Oh my word, I've found it!…read more This is it. This place is where I want everything in my dream home to come from. The Chanlon showroom is filled with lovely, hand-crafted examples of 18th and 19th Century style furniture, which have been made to look distressed and aged as if they have been in grand country homes for years. The influence is mainly English but you can see that Scandinavian and French styles come through in lots of the pieces in-store. Kitchens come in lots of customised styles and collections, including designs for smaller spaces and hand-crafted Oak fittings, ranging from £20,000 upwards. Expensive. Very. Chanlon also sell furniture for the bedroom, bathroom and study areas of your house, such as the beautiful four poster bed, at almost £6,250. This would be the ultimate in luxury! The pieces are beautiful but this beauty comes at a price, and a hefty one at that. I can dream though!

If you're looking to pick up a piece of furniture that will add a bit of class to your home or flat…read morethis is a good place to come. There's plenty on offer and in general all the items hold some sort of artistic merit. For example, you can pick up a rather nice piano for £200, a grandfather clock for £300 or an old chest for a sum I fail to remember. What makes these items so special is the air of prestige and the enhanced atmosphere they have to offer. It's well worth having a look around as there are items to catch your eye in all price ranges so there's likely to be something a bit special you might want to buy.

This place has everything mentioned in the end credits theme tune to Only Fools and Horses…read more Although saying that, the stock looks like it belongs in the more antique and valuable section of a shop than in a dodgy, Del Boy category. It is a wide array of items, but is undoubtedly of a classier nature. Selling old televisions from the 60s, unusual crockery and second hand furniture, Leith Salerooms is littered in special old items. They have a great selection of grandfather clocks and although a lot of their stock doesn't come cheap, that's due to the fact that it's kept in relatively good condition. Some of the antique furniture is certainly worthy of a showroom or an auction, and the vast majority of the items in here are beguiling and unusual. Although it has a somewhat shambled appearance, the staff are friendly and well versed, and the stock is more high end than the stuff you'd find in markets or at the back of lorries. Definitely not what you'd call bargain basement, Leith Salerooms cuts a line between second hand and antique dealer.

Just bought a new bed from Omni.This is a fabby shop... looks small ouside but huge inside .. it's…read morelike a tardis of fab furniture! I often love to browse here as they always have something that i don't see elsewhere.. better still is the fact that i don't get jumped on by pushy salespersons. So love my new bed and a great deal and the delivery men buit it for me soooper service !! Akok

This a small specialty shop carrying Annie Sloan paint, doing Annie Sloan workshops, and possibly…read moredrinking Annie Sloan koolaid. They sell furniture that has been painted with the aforementioned brand, lovely pieces for good prices. The owner can give you all kinds of tips on using the paint, ideas for how to wax or varnish, color tips, and possibly anything else you might need to know about painting. Tip: don't buy the brand brushes, which you wouldn't once you discovered the price tag. They have a few other home items, pillows and rugs, cute items that are sometimes well priced and in the instance of the rug that caught my eye (£500) a tad over my budget but likely handmade and quality and worth it. Good shop.

This shop sells very quirky things (like gigantic wine glasses and an entire fridge of candles.)…read moreThere is a nice café upstairs which does great coffee and cake. For accessibility, there are 2 sets of stairs and 2 elevators but the elevators are only supposed to be for wheelchairs and prams. There are toilets on both floors but the one I visited upstairs was terribly claustrophobic. The furniture looks nice and is probably better quality than IKEA (but I don't own any of their furniture so I don't know). Overall, it is a nice place and is a quieter alternative to IKEA.

From the owner: As we've grown we've become more than just furniture. We have everything you need for your house,…read morehome and even garden. From home interiors and linens, to cookware, bathroom accessories and lighting, our extensive range of homewares is difficult to rival. At Martin & Frost it's easier and more affordable than you think to give your home a fresh new look. You can also now re-energise with a refreshing coffee or lovely lunch in our Cobbs Cafe.

Eden seems to be a bizarre mix of wooden furniture and Edward Monkton cards…read more If wooden furniture is your thing then you could pick up some bargains in here as many of the items are very reasonably priced and one off pieces too. This kind of stuff doesn't really float my kind of boat but I did see a really pretty dark wood table at £95 that I quite liked. They stock lots of little accessories such as crystals, jewellery and candles and the staff are really helpful too. The whole shop has a really laid back atmosphere and great for a browse without feeling pressured to buy anything.

Eden is quite deceptive - it looks like it's going to have hordes of hippy dippy gifts, which might…read moreinterest some people but not so much me. Upon entering, there was certainly that free spirited vibe - they were playing the Cocteau Twins and the shop keeper was really relaxed. But that only made for a better browsing experience (and I LOVE the Cocteau Twins so I was happy). Yes, there are loads of carved wooden ornaments and chairs, hanging beads and dream catchers, but there are also some lovely rustic homewares, trendy candles and some truly gorgeous ornate wrapping paper. They have a range of cards and some lovely stuff for the kitchen, including plaid patterned coat hangers and pretty ornaments. So even though it has the 90s hippy vibe, there is more variety than you may think if you care to enter. The shop assistant was absolutely lovely and her laid back approach left me free to browse to my heart's content. I came out with cactus candles which are awesome but too nice to burn!

I keep getting mail from Richard F Mackay, telling me all about the amazing sales they're having…read more In desperate need of a wardrobe, I took a look on their website and The Man and I headed down. We were both a bit surprised that there wasn't anything near the amount of furnishings displayed on their website IN the actual store. When enquiring about this, a sales assistant informed us that the manufacturers uploaded the images to the website and often didn't take them down. Eh, what now? In the age of the internet, they really really need a better and more accurate website. We were disappointed to not see anything we were interested in on the shop floor, but it was explained to us that they have several catalogues for customers to go through and furnishings can be ordered that way. It's a good system which means that they provide much more than appears on first look at the showroom. Back to the bad, the sales assistant wasn't able to tell us the price of the piece we decided we liked. Let's be honest, the vast majority of people shopping at Richard F Mackay's super January sale will be there looking for a deal - by that I mean, price is important. Price really wins over looks to a great extent. I don't want to spend time going through a catalogue, picking out a wardrobe, discussing the right varnish, and then finding out two days later that the wardrobe we liked was almost SEVEN THOUSAND POUNDS. Seriously?!?! Because sure, of course we have 7k to burn on a wardrobe, that's why we're at the super January sale, clutching the £80 off voucher.

I'll be honest, I am not a fan of the furniture here. I think it is aimed at a slightly older…read moremarket than myself. However, they do have a line of German kitchens, and when we went to visit back in March, a 50% sale on. With a tight budget, we thought this was going to be the perfect opportunity to buy a new kitchen and keep within the limits of what finances we had. Bear in mind - at this point I have never shopped for appliances, fixtures or fittings or any whathaveyou. I have no idea on the price of anything, and I have a terrible habit of paying for what I want without thought of looking elsewhere. We enter the storeroom and within minutes have found a stunning, amazing, perfect kitchen with everything we want. It's fantastic. I can't believe our luck! We grab an assistant and start tucking into the biscuits (who leaves mini eggs out for their customers?!) as she draws up a plan for our tiny no room to swing a cat kitchen. We get a cost back. We haven't decided on appliances, and we're fitting it ourselves. The cost for the units only is over 10k. Bear in mind that we went in during a 50% off sale. And we have to pay the whole price upfront before the kitchen is ours - deposit and then the rest by the time the kitchen is delivered otherwise we don't get the benefit of the 50%. Ouch. Luckily for us, we found the same kitchen elsewhere and much better suited overall to our budget, but I can't see how a kitchen unit can demand that price. Staff were helpful, but overall, it's not somewhere likely to see my pennies, or my pounds.

Hello! When did this wee gem spring up?…read more It's not really wee, and it looks new - I'm guessing it's only been on Cockburn Street under a month. Old Town Context is a refreshing, traditional store on Cockburn Street, steering away from the style of the tourist traps on the Royal Mile to offer alternative gift ideas. They have some old English, French and American advert poster art, cards, stationery, gifts, mugs with pin ups on them, clocks made out of recycled glass drinks bottles - a very eclectic and classy selection. Its inspiration is clearly from bygone era's, and I was very impressed with their postcard range. They also have some cracking cards and original prints with cats on them. These cats are wearing kilts and rugby shifrts, quoting Burns and other Scottish poets within the print. It's a very odd idea but entirely up my alley. Overall a very enjoyable shop for the family. It's difficult to walk out of here without buying anything.

I am glad that my 200th review is on this hidden gem... actually it isn't that hidden, but I have a…read morefeeling that lots of people just walk right on by. In a very different and almost vintage way, it is a souvenir shop. I say that because there were lots of prints, cards, coffee mugs of the city and various British 'things', but they are not the types of souvenirs that you would find in the every single store on the Royal Mile... yeah, you know what I mean. I loved the different prints of the city, my favourite was a very art deco-ish print highlighting the castle in a yellowy-orangish hue against a dark background. They had it as a large print, a card, and a coffee mug. I am now kicking myself that I did not buy it. If you love globes or tin signs, they have loads of them! If you are looking for a different kind of souvenir for someone... or just something for yourself, stop in here because they have some really wonderful items.