Although we visited Urban Outfitter’s garden center last year, we were so charmed with the experience there that we had to pay a visit when we were in the neighborhood last weekend. Garden center doesn’t describe the Terrain store well. It’s a home and garden wonderland.
Suburbia is often written off as a wasteland of MacHomes and copy cat malls that serve a population that rejects individuality and creativity. Terrain challenges this assumption – the place was packed with people looking for an alternative, seeking something different and trying to make a change.
The team behind this one-of-a-kind store have curated a fantastic collection of plants, furniture (new, old and vintage looking), beauty products, home items, kitchen essentials, lighting and you-name-it odds and ends. Throughout the grounds (it is extensive) there are constant eco-reminders of reuse, recycling and adaptability. It’s a superb experience where you can’t wait to get around the next corner to see what treasure you’d discover there. We’d say it was the most beautiful store we have recently visited in the US.
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Mixed use of space – furniture, ornaments & plants:
Hot-house interior:
Gardening store:
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Terrain – 914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills, PA 19342 -Â Â 610-459-2400
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AKA, someplace I should not be allowed to go with my own money in hand. Nice walkthru.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Excellent. Pure wabi·sabi.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Originally from the area, really cool place. I visit often, but you are right, it is awfully persuasive to the wallet. Great book buyers, fantastic resteraunt/cafe, amazing gardenwear, and more. It is worth checking out. Just 20/30 minutes west of Philly.
See everyone at the conference.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
just finished looking at the 7.2 million eco house, then see this which is quite possibly valued at nothing near that amount of money…. yet 7.2 million times as valuable in experience.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:09 am