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Find Stylish Cottage Decor At Liz @ The Lake In Muskoka, Ontario
Located in the heart of the Muskokas in the buzzy summer town of Port Carling, Ontario, Liz @ The Lake feels like a fabulous friend’s cottage. Framed by expansive windows, wooden beams and creamy white walls, its stylish vignettes and cozy seating areas invite you to linger a little longer. And…
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Step Inside The Stylish Montreal Shop Maison Pepin
Maison Pepin is 4,000 square feet of eclectic, design-forward offerings — and a return to owner Lysanne Pepin’s roots. When her first shop, Espace Pepin, opened in the ’90s, it offered fashion, art and vintage furniture. “It was a lifestyle store, which no one understood 20 years ago,” Lysanne says. Too…
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Inside Toronto’s Hermès Flagship Store
Just a few doors down from its former home on Toronto’s bustling Bloor Street West, Hermès’ new flagship is a destination for fashion lovers and design buffs, too. The two-storey building was reimagined by Paris architecture studio RDAI, with simple, monolithic columns, and a beige rose-tinged brick façade that elegantly transitions…
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How To Decorate With Succulents For Christmas
At Vancouver succulent shop Botany Living, Corinne Isherwood gives holiday greens a shapely twist. “Sophia De Mello and I both love home decor, so we wanted to find a home item we could work with. We’d seen an air plant being used as decor and thought, ‘Great!’ ……
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Inside The Charming Stratford Shop Wills & Prior
For co-owner Sarah Smithers, Wills & Prior – Stratford, Ontario’s newest design destination — was a journey decades in the making. Sarah, a former Toronto PR pro, had always dreamed of having her own shop. “And when I pictured it, it always existed in my hometown of Stratford,” she…
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Why Design Lovers Are Falling For Toronto Flower Shop Flùr
Step inside Chloë Fraser’s flower and plant shop, Flùr, and you’ll instantly understand why design lovers flock here: The airy space — conceived by hip firm MSDS Studio — is sunny and bright, with refreshingly modern lighting and displays. “I wanted to reimagine what a flower and…
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Oak + Fort Home Is A Minimalist’s Dream Decor Store
Calling all minimalists: Vancouver-born clothing company Oak + Fort is expanding into homewares. Clean-lined dishes, matte bud vases and simple brass utensils are seamless additions to mod — and modestly appointed — spaces, and are sure to win over fans of the brand’s neutral palette and fuss-free fashion…
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Decor Shop Peridot Brings California Style To Vancouver
The trend of swapping city life for simpler settings has a glamorous new convert. After 12 years in Vancouver’s South Granville neighbourhood, Peridot Decorative Homewear moved to Fort Langley, British Columbia, where the shop now sits in a quaint community complete with cobblestone walkways. “I wanted to create a…
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Shops We Love: Workshop & Co.
After years of collecting antiques while travelling, Halifax designers Colin Blanchard and Kenneth McRobbie decided it was time to move their one-of-a-kind finds out of storage and into a proper home — albeit an unconventional one. “This place was built in 2001 as a body shop, but we wanted it to…
Decorating & Design
Discover H&H Editors’ Favorite Home Decor Stores!
Whether they are scouting for shoots, shopping stories, or styling their own space, the design team at House & Home is always on the lookout for home decor. Thanks to their keen eye, our pages are filled with some truly incredible ideas every month. We’ve asked them to share their go-to stores for guaranteed…
Decorating & Design
Shops We Love: Cambie Design
Peru holds a special place in Camille Byrne’s heart. The owner of Cambie Design launched her textiles business after visiting the country for a family wedding in 2011. “My mom is from Peru, and I had been many times, but on that trip I saw textiles in a…
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Shops We Love: Memo Showroom
Perched above Toronto design store Peaks & Rafters, Memo Showroom brings over a dozen international wallpaper and textile collections to Canada for the first time. “Three textile addicts work here,” says owner Katelyn Hermant, who opened Memo in September with associates Kelly Ashford Chadda and Katie Schipper. Patterns range…
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Shops We Love: Home Smith
When Jennifer Jackson opened Home Smith just minutes from her Roncesvalles, Toronto, home last winter, she knew her clients would be her friends and neighbors. She knew they’d bring their design ideas and furniture wishes, as well as their strollers, children and pets, to her store. “We’re really focused on…
Decorating & Design
Shops We Love: Angus & Celeste
Here at H&H, we’re all about pretty ceramic pieces that instantly elevate a space. So, when we discovered Angus & Celeste, it was instant love. Coupled with botanic and narrative decorations, the primarily online boutique was founded in 2005 by design duo Keir Mac Donald and Asha Cato in Melbourne,…
Decorating & Design
Shops We Love: Sunnyside Tea & Home
“When Jaclyn and I created this space, we selfishly thought, ‘Where would we want to hang out?’” recalls Megan Curren, who co-owns Sunnyside Tea & Home with Jaclyn Cormack. The answer was a quiet, cabin-like shop where a cup of tea awaits. Named for its sunlit location in Deep Cove,…