Lady Peter’s Whimsy

As much as I want to give this place a 4 – 5 star review, I just don’t feel I would be completely honest doing so. As everyone say’s, the lady running the place is nice. She’s absolutely hilarious at that, and a joy to talk to. I regularly shop at the Sherman Oaks Antique Mall, and she had mentioned to me that she used to have a booth or two there before she opened her own business.
The place is a little dark, a little dusty, and a little cluttered, which is not a bad thing. You’re at an antique place for crying-​out-​loud. However, maybe it’s just the fact that I might prefer a booth set up like the Sherman Oaks Antique Mall, but I felt weird rummaging through things and trying to squeeze through like a maze; slightly uncomfortable, but that’s just me.
I might return in the future hoping to raise my review to a 4 – 5 star review, but for now my heart and my words of truth stick with 3 stars for now.

finally I found the best antique store in Burbank. this is the best because the owner is extremely friendly and you can find anything you want in the store plus fair prices

I visited the store today and found it to be really charming! And full of hidden retro and antique gems!
There is a great variety of vintage items for all.
I came for Tiki Things… so much to see. I met
Virginia, a lady with a big personality, charming, sweet and humble with a English accent… I saw her car which was an older mini Wagon and she lives in apartment. I’m not sure why someone thought
She owned a jaguar and lived In a castle! Lol
People can be so full of it ! Anyway if you love finding cool vintage things this is the place to come!

A bit cluttered, a bit dusty, and really cozy!
These are the kinds of hole-​in-​the-​wall places that you find honest to god practical antiques or vintage bits.
For example; I found a pile of scripts from the 70s that never made it to production. I found a scrapbook from a housewife around 1954 filled with things she wanted for her family. I found an old 50s hand-​held home radiation tester, and it works!
What other «vintage» or «antique» places have that kind of junk? I love this spot, and the owner is a British woman who grew up in a castle and her enormous Great Dane is sometimes in the shop.
Also, everything is negotiable and no asking price is too low! If you keep asking, you’ll get away with something good at a nice price.
Go ahead, ask her about her old Patina Jaguar. You’ll get a few stories for sure!

We got the most beautiful lamp there. The owner was very sweet & helpful. The store is tiny, but filled with so many cool things. We’re definitely planning on going back soon.

Was in there today and was blown away by how nice the British lady running the place is … Lots too look at and find… I’ll be coming back here from time to time.
There is also this really sweet great dane puppy lounging around and he is a sweet huge dog with big puffy feet.

We adore this store!!! Wall to wall — floor to ceiling goodies, trinkets & knick-​knacks!
I promise you will find the owner, Virginia, such a delight to talk to!
She made us a good deal on a 1940’s dresser! There’s so much in the store to look at! Hit up the back corner for tiki culture doo-​dads. And don’t forget to say hello to the
store mascot, Leo (Great Dane/​small horse). Put this store on your «must visit» list!

This place is a blast. Victoria is funny, charming, and wise and her tastes are impeccable. One of the best vintage shops in the city, for sure.

I was so mislead by the Unilocal reviews! This place looks awesome from the outside, but it’s so crammed and disorganized and badly lighted that it’s impossible to actually shop there. Random light fixtures for $ 150+… plastic cups in glass cases… weird… Don’t bring a big purse because you’ll accidentally knock something over.
The owner was funny… she seems to have good taste… She’d do a lot better if she set up the store the way she set up her outside display windows.
Very disappointing!

This is what a good antique store should be: a tiny space crammed with goodies up to the ceiling, dusty, and run by a slightly eccentric English woman with fabulous taste.
The owner (who I thought was named Virginia, but I see other reviewers below say it is Victoria), was friendly and helpful, and I got the feeling if I brought her a bottle of wine we could sit around and talk about Art Deco lamps or 1950s day dresses or Tiki-​themed furnishings for a couple of hours. Her prices might seem high to some, but I found them to be very reasonable, based on the condition, quality and age of her pieces. Plus, she is willing to negotiate on certain things and will be upfront if she absolutely cannot.
I left with five vintage mannequin heads and an armful of delightfully tacky fabric… and happy as can be.

Amazing & Fun … Owner is a gem:)

I love this store. I left with an English pub table that expands. I could easily spend a lot of money there on unique items for my apt. Victoria is great and gave me an awesome deal!

I wanted to love this place but it didn’t quite live up to expectations.
I’ve certainly never seen a giant shark’s head or a 10 foot tall stuffed giraffe for sale before but I don’t know those were quite the cool accent pieces I was going for.
Browsed through the store for a while but found it to be, quite honestly, quite overpriced. Better luck for similar-​type items at the Santa Monica Flea Market. Also, I’m fine with poking around in dusty corners but the store could do with some thematic organization. Ie. — all you decorative plates congregate in this corner. Things that go on people’s heads go in that pile over there.
Oh well, Lady Peter — I guess I’ll have to find some other gal pal.

Loved this store!
I ended up talking to the owner for an hour. She is great.
I felt instantly comfortable with her.
This store has THE MOST UNIQUE, COOL, KITCHY stuff I’ve ever seen. I have never seen a cooler collection of lamps… honestly!!!
I found the prices a bit expensive on the tag but if you make her an offer she’ll do the best she can and try to give it to you for a steal! She is honest and very likeable. I called her on a day when she is not even suppose to be open and she stayed until 6:30pm to meet me at the store and stayed with me there until 8:30PM. I ended up buying 2 velvet nude sixties paintings, an awesome 6×9 green shag rug, and an old fashioned mid century telephone for a great price. She is someone I connected with right away. She even referred me to other stores to clean the rug, buy lampshades, etc. She was the most helpful. If you like one of a kind pieces from any era 30’s, 4-‘s, 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s .come here to find things I swear are conversation pieces you will NEVER find anywhere else.

I had such high hopes for this place, it looks so cool from the photos and reviews… but one thing everyone failed to mention is that the whole place smells like cigarette smoke. I mean no disrespect to Victoria, she was wonderful and helpful for finding things in the jumble of ‘junk,’ but I decided not to buy a lovely set of suitcases because the fabric had absorbed that smoke smell. As somebody who does not smoke… it just grossed me out.

«Lady Peter» (aka Victoria, as I’ve learned from the other reviewers) is the kind of shop owner you hope for when you go to a vintage store like hers! She’s extremely friendly and has the most charming English accent to boot. You’ll find everything from mid-​century modern lamps (I found two that I HAD to have, much to my fiancé’s dismay… But I got an amazing deal, and an even more amazing spiced up living room!) to Hawaiiana collectibles to ‘40s-​era wind-​up robot toys.
If you have OCD, I hope you get over it, because though this place might seem to be a clutter to some, it’s a treasure chest of wonderfulness.
If you want to set your home apart and avoid having your living room look like an Ikea showroom, this is the place to hit.
Don’t forget to give Duke a good rub (don’t worry, he’s a dog — a pretty awesome one, too)!

This is the Muggle Ollivanders Wand Shop. If you can’t abide a little dust or disorder, then this store isn’t for you. For the rest of us,
Lady Peter’s Whimsy where you go to get the one-​of-​a-​kind accent piece you won’t find anywhere else.

This is one of my favorite places to shop. Victoria is hilarious and very sweet. She’s given me really good deals. I don’t go in here as often as I like, because it would be detrimental to my bank account. She has some amazing things that I wish I had the money/​space for!

Victoria, who owns this shop, is a riot. She made me a fantastic deal on this lamp that would have cost me three times as much on La Brea, and some other knick knacks I’d fallen in love with.
The shop is definitely an antique shop, with all sorts of quirky items, from phrenology heads to velvet paintings. It is supremely dusty, but that is the way an antique shop should be.