Spend a day exploring the shops in Uptown Westerville, and you will quickly feel the deeply embedded sense of community and collaboration between the various shop owners. This is especially true of Edwin Loy Home, owned by Amy Winter Cabilovski—a graduate of the nearby Otterbein University—who operates just across the street from her sister apparel store Stone and Sparrow, and next door to her husband Tony Cabilovski’s Uptown Deli and Brew.
After graduating with an art degree in 2006, Amy worked for her aunt and uncle’s furniture store in Delaware, accompanying them to shows and learning the tools of the trade. The store closed in 2009, but her interest in the industry didn’t fade, and in 2012 Amy, her mother and her sister stumbled upon a building for lease at 12 W. College Ave.—what would become Edwin Loy Home’s first location.
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The original stock was made up mostly of found and vintage furniture pieces. Today, you will find a few of these remnants, along with gifts, candles and home decor. “We’re a key location for people to come find a gift,” Amy says.
The star of the show, though, is Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan. The paint was developed by the Oxford, England native Annie Sloan in 1990. After coming across it in a Columbus store, Amy attended workshops—including one hosted by Sloan in Oxford—to become certified to teach them others how to use the paint.
What does Edwin Loy Home sell?
Customers can buy cans, attend how-to workshops or buy furniture already refurbished with a fresh coat, giving it a rustic-chic, chalk-like effect. Amy started stocking it in 2013, and interest has grown exponentially since. “You might see something in a catalog that you love, but the price is just outrageous. You can take something that you have and make it beautiful and unique,” she says.
Customers can also get a glimpse into the familial and communal heartbeat that sustains the neighborhood when they visit the store, Tony says. Amy and Tony met in 2015 and have been partners in enterprise since, opening a combined furniture and clothing store together in Delaware before relocating just the clothing shop—Stone and Sparrow—to Westerville.
Tony says that Westerville’s Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA)— which allows the sale and consumption of alcohol in marked outdoor areas during select hours—makes the sense of community-wide collaboration even stronger, and significantly expands their already broad demographic. “On Friday nights, if [people are] waiting for a table by me, they can just come shop here, and vice versa. … It’s just part of the excursion.”
Amy describes Edwin Loy Home’s style as a one-of-a-kind, eclectic blend of new and old. “We offer an experience you’re not going to get by shopping online,” says Amy. “You come in, and it feels like a home. You’re always going to find something unique and different; it’s always changing in here.”
This story appeared in the October 2025 issue of Columbus Monthly. Subscribe here.
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Reporting by Lucy Clark, Columbus Monthly / Columbus Monthly
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