Seeing as on my other thread so many people liked the Container Store, I thought I’d ask this.
Here’s the challange:
You have one room to decorate:
You can spend any amount of money you want:
The catch is this: You can only purchase items to decorate your room from ONE store:
Which store would you choose? The Container Store? Target? Saks Fifth Avenue?
I would’ve said the Sharper Image, but since that isn’t around I’ll go with Crate & Barrell
Pottery Barn!
It’s been a while since I’ve shopped at Pier One, but I think that I’d probably at least look in that chain to see if I like the current selections.
I don’t buy furniture or decorations. I either find it in the trash or I make it myself. It’s been decades since the last time I bought furnishings. Does “a trash heap” count as a single store?
I don’t think that a trash heap counts as a single store, unless you get VERY lucky indeed.
It’s amazing what people will throw out, isn’t it?
Ten Thousand Villages. Oh, yeah.
Rooms to Go
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Pottery Barn
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Crate and Barrel
World Market could do a living room or dining room easily. Just my style, too.
::glances at living room::
IKEA.
Target, mostly because you can get things like curtains and rods as well as “set abouts” and things to hang on the wall, and minor furnishings like bookshelves.
IKEA. I love their stuff. Clean lines! Modern styling! Doesnt look like something my Grandmother would have in her basement!
Homestead, makers of fine custom hardwood furniture.
ABC Home, in NYC.
This thread intrigues me because I don’t think I’ve ever decorated a room. I don’t even know what this entails. I have stuff. When I move, stuff gets disbursed through new place. Done.
I will have to check out these stores you all mention (the ones with websites at least). Clearly I am missing an opportunity to spend money.
Ikea … it is designed to be able to fit out an entire house/apartment other than clothing and books.
As long as I wasn’t constrained by anything as pesky as a budget I’d pick Restoration Hardware. I like the look of a lot of their store displays.
It is out of my price range, and out of any anticipated price range I might ever expect or hope to have, but it’s fun to consider. I really do think I could do a whole room there from furniture to window treatments to “set abouts”*
*far preferable to me than “knick knack” or “accessory”. Thanks, Claire Beauchamp!
I guess you could rephrase it as “thrift store” 
I do all my decorating at Home Depot and Office Depot. But then I’m a pack rat and only buy open shelves that are the right size for file storage boxes with lids. My entire apartment looks like the back room of a CPA’s office.
Damn you. That’s incredible.
Glad you liked it. A good deal of my stuff is from there as it is.