Shopping for home furniture can be a bitch!! Or it can be fun if you actually know where to go.
Personally I love it! I'm a huge fan of design and furniture and Toronto has many furniture stores to choose from and more and more are accommodating for condo living.
If you are looking to have some real designer furniture pieces in your apartment or your house, from small studio spaces to large living spaces, these furniture stores can accommodate all types of living spaces.
In today's Blog will I will go over the following 4 headings:
DOES BUYING TRENDY AND STYLISH FURNITURE IN YOUR HOME REALLY MATTER?
WHAT DO THE TOP 5 MODERN FURNITURE STORES IN TORONTO ALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING IN COMMON:
4 TIPS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE FURNITURE SHOPPING
Top 5 Modern Furniture Stores for Homes and Condos in Toronto
But first,
DOES BUYING TRENDY AND STYLISH FURNITURE IN YOUR HOME REALLY MATTER?
Furnishing your home is part of your lifestyle. It is a reflection of who you are and it creates a positive space for you to live and work from. But sometimes it can come with a hefty price tag.
The question is,
“Does spending money on good furniture actually make a difference?” YES. Always Yes!
Realtors will often hire home staging companies when listing a property for sale. It increases the value of the home because it looks good, it creates an ambiance and even though the house doesn't come with the furniture the furniture attracts that lifestyle to that buyer. Most people can't envision what furniture pieces will look in certain spaces and need help with ideas.
Let's be real, many people are quick to jump to stores such as Structube and Ikea when it comes to home furnishings simply because it is more affordable and I get that. Listen, I’m not gonna tell you not to, at the end of the day you’re going to do what you can afford. But I will say, how you live in your home is a reflection of your lifestyle and your worth.
Since I love talking about lifestyle and relating it to as much content as I can to convey the message of how everything in your life affects your lifestyle, today I'm using home furnishings as a perfect example. The Inside of your home is your most personal space. The way you live behind those closed doors is your truest self and everything attached to that home is attached to your worth and how you feel everyday!
I know you are proud that you have a home now, but how you live inside will greatly affect how you feel on a daily basis. Furniture is one of the most valuable and important elements of a home and how you furnish your home is valuable to your life. Are you saying that you are not worthy enough to have a good looking interior home? Yes you are. You are how you live! How you value your home is how you value yourself.
Furniture is a statement, like the clothes you wear, and the places you like to go. It’s part of your identity; it serves as art, form, and function. Furniture, just like our style of clothes we wear, it is part of our image.
You can't live your life by just building a dream on a Pinterest Board, you have to go out and create it into your reality.
WHAT DO THE TOP 5 MODERN FURNITURE STORES IN TORONTO ALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING IN COMMON:
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. These furniture stores in Toronto are very easy to walk into, no appointment needed. Nor do you have to be in a Trade program as an interior designer, decorator and architect to receive any discounts.
PRICES ARE VISIBLE ONLINE. All the prices for each piece of furniture is available online. So it makes it very easy to shop, add to cart, create a budget or compare with other retailers.
SIMILAR PRICE RANGE. All of these Top 5 Stores are in a similar price category as well. They are not upscale, but they are not lower end either. They are perfectly in the middle. Like I said, this list is far from your Ikea or Structure stores. But those stores will not offer you anything close to what these Top 5 Furniture stores in Toronto will offer you.
GREAT QUALITY. All the products in each of these stores are of great quality, some are even Canadian made. But each of these furniture stores in Toronto work with hand selected furniture designers that reflect the store's style. Buying Quality furniture means that you are also buying pieces that are built and made to last in your home for your lifetime.
FINANCE OPTIONS - There was a time where we were limited to what we were able to buy based on what we can afford at the moment. There was a time where you had to pay in cash, and now we pay on credit cards. But now some of these stores offer finance options - yes, just like a car! And it's about time! Because honestly, if i'm going to be house poor, let me be house poor in a trendy space please!! All kidding aside - adding up all these furniture pieces that you need for your home will cost you a lot of money. If you are moving into a space where you know you will be living in for many years- then that finance option is worth it!
LATEST TRENDS. These stores are always up to date with the latest design trends. Each store works with many furniture designers and are constantly bringing in pieces to their showroom. The Top 5 furniture stores offer different styles in comparison to each other. This gives you the option to find what style you are interested in - from modern, traditional, contemporary to mid-century, luxury, Scandinavian and even luxury. There are tons of different styles. This is where that Pinterest Board comes in handy. Start creating those room ideas.
SHOWROOMS - Each of these Top 5 picks have their own furniture showroom and they are HUGE! Yes, they have a great Website as well, but having a physical showroom that you can walk in to see, feel and touch in person is the best experience you’re ever gonna get when it comes to furniture shopping.
MORE THAN JUST A SOFA. The Top 5 furniture stores in Toronto can accommodate all areas of your home including: Kitchen, Dining, Living, Family, Bedroom and Outdoor. So it’s very easy to be inspired once you head out to these stores.
Wait a second, before you head on out, - trust me, I know it's exciting, but it’s gonna be exhausting. I highly recommend the following tips:
4 TIPS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE FURNITURE SHOPPING
The very first thing you should know before furniture shopping is this:
SIZE DOES in fact MATTER!!
Take Pictures of your space.
That image in your head is like a rearview mirror, objects will appear larger. So take some good photos of your room, including wall to wall and angle photos.
2. Measure out your space.
Grab a piece of paper and write down those measurements. Wall to wall measurements. Floor to ceiling measurements. And if there are any doors and windows on the wall you will have to measure those as well.
3. Bring a Floor Plan with you.
If you do not have an actual floor plan then draw one up. It is a lot easier if you use grid paper. You can even do this on your phone. I know my Samsung Notes have the grid page settings. Which makes it easier to draw anything up. 1 grid is essentially 1’-0” ( 12”).
4. Bring a Measuring tape with you.
ALWAYS bring this. I know each furniture piece will have its own tag with dimensions. That’s not what the measuring tape is for. The measuring tape is used for you to actually measure out your room dimension in the showroom. Furniture retailers will set up their showroom showcasing furniture pieces to mimic a space in a home. They will have living room, dining room and bedroom spaces - this is what you want to measure. You want to compare your space and the space in the actual showroom where the floor models are arranged. Just because it fits in the showroom, doesn't mean it will fit in your home!
So without further delay, these are my:
Top 5 Modern Furniture Stores for Homes and Condos in Toronto
Oh and also, before you get a head start, let me be the one to tell you that ‘dining chairs’ are one of the most expensive furniture pieces out there. Carry on!
CB2 caters to those who dream of sophisticated and elegant pieces but in today's modern world. If you can furnish an entire room by using all of CB2 furnishings, the entire room would look like a 3D print. Their collections are more chic. I would actually go as far as saying it feels very Parisian.
Elte has 2 divisions. Elte being one of them and ElteMkt being the other one. Elte is the more upscale version of ElteMkt. I will feature Elte in another post. But in today's post I am talking about ElteMkt because it's more comparable to the list I have featured today. ElteMkt has a great selection of Modern and Contemporary designs. The pieces in this shop remind me of a modern day Art Deco era, and I am here for it all!
EQ3 features more traditional modern pieces. They have many wood furniture pieces in various finishes as well as upholstery.
Rove Concepts is carries more contemporary luxury furniture pieces. Their pieces are a lot more refined and classic as well.
Rove Concept also has a 3D Planner which is a pretty cool design tool to use especially for furniture layouts and configurations.
Casa Life has many Canadian made products including their sofa collections. But they do have more of a European style of furnishing products.
Casa Life website also has a great online friendly user designer tool https://casalife.icovia.com/ - this is a design tool that allows you to create your room dimensions from all types of shapes, it has a furniture toolbar with icons that you can drag and drop into your floor plan. Each furniture piece that you drag into your floor plan also gives you the option to change the dimensions. For each piece of furniture you are able to enter the website/link of the furniture piece you were looking at. This is a great tool if you are not working with a designer but you are tech savvy, I highly recommend this tool especially if you don't know what sizes to work with for each room size.
CONCLUSION
This list of Today's top 5 Furniture stores in Toronto for Condos and Homes is not by any means the only top 5 I have.
I have a list of great furniture stores that I have collected and compiled myself over the last decade or so. The best way for me to break down this list is by writing a series of blogs that categorizes each furniture store that I have selected and break them down into segments that I like to call - ‘Top 5 ‘Category’’.
I cannot possibly have only 5. That would be just to hard to choose from. And I'm sure putting together a list of all the stores would be easy, but you would be exhausted just going through each of them.
That being said i will tell you this before i go:
There are many furniture retailers all over Toronto, but Toronto does also have 2 designated areas where you can find many designer furniture retailers and they are:
The main intersection of this area is: Castlefield Ave. and Caledonia Ave.
2. KING EAST DESIGN DISTRICT. King St E, Toronto.
Which runs along King St. East from Church St. to River St.
Happy furniture shopping… Can I come??
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