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Here are San Diego’s top five Home Decor Store! Experience the best in local artistry, showcasing exceptional skill, creativity, and innovation that make them stand out. Let’s explore the finest Home Decor excellence San Diego has to offer.
Since 2004, Pangaea Outpost has provided San Diego locals and visitors with an unforgettable shopping experience. Guests are immersed in a veritable shopping paradise filled with (to name just a few) jewelry, apparel, kids toys, crystals, decor, local art and local artisan creations. Not to mention the huge selection of exotic imports from around the world. Now’s the time to discover what San Diego is buzzing about!
Pangaea Outpost – The store derives its name from the prehistoric super-continent, Pangaea, (pronounced păn-jē’ə) meaning “all lands”. When you shop with us, you have the opportunity to support small businesses and unique artists and artisans. All the while collecting eclectic treasures from all areas of the globe, as well as unique gifts available only in San Diego. There is something for everyone in this extraordinary, one-of-a-kind shop.
At Pangaea Outpost- we showcase over 70 different local merchants and artists. Just one block from Pacific Beach’s Crystal Pier, the fresh selection will draw you in and the fun experience will keep you coming back. If you have any questions, feel free to ask any of the friendly associates for help. At Pangaea, you are guaranteed unbeatable atmosphere, attitude, and customer service.
2. Bench Home
Bench Home is a carefully curated shop that showcases beautiful decor items, fabulous gift ideas & exclusive design elements such as furniture & lighting. Nestled perfectly in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego, we curate a variety of local artwork & artisans as well as offer an array of beautiful candles, incredible handmade jewelry & seasonal items for a unique shopping experience in San Diego.
Meet Helen
Owner Helen grew up in the great state of Alabama. From her very first job in retail, she discovered a knack for retail & gift-giving that was grounded in the ability to match each customer with an item that perfectly met their needs. This talent steered her towards majoring in Fashion Merchandising & Design at Auburn University in Alabama. After completing her degree, she found success working with leading sunglass retailer Oakley as a top sales rep.
Helen lived in Kensington – a small, close-knit community – for over twelve years. While a active resident in the neighborhood, she quickly realized there was the lack of retail stores to shop at & decided to create a unique space filled with items that inspire.
“I curate Bench Home by several methods. I trust my feeling on products I think will make our customers happy and I like to support local artists and smaller artisans that may need an outlet for their items. I also gravitate to vendors who are outside the US and are unique to our area. Inspiration inevitably comes from special items and trends while traveling on holiday.”
– Helen, owner of BENCH Home
Bench Home is a carefully curated shop that showcases beautiful decor items, fabulous gift ideas & exclusive design elements such as furniture & lighting. Nestled perfectly in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego, we curate a variety of local artwork & artisans as well as offer an array of beautiful candles, incredible handmade jewelry & seasonal items for a unique shopping experience in San Diego.
Meet Helen
Owner Helen grew up in the great state of Alabama. From her very first job in retail, she discovered a knack for retail & gift-giving that was grounded in the ability to match each customer with an item that perfectly met their needs. This talent steered her towards majoring in Fashion Merchandising & Design at Auburn University in Alabama. After completing her degree, she found success working with leading sunglass retailer Oakley as a top sales rep.
Helen lived in Kensington – a small, close-knit community – for over twelve years. While a active resident in the neighborhood, she quickly realized there was the lack of retail stores to shop at & decided to create a unique space filled with items that inspire.
“I curate Bench Home by several methods. I trust my feeling on products I think will make our customers happy and I like to support local artists and smaller artisans that may need an outlet for their items. I also gravitate to vendors who are outside the US and are unique to our area. Inspiration inevitably comes from special items and trends while traveling on holiday.”
– Helen, owner of BENCH Home
3. HomeGoods
Welcome to HomeGoods, Where you can explore different styles of high quality merchandise, tap into your creativity and experience a value unlike any other
Every trip to HomeGoods is different
Endlessly changing selection means finding something exciting every visit to every store. You’ll be inspired to throw a festive party, find your perfect backyard oasis or find a conversation piece for that unfinished room. The fun is in the exploration!
While you’re finding, we’re hunting
Our team of expert finders are scouring the globe throughout the year for the most interesting, fashionable merchandise from top brands, designers and artisans alike – and delivering to you an exceptional value.
This is a whole new way to shop that allows you to embark on a treasure hunt and flex your creative chops without being restricted by the price.
How We Do It
At HomeGoods, we deliver incredible value on an ever-changing selection of exciting top brands and home fashions from around the world, at prices less than department store and specialty store prices, every day.
Real brands, real savings, really
HomeGoods is an off-price retailer. For us, value is a combination of brand, fashion, price, and quality. Unlike traditional retailers, we generally don’t do promotions, sales, coupons, or other gimmicks — just exciting merchandise at amazing prices, every single day!
We’re smart shoppers, just like you
Our buyers are on the hunt throughout the year for the hottest brand names and unique home fashion assortments for every room in the home — including kitchen and gourmet cookware, accent furniture, lighting, rugs, decorative accessories and pillows, wall art, bedding and bath, storage, pet, and seasonal decor.
We buy from all kinds of vendors, including top brands and designers, as well as artisans from around the world. We also have some merchandise manufactured for us to bring you exceptional fashion and quality at an amazing price. Our buyers choose many different colors, styles, fabrics, and materials, so a unique selection will be waiting for you.
Our buyers are opportunistic and entrepreneurial. So when a designer overproduces or other stores overbuy, we swoop in, negotiate the best possible price, and pass the savings on!
Our Selection Changes Frequently
Unlike other types of retailers that buy seasonally, we have new brand name home fashions arriving several times a week, with deliveries often containing thousands of items. Our rapidly changing assortments create that “treasure hunt” shopping experience that our customers love. So stop by often to see our latest finds, at spectacular value!
We tell our customers, “If you love it, grab it!” We don’t hold replenishment stock in our back rooms, and store managers typically don’t know what’s coming until they throw open the delivery truck doors. That’s what makes us so exciting to shop.
The amount we buy of each find varies greatly—sometimes we buy a little and other times we buy a lot. What matters is that we think our customers will love it!
There is No One Way We Buy
We take advantage of a wide variety of opportunities, which can include department or specialty store cancellations, a manufacturer making up too much product, or a closeout deal when a vendor wants to clear merchandise at the end of a season. These are just some of the ways we bring you tremendous value.
We sell a unique selection of home fashions from around the world, including top brands, specialty merchandise, and artisan creations. Most of our home fashion merchandise is current season. A small percentage is past season which we also offer at amazing value to you.
Some of our merchandise is manufactured for us and some we design, particularly when what we see in the marketplace isn’t the right value for our customers, meaning the right combination of brand, fashion, price, and quality. For example, we work with artisans in India to create beautiful handcrafted embellished mirrors and wooden accent pieces. We source amazing cashmere and merino wool from Italy. And we design soaps to be created in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Australia. We are constantly seeking great quality and value all over the world!
Let’s Go Finding at HomeGoods
Our stores are as flexible as we are. We have no walls between departments, so we can easily expand and contract merchandise departments to respond to new trends and customer needs.
We love our bright, modern stores. Our lean, no-frills way of working helps us pass spectacular value onto you. So, don’t expect fancy extras in our stores—just amazing merchandise at fantastic prices.
All of this is what allows us to offer you a desirable and rapidly changing mix of high-quality merchandise, always at amazing values! So whatever you desire for your home — new bedding, an accent rug, that perfect decorative object, we know that you will find something fun and special at a great price every time you visit!
4. At Home
We’re always searching the globe for the most unique treasures and employees. We currently have full time and part time company jobs for fun, smart and creative people who love everything home, our customers and an exciting retail corporate culture. We’re always seeking out new talent looking for fulfilling jobs, whether it’s an in-store retail position, corporate job, even a management career…because why not? Sky’s the limit! Every company position discovers and promotes teamwork that helps bring our special treasures to life. If you’re looking for a fun job that pays well, your local At Home Decor Superstore has job opportunities and is hiring now.
Our stores and our story are continually expanding and changing. We are a dynamic, fast-paced retail brand with exciting career opportunities offering growth and a fun job you’ll love. We have open positions that value imagination, diversity and giving people the opportunity to explore, grow and help shape our future. Go ahead, take a look, tell us your story, and see if there’s a perfect job near you hiring right now!
Experience At Home
For over 46 years, At Home has been a trusted destination for stylish, approachable design — offering everything a decorator may need to transform their space into a true reflection of who they are, how they want to live, and the memories they aim to create at home. Discover everything for every room, from Furniture, Rugs and Décor to Bedding, Bath, Outdoor and more. Explore curated collections, incredible seasonal selections and unique pieces that show off your signature style. Design your life At Home.
5. Pigment
The Pigment Story
How and when did Pigment come to life?
Pigment is owned by husband-and-wife duo Chad Anglin and Amy Paul. The shop opened in 2007 as an art gallery to showcase local artists. Amy even had her own studio in back and customers could peer in from a loft space. Art led in time to more developed vignettes, sofas, side tables and eventually smaller gifts items. With a heavy focus on the fundamentals of art and good design, thoughtful merchandising followed. Slowly but surely the store outgrew the first location and eventually moved two doors down to their current 3,000 square foot space. Today the shop is recognized for design savvy gifts, flora and furniture. When approached about the transformation, the pair describe their disbelief. They just had no idea where they were headed when they opened fifteen years ago. It’s been a wild ride.
How do you find such fun and unique items?
Aside from word of mouth (many of our vendors are local artists that have been recommended by a friend or customer), buying for Pigment is a little like treasure hunting and there is no one place that we do it. We leave no stone unturned. Whether itʼs paging through every catalog in a showroom, cruising through a craft fair or sifting through all the dusty boxes at an estate sale, looking for that next great thing is tireless and never-ending. We revel in the challenge and get super-pumped on each discovery.
You carry a lot of local vendors and artisans in your shop, talk to us about why this is important and how you find new local talent?
From day one the store was about supporting local artists. In fact, sales from a monthly art event, Ray @ Night, where owner Paul sold her own work spawned the endeavor into retail in the first place. The pair sold Paulʼs work just doors from Pigment for five years, from her then studio, before opening the store. They recount how the shop opened itʼs doors to their first art opening after the two stayed through the night hanging the show in to the wee hours of the morning. “Itʼs the only time Iʼve ever stayed up long enough to hear the buses start running again at 4am,” Paul says. The relationships forged with the artist & artisan community in those early days continue to be the back bone of the shop today. Weʼre always on the lookout for new talent and approaching people who hadnʼt considered the prospect of working with a store at all. We also rely heavily on word of mouth and are eternally grateful to the network of supporters in our community that continue to encourage their talented friends and family to reach out to us. We have a special admiration for anyone who is willing to put their work out there for us to see and review. It can be a nerve racking thing to submit and we feel so fortunate every time we get an email from local people. Young local talent is the life blood of our store. It keeps us unique and different and on the cutting edge with up and comers. Weʼre so proud to see our vendors grow their businesses and feel privileged to play some small role in fostering those successes. It provides for that warm & fuzzy sense of fulfillment that makes the harder parts of owning your own business worthwhile.
We are always seeing fun events held at Pigment, tell us about them and how you stay close with your community…
Due in part to Amy’s background in education (she’s taught art at the local colleges for fifteen years) workshops were a natural fit. The classes bring local artists direct to our customers. We’re hatching plans to expand the lineup and looking forward to offering some classes for kiddos too.
Talk to us about the design of your shop and what inspired it…
Weʼre artists who endeavored quite blindly into retail and the shop that followed is hard to define. Curating, merchandising and the visuals in general are the backbone. Creating the displays is really story telling. Each story starts with a thread of an idea and between curating and display develops in to a full grown concept. Style-wise we have an affinity for colorful, graphic patterning and thoughtful compositions and we revere locally made, finely crafted wares above all else. Our aesthetic stays the same, but the individual stories are always evolving. We try not to put restrictions on ourselves. It’s a retail playground where we pivot and turn as inspiration strikes.
We love all of the fresh plants and succulents in your shop, why did you include them?
At Pigment plants in general soften an otherwise more industrial space. The matriarch of our collection is a huge fig tree that reaches up in to the rafters. It towers over succulents and other smaller specimen. You can cruise through and admire their architecture or role your sleeves up and get creative at the Plant Lab, our in-store terrarium bar. As the terrarium craze hit we initially offered workshops. In time, we wanted customers to be able to build with us any time they wanted and the Plant Lab was born. Like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, we wanted it to feel like a wonderland. Colored sands, mosses and rocks line the walls in a rainbow of color engaging adults and kids alike. It’s a go-to for gifting as customers can DIY or order up from one of our associates.