iQliving

Need a pick me up? Grab a coffee and head over to IQ Living to browse. They have an excellent selection of handy kitchen items. While they carry some expensive premium wares, they also have some very affordable options. Check out their open stock serving pieces like small spoons for dips, large meat forks and gravy ladles; all very reasonably priced and sold individually. Recently I bought a foaming soap pump which I adore. The staff are always friendly and helpful.

This store is great for gift ideas. I am always in there before Christmas for neat, clever stocking suffers. The prices are competitive and the staff are very helpful. I saw a popcorn maker on the website, but it was out-​of-​stock. They were happy to order one for me and called me when it arrived.
I think iQ Living has more unique and upscale items, but it’s always worth a look at Kitchen Stuff Plus across the street to compare prices.

iQliving is a great kitchen/​houseware store with awesome customer service. We did our wedding registry there and they were so nice and helpful! Anything we wanted that wasn’t on their website they added right away for us. Great selection for a small, local business with just one location on the Danforth. Shop here!

For me this is one of those places I have to stop in and take a look and see what is new. I bought a toaster here once because I liked the look. I don’t eat bread lol Figure that one out. A bit more expensive but the collection is good and would be hard to find elsewhere.

This was my go to kitchen supply store on the Danforth for a while. Last year I bought good kitchen knives from them; some had to be special ordered but many were on for half price as demos. I have bought a couple of other items too such as a bar spoon.
Staff has always been quite friendly and helpful.
Prices might be a touch higher. In general it seems like they have at least two of everything. Like a can opener. They will have the made in China generic version you can get almost anywhere but they will also have have the more upscale made-​and/​or-​designed in Europe version.
They allow you to collect points and eventually earn a discount or gift card (I think you have to spend quite a bit though).
So why hasn’t it been my go to store lately? While they seem to have everything, the last two times I needed some piece of bar equipment, they were unable to help me. I’ll still go here but will keep in find other places in the area such as Roots.

The sales staff at IQ Living are terrific. We have bought a lot of items from IQ Living for our kitchen and house over the past several years. The product has always been top notch and the sales staff make it a really enjoyable shopping experience.

This store is in between a Kitchen Stuff Plus and Degrees (a kitchen supply store near Yonge /​Eglinton).
It has a good range of cheap Chinese crap (brands like OXO), but nestled in among the cheap Chinese plastic, are things like cedar balls from Neat not made in China, and teak cutting boards from Brazil, both of which I snapped up.
I wouldn’t come here for kitchen supplies, and I’d rather go to Williams-​Sonoma, Degrees in Yonge/​Eglinton, but they do have something that someone as neurotic as I am, can purchase from time to time.
Hard to say. It’s a lower mid-​range kitchen store for me.

This is another one of those havens for impulse buyers on the Danforth. In short, I love it!
IQ Living is constantly changing their window décor and offerings. It is always clean, if not a bit over-​stuffed and overpriced. I realize the little guy needs to charge more, though, so I don’t say much, except in the cozy, friendly confines of Unilocal.
Essentially, any quality kitchen gadget you may need can be found here. Lots of fantastic Le Creuset offerings, Henkels knives, etc. A good selection of eco-​friendly options (bamboo utensils, litterless lunch accessories, etc.) are there for you to view.
The staff are all immensely helpful in my opinion. They recognize that the store does draw a certain crowd (you know, the #firstworldproblems crowd?) and they’re aware and ok with it. They deal with every customer in the same manner, whether or not you’re looking for those little corn holders (shaped like corn, awwww) or a much more pricey pot or knife.
They’re also conveniently located directly to another impulse-​buyer Mecca (albeit an outdoor-​themed one) which has me convinced they are owned by the same people. I guess anything is possible.
IQ Living sends mailers every so often, but they don’t inundate you and you are free to browse without being asked if you need help 600 times within 5 minutes.
Lots of stock, lots to look at and a range of prices from accessible to «you’rekiddingmeright?». Definitely worth a gander.

VIBE
A lot of stainless steel and very friendly and eager to help staff.
MERCH
IQ Living is known for its array of kitchen supplies. They have some great brands here and if you have an active cook/​organizer as a friend, this is a good place to shop for them. Or on the flip side, if you know someone who desperately needs to get organized in the kitchen, this is the place for them. I’ve found some amazing finds for laundry goods as well including a three bin laundry basket for $ 50. Whaat?! There are some lovely bathroom accessories as well especially if you LOVE stainless steel!
OBLIGATORY CATCHY REMARK
Not sure if it will actually raise your IQ. Talk to the staff. Great window displays as well.

IQ Living is quite different than the other stores and business on the Danforth.
Great to browse around and check out the cool office and kitchen gadgets. Maybe you can find a nice and unique house warming gift?
I was carrying my yoga mat on my shoulder so as my usual clumsy self, I really worry that I might knock things off the shelves when I was browsing around…
I definitely be back again to check out the cool things IQ Living carries!

I don’t know why I hadn’t stopped in here before, it’s pretty much next to all my old usual.
Their front display definitely grabbed my attention, and no not because of their brightly colored orange background, they had a very well organized closet!
Now for the last month I have made the decision to really invest on some organizational pieces for my closet, I think this will be the road to happiness, like finding the shoes or belt I am specifically looking for.
Once you get inside you know this place will be pricey, but also functional with cool pieces that you know will make your life easier. I would say almost 80% of their items are kitchen related and after trying to get through all of that without declaring bankruptcy I headed for the end of the store where the closet items were.
What I found interesting here was that their prices were only about $ 5 – 7 more than you would pay for the exact same product online which is great because it would cost the same or more for just shipping.

Pretty cool shop on the Danforth. Lots of kitschy household items for your kitchen, bathroom or small living space:
–Dining and table ware
–Pots and pans
–Baking stuff
–Kitchen gadgets
–Bathroom accessories (shower curtains, soap dishes, etc)
–Cookbooks
–Office chairs
Everything is kind of crowded together in narrow aisles, klutzy people beware!
Mostly brand names (lots of Umbra) so it seems to be higher priced. Personally, I’d rather go to Kitchen Stuff Plus to buy anything. But this is a neat shop to kill some time browsing or to pick up a gift if you happen to be in the neighbourhood.

I got a Staple Free Stapler ($ 6.99), it’s not Free and doesn’t use Metallic Staples. Is that why they call this place IQ Living?
It’s a nice Kitchenware, Officeware (small selection) place. Think in terms of Kitchen Stuff Plus even in terms of visual colors and product placement. Friendly, helpful staff that I find most of these store types recruit easily.
They even have an aisle for the young ones which is nice since cooking would be a great part of the growing up process. Good example is Italy, where they are educated at a very young age. I saw it on an episode from Jamie Oliver.
I like browsing Kitchen Stuff Plus from time-​to-​time therefore this place is just as A-​OK as that and since it does have a bit more unique items that other places I visit might not carry, this place is a place I would visit and other Home Cooks probably will too if around this neighbourhood.

I love this store. I’ve been shopping the city for a 12oz Klean Kanteen bottle and at some stores, they have the audacity to charge $ 32 for it! At IQ Living, it was only $ 17. I’m quite fond of their selection of kitchenware. I found the neatest can opener, lovely Maxwell Williams cutlery, perfect cube ice trays, and the best is the ice kebobs. I made the mistake of going with my husband who held my wallet hostage.

This is a store that is very pretty to look at. A store where they’ll sell little kitchen knick-​knacks and you think to yourself «Oh, that was clever. Why hasn’t anyone made that before?» then you realize the world can and will continue to turn if that Pot Clip Spoon Rest didn’t exist.
Aside from the knick-​knacks, they have a wall’s length selection of Cuisinart brand appliances and some modern and sexy furniture in the back.
It is a great place to get the perfect gift for your housewares-​loving friend (hint!). And bless my friends for getting me that $ 100 gift certificate for my birthday last year because, like all pretty things, this place does cost a pretty penny.

Walking in this store is like visiting a foreign ecosystem. Here, a very tightly-​wound network of highly specialized creatures each fulfill a basic (did I mention specific?) purpose that the whole tribe requires to proliferate.
At the very least, a store like this is fun to browse. Shiny, brightly-​coloured plastic kitchen baubles, and sleek chrome-​y racks for everything imaginable gleam like a rainforest of housewares. The bamboo plates and forks also help considerably with this metaphor. Speaking of everything imaginable, who knew that humans needed so many gadgets to live worthwhile lives? Who knew toddlers could bake?
Who knew that five minutes in this store could make me long for luxurious, upper-​middle class domesticity?
Find here: holders for garlic shaped like garlic, pitter/​slicers for AVOCADOS (yes, JUST avocados), and– my favourite– a ~*decanter cleaner*~ that looked like a soft and squishy piece of coral (and nearly blinded me with its lack of necessity). Books by dudes like Jamie Oliver and Rachel Ray remind me that I am not supposed to be able to relate to the lives that these products facilitate. Thus, I signed up for their frequent-​buyer card to feel better about myself.

IQ Living is a really neat store. I don’t know how to really describe it, you can buy anything you can possibility think of for the kitchen, bath and laundry here. They had a good supply of baking items, like cool cupcake holders, baking cooks, chocolate mixes etc…
You can find rubber duckies and rubber ducky sponge holders amongst other things. I don’t know, it’s sorta the yuppies home living store. They had the most comfortable bar chairs I’ve ever sat in. For a hefty price tag of $ 329, it’s not for everyone… They also had the perfect table for condos, it doubled as a coffee table and could turn into a larger dining room table. Made out of wood, which had wheels to adjust the height of the table, for a price of over $ 1000, it seemed like a pretty good deal!
You can find some really good things, especially for an occasion like a house warming gift or a b-​day gift. Lots of cool things. Prices, a little on the more expensive side.