I am a huge supporter of small businesses, especially small shops, as many of my friends own one. I probably do 80% of my shopping at non-chain stores. I like that my money stays in the community and provides support locally. 
With Gratitude – A gift shop with a varied selection of gifts, jewelry and art, mostly made by small local artisans.
Halcyon House Antiques – Elegant home accessories, jewelry and interior decorating services. I want every.single.thing.there.
The House Downtown – Great home furnishings, accessories and home design.
Housewerks – Architectural Antiques and Salvage
The Ivy Bookshop – An independent bookstore with a wide range of titles and a friendly, helpful staff.
Trohv – Quirky and original home goods.
Tone-on-Tone – Elegant Swedish Antiques in Bethesda
I hope that you will take advantage of the goods and services at your local small businesses. They want your business!
A trip to Baltimore could be planned around these shops alone. I especially would like to explore the historic architectural site that Housewerks inhabits. I would also like to visit Tone-on-Tone, having become familiar with Loi Thai's incredible sense of aesthetics through his Tone-on-Tone blog.
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Dear Meg, Thanks for this tour through these delightful shops in and around Baltimore. Seeing the photographs gives me all the more reason to plan another trip to B-more, soon! I, like you, try and give the chain stores a wide berth for (almost all) of my shopping, for the same reasons. Today we plan on visiting a local specialty food shop, an independent wine merchant, our vet, and the local antiques mall (for early vintage ornament shopping). Only non-local store we'll visit is the gas station, where we don't have much choice in the matter since none of those are "local" these days... Reggie
ReplyDeleteHI, I love your attitude and philosophy. Have a wonderful holiday season. Keep the great blogs coming.
ReplyDeleteHappy Holiday shopping to you, Meg + Yes, lets all support those small stores. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
ReplyDeletethis independent shop owner applauds you meg! i have the same sentiments which extends to restaurants too. well, back to work!
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