Joining the parthenon of our favorite homes-as-antiques-shops (see: Nomibis; Les Pénates Reims) is Objekts, housed in an 1840s farmhouse in Breslau, Ontario.
“On a cold February morning in 2021, I went to buy antiques in this farmhouse,” says proprietor—and homeowner—Atta Gaffar. “I am a software engineer by profession, but antiques have been my passion for the last 10 years. I fell in love with the plaster walls peeking behind the ripping wallpaper and the cathedral ceiling of the stone building.” By the time he pulled out of the driveway, he says, “I was calling my realtor for advise on buying this property.”
Atta and his wife, Alia Javaid, decided to buy the farmhouse’s five buildings—barn, stone barn, house, summer kitchen, and root cellar—as their home as well as a space to display and sell antiques. “It could not have been a better decision because it enormously helped us and our four daughters during the pandemic,” Atta says. “Later that year, I lost my full-time job. I focused on the farmhouse and antiques business for a year to support our family.”
Each of the structures is open—by appointment—for browsing Atta’s old, sometimes odd, sometimes “mysterious” finds in atmospheric surrounds. “All the buildings are full of treasures,” he says.
Join us for a peek inside.
Photography via @objekts.ca.
![the farmhouse\2\17;s moody interiors lend themselves to atta\2\17 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-1-733x916.jpg)
![\2\20;i love to find objects in their authentic condition,\2\2\1; 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-16-733x916.jpg)
![the farmhouse kitchen. \2\20;how did it become this?\2\2\1; atta 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-2-733x916.jpg)
![now, the kitchen has perfectly imperfect peeling bottle green walls. 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-5-733x916.jpg)
![see more mysteriously layered walls in trend alert: the excavated look, \15 way 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-6-733x916.jpg)
![stern portraits look on in a living area. 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-7-733x916.jpg)
![the home is a space for ever rotating finds, many of them browsable and for sal 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-3-733x916.jpg)
![the strange and somewhat macabre sometimes appears at objekts: \2\20;old 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-8-733x810.jpg)
![\2\20;recently, i found a victorian child coffin that i thought would be 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-12-733x733.jpg)
![another building, the stone barn, has original stone walls and high wooden beam 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-10-733x916.jpg)
![objekts also specializes in \2\20;european antiques, art, and textile.&a 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-9-733x916.jpg)
![one of many moody vignettes throughout the farmhouse. 28](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/objekts-antique-store-ontario-11-733x916.jpg)
Objekts is located at 1536 Spitzig Rd, Breslau, Ontario, Canada. Head to the website for contact info to make an appointment.
And for more homes-as-shops across the world, see:
- Marston House in Vinalhaven: French Vintage Style in Maine
- Nomibis: A Vintage Shop in Reims, France, Shoppable on Instagram
- French Lessons: A Designer and an Antiquary’s Remodeled Guesthouses in Reims (Soon Available to Rent)
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