Home accessories can brighten a room, make good conversation pieces, and give you the upper hand in bartering with door-to-door salesmen. Stock up on titillating trinkets with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of gifts and home accessories at Five Swans in Wayzata.

For more than four decades, Five Swans has kept its Lake Street shop brimming with distinctive gifts and home accessories from brands such as Riedel, Julia Knight, Wusthof, and Le Creuset. Linens such as a cubic pressed vinyl mat from Chilewich can add color to a drab dining room table or make a stylish bindle for the leisurely train hopper ($28). Impress party guests with a rectangular serving tray from Juliska ($36), or make up for party-crashing and village-pillaging habits with hostess gifts such as a birch bark silver tealight from Table Art ($31).

Five Swans makes its home in a century-old building across from Wayzata's historic train depot. Customers stroll through Grecian columns into a quaint shop bound by hardwood floors and an original tin ceiling as they browse a menagerie of trinkets and home accents.