Pat's Corner
Categories: Antiques, Furniture Stores [Edit]
Neighborhood: North Park3409 30th St
(between Myrtle Ave & Upas St)
San Diego, CA 92104 (619) 299-1434
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: No
- Parking: Street
- Wheelchair Accessible: No
10 Reviews for Pat's Corner
I could spend a whole week in pats! I love this place. I would tell anyone who is looking for some new furniture to come here first! Go in, check out what you like, and you can buy as is, or they will paint and stress for you for about $20. There is so much neat stuff. My husband bought trivial persuit for $2! Sweet! They have cool random chairs, art, and just things in general to add a very homey feel to your home.
Go there, Buy, feel!!!
Fred Sanford would go apeshit in this place. Here it comes, 'Lizbeth. It's the big one this time.
How does Pat remember every piece in the store?
Me: Um, excuse me. How much is that browninsh thing behind the half painted tallish short piece?
Pat: Thirty five dollars.
Okay, I'll take it. But damn, you better get there early to get a cool thing without blue tape (SOLD!) on it. The best things always seem to have blue tape. =.(
PS--CASH ONLY!!! Yeah, there's an ATM in the liquor store next door, but its a rip off with fees. Bring cash even if you Think you're just looking...
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One of my Grandmothers was majorly into Antique Collecting...
Each time that I go in this place-- I feel that I'm doing a tribute to Nana Ruby~! She taught me how to spot unique items -- and taught me the value of finding older jewelry and making them my own.
Antiquing and finding unique-- one of a kind vintage pieces has been a hobby of mine since a wonderful weekend with a group of friends when I was at Texas Tech. This gives you some wonderfully creative ideas for decor-- and you can often save a complete bundle by finding a place that offers things at a remarkable discount-- compared to what you'd spend at a department store or home decor store that features brand spanking new items.
This is the type of shopping that is an Acquired Taste.
You are not bombarded here with the Best of the Best type Neon Lights that say "Look at Me"... "Buy Me".... " Take Me Home".
This is more of one of those mysterious (almost Cat-like shopping experiences). Going on the prowl... sniffing things out... finding something that you didn't expect.... and then dragging home the kill.
I simply LOVE this type of shopping!!!
Pat's is a North Park treasure-- located on the corner across from Zensei Sushi and Alexanders (my new favorite restaurant). This is an up and coming area... and I really like the fact that Pat's is here.
I found this place about 4 years ago-- and go in there about once ever 6 weeks--- to see if they have anything new. Have bought some very reasonably priced home decor items in here... lamps, flower pots, home accessories. Each thing that I've brought home -- has felt unique and has added a creative statement to my home.
This is like "Flea Market" shopping---
Which actually brings out that part of my Gypsy Creative Spirit.
Love this type of experience!
So glad that Pat's is in the Neighborhood.
I really enjoy killing time in here...
Always see something new -- and it reminds me of Nana Ruby!
Here's to Nana Ruby!
Thanks for teaching me the value of a great Flea Market and Antique Hunt!!!
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Interesting place. The idea is that you find a broken-down piece of furniture and they will fix it and shabby-chic it for you. The problem: most of that broken-down furniture is absolute junk.
I love Pat's~ It's my fav thrift store in the whole wide world. The one thing I hate the most are those wanna-be-fancy thrift stores that sells crap but try to over-marked up everything. Most of everything here at Pat's is reasonably priced with the exception of the few larger/authentic pieces. Nothing is ever priced, you just have to find Pat, the owner, and ask her for it. Everything with blue tape means it's been sold, so don't even ask. You can get everything re-painted, cut down in height, or even combine two pieces for a very reasonable price. For example, I bought a small two-tier side table for $25 but for only $35 ($10 more), Pat repainted it black n distressed. What a deal right? I love finding treasures in a great dump like Pat's. I come by to visit whenever I am in town.
love love love this place. it looks like a dump, and with all due respect it kinda is, but you'll find the most amazing shit here. need a new dining room table? new bookshelves? an antique bedside table? don't go to ikea, you idiot, come here! pat has incredible, unique furniture (best for wood-based pieces) for really dirt cheap. and the best part is that she'll paint, distress, refinish, or generally fix up any of her stuff, also for cheap. you can furnish your entire house or apartment with really cool, unique stuff for less than half of what you'd pay at a normal furniture store.
but the fun doesn't stop: want to find the most hideous ceramic figurine on the face of the planet? dying to hang up a particularly awful watercolor? could you use a mannequin in your life? want to hang out with two super cute shop kitties? appreciate a free cookie or popcorn? respect an independent company that hires people in recovery? wanna hang with the coolest, sharpest, memory-like-a-steel-trap, hardest working older woman in san diego? love great finds, antiques, crafty recycling, and furniture with character?
i thought so. go here with a quickness.
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Wow, this is my kind of antique store. It's huuuuuuge, and has lots and lots and LOTS of furniture from different eras in different stages of repair. It runs the gamut from two gorgeous good condition modern leather settees ($1000 for the pair!) to really funky older credenzas already painted a crazy shade of teal and magenta, leaning towards more of the latter.
It's just fun to look through, and the couple of resident cats winding their way through this maze must be in heaven. The only downside (and this is a common one amongst my favorite places) is there's so much stuff that sometimes pieces you want to look at get buried, and you'd feel bad asking the elderly lady working there to help you move it around, so you don't and miss out on what could've been the best thing ever, you'll never know.
(One thing I might ask her though, is if we could buy some of that popcorn she was making fresh in an old-fashioned popcorn machine; the thing looked like it hadn't been cleaned since Vietnam, but tell that to my nostrils that could only smell the sweet, sweet aroma of fresh popcorn...ahhhhh...)
p.s. Oh yeah, and it's moved. Go to the new address on 30th.
Offering everything from Star Wars costumes to an old popcorn machine, Pat's may seem like a thrift store but is actually more of a used furniture boutique. It focuses on born-again home decor and is perfect if you are looking for something cheap and with character (Ikea has no soul!) and do not have a full Saturday to spend yard/estate sale shopping.
There is a workshop in the back so I think they fix furniture there, too.
AV
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3409 30th St.
San Diego, CA, 92104
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Pat's is a junk shop. I mean that in the nicest possible way, I swear. This place is loaded with a random assortment of used merchandise. From paintings, to paperbacks, dinner plates to dressers. Lots of furniture, a neon carousel horse, CD's and cassette tapes of music that is still overpriced at 25 cents, it's all here.
One item that utterly befuddled me was a green sculpture of a sitting baby, with a plastic baby doll head embedded in it, and a hand (like the Hamburger Helper guy) coming out of the top. I almost bought it.
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