Houseware shopping in Canada
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Dream Designs
Visiting greenies will enjoy dipping into this mini eco department store that sells everything from yoga knickknacks to linen pajamas and hemp bed sheets. Check out the local pottery selection and enjoy a calming chat with the staff about your favorite natural spa treatments.
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Wonderbucks Trading Company
Dedicated to cut-price chic for homes that don't quite have million-dollar budgets, you can find everything here from bargain art prints to mod tablecloths. Always worth a peruse, especially if you have room in your luggage for that all-important floor-to-ceiling vase, it's a challenge to leave here without something in your bag (and we're not talking about shoplifting).
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Vancouver Special
An irresistible, white-walled interiors store that appeals to design-minded individuals with its carefully chosen array of Pantone mugs, molded plastic side tables and glossy architecture books. It's the kind of place you can easily spend an hour just browsing: the problem is you'll almost certainly find something – an Alessi bottle opener perhaps? – that you just can't live without.
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Restoration Hardware
Filled with furnishings and interior flourishes that you wish you had in your house, this yuppie favorite also carries some kitsch-tastic reproduction toys and old-school gadgets, especially at Christmastime. Nothing is cheap here, except the bargain pile of dinged goods shamefully hidden near the washrooms at the back – check out the snobs looking down their noses at you as you dive in here head first.
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Stepback
Always a pleasure to browse, this quirky store combines an inventory of trendy retro knickknacks – 1970s whiskey glasses, vintage suitcases, school exercise books etc – with reproduction items that look just as old. Among all the furniture, classic housewares and accessories, look out for the enamel kitchenware, leather journals and books of old-school classics (including some legendary children's titles that will take you right back to your kid-hood).
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