Cute shop alert - Hut 13 in Armadale
Oh GOD how can one blogger possibly keep up with all the awesome shops in this town? I mean SERIOUSLY. It is getting quite ridiculous.
BUT you guessed it, I have another gem for you today – HUT 13 in Morey st Armadale! I am so glad proprietor Lucy Mora tipped me off about her gorgeous little store, because it is a bit of a hidden secret, tucked away in that sweet arcade of shops near Armadale train station. You know the spot, near Market Import?
ANYWAY this tiny, colour-filled shop opened in December last year, and belongs to Lucy and her cousin Melly Beilby. They stock such a wonderful quirky range of homewares and handcrafted products – Emma Davies‘ amazing plastic mesh vessels, glassware by Kristel Britcher (AMAZING) and many TDF faves including Emily Green, Sandra Eterovic and of course everyone’s favourite polka dot bedlinen by Rachel Castle! It really is the cutest treasure trove and I must say, perfect for last minute MOTHER’S DAY fossicking!
Lucy Mora is an avid Design Files reader and is super excited to be featured (aw thanks Lucy!)…. so she has generously offered a very special Hut 13 giveaway for one lucky reader! She has offered up this beautiful prize - a signed limited edition puzzle which celebrates the 80th birthday of Lucy’s Mother-in-Law, Mirka Mora! Oooh la la that’s what I call ‘Melbourne Famous’. Valued at $280.00, the puzzle was created in a limited edition of 280 sets, and they’re nearly all gone! Better get commenting!
To be in the running to win this beautiful gift from the lovely ladies at Hut 13, please leave your comment here TODAY before 10.00pm! A winner will be selected at random and contacted by email tomorrow!
*Update – thanks so much for all your comments and lovely words about Hut 13 (and Mirka!). Sorry to disappoint 191 people… but the winner is comment #46 -Alice Guest! Congrats Alice! x
Huge thanks to Lucy and Melly for this lovely giveaway – do pop in and pay them a visit, you won’t be disappointed!
Hut 13
13 Morey St
Armadale
ph. (03) 9500 1343
Hours
Monday – Friday 9.30am – 5.00pm
Saturday 9.30 – 4.00pm
Closed Sunday.
Mirka Mora puzzle giveaway! Comment today to be in the running!
SO OBSESSED by this beach-ball inspired glassware range by SA-based Kristel Britcher
Sweet details! Top left – I fell in love with that gorgeous handmade ‘hectopus’ by Ceiba Tree and it sneakily found it’s way home with me! Top right – felt vegetables by Papoose, bottom left – handpainted pieces by Sandra Eterovic, bottom right – Emma Davies mesh vessels.
Just gorgeous!
I’d love to be in the winning for Lucy’s snazzy limited edition puzzle!
Mirka Mora is inspirational, and the puzzle is a little piece of treasure.
I would love one of these. What a perfect gift for mother’s day!
What a gorgeous shop and love Mirka Mora she is such an inspiration. Ohhh please do a piece on her home. I have seen it once before and it was divine and a real reflection of her.
Looks like a gorgeous shop!
wow wow wow!
The shop is gorgeous – I heard about it when it opened last year and I have been meaning to drop by for ages to say hi. And I’m also a big fan of Mirka’s art.
Thanks for the lovely photos, and fingers crossed for the giveaway!
Cheers,
Jacinta
What a great giveaway for Mothers Day!
Mirka Mora is a part of Melbourne we all covet and love – a Mirka Mora puzzle? Even better!
What a cute shop, and hidden away too – my favorite kind!
Snazzzzzy giveaway! Would make a lovely mothers day gift :) Thanks TDF!
Great post and a great find! Another gorgeous shop to go visit.
thankyou for offering such a generous giveaway.
ooh – lovely! thank you i have my fingers crossed.
What a divine place. I’m pencilling in a trip to Armadale! I was happy to spot some Inaluxe hanging on the wall in the third photograph too.
Another gorgeous shop for me to visit, thank you!
oh mirka!
Would love that puzzle
The perfect Mothers Day gift for my 80yr old mother.
I can vouch for this shop (discovered on the way to the station one day)…Mirka Mora, divine, inspirational and always colourful!
Awesome prize, awesome shop. Will be visiting when I come to Melbourne next week!
Hut 13 is a beautiful shop, I love that each piece in store is unique. The absence of beige is so refreshing! The vintage paper flags, a fav of mine.
Great looking shop, and I would love to win the gorgeous puzzle.
Such an adorable shop! I want to live there.
What a gorgeous looking store. I love all that pure, bright colour :)
Mirka Mora is such an inspirational artist! I would love to win this!! And a gorgeous shop… I must go for a visit!
i can’t tell you how excited i would be to win this! we love mirka mora & i’d keep it treasured so i could give it to our own little mirka when she is a littler older. the shop looks gorgeous. will definitely have to head over to armadale to visit in person. i
Yes please. Delicious
Margie
What a great little shop. Must make a visit.
Love Mirka Mora – a Melbourne Icon, I would adore that puzzle!
Too good a prize not to enter. Colour and happiness combined!
FAB
Please count me in. It’s a beautiful giveaway and that store is just gorgeous. xx
Hut 13.. what a fantastic name for a shop!
My almost 3 year old loves puzzles, loves art and what a beautiful birthday gift for her one that she could pass on to her children in years to come
Yes please. Loving all that colour, warms the soul.
How wonderful to have Mirka Mora as a mother in law!! This shop looks gorgeous, must go check it out! xx
saw the mirka mora exhibition at the heide…it was awesome
my family have been loving Mirka Mora’s artworks for ever.
would just love to have such a beautiful iconic puzzle for our generations to come
amazing shop
Sheer puzzle pleasure! Beautiful.
I dedicate my entry for this prize to go to Captain KK – she loves Ms Mora so much!
VERY cute shop btw… I love a shop with a cute bike out front.
That shop is a great find! Thank you for all your hot tips…I save the names of these shops and when we go tripping around the country I make sure to look up my little database :)
I’m crossing my fingers for Mirka’s puzzle. Saw the catalogue from her recent exhibition at Heide – that woman is a beautiful creator. Loved the mural on the Heide windows. x
Fabulous give away! I love Mirka (recent exhibition at Heide was fantastic) and I’m a total puzzle nerd. Please please please pick me!
beautiful beautiful beautiful
I can’t believe I haven’t known about this shop so close to where I work! I think i might go before work today. I’d love to win that puzzle for my mum who knew Mirka Mora many years ago, she sketched an abstract portrait of my parents.
I missed out on buying the puzzle when it was released- maybe this time? Gorgeous shop.
mirka is my hero. if you haven’t read wicked but virtuous then i highly recommend it!
gorgeous shop too.
what an amazing shop! thanks for the tip, going to have to pop in there.
I first saw Mirka’s work at Heide last summer and would love love love to be able to give my mum a piece of Mirka’s modern folk art.
Love the colours used in the shop.
I know where I’m heading today at lunch….!
What a fabulous shop, the colours are divine.
my oh my, that puzzle is fabulouso!! count me in!!
Hut 13 is a stockist of mine and Mirka is one of my all time favourites…what a great start to my day!
Stunning detail in the puzzle!! And I love the felt veggies!!
This shop is fabulous and in such a terrific spot…
Hut 13 looks totally gorgeous. On my ‘to do’ list for this weekend.
Super Awsome-ness at Armidale, Sweet
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!!
Super awesome!!!!
I found this shop by accident about a month ago and am so glad you are writing about it! I was completely overwhelmed by the colour and the gorgeousness…. great to see it all again and I must go back. The Mirka puzzle was such a stand out I think I gasped out loud!
Oh my, what a gorgeous shop and an amazing give away! I would SO love to win it and will definately be popping into ‘Hut 13′
I wish I could visit Hut 13 in person…it looks so bright and cheery.
Lucy is a gorgeous girl and so talented creatively. She made the most amazing birthday cake for her godson (who was in my son’s kinder class) years ago that I still tell people about 6 years later. An animal farm complete with jelly pond and chocolate mint stick fencing – see, there I go again. I’m sure the shop is amazing and I can’t wait to check it out very soon.
Very quirky indeed! Another shop for my ‘must visit’ list when next in Melbourne!
Amazing colourful shop, cannot wait to visit next time I am in Melbourne.
Must pay a visit to the very beautiful Hut 13 pronto!! My sister is a huge Mirka Mora fan – wow, I would love, love, love to win this puzzle so I could surprise her with such a gorgeous gift.
What a lovely looking store! Will definitely check it out.
mirka mora is a melbourne icon
love the puzzle
Very Melbourne. Great prize TDF.
Divine – inspiring – yum! and so are you!
I love Mirka Mora’s work, I imagine she’d be a pretty inspiring mother-in-law! Amazing!
What a wonderful, colourful shop, can’t wait to go.
The pics are so very inspiring! Colour, artiness and quirkiness! And I looovvveee puzzles! A nice way to start my day, ta.
Please,please, pick me! Can’t wait to go to your shop.xx
The Grand Dame of Melbourne, the quinessential Melbourne Mother’s Day present.
Wow. Each day am blown away with the inspiration and creativity
that abounds.
Thank you.
all shops need this amount of colour
What a gorgeous shop and I love Mirka Mora! Can’t wait to visit Melbourne!
Thank you
xxx
My new favourite shop in town!
Hut, hut, Hurrah! W#hat a fabulous blog about a fabulous shop! Will visit there asap!
Mirka show just finished at Heide Muesum of Modern Art…missing it already:(
I love Mirka Mora’s work. What a divine little shop.
rock on mirka mora. an adorable store from the looks of it, will definitely pay a vist.
What a cool little store! I’ve never heard of/ seen the Papoose felt toys before but they are soooo cool!
shop looks gorgeous and who doesn’t love mirka!!
As far as Im concerned she is from Melbourne royalty! I will make sure I wear my finest and curtsey when i visit the shop!!
(too much?!!)
mirka mora – what a star and what a lovely giveaway.
Oh my how sweet is Hut 13?? It looks like Armadale is just flowering in Autumn! Mirka Mora puzzle – yes please, a lovely treat perhaps for my gorgeous godson… Gorgeous blog as ever.
xx
Seriously great store and fab giveaway!!
Mirka Mora is an amazing artist and who WOULDN’T love a Mirka puzzle! Me, me, me pretty please!
lovelee shop…pick me please :)
Fantastic looking shop! I’d love to be in the running. I went to the final day of the Mirka Mora exhibition on Sunday at The Heide aswell :) It was also great.
….and mirka so obviously painted the sign on the window….wouldn’t you say?! i love a giveaway, as you know, luscious lucy. so here i am. adorable store. love that little morey st, it’s so sweet. mirka mora is a heroine to me, would love a little piece of her in my home. x
The Mirka Mora puzzel is beautiful!!! What a lovely shop!!
What a treat today! Great pics, thanks for brightening up my day!
Nothing would be me more joy than spoiling my mum with a Mirka Mora puzzle she is a HUGE fan! X
Mirka Mora is one of my favourite artists. Each time I visit Heide I always look at her prints. Thanks for sharing Hut 13 :)
What a lovely store – may very well be worth a trek across the river…!
oh I will have a look at this store sometime this week, beautiful giveaway for a lucky mum too!
How delicious is that puzzle! I just saw Mirka’s show out at Heidi, it was divine, what a fantastic lady, and what an interesting and full life she has lead.
Pick me, pick me! I just looove it!
LOVE IT…..love Mirka and that shop is wonderful, I discovered it a few weeks ago
that’s really nice, would love to play with it!
Just heard fromLucy last night in the dog park about her shop and HERE it is! It will certainly give Market Imports a shake up. I will call in to explore tomorrow on my day off.
Ooh .. Love it. Lucy, mothers day is fast approaching and this would seriously help me out! :)
Oh stop showing off you Melbournites or I am just going to have to move for a fix of all this colour and beauty. Mirka Mora. How I heart you.
Gotta love Melbourne – and the infrastructure and populous that support such retail creativity
The signage is adorable! Oh aren’t we lucky to have so many lovely little shops like this ~ dare I say old fashioned?? ~ in our wonderful town?
Looks like the kinda shop that can easily suck up a good half and hour or so, spent in a mesmerizing fashion!
What a prize! Nice one Hut 13 – like your style already.
Love all the colour and light, and Mirka’s puzzle is typically joyous – & beautiful…. I think I would frame it and keep it out of reach from little hands.
Will add Hut 13 to my growing list of shops to frequent in Armadale – looks like a beautiful selection. Favorite lazy autumn night in for Melbourne = a puzzle and a bottle of wine! This Mirka Mora edition would be so colourfully inspirational…. please, please, please!
racking up quite a list of must see places on my next melb trip, and a mirka puzzle is seriously the funnest thing ever. functional art – i love it. xx
Amazing prize! Hut 13 looks awesome :)
beautiful shop seems it has been splashed with colours from the freshest fruits of am exotic sunshine filled land .
love those gorgeous fluro’s, love Mirka Mora…wow!
I grew up listening to my mother ooh and ahh over Mirka Mora’s work, and Mirka Mora the inspirational woman. We would walk by her studio door just to see if we could catch a glimpse of her, or better still, meet the artist. We never managed to, but her work has always been a part of the lives of the women in our family. A signed puzzle would be for my 4 daughters, and a new generation of Mirka Mora stalkers! x
Mirka Mora’s work is amazing – what a perfect prize!
Yes, yes please! I love Mirka Mor’s work!
oh my god, must make my way to Armadale ASAP! And what a beautiful puzzle!
I am reading her autobiography at the moment and a few months ago rode out to heide along the yarra to see her exhibition. I love the whimisical imagery she creates and would love this limited edition collectors puzzle!
So excited to open my Design Files daily email & see HUT 13 featured. Such a beautiful store and Lucy could not be nicer. Feel very lucky to have this amazing store just around the corner… Definitely worth a visit!
Love Madame Mirka! Must shift my North Fitzroy arse over to Armadale quicksmart.
Oooooh la la! I always love checking out what delicious little shopping delights TDF has to tempt my tastebuds on! Hut 13 looks simpy divine! I must go, I must go!
mirka mora. always an inspiration. I would love to win this puzzle
Love Mirkas work, beautiful!
Synchronicity! I was looking at their ‘Hut13′ business card yesterday. I kept it after my first visit to the shop a month ago because I liked the cute hand-drawn-ness of it.
Well done Lucy and Mel.
Beautiful piece of artwork, what a creation!
Beautiful colours :)
Love it! count me in.
The puzzle is such a great fun format for Mirka Mora’s work
It puzzles me how you keep coming up with such wonderful give-aways!
wow! can’t wait to visit melbourne again, what a gorgeous shop!
x
thanks tess! you rock! x captn
oh my, how lovely! xx
oh yes please, beautiful!
it is very beautiful!! but if i was to win it i would be handing it straight over to ‘captain KK’s’ very own beautiful little mirka :)
oh mirka how cool!!
oh. my. goodness.
Lovely, lovely, lovely…
My Mum adores Mirka Mora. It would be hard to part with but I think I’d have to give it to her for Mother’s Day.
The shop looks Happy and bright! Would love to have mirka Moira as my mother in law! Thanks for the chance to win the puzzle.
Finally, a puzzle with no missing pieces !
Another beautiful addition to Melbourne from the deliciously European and avant garde institution: the Mora family! Art, galleries, restaurants and now retail! Happy birthday Mirka!
oOoOhh.. fingers crossed, such a beautiful puzzle! xx
it’s all too beautiful!
Mirka’s work and story spoke to me deeply the first time I came across it. I have been an adoring fan ever since. It would be my mother’s day present to myself!
Mirka Mora is a great artist, I wonder how she operates as a M-in-L? Thanks Lucy for being forever onto it with your posts
Mirka. Mora. Love.
Fabulous shop. Will try to get there soon.
Love Mirka always! xx
All that colour is awesome! Great giveaway. A Mirka Moira Mother’s Day would be fab. x
Mirka is a genius , Such a fantastic artist .
Oh my, what a beautiful shop and a beautiful give-away. My fingers are crossed!!
I came across your blog a few weeks ago. Now I’m totally addicted. It’s like what caffeine is, to keep my brain going, your blog is to my continual source of inspiration and strengh towards launching my creative self into the masses. Don’t ever stop sharing your wonderful discoveries, without my daily fix I wouldn’t be able to function. Amazing!
I adore Mirka Mora’s work. I live in St Kilda and have had the pleasure of seeing it up close and personal whilst dining at the restuarant where her arwork adorns the walls.. I wish I could have an original piece of her fabulous artwork in my home.
Hi
I’d love to win this prize for my sister who lives in Sydney, and would be overwhelmed to receive it! I live in the UK and I love your blog its so fresh and inspiring!
WOW! Yay for Puzzles.
how beautiful does that shop look!!
divine.
please count me in ~ great giveaway, thankyou both :)
What a lovely little shop. So many nice looking goodies :-) Mirka Mora rocks!
I love puzzles and how beautiful is this one of Mirka Mora’s, and what a gorgeous shop, will have to visit next time I am in town .
I am hot for the Hut! Can’t wait to visit in person.
What a lovely shop – it must be nice to have a view of trees outside the shop when working there. I would love a Mirka Mora puzzle – her paintings are magical.
I will visit this shop as soon as possible….Gorgeous!!!
How excitement!
wow! definitely worth crossing the river to the lighter side of town for this cute shop!
What a gorgeous shop, and the puzzle is truly lovely piece of art. Great story!
Yes Katherine McAlpine deserves this puzzle, she’s an amazing mum! And if I lived in Melbourne I’d be at this shop in minutes, so many talented and beautiful people!
Great to read about Hut 13, as a fellow shop owner it is really inspiring to see others are up to. I love their idea to share the celebration of Mirka’s 80th through a limited edition puzzle ..
Ooooh, love a new shop to explore. Thanks Lucy, and imagine having Mirka Mora for a mother inlaw…. inspirational.
Yes please xxxx
Cute! X
**oh no my clock says 9.07pm not the posted 10.07 time! **
I love a store with a bit of colour!
my girls who are 2 and 4 visited mirkas exhibition at heide recently. they loved her dolls so much that they hope to make and paint ones themselves. a puzzle would be just tooooo exciting – for my sweet peeps!
Another gem, you just keep them coming – the store looks divine. I’m sure my husband won’t be looking forward to me paying a visit. As for the puzzle,…….divine. xx
I have some puzzles that my mum used to play with…this one reminds me of that. so precious!
This is the winning comment. WooHooo!!!!
Oh to have a mora would be so special. She is a genius.
What a beautiful store and the puzzle would be a fantastic present for Mother’s Day.
I love the look of your store and my grand-daugher who is named after Mirka Mora would be delighted to receive the jigsaw
I stumbled upon this special store on a recent trip to Melbourne. Sadly the witches hat light would not fit in my hand-luggage. We need a Hut 13 in Sydney’s inner west, we would love you!
such a delightful shop. & mirka is a national treasure, what a sweet way to celebrate a birthday!
Yes please!
Yummy! Love your finds.
Such a beautiful and bright store.. I agree with one of the previous comments- would love you to feature the homes of mirka and the creatives who dreamt up this store xx
I love this store! What a great prize!
I was just in there on the weekend and walked into an eye candy shop!!! What a delight to see such an array of interesting design and art. I also had the joy of seeing a fellow colleague Jill, who I worked with at Figgins Diorama, many many years ago. Mirka is one of those iconic artists that were are so lucky to have here in Melbourne. She was and is an inspiration to all. What amazing achievements and contributions she has made to the restaurant and Art world. I managed to say hello to her one day in St Kilda, coming out of Cicholinas, she was so friendly and gracious. The puzzle would be a lovely piece to add to my very small art collection.
Love all of it!
She is one amazing artist. Beautiful tings that would make me so indecisive when shopping in there. now i just gotta get down there
Holy Guacamoly these puzzles are an exciting lunch time suprise!
If I a was lucky enough to win the MIRKA MORA puzzle I would give it to my mother in-law Bronny, who has a birthday coming up. Bronny is an artist herself and recently loaned me Mirka’s biography which is very inspiring.
Mirka Mora = national treasure much! And I can’t wait to give Hut 13 a visit ASAP!
Well, I think it only fair to say that Lucy and Melly and Peter have done a wonderful job creating this little gem. Mirka is wonderful and a Melbourne institution but it was Lucy who put the puzzle together from concept to reality and it was she also who designed the logo. What a wonderful, talented, delightful person Lucy is. I wish Hut 13 and all who sale in her, my very best wishes.
Wow!! Shop looks amazing, can’t wait to check it out!
Would love to be a winner for the puzzle too – Mirka is such an inspiration.
I think every woman wishes she could be just like her :)
I Love those dark multi-stripe towels- so chic
Dark multi-stripe towels walk all over my no longer flufffy, no longer white towels.
Mirka an inspiration…
who said Melbourne doesn’t do colour! fabulous and vibrant!
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