Lake Forest Park Church Opening Antique Store on Main Street Next to The Loft

Looking for an antique fainting couch? Hanging lamps? Chest of drawers?

Edmonds will soon have another antique shop with the opening of Homestyle Mercantile, located at 519 Main St. between and the Fabric of Life Foundation. The store is expected to open by the middle of the month.

(The store is not to be confused with , which is one block south on Dayton Street.)

Homestyle Mercantile is a nonprofit owned by Joe Sapien and overseen by his father, Reuben Sapien. The elder Sapien, a Lynnwood resident, has been pastor at Sanctuary Church in Lake Forest Park for 35 years.

Profits from the store, which will have a website in the near future, will go to Sanctuary Church’s missions and benevolent funds.

“We were looking for the right building and the right setting,” said Reuben Sapien. “While it’s not the most perfect building, it is in a perfect place for us. It has the atmosphere we want, and the business presence we want to produce and facilitate. It’s a family oriented area.”

Joe Sapien says the store will have a vintage, retro-style feel, with new and preowned items. There will be hutches, old sewing machines, lamps, dishes, bedding, books and many other items.

The original meaning of “mercantile” was an old-fashioned, farm-type store that didn’t focus on just selling one type of item, said Reuben Sapien.

Items will come from churches, estate sales and elsewhere.