Not Too Shabby

5 Stars all the way, I Love this store, This store is family owned by a mother and son, Vikki and Joe. They make you fell like your part of the family when visiting the store.
When looking for unique gifts, or home décor this is where to shop. You could spend hours and hours in the store. I’m always telling my friends of what a unique and fun place to shop and the music makes you want to dance.
To the people that gave this store less than a 5 star review: are you just mean or self centered, give me a brake, someone did not say hi to YOU when you came in the store! Really!!! are you two years old.

Not Too Shabby is more of a vintage re-​claimed store than a Thrift store.
Many of the items have a sweet charm to them that only comes with art and/​or being lived in for 30 years. It’s a Meg’s dream, because Meg’s LOVE vintage art stores. And Not Too Shabby is no different.
Main draws are that they have a really wide selection of different inside and outdoor furniture for whatever idea pops into your head. Most of the items are in really great condition, though I will always dislike unprofessionally painted vintage pieces. I.e., Fugliness. Great for blackboard paint, not so good for that vintage french artisan «feel.» (Yuck)
That being said, the prices also aren’t fabulous, which I understand seeing as this store is on the more vintage and less boutique side of the spectrum, but sometimes they’re hard to get past. We reconsidered several pieces just simply because we weren’t sure they’d work, and they weren’t priced well enough for us to throw caution to the wind.
All in all, it wasn’t 5 stars to me — though many of the pieces (especially the porch swing) were memorable and awesome enough to really make me want to return.

Rude owner!!! I went inside to shop and found the owner gossiping about her venders on the phone and to (who I found out later) was her son. She was sharp in tone and calling another vender names. The store is nice though. I tried to ask the owner a question after she got off the phone but she acted as if I wasn’t even there. A vender helped me understand the «in and outs» of how each vender has a different spot and the items are theirs to sell. It’s too bad, as I will not shop here due to the owner and I know the venders suffer as a result, which is sad. Giving my money (the owner apparently takes a commission on venter sales and venders pay rent to her) to the owner who acts so unprofessional doesn’t seem right in any context.

I went to look at a peice the owner was selling on craigslist and she was very unprofessional and rude. I told her i just want to take a look at the item to see if it meets my family’s needs and she said ya ok come take a look at it. But when i showed up to her place she was walking me around trying to sell me crap that was modern for ridiculous prices. Im a collector of antiques and this stuff was crap from the 90’s that she painted then she told me some story about how some crap desk she painted was going to he in a magazine like i care about that she wasted 1 hr of my time showing me her house and bragging the whole time. When i finally told her i dont like the shabby chic look she got flustered and told me to leave cuz she said i was waisting her time cuz i didn’t want to buy her shabby crap. I clearly told her in the email i just wanted to drop by real fast to see if the piece would match my living room colors. This lady is crazy i would never give her $ 1…well mabe cuz she did kind of look like a bum… lol…

I love the character and quality of the three items I bought, a desk and two dressers. You can’t get the same real-​wood quality and character in today’s furniture!) And, it’s already put together for you! Love it!

I drive by here often and decided to stop. Sadly one star for a few reasons. Painted furniture that is vintage or antique lessens the value greatly. Shabby Chic French country tags don’t mean it’s French. Sad stencil painted things, with horrible lettering that is not even straight. Fake little «Parisienne» Rue de blahblahblah stuff. Depressing 7^th grade level lettering.
Stuff priced in the the garden is really just old junk. (CAR DOOR? 40 bucks? needed for… what?)
Mainly, the proprietor was a turn off to me. On the day I visited, she was talking to some guy in a cheap suit about being featured on his youtube channel. I’m all for networking, but maybe take a break and greet your clients?
The guy finally left as she gushed on and on about her 23 year old son who was running the other shop on hillsadale avenue. (wonder if i will go maybe he’s cooler)
After the guy left, I wandered a bit more. hoping to get some questions answered. Instead someone called her and I heard her talking down about one of her vendors to someone else on the phone. I thought that was rude and unprofessional considering her vendors pay her rent. Keep it in the back room. I turned the corner from one of the nooks, she looked up from her gossip session on the phone, made eye contact with me said nothing and turned away. She had a sour expression and I felt lucky in the end to have had zero interaction with her.
The combination of fake faux french paint splattered stuff, junk with price tags in her «Garden Area» and the owner herself get a whopping ONE star.
Try to have some manners.
Guess what I work in client service, and I have worked in antiques.
step up your game since antiques row is about a block up.

One of the vendors messaged me to point out that only one dealer at Not Too Shabby uses chalk paint. That may be technically true, but there is quite a bit of painted antique/​vintage furniture in there and I probably just can’t tell the difference.
Note that this review was for the Bascom site and the new Camden location had not yet opened. I enjoy browsing through both locations, painted furniture or not.

Stopped by Not Too Shabby when they were having a sale that was advertised on Craigslist. Store was cluttered with a lot of junk. Merchandise was dirty and damaged, but the prices were high. The owner named Vicki and her employees were not friendly nor helpful. I witnesses the owner mistreat and speak unkindly to an older woman who was purchasing a large garden item. That really turned me off. Not Too Shabby is pretty shabby.

The warehouse has a large and great selection of vintage stuff. However, the owner is not too great at responding to our inquiry about a typewriter. We reached out to her several times and she never got back to us. Seems like she didn’t want to sell it to her. It’s disappointing for a store that sell rare vintage items. We never went back there again!

I would give this place zero stars if I could.
I was emptying my Grandmother’s estate & had many antique/​vintage items I was interested in selling. I text the owner & they had me send pics of what I had to them. After I took the time to take the pics & send them I never got a response. This is after I had sent a email 3 days earlier inquiring about selling to them & never got a response.
When I went in store initially the staff was not friendly & sloppy in appearance. Prices were very high, the store smelled horrible & there were dead flies on the displays. Dont waist your time.

I have bought many things here and have taken many friends in who also found much to buy. It is all well displayed, but is priced by individual vendors, so some thing seems overpriced by certain vendors. Things are always changing and sell fast, so if you find something you like, buy it then (or put a 24 hour hold on it).

A few month ago I had an old chandelier very heavy and wanted to sell it, the owner was not there was a lady that works there, her questions how much do u want for that? I looked around and others chandeliers were high priced. So I said between $ 50-​$ 100, ok she said the owner is not here. call her later. I called her later, she was not giving me a straight answer. So I asked do u want to buy it or not? I do not have all the time in the world, finally she had said she is not interested, could not get a straight answer from her, so I believe this place does not give a good service, it sucks!!!

Pretty big store full of vintage items from jewelry, bedroom, living room, décor, live plant décor, kitchen, games, furniture, tea cups, dolls, pillows, mirrors, art and just so much other junky but gorgeous stuff if you can see the beauty in vintage items!
I’ve been looking for a vanity for the bedroom and I found one I loved for about $ 500! Not in love with the price and anyway it was already purchased. That said, some items are way overpriced and I saw in other reviews prices here are non negotiable.
However another vanity set was only $ 60 and with a little paint and altering it woulda been nice. Some items I feel are worth it and others I feel you can look at garage sales or cheaper thrift stores. But the store itself was so beautiful with antiques. I’m dumb, next time I’ll come with a truck so I can actually buy something.

I accidentally discovered this place while in San Jose visiting my mother in the hospital. Was driving by and it caught my eye. I am a designer decorating a 100 year old home and the client wants authentic pieces. Great selection but seriously unprofessional staff! I took pictures of everything I was interested in and emailed the client. I WISH I HAD READ THESE REVIEWS FIRST, because the client was very interested in everything and the prices were great, but the transaction was from hell! I bought 15 items and it was torture!
I returned to L.A. and tried to complete the transaction by email and phone. (typically I send photos to a client first and after receiving the go-​ahead I complete the transaction; email was necessary so that the owner could see the pictures of the pieces I was trying to buy). The store didn’t have a computer and the owner kept telling me her smart phone was stolen so there was no way to look at my email. (Who owns a business these days without the internet??) She was EXTREMELY unprofessional while calling me «Hon». YUCK!
When arranging to ship to L.A. she quoted $ 2000. I found my own driver and truck and did it for $ 800. (the antiques were priced low enough that the total was still a better price than L.A. plus a better selection. That was the only good news.) When she finally used one of her employees home computers she offensively told me some of the items had been sold. No apology… She would threaten me that she was putting my stuff in storage and would charge me if the shipper didn’t show up before closing. He showed up on time and loaded with no problem, so the negative b.s. was so unnecessary.
If they hadn’t been for a very good client I would have walked away. Just a horrible experience! I would never go back.

I love this place! We didn’t buy anything this time around because we didn’t find the specific thing we were looking for, but there was a great selection of items, priced right. we had so much fun walking around and looking and surely will be back to check out future merchandise. Parking was easy in a lot.

Came here a few times in the past and didn’t find anything that actually caught my eye.
Passing through the neighborhood, I thought why not stop and see what they have this time.
On the weekend i came across this classic Pepsi superman glass cup that i absolutely fell in love with which had no price tag on it. I went to the guy who was working at the cashier and asked him for the price. He asks me where I found the cup and I showed him the exact location. The cup was next to 3 other glasses which were also Pepsi BUT not superman, (looney toones, uncle scrooge, and some other character I had no idea who it was) The man told me oh this is a «set» and its 28 dollars. I then ask him how this is a so called «set» all the characters are completely different and there’s no way this is a set. I told him I would like to negotiate or ask the seller if they would go down a little on the price because in the end I just want the superman glass. He tells me that there’s no way he can bring down the price, that’s what the owner wants… i can really care less what the owner wants… I’m the customer here trying to buy something and you’re telling me i basically cant have it without buying the other characters… He then steps away to make a phone call to the owner to see if he/​she will go down on the price…(he really could of just pretended to call someone… who knows!)
He tells me that «im sorry HUN, there’s nothing I can do. I tried to talk to the owner on the price but cant do less or just sell you 1 cup– You have to take all or none. That right there just made me furious. I told him that its an inconvenience to your customers that 1.) you don’t nor wont negotiate on prices or at least break up the set because it clearly doesn’t match together!!!
I’m never coming back to this place. Complete rip! They don’t care about their customers and just want your money.
Sorry– taking my business somewhere else!
P. S. DONT call me «hun» you dont know me nor do I know you in any way shape or form

This place is amazing! I’m moving into my first apartment and was looking for some unique and well-​priced «shabby-​chic» pieces’ I was amazed by the selection and the prices. I bought a vintage looking vanity desk and nightstand and cant wait to come back for unique decorating pieces.

If any of you havent heard of this place, I went today and it is amazing! If you are throwing any sort of bridal shower, baby shower, tea party, antique themed anything it is to DIE for! I want to redo my whole house in French country shabby chic now!
this place actually has 3 stores all next to each other and I love everything in there. I didn’t find the very odd specific thing I went looking for, but could have spent hours there and bought a ton of stuff if I had any purpose for it. I will go here the next time I need new décor!

This place is to die for. I have been about 20 times in the past 4 months in my room makeover! Ok maybe not thaaaat many times. But at least 6 times and they always remember me and say Hi and are so friendly and sweet :-)
I have found a little shabby stool to use as a nightstand, vintage shutters to use as a bulletin board, a mirror for my desk, etc.
The best part is their estate sale at the Clifton house in SJ. It is held a few times annually. OMG! I never wanted to leave. It was truly a magical oasis of beautifully curated furniture, accessories, etc., all priced really well. I got a marie antoinette (my idol!) painting, pillows, chair cushions, a mini dress form and just all this random décor for like 100 dollars and I had two trips to my car. The sale is amazing and hosted a few times a year so check it out!
Thanks for everything, Shabby Chic!!!
PS: Shabby-​ette and the other store next door are also to die for! Keep it up!

Not Too Shabby was an accidental find during a recent errand run, and what a treat! The venue is packed from floor to ceiling with all kinds of treasures. If you’re on a mission to find something specific, be ready to spend a good chunk of time sifting through all the goods. There is no rhyme or reason to how things are organized.
This business gets 4 stars for having amazing merchandise. I am withholding the fifth star because 1) prices are a bit higher here than other places I have visited, and 2) it could improve on customer service. Even though I was in the shop for about 45 minutes, the lady on site did not greet me once.