The 42 Best Spots at Lake Como to Buy Affordable Decor, Housewares, Hardware and Handy Accessories
“An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you’re the author.”
- Charlotte Moss
There’s a moment after the Notary Deed when you think: okay, now it’s time to turn my new house into a real home. And what better way to do this than shopping for some decorative little stuff like rugs, lamps, pillows, bed sheets, plates… Maybe you also have a garden, and you need to furnish your outdoor too or buy handy tools for gardening. And again: perhaps some rooms in your new home need a new coat of paint, and hence the one million dollars question: where do I buy house painting at Lake Como?
And if it’s an awning for your lake view terrace that you’re after, where can you buy it?
We know how exhausting can be for you international clients to surf online to find where buying these little (but necessary, still) stuff at Lake Como, so we prepared for you a curated list of 42 local sources for buying reasonably priced items for your home.
We have divided all spots by location, for an easier consultation.
Ready to take notes?
PORLEZZA and surroundings
Agrifer
Where: Via Ceresio 35, Porlezza
What you can find: garden machinery, outdoor furniture, everything for gardening, hardware, heating (stoves included), BBQ, housewares. They also have an online shop!
Brico Io
Where: SS340 3, Carlazzo
What you can find: accessories for car, motorcycle and cycle, home decor, multimedia and technology, audio and video, air conditioning and heating, power tools and hardware, garden and open air, electricity and lighting, construction and wood, articles for animals, paints, decoration and DIY, hydraulics.
Sala Angelo e Bruno, Tutto per la casa
Where: Via Ceresio 30, Porlezza
What you can buy: lighting fixtures, all kind of appliances (washing machines etc.), decoration items, awnings.
Cose Belle S.N.C di Crippa & C
Where: Via Ceresio 12
What you can find: flowers, shabby chic decor.
Colorificio New Color
Where: Via per Osteno 8/A
What you can find: wholesale resale and details of colors for the home, bodywork and carpentry. Wide assortment of products for Fine Arts.
Casa Market Risparmio
Where: Via Ceresio (before the traffic light!)
What you can find: households of all types and very cheap stuff.
Floricoltura Selvaggio
Where: Via Ceresio 51
What you can find: it’s a nursery with a great variety of plants and flowers.
Ferramenta Nuova Sae 3
Where: SS340 2430, Carlazzo
What you can find: articles bricolage and DIY, gardening, paints, carpentry and ironmongery, hardware tools, shelving, safety locks, handles, fixing items, decoration items, frames, wall coverings, curtains and fabrics. They also offer a key duplication service!
REP Shop Center
Where: Via Ceresio 64
What you can buy: household and hardware.
MENAGGIO
Radio Tv Service Snc di Biraghi Davide & Luca
Where: Via al Lago 7
What you can find: appliances and electronics, toys, gardening and DIY, housewares, furniture.
Decio Immagine e casa
Where: Via Calvi 20
What you can find: furnishings, linen, decorations, fabrics, curtains, mattresses. They have an online shop too!
Azienda agricola Franconi Mario
Where: Via Cadorna 200, Grandola ed Uniti
What you can find: a nursery with a great variety of plants and flowers.
SAN SIRO
Dino Giardelli
Where: Strada Antica Regina 33
What you can find: building materials, hardware, chimneys and stoves, garden furniture, tiles and stones.
Colorificio Raveglia
Where: Via Statale 14
What you can find: enamels, wall paints, wall coverings, wood line paints, water-based wood line paints, anti-rust and bases, fixatives and insulators, stucco, epoxy coatings, siloxane, waterproofing, special products.
Fumagalli Roberto tende
Where: Via Carozzi 66, San Siro
What you can buy: fabrics, curtains and sun awnings.
DONGO
Luca Saglio
Where: Via Manzi Don Giovanni 24
What you can buy: metalware, household appliances, home accessories, garden furniture.
An-fa market
Where: Viale della Rimembranza 29
What you can buy: it’s the typical Chinese bazar with plenty of surprisingly useful stuff, from home to car accessories, DYI, clothes, shoes, gardening tools… in a word, everything!
GRAVEDONA ed UNITI
Oscar Cap
Where: Via regina 77, Consiglio di Rumo
What you can buy: housewares, garden furniture, pieces of furniture, DIY, paints.
Piante e Fiori Giovenzana
Where: Via S. Gusmeo, Gravedona ed Uniti
What you can buy: nursery with a wide selection of plants and flowers.
Colorificio Marioli
Where: Via Cossoni 7, Gravedona ed Uniti
What you can buy: paints, colors, frames.
TREMEZZINA
Feval Elettroforniture
Where: Via Statale 67, Lenno
What you can buy: lighting, air conditioning systems, conditioning treatment and air purification, domotic technologies, products for energy saving, electronics, information technology, household appliances, telephony and much more.
COLICO, VALTELLINA AND SURROUNDING
Kasanova
Where: Centro Commerciale Fuentes, Via La Rosa 354, Piantedo (but also: Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour 40, Lecco)
What you can buy: housewares, textiles, frames, rugs, little appliances.
La Corte di Giovanna Ciapessoni
Where: Via Luigi Sacco 33, Colico
What you can buy: country/shabby chic decoration items, cushions, candles, dishes, bed sheets, bath towels.
Antichità Fuentes
Where: SS36, Trivio di Fuentes, Gera Lario (CO)
What you can buy: outdoor furniture (statues, wrought-iron garden houses, arches, benches, tables and chairs) and materials for renovations (e.g. portal floors and steps in all materials like marble, stone, wood).
Maisons du Monde
Where: Via del Piano, Castione Andevenno
What you can buy: stylish furniture, outdoor furniture, lighting, decoration items, candles, mirrors, frames, paintings and canvas prints, pottery, lanterns, linen, rugs, tablecloths, dishes, toys.
Spaccio Zucchi e Bassetti
Where: Via Legnone 22, Delebio
What you can buy: quality duvets and linen.
Hao Mai Mercatone
Where: Via Nazionale 217, Piantedo
What you can buy: Chinese shopping center with eeeeverything you can imagine.
Risparmio Casa
Where: Via Nazionale 77, Castione Andevenno
What you can buy: detergents, household accessories, dog food, toys, TV, furniture.
Vivaio Martinelli - Garden center
Where: SS36, Gera Lario
What you can buy: huge choice of plants, flowers, vegetables, garden equipment, embellishment accessories.
VALLE INTELVI
Vivaio Amica Flora
Where: Castiglione d’Intelvi
What you can buy: plants, flowers, topsoil, outdoor little decorations, Km 0 vegetables.
Gilardoni Marco
Where: Via Roma, Dizzasco
What you can buy: nursery with a wide selection of plants and flowers.
Elettro & Casa Snc
Where: Via Roma 40, San Fedele Intelvi
What you can buy: household accessories and appliances.
Cielle Sas
Where: Via Provinciale 115, S.Fedele Intelvi
What you can buy: household, hardware and glassware shop.
COMO and surrounding
Cip Garden
Where: Via Varesina, 267, Como
What you can buy: lands and garden equipment, indoor and outdoor plants, flowers and furnishing accessories such as tables, chairs, deck chairs and BBQ, indoor furniture and accessories in shabby chic style.
Casa Como
Where: Via Pasquale Paoli 47/a
What you can buy: linen, decoration, indoor and outdoor furniture.
Grandi Magazzini Bossi - Grancasa
Where: Via del Malnino, 5, Gerenzano VA
What you can buy: metalware, household accessories, electronics.
Kasanova
Where: Centro Commerciale Lario - Via Asiago 2
What you can buy: household accessories, textiles, frames, rugs, little appliances.
Mondo Convenienza
Where: Montano Lucino, Via dell’Industria 1
What you can buy: this is more for heavy furniture like kitchens and bedrooms, but you can also find smaller interesting furniture accessories.
MILANO
In Milano and surroundings you can find the most well-known chain of stores for housewares, like:
Ikea: Milano Corsico (Via Marchesi 4) and Milano Carugate (Via dell’artigianato 7);
Leroy Merlin: Lissone (Via Nuova Valassina 57) and Nova Milanese (Via SS 35 dei Giovi, Km 135/810);
Maisons du Monde: Via Fratelli d’Italia 16, Rescaldina;
Arese Il Centro (Via Giuseppe Eugenio Luraghi, 11, Arese MI): in this huge shopping mall you can find stores like Bialetti, Flying Tiger, Casa, Kasanova, Nespresso, Thun, Fazzini, H&M Home, Zara Home, Primark, Maisons Du Monde, Viridea, Vorwerk.
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