Q: What is a “Stillroom”?
A: A stillroom was a space that was set aside from the rest of the house way back in the old days and it was used as a room to hang and dry herbs and spices. They were then designated for use as culunary, fragrance, herbal tisanes and medicinal needs. We carry culunary lavender, mulling spices, fresh nutmeg and vanilla beans, perfume oils and potpourri ingredients including orris root, and other scenting materials, herbal tisanes (teas), catnip, frankincense, myhhr as well as horehound throat drops in addition to bulk lavender, patchouli, cloves, cinnamon sticks and more!
Q: Do we serve high tea?
A: We have about forty tea flavors available for carry out only for fifty cents. It is enough to let you know how the tea is flavorwise. We are not equipped to serve high tea but are happy to direct you to four places locally who have been doing it for a long time and very well at that! (We do, however, have a tiny spot in the shop that will seat four people for tea and we sell excellent locally made biscotti).
Q: What type of gift ware do you sell?
A: Totally quirky and unique…no primitives or country decor, (not that there’s anything wrong with that) it’s just not our cup of tea!
Q: What are the hours?
A: We are closed Mondays. Our regular business hours are Tuesday through Friday from ten to four. Saturdays from ten to two. We are open Christmas eve until two every year. We are then closed until January twentieth or so. We close every year for the following holidays, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving Day. Visit our shop during our extended hours the day after Thanksgiving. It is our towns light up night and parade and we open for regular hours, ten to four, close for a couple of hours and reopen at six p.m. and remain open until the crowds thin out around nine! That is the only open house we do for winter and it is lovely.
Q: Why do we sell Stash Tea?
A: There are literally hundreds of tea companies. The Stillroom decided to sell Stash Tea for two reasons. First and foremost, it is very good tea! The second is that my husband and I lived in Portland, Oregon for a few years when Stash was a start up company so we were very familiar with the tea. When my dream came true in owning and operating a shop, we wanted to support this tea company because it is from a part of our country that we loved so much while we were there.
Q: What other items do we sell that are produced locally or in the USA?
A: We offer LaPrima coffee by the pound from The Strip, La Peri Dolci biscotti from Penn Hills, concrete European reproductions from a Greensburg artist, kaleidoscopes from Zelienople, Harney & Sons loose tea which is a family owned tea company in New England, terrific handlotions, Victorian reproduction greeting cards from Texas and Peaceable Kingdom Press cards and posters from California. This list is long.
Q: What do we sell from outside the USA?
A: Our herbs and spices come from the world over. Vanilla beans, nutmeg, loose patchouli, culunary lavender, cinnamon sticks, etc. We have beautiful reverse painted mirrors from Peru, handpainted boxes from Nepal, handmade paper stars from India and hand pounded tin stars from Mexico as well as Day of the Dead figurines. This is what makes The Stillroom such a unique place to browse or shop!
