Decorating & Design
Shops We Love: Hoxton Home Is A Nordic-style Boutique In Nanaimo, B.C.
Updated on January 8, 2024
When Sara Edge and Daniel Martin relocated to Nanaimo, B.C., from Vancouver, the couple was craving a change of pace. “Moving to the island allowed us to spend more time with family, get a dog and focus on creating a future, rather than surviving in the city,” says Daniel. In April 2022, they opened Hoxton Home, a boutique in the heart of Nanaimo’s Old City Quarter, an area full of charm that’s home to dozens of independent businesses. Decorated in a minimalist, Nordic style, the shop carries a range of locally and internationally sourced homewares, from Japanese kitchen accessories to Danish furniture to beautiful ceramics. Among the couple’s favorites is a line of plant-based skincare by Asklepios Garden inspired by Greek and Babylonian mythology and the Mediterranean. Stop by the shop; Pippa, the pair’s pup, will be there to offer a warm welcome.
Scroll down to see inside and shop some of their internationally-sourced products!
The shop’s airy open shelves display an assortment of quality household staples.
Shop owners Sara Edge and Daniel Martin, with Pippa. The name Hoxton is a reference to the buzzy neighborhood in London, U.K., where Sara’s family lives and the pair often visits.
“We focus on items that are ethical and made to last,” says Sara. With the ethos of Hoxton Home being to consume less — and better — you’ll find lots of nondisposable home goods here intended to create beauty and enhance daily life.
These grinders are by Christoffer Harlang for Skagerak, a family-owned design company from Denmark.
This maple-handle kettle embodies the simplicity of Japanese design.
Lykke Kaffegårdar grows, buys and roasts its coffee without monocultures.
Pop into the store or shop online!
Hoxton Home
102-437 Fitzwilliam St., Nanaimo, B.C.
(250) 716-0405
Janis Nicolay
House & Home September 2022