574-274-0504

140 South Michigan Street
South Bend, IN 46601

One of the newest store in downtown South Bend is also the most “local”.  INDIANA HOME is located at 140 South Michigan Street.  Quickly recognized as one of South Bend’s most unique boutiques, INDIANA HOME features hand-crafted items for every room in the home, with nearly every item created by local artisans who live within fifty miles of South Bend.  Owner and South Bend native Tom Labuzienski has assembled a diverse collection from many talented folks from the Shipshewana, Middlebury and Nappanee area.  Not only is the store locally owned, but it also supports many talented local artisans.  Indiana Home is about as local as you can get.

The items include: Hand-sewn quilts, quality hand-crafted furniture, locally designed Christmas decorations, old fashioned hand-woven rugs, “Amish” salsa, preserves and fudge.  You will find unique dolls with hand-sewn outfits and doll furniture.  There’s also a gallery of art and photographs, Amish made fireplaces, wind chimes, leather purses, handbags, belts and rag-rugs, hand carved wooden walking sticks,  pens, bowls, collector’s boxes along with hand-woven baskets and many other creative decorations for the home.   Featured selections are added daily.  Many of these one of a kind treasures are also available to be custom made for each customer’s preferences. 

Traveling the remote back-roads of the Amish Country, owner and life-long South Bend resident Tom Labuzienski discovered the gifted artisans who now supply the new INDIANA HOME store.  First time visitors will find products from Martin’s Quilt Shop, Borkholder Furniture, Galarina Folk Arts, Shutter Hugs Custom Framing and Printing,  Lambright Country Chimes,  Pumpkin Patch Market, Honeyville Quilt Auction, Neil Benham Woodworking, dolls and outfits from Kids Kreations, Kerri Bash Magpie Dreams, Sue Unger Rag-Rugs, Martin’s Hand-woven Rugs, Shady Ridge Weaving, Lois Hooley Baskets,  Linda Kidder Christmas Decorations, Carol’s Confections home-made fudge, Borkholder  Dutch Village, Silver Star Leather, Topeka Innovative Concepts portable fireplaces along with many more individual Amish Country quality craftsmen.  

The INDIANA HOME store is located in downtown South Bend between the Chicory Café and Jimmy Johns, across from LePeep Restaurant.  Open Mondays -Saturdays at 10am until 6pm Monday-Friday.  The telephone is 574-274-0504.  The store is part of the Down Town South Bend Holiday Store Program.  For the past two years, owner Tom Labuzienski and manager Joseph Mauck have produced several area craft fairs and exhibits.   HERITAGE ART & CRAFT SHOWS, has been the primary sponsor for shows University Park Mall, Concord Mall, Shipshewana Town Center, River Park Festival, East Race Festival and more.    

Close observers of South Bend’s steady upgrade of the downtown area have taken note of the many new stores sprouting up along Michigan Street.  A few in particular, just south of the Chocolate Cafe, have prodded the locally curious to drop by for a better look, and their reaction to these new stores has been very encouraging.

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