Bend Bungalow

Come an check out the fun nick nack selection and some more serious art pieces… We love the staff too, very kind!

On a recent, and first, visit to Bend my friend and I stumbled upon this little business. I gotta tell you what a fantastic find! Great range of Arts and Crafts pieces, at a great range of prices too.
They have amazing handmade Arts and Crafts decorative tiles from New Zealand, and a host of things to choose from that would make outstanding gifties for loved ones.
It was so warm and homey in there, everything was displayed beautifully. Every time I thought I was done looking, something else jumped up to greet me.
I really love this shop, and wished there was something similar to it in Portland, OR. It was just the right size, with just the right selection. It was inspiring.
Love that it exists, and gives me another reason to want to revisit Bend.

Bend Bungalow is a cool not so little store than specializes in Arts & Crafts type accessories and home items. The selection is broad, the choices are handsome, browsing around is fun (and sometimes educational), and it’s all fairly affordable. The owners also aren’t purists as they mix in Art Nouveau, Asian, and Northwest Lodge elements that influence the overall style.
Gayle and I stopped in during our recent visit to Bend. There were actually several items that caught my attention that I was ready to buy. As the Man of the House, I pulled rank and then got it yanked right out from under me! Maybe next time…

The change has done ‘em good! Much expanded in their new location on Wall Street over what was in inventory when the store was on Bond Street. Although they’ve been in their new digs for a while, we had not yet been inside given that previously we felt the items for sale, while lovely, were too arts and crafts era oriented for our home.
But today we found a nice expansion of accessories and home items. The store’s merchandise is still arts and crafts centric but with other items added and we ended up making a couple of purchases.
The goods for sale range from table linens to lamps to soaps to jewelry to wall art to birdhouses to table top accessories to candles to decorative books to greeting cards to vases to area rugs… I just scratched the surface. If you like birds, nature themes, botanicals, great textures and colors there is probably something here for you even if the Bungalow era isn’t your look.
Prices are fair too, not low but reasonable for a downtown store.
It’s also a well lit comfortable space for shopping with wide aisles to make it pleasant. (The sardine can aisles and product spacing in some stores is a puzzle for how the owners think It is good for customers.) And in this case the reward for the owners is that, as example today, the shoppers included a dad pushing a stroller and a woman using a mobility aid. Good access brings in customers.
Footnote for my «good access» comment above: there is a one step down to the lower part of the store so if you use a wheelchair, just a «head up» about that barrier to full participation.