Best Home & Garden IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

And the winner is …

City View Antique Mall Lake Highlands readers named it their favorite place to shop for home and garden accessories.

Lake Highlands resident Joan Williams, sister Ellen Paulsen and their mom Joan Paulsen opened City View almost three years ago. The center is home base to some 65 antiques dealers. A bi-annual market coming in October showcases dozens of extra vendors.

City View requires vendors to stick to antiques, the owners say, with a few exceptions — a wildly popular product called Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan, for example, which City View vendor Karla Ritchie carries at her Lady Butterbug shop inside the mall.

Readers selected hardware shop Gecko True Value which showcases local artists, designers and farmers and live poultry in addition to traditional hardware-store nuts and bolts — as runner up.

Longtime neighborhood staple Brumley Gardens, featuring a formidable array of plants and outdoor equipment, rounds out the podium at number three.

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Kristie Jemison