Category: Antiques
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How to: Make your home look vintage
Vintage interior never go out of style! Classic, elegant and always chic, the vintage look can be easily achieved by carefully selecting items with the right look. You don’t have to be an antiques collector to make your home look vintage, the vintage look can be achieved by buying brand new pieces, its all about…
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How to master the art of ‘maximalism arranging’
You know by now Im a self certified collector (some call it hoarder, I prefer collector!) From the charity shop finds, to the beautiful bits I acquire whilst sourcing product for Melody Maison and WindsorBrowne , my house is fairly full to the brim, so what do I do with them? Well, i love ‘arranging’ – so…
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Go Potty For Ceramics!
As you have no doubt gathered, when I fall, I fall deep. It’s addiction, but bordering on obsessional. For some girls it’s a man but for me it’s …. Ceramics! Yes my George Clooney is a teacup and my Benedict Cumberbatch is a side plate (OK I’m not saying I’d choose a side plate over…
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How long should a girl spend in front of a mirror?
Don’t worry, this isn’t another make-up contouring blog, I was just pondering the fact that at Melody Maison, we sell as many mirrors, as we do all our other products added together! Wow – Vanity? Or just home styling, So I decided to investigate… I discovered from reading multiple articles that the average UK woman…
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Addicted to interiors
Hello, My name is Anna Elkington and I’m a Addict! As people who know me well will testify, I am a grade A ‘housey stuff’ person! My home is very busy with trinkets, ornamentation and colour, vintage and new. I’m afraid my need to fill surfaces is an addiction, which means I do spend…