There is a cute little store at the corner of Main Street and 29th ave. We opened our doors there in the summer of 2003. Back then, the area was called Antique Row due to the large number of antique dealers clustered in that area. Today, however, our neighbourhood has been gentrified to hip boutiques, restaurants, and artisan clothing stores.
When I started, and ‘we’ was just ‘me’, my focus was new and used bedroom furniture in retail and e-commerce settings. Proud to say that my company was one the first furniture stores in Canada with an e-commerce platform. Even Sears did not have it at that point of time.
Slowly and surely with trial and error, experience, market demand, a little luck and a lot of work, reading books and taking classes, Bunk Beds Canada evolved. First got rid of used, then brought in all bedroom related products. From duvets and pillows, cribs and nursery products, to mattress and frames, and sofa beds to futons. Idea was ‘furniture and furnishings for your bedroom‘.