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Bungalow
Categories: Shopping Antiques Shopping Fashion Used, Vintage & Consignment Antiques, Used, Vintage & Consignment [Edit]
273 Av AugustaToronto, ON M5T 2M1
Neighbourhood: Kensington Market
(416) 598-0204
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
6 reviews for Bungalow
6 reviews in English
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Review from Juliana H.
Toronto, ON
4/22/2012
Organized, spacious, reasonably priced. I searched almost every shop in Kensington yesterday looking for a vintage red leather bomber and came up empty handed. Bungalow was my last stop. Boom! Found exactly what I was looking for $20 cheaper than the other similar but less perfect jackets I'd seen elsewhere.
So it goes with Bungalow. I don't always luck out like I did yesterday, but I do always appreciate this store for their selective curating of quality vintage pieces. -
Review from jocelyn l.
11/17/2011
I'd been eyeing these white fluffy furry earmuffs for weeks now and i finally bought them when the weather turned chilly. @ $22, they seem to be a little cheaper than other not-as-cute earmuffs at other places.
My friends have shopped here for vintage goods and we love the 60s,70s retro Mad Men-style furniture downstairs -
Review from Bill S.
3/29/2010 3 photos
As I was doing very systematic recon of Kensington Market this rainy Sunday afternoon I walked into Bungalow and didn't even realize they had anything used/vintage the place is SO shiny, well organized, and clean! It only occurred to me when I checked the price of a leather jacket which was SO inexpensive that the truth began to unfold. And unfold it did! :)
Bungalow has a huge selection of new, very inexpensive tees (think, American Apparel) and shirts, and some other new clothes for men and women, and a very exceptionally laid out selection of jeans, leather jackets, some other misc. clothes, and used furniture. The downstairs is all furniture which I didn't check out, but based on the really nice teak dining sets on the ground level i saw the prices and selection are REALLY good on the furniture!
The owners Paul and Jessica have created the nicest op shop I have ever seen, though some might complain that the place is devoid of funkiness. I'd put it more in the category of retro 50s suburban kitsch from a style standpoint. The woman who answered my questions while I was there, Julie, was appropriately-to-my-metaphor, outfitted in a very glamorous platinum blond retro film queen look. She was also delightfully friendly and helpful and represented the store well.
I came away with a huge WIN - a pair of vintage G-Star jeans (my FAVES), that fit me perfectly, for $40 ($40!!!!), and a really great graphic tee. Bungalow will be on my must-return list next time I in Toronto. -
Review from Connie T.
Toronto, ON
1/13/2009
Sometimes I think Bungalow is up to something.
For a vintage store, it's way too organized, large and clutter-free to feel legit. Is my leg being pulled? Is that awesome wool skirt really $10, or are you going to spring a fast one on me when I get to the counter?
Anyway, the used clothing is okay, but strangely enough, I feel more comfortable with the expensive new arrivals and vintage furniture section. I don't have the money to foot either purchase, but that '70s plaid orange Finnish swivel chair would look absolutely fantastic with that plaid purple poncho.
Pimp my lifestyle, please. -
Review from Brian C.
Toronto, ON
3/27/2010 2 Check-ins Here
Meh. $90 jeans. Some other clothes that wouldn't be cool if you bought them at H&M, but are trendy because you went to Kensington. If you in the mood for some old furniture head downstairs and pickup a $450 table that cost a few bucks in the the Ikea of it's day. Who buys this shit?
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Review from Jimi S.
ON
1/7/2009 16 photos
i probably should be browsing to the tunes of cat stevens or maybe even the beach boys. im still not sure. what i can be sure of is that bungalow feels like there should be people with tinted glasses and fat moustaches or an arm full of bangles walking around helping you to find stuff. i feel like i should be five years old and walking downstairs quietly to get a peak or some mutterings of whats going on downstairs with the adults. maybe its the captain and tenille im hoping to hear. ya. thats it.
even if youre outside staring at the place youll feel drawn back to that period, the seventies, where bricks were long wide slabs stretching to each corner of the fireplace or house like a pair of bell bottoms.
indeed it seems to be the focus here from the furniture to the clothes to the sunglasses. now, its not strict to the decade; you can easily place some of the aforementioned shades on some preposterous hairstyle in the eighties.
a lot of their shirts are BURSTING with colour and patterns and overall everything i laid eyes on seemed to be of good quality and good shape, for a vintage shop. there prices are moderate - thirty bucks for a long sleeve collared shirt for example.
they seem to have taken the time to really design their space from top to bottom with their chosen vibe. the ceiling tiles, which for the most part are those cheap corky ones that sit on cheap white framing, you know the kind, have had each alternate row supplanted with wooden paneling that SCREAMS seventies. on each panel is a globe light helping to guide your mildly psychedelic experience.
at the front are their new lines of clothes that seem to fit in very easily with the rest of the shop. though their prices are a bit higher for a vintage shop, you can rest assured that both the quality you will encounter and the boldness of style you have from which to choose will please you.
