Updated May 26, 2022. There is an endless supply of furniture stores across the Northern Virginia area and beyond. While it can often seem easier to visit your favorite department store or the classic chain suppliers like Pottery Barn, you are sure to find more authentic and unique home items from the numerous selection of NoVA boutique stores. Here are some of the region’s best spots for finding the items that will make your home anything but ordinary.
Alexandria
Evolution Home
Temporarily closed
Antique decor and home furnishings are on consignment at Evolution Home. Evolution’s staff carefully cares for each item, renewing wooden coffee tables, polishing silver flatware, and dusting delicate china teapots to their former glory.
The Hour Shop
Look no further than King Street for unique drinkware to make a statement at your next dinner party. The Hour Shop boasts more than 10,000 vintage cocktail-related items in store from decades dating as far back as the 1800s.
Acme Mid-Century + Modern
Pierre Paret, proprietor of Acme Mid-Century + Modern, tries to always have at least one Plycraft lounge chair in his store because it is his favorite piece. Acme Mid-Century + Modern purveys modern and vintage artifacts, furniture, accessories, sculpture, and art. While Acme Mid-Century + Modern has become online-only, the store has a broad selection of periods and styles, but it specializes in Danish and Scandinavian modern, including designs by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson. His pieces, he explains, range in age. While some of the furniture, books and other knickknacks in Acme were made in the middle of the 20th century, others were made recently with a midcentury look.
Home on Cameron
“Color is a wonderful thing,” says Todd Martz, co-owner of Alexandria’s newest home decor store. And color is exactly what you get from the moment you walk into Home on Cameron. The store is set up in vignettes, and Martz and co-owner Susan Nelson, both interior designers with more than 35 years of combined experience, use their eye for design to demonstrate how different pieces can be displayed in any home. And they pull it off with the vignettes showcasing pieces from both local and international artisans.
Arlington
Covet
From charming knickknacks to stunning jewelry and pop art, this Arlington boutique is packed with gifts for all tastes. Tucked away in a quaint old house that was once an insurance agency, this adorable boutique is a store where the exterior does not prepare you for the pleasantries you will find within. With a light and whimsical air, Covet makes you feel right at home as though you just walked into your best friend’s beautifully decorated house with delicate and thoughtful decor.
Two the Moon
From the calming fragrance of soy wax candles wafting through the air to the varying shades of blue on the walls, Two the Moon evokes a dreamy feel. The store takes its name from something owner Johanna Braden and her husband always said to their two children: “I love you to the moon.” Braden keeps the focus on local companies for the home gift products; think jewelry, candles, skin care products, bags, and more.
Fairfax
Botanologica
Falls Church
As unique as the name itself, Botanologica offers a mix of merchandise you won’t find in any other local boutique, or chain store for that matter. Owners Holly Manon and Julie Liu, after 17 years of knowing each other, decided to open a store that would bring their interests to the residents of Falls Church and all of Northern Virginia. The little old house that is Botanologica stays true to the theme inside with its peaceful, nature-y, vintage vibe. Wooden and metal tables, bookshelves, baskets, and glass cabinets hold the artisanal wares, and floral accompaniments draw one’s eye around the four-room store.
The Nest Egg
Fairfax
Ann O’Shields and her husband Sean, have brought upscale, California-casual home furnishing offerings to Northern Virginia residents from their store in Fairfax Corner for a while. Fun and comfortable is the atmosphere O’Shields has curated for the store, “I want people to come in because it makes them feel happy.” She does this with a sunlit, airy space, crisp colors and a playlist shuffling through pop and new artist music. Shelves are stocked with sought-after lines like Kate Spade Paper, Mariposa, Lee Industries for upholstered furniture, Dash & Albert textiles and more. The Nest Egg also carries a multitude of affordable artwork in a range of sizes and children gifts.
Loudoun
The Old Lucketts Store
Lucketts
People travel to hit up the great finds at Old Lucketts Store. With a large selection of antique and new home goods in the store and a bevy of outdoor pieces on the wrap-around porch, you can spend the entire day deciding on all of the finds to be had. Be sure to look through the sheds for discounted furniture and decor as well as the Design House, which updates monthly.
On a Whim, Rust and Feathers and The Hummingbird’s Nest
Lucketts
On a Whim is placed in a trifecta of home decor shopping along with Rust and Feathers and The Hummingbird’s Nest, all of which carry antiques and salvaged goods. As you drive north on Route 15 into Lucketts, you can’t miss the pink polka-dot silo on the right. That is On a Whim, where the relocated Weathered Elegance also resides, and it shares a parking lot with two other home stores. If you can’t find a piece to come home with, from the as-they-are items and repurposed pieces to On a Whim’s DIY yard, you’re not looking hard enough.
Green Mansions
Leesburg
Walk into this sunlit store and your tactile senses are delighted: vintage tables and glass display cases filled with greenery, candles, frames, linens, bath and body products and more fill your sight; music ranging from jazz to pop flow throughout; and olfactory senses take in the delicate scents wafting around. Also, the store has a gourmet food and wine shop within the space and carries selections from Virginia, France, Italy, Spain, Africa, California, Oregon, and Washington, plus they host wine tastings on Saturdays from 1-5 p.m.
27 South Interiors
Leesburg
There is a store on the main strip of King Street in downtown Leesburg that sets itself apart from the antique and shabby-chic stores that have become synonymous with home decor shopping in the historic area: 27 South Interiors.
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