Gill’s Home and Garden

Cool shop, lots of different types of things for sale.
I just went to have a key made, which was fast and worked great. Thanks for the great customer service! :)

A wonderful and handy little DIY store handily place where there are none for miles around. It is a pain to go traipsing all the way to Wickes when all you need is some twine and a peg or two so when I lived just over the Hove border I was very glad to have this place around. If you just have an eency job to do, you will be quite alright here, if you have to install a new staircase or fix your roof, best call a professional anyways.

Gill’s Home and Garden is a useful resource for those who are short of time and thick of wallet. They combine the delights of a small plant nursery, a hardware store, a furniture store (in some limited capacity) and even a key cutting service. With their outdoor pavement display they certainly bring a little greenery to the otherwise rather urban Western road. I do find them to be a little pricey though. This is perhaps the only let down they suffer, the service is fine and I always feel free to browse. The stock is a fetching range of utilitarian and kitsch with things like boot polish brushes, outdoor candles and enamelled garden tools with floral patterns all over them.

Living in central Brighton, the most you’ll have in terms of a garden is usually a balcony, a windowsill or a small patio. The place to go to make your city garden look as bright and colourful as your neighbours is Gill’s Home and Garden.
An independent business owned and run by a passionate gardener, Gill’s stocks everything you could need from plant pots, tubs and compost to herbs, seeds, flowers and plant food. The selection outside the shop gives a good indicator of their stock with small bay trees and camelias nestling for space next to tulips and daffodils. At the back of the shop however, there’s a lovely garden with more stock including rosemary, thyme, dahlias, perenials and rose bushes.
Handily, you can also pick up everyday household items from Gill’s too with a strong emphasis on natural and environmentally friendly products. In short, a cracking little business with green fingers and credentials.

Gill’s Home and Garden is a funny little shop, specialising in all sorts of random house and garden items, mostly with a slightly ecological bent. The prices are reasonable and the selection good, and the service here is really lovely: always a smile, often a piece of good advice. They haven’t the selection of the big chains, but Gills is a great place to go and look for any house stuff you may need: chances are you’ll be able to buy something more ecologically friendly and cheaper!
Gill’s main stock in trade is its home and household goods, stocking various random bits of house paraphenalia, and was always my first port of call when something went wrong in my Hove house (I lived around the corner). More often than not, I either found what I needed, or asked for some advice and got given something that would do the job better than anything I could have thought of. The service in here is really excellent: every piece of advice I’ve received in here has been so useful.
An example, just to highlight how great this little place is: our old house in Hove had a bit of a fly problem: it was one of the first communal bin streets, so there was a bit of an ongoing tiny fly population, you know, the little fruit flies. We tried everything, but every time you opened the window, you ended up with between 5 – 10 of these flies buzzing around the room for the next week. At Gills, I went to buy some fly spray: I wanted these little so-​and-​sos dead! Instead, I walked out with notes on how to make 2 – 3 homemade fly traps that didn’t ruin the ozone layer, and a promise to be the first to get a Venus fly-​trap when they bought more a month later. Everything worked better than some spray ever could have!
Personal experiences aside, I’ve found Gills to be a great place to go for house and garden issues of any kind, and would recommend picking the people’s brains, as well as seeing what they might have for your issue.

Aside from selling almost everything you could need to turn a house into a home, Gill’s Home and Garden has a beautiful little secret. If you’re in need of fresh herbs or garden plants you might just find what you’re looking for out their back door. Walk through the shop, up the stairs and through the plastic flysheets and you’ll find yourself in a small but scenic little garden. They also offer regular services like key cutting but be warned this place is a tad expensive, however, you can’t deny the quality of the products.

Gill’s Home and Garden looks like an average plant or florist shop from the outside, but the range of items is actually comparative to a home/​hardware or discount shop. There’s a bit of everything, starting, of course, with plants, soil, pots, and fertilizing products.
Inside, pet supplies are plentiful, including food, toys and comfy beds. Kitchenware includes dishes, baking pans and utensils, cutlery and a few cooking-​whilst-​camping items — like an outdoor stove. There’s a range of cleaning products, with both natural and chemical ingredients, and some random items like rags, string, glue … basic home fix-​it stuff, I think.
Gill’s also offers a key cutting service. They really do a bit of everything, and do it for reasonable prices.

If you are living or staying in Hove and you need something to make your house a home Gill’s Home and Garden is where you need to be. They sell a wide range of products at competitive prices, so if you’re looking for a new whisk or even something for your pet there’s a good chance they’ll be able to sort you out. They even offer a key cutting service.
However, the thing that makes this place stand out from the rest is the charming little garden out back, featuring an array of floral pleasantries with compost, seeds and potted plants for sale. It’s worth a visit so if you’re in Hove on a sunny day with nothing to do you should definitely check it out!