Rococos

Chilliwack has been putting up houses at a rate few places in the province can match, and every one of them eventually needs filling. That is the demand a furniture shop here is working against. The trade in this city divides three ways: independent showrooms, generally in Sardis or along the Young Road corridor, selling sofas, mattresses and dining sets; a substantial second-hand and consignment side, which is what happens where there is a lot of downsizing and a lot of arriving at the same time; and a small maker layer of cabinetmakers and reclaimed-timber workshops tucked into industrial pockets and out on the rural roads. A city adding households at this rate keeps all three of them busy.

Which of the three strands this shop belongs to is not something that can be settled here, and it would be wrong to guess. Nothing here records whether it sells new, used, consigned or made to order. There is no phone number and no website published, so a screen will not settle it either. Furniture is one of the few things people still want to sit on before they buy it, which makes the missing website less of an obstacle in this category than it would be in most. Going and looking was always going to be part of it.