Shopping in Guttenberg

Garden World's two locations each have a greenhouse and outdoor nursery with a wide variety of thriving plant life, including trees ranging from a four-inch rock-garden evergreen to a 2.5-inch caliper specimen tree. Indoors, a garden shop offers essential items for installing or maintaining a garden. Here you can find hand tools for planting tulips or digging up your first bank account. For holidays, special occasions, or corporate events, Garden World’s staff can assemble seasonal bouquets, office decorations, and other greenery-rich gifts. The shop also carries indoor plants, silk flower arrangements, and other home-décor items.

Frame Avenue’s owners and artisan frame makers do all their mat cutting, designing, and framing on-site. This way, they oversee the entire process, working hand-in-hand with clients to immortalize artwork and photographs, protect cherished keepsakes, and brighten up bare walls. They begin each project with a professional consultation, maybe leading clients to walls covered in hundreds of mouldings, or perhaps strolling with them down Frame Avenue to show off handmade frames and spark ideas. Once clients have given them a mental blueprint, the craftsmen get to work. They assemble frames with high-quality materials such as conservation glass and acid-free matting, accenting jerseys, concert tickets, posters, paintings, or a napkin autographed by the Queen.

After spending years designing kitchens and handcrafting cabinets, John Barlowe opened Frame Shop Art Gallery & Gifts to celebrate and showcase great household art. A member of the Professional Picture Framers Association, he's won awards for his custom-frame designs, which pair his meticulous woodworking skills with elements such as football skin to accent displayed pieces. As a premier partner of Larson-Juhl, he has access to thousands of ornate American hardwood borders and gilded moldings crafted with more than 100 years of company expertise. Each artwork or photograph squeezes between Tru Vue glass and Bainbridge mats and backboard, a sandwich framers can often complete in as little as 24 hours.

In addition to displaying art, John and his team specialize in various photo services, from printing images to transforming ordinary snapshots into caricatures or watercolors with artistic photo treatments. They also prevent boxes of family photos from falling victim to age, disasters, and swamp monsters’ thumbprints by digitizing large collections.

Framing Mode & Gallery bolsters art collections and local artists alike inside its custom framing shop and art gallery. Framing artisans with more than 20 years of industry experience craft custom picture borders fitted to each piece's dimensions, using metal and wood frames, ultraviolet protective glass, and built-in rocket boosters to befuddle would-be art thieves. A collection of framed original works—including posters, limited-edition signed prints, and paintings—stands ready to cover blank household walls. The shop invites painters, metalworkers, and mashed-potato sculptors to display their works inside its gallery space, which hosts events to promote the inspired pieces of local artists.

Hilliard Gallery's constantly rotating selection of art and artwork showcases regionally, nationally, and internationally known artists in equal measure. Pick up a mind-bending limited-edition lithograph by artist Philippe Bertho for $395, or a framed photograph of KC from Andrea Nigh for $300. Hilliard's wide-ranging selection of paintings, photography, and sculptures will give art enthusiasts plenty of better wall decorations than their current collection of holes left by fleeing cartoon cowards.