“I think customers are very excited about the distinctive quality of our product. “People are starting to go out of their way to come here,” said Meaghan. They are aiming to become a destination, and not just another store. On opening day Meaghan dealt with clients from all over the region, as well as Toronto, Hamilton, and Brantford. “We work hard to find things that you won’t see at the big box stores, things that someone would really want to see in their home to give it a sense of individuality.”The store has quickly gained popularity among local residents, and even among customers from out of town. “It has anything you could want to make your home unique, and maybe a little bit eclectic,” said Meaghan. We also make a number of big road trips a couple of times a year down to the states.”The business is mainly a vintage and home décor lifestyle store. “We visit flea markets, yard sales, and that sort of thing. “The vintage products we get from all over Ontario,” said Meaghan. Those expeditions take them far and wide to find the perfect pieces for their store. “People are really responding well to the vintage items and other unique merchandise.”The store’s products change month to month, depending on what the couple find on their collecting expeditions. “The business islike an extension of our home,” she said. The store looks to fill a niche that she and her husband feel was being neglected by other shops in the region. I was finding myself starting to jam items under the dresser and into the closet. So they started one.After generating a very positive response running a small vintage shop out of their garage, they decided to open Oliver and Rust at 137 Hwy 20 East, next to the animal hospital in Fonthill. Well the long and the short of it is, Oliver and Rust is growing and I run the etsy shop and all of my sewing operations out of my office but, I was starting to run out of organizable space for my shipping supplies, pillow covers and etsy stock. “The kinds of stores that we liked to shop in didn’t exist around here,” said Meaghan. While they loved to decorate their home with interesting and unique pieces, they struggled to find a local store that suited their tastes. So if you happen to be a pillow hoarder, you may want to check it out tomorrow.Meaghan Gizuk and her husband Trevor have been collecting and repurposing vintage items since the day got married. We are working on a great pillow collection release for tomorrow. The center of the table just holds an antique dough bowl filled to the brim with Japanese fishing floats. I love the look of this canister and I also like the history that goes with it. War is an unfortunate part of our life now and in the past which hopefully we are all learning from in different ways but learning nonetheless. These canisters although a symbol of conflict are purchased by companies for us to use instead of having them waste away in landfills, and the money helps the families selling them. This can is now decorative but as reclaimed states it was a canister that held ammo in the middle east. My huge stag horn fern in the ironstone bowl, a resin piece of coral and my reclaimed ammunition can holding a muehlenbeckia plant. I took most of the layers off the dining room buffet and just simplified down to 3 things. I mean I almost don't know who I am in here. This room has the least amount of stuff in it ever. I just plopped a boxwood ball on a terra cotta pot on the island for that hit of green that requires no watering.Īnd into the dining room. A lot of the plants that live in our front hall have moved outdoors for the summer so the maintenance inside goes down. Sure, it's probably a bit cluttered but the collection makes me happy and Emma loves all the colours so here it stays. I pull this collection out every spring and summer and group it all together for impact. The wood float on the railing is a vintage find and the left hand black stripe farmhouse pillow is available from the shop or here That big trunk is from Ikea years ago and stores our tv watching blankets. I'm so enjoying the simpler space as we live our life indoors and out right now. Pillows are very neutral and calming in the living room this summer before the riot of deep tones of fall. The denim blue pillow on the right of this sofa is apart of our new summer collection releasing tomorrow but, it did get listed early. Of course the permament tigers but shells, glass and vintage to finish out the look. Most of the pillows on the sofa are from the shop. Emma loves playing with the fronds of this plant when she runs around the table. Table arrangement on this table is just one giant terrarium. Our pillows and sofas are all in the white and blue tones and pull the blue out of the rug on the floor. This summer I went with a really light colour palette for a calming look. Not that I don't still do the decorating but I just don't always bust the camera out in the house anymore. I find that between the shop, life and other business things plus having to pick up the kiddo toys, I just don't take as many house photos anymore. I finally got around to getting a little main floor summer tour done for here.
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