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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