlers, children and even pre-teens, with cool items including the Eames wall multi-hanger and the Adler Capri Torchiere lamp.