House Tour: Inside Melanie Lissack’s Contemporary Period Home In Essex | House Beautiful

Blogger and interior design consultant, Melanie Lissack, has used her design talents to renovate her Victorian home, combining plenty of character with smart contemporary touches.

At Home With is a showcase of truly beautiful homes with wow factor. Designers, interior experts and other well-known faces open the doors to their home to reveal how they have decorated – and live in – their spaces. Taking us on a room-by-room tour, the series offers dreamy inspiration while championing the use of colour and pattern.

Shot by Victoria Hutton

Edited by Emmanuel Adeola

Homes Editor Daisy Bendall

Video Lead Charlie Hedges

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[lornamarie]

It would be nice to actually see the room as a whole rather than close ups of things. I’m sure it’s really nicely done and I love colourful homes.

[Parianparlay]

Fabulous loved all your colours, and especially loved your son’s room. Very innovative use of furniture hacks!

[juliecarns]

The ikea kitchen cabinet with faux marble wrapped MDF is a real surprise: looks authentic!

[sandras]

Love your home, the colours and your beautiful yellow dress!

[ohsewsue]

What a great house tour - I loved seeing all the details, so fresh and vibrant. The whole house is gorgeous, but my favourite has to be the TV room - that mural! You've done an amazing job Melanie.

[ginacrusco]

THIS is the way house tours should be done! Fast-paced but enough time to digest the visual interest; plenty of fascinating background explanation but no excessive chatter. Great production values, great home.

[judybrock]

House looks fabulous but just a tour of her Knick knacks and where she bought everything. Would have much preferred an actual tour of the lovely home and decor. Seeing the entire room best we could rather that . “ bought this here, bought that there “

[SarahArnoldTheAccidentalArtist]

This was inspirational and I appreciate that Melanie did a lot of her decor herself. It looks professional and you would never know that some were hacks! Thank you

[claire]

I absolutely love your ideas. I love that the foundation of your ideas is to stay true to the heritage of the house. You’ve given me so many great ideas. 😊

[kgalvin]

This woman is a creative and color genius. So well presented. And thank you for sharing, unabashedly, about your son.

[cherrylee]

love the use of yellow, especially in the bathroom

[starveartist]

"The house is located in Sherwood Forest"

[essexgal]

Ooh she's just up the road from me.

[rhonda]

You’re amazing with colour, honestly the best I’ve ever seen. Beautiful home. Thank you for sharing.

[guinevereshort]

Love the bathroom. great ideas and colour sense

[pman]

I like the wall vase..very lovely home😊

[fishercourt]

I wish she would just stop and take a moment to breathe and relax.

She’s speaks so quickly that it’s really difficult to understand her words, and the name of ALL of the brands of her items in this infomercial.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore her home, it’s just so difficult to understand her fast-paced commercial branding that she does with out showing any emotion besides being in a hurry to make sure she names every single brand that is endorsed in this tv commercial. I would love at least if she could slow down her pace by even 25%. She acts as though she’s in a race to name every bit that is endorsed by the large amount of brands. It’s overwhelming and gives off a sense that she is a robot rather than a human.

She could have spoken about her home and just added a list of vendors in the description box. That would be a better way to advertise these brands. If I were a brand owner that paid her to name drop an item, I would be very unhappy with her very robotic-way of speaking. It’s too obvious that it’s a commercial and not a home tour with conversation and feelings.

I still love the home.