The Shabby Relic

Great shop down on 3d street. Lots of great antiques and home decor to choose from as well as great shabby paint and milk paint. Lots of ideas and classes to choose from. I will visit often.

Cute shop with friendly service

Heather has a great personality and offers solid advice about her products!

Shabby relic is located on the main drag of the McMinnville business strip. It is located in the back of a long hallway in a building houses other businesses. They sell chalk paint and milk paint DIY or you can buy some pre-painted furniture. Nice business, nice business layout, nice products, not so nice service. We went there during the McMinnville UFO festivals and were basically treated like we were just there to rip them off/shoplift the second we walked in. In fact I overheard one of the team leaders tell the employees to keep on top of people due to theft during the festival. They were not crowded when we went in. There were maybe like 4 other people in the store at the time. I do chalk paint myself at home, and I tried to talk to them about teqniqes to put her at ease, and assure her that we were knowlagable about painting. She was not receptive and just gave me a sales pitch about her products and give me a run down of the classes that they offer there. I was just trying to have a nice conversation. She was not warm and receptive. We did end up buying one container of paint. Not because we wanted to or needed it. It was more out of guilt since they were breathing down our necks and asking if they could help us like every 3 minutes out of the 15-20 minutes we were in the store. The festival was busy, their store was not. All the other stores we visited that day did not treat us like that. I have a degree in retail marketing and management. There are other more discrete ways of preventing theft than stalking or making a perspective patron uncomfortable. Cute store but I won’t be back. I don’t feel comfortable there.