Home Decor, Gifts, Antiques, Artisans, and Specialty Foods
Helping Colorado families realize their dream home.
Home Decor, Gifts, Antiques, Artisans, and Specialty Foods
Helping Colorado families realize their dream home.
About Us
Experience Elizabeth, Colorado
Walking into the Carriage Shoppes in Elizabeth is like stepping back into time, an illusion created by the surrounding antique furniture and ambience of the building itself.
In 2005, the building was restored to its original 1895 condition. History is some of the allure of this business because of stories the antiques suggest and the building’s own historical past. An antique MGM Studios buggy near the front entrance suggests the romance of the silver screen. and the shop’s historical past includes time as the town center, a live theater, a blacksmith shop with chimney still intact, home to a buggy and wagon dealership and a backroom that once housed the horses.
The Carriage Shoppes is a wonderland of unique gifts. In 2020, Janet and Ed Beard purchased The Carriage Shoppes in order to create community, memories, and give an opportunity for artisans and entrepreneurs to learn about business. With over 15 vendors in a 5,000 square foot barn, customers delight in putting together gift baskets for friends and family or finding decor to turn their home into a dream house.
To quote one of the testimonials in a book sitting on the counter, “You could go through 20 stores to see all the merchandise [found] in this store.”
Among favorite items of patrons are the shop’s own-label jellies and jams, paintings that the owner herself paints on the wood from her property, farmhouse style luxury home decor, candles, pillows, jewelry, furniture, and specialty foods used for gift baskets or to take home and enjoy.
After browsing or in anticipation of a long siege of browsing, a shopper can have tea in the attached tea room. The tea room has soups, sandwiches, desserts, tea and three different tea rooms that can accommodate a group or just one person. The tea room is open for showers and birthday parties, and will have specials on Mother’s Day and other holidays. High tea is also an option.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Starting in the fall of 2020, the owners will be giving carriage rides with their beautiful black Clydesdale horses during the "Sip and Shop" events on the first Friday night of every month.
The holidays are also exciting for us & during the months of November and December, we transform our shop into a winter wonderland that will inspire you to create beauty and luxury throughout your home.
MAKE YOUR OWN GIFT BASKET
With so many choices for gifts and luxuries, customers love to put together gift baskets at our experiential gift basket making center. Pick from specialty food items from Hunters Reserve, Stonewall Kitchen, Wilco Home, Jackies Java, Oliver Pluff & Company, Virgina Diner, Willa's Shortbread, Oak & Olive, Soberdough, Dallas Caramel Company, Zia pia Imports, Reston Lloyd, and other popular brands.
NEW MODERN FARMHOUSE STYLE AND OLD VINTAGE
Come visit us to see all of the new product lines that we are now carrying.