Melanie Baker
After graduating from Bournemouth University with an Interactive Media Production degree, Mel spent five years passing on her passion and knowledge as a lecturer and Head of Department for Media at Cornwall College. Not only does Mel have an extensive knowledge of all things travel, media and PR, she is also a dab hand at crafts. This creative lady makes her own festival headdresses - you may even spot an A-List Glasto-goer wearing one! Away from the office and crafting table, you will probably find PR Officer Mel in a hard hat demolishing walls and redesigning in her first home – this girl isn’t afraid of a challenge! Her creative passion runs across everything she does and her first-hand experience with all things property and style make her ideally suited as Unique Home Stays go-to PR gal. Being a fan of the big outdoors, Mel loves nothing more than morning bootcamp on the beach, long walks with her cockerpoo Mollie and starts every working day with a brisk country cycle to the office on her trusty, rusty Kalkhoff.
Lifestyle
Be Our Guest! Stay in this Exclusive Beauty and The Beast-Style Castle
The live action release of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast will be hitting theatres on March 17th, but it´s not the talking candelabras that’s captured our attention, it´s that wondrous castle in all its majesty that makes this particular romance an unforgettable tale, as old as time.
More by Melanie
Interiors
Can You Spot the Changes in our Moontide Makeover House Tour?
Here at Unique Home Stays we love nothing more than a dazzling interiors revival. This month there was a flurry of excitement when the new photographs of one of our favourite luxury lovenests Moontide arrived. Join us for a house tour of the Moontide makeover.
Lifestyle
A Unique Valentine´s Day
There is one particularly auspicious, heart-fluttering day that leaps from our calendar this month; The 14th of February is the day to celebrate love, so dare we ask what you’ve got planned? Why not whisk your beloved beau away for a little luxury this year?
Lifestyle
The Unique Gift Guide
Whoever you are treating this Christmas, give the gift of time together and the promise of new memories with loved ones. The Unique Home Stays gift voucher allows the lucky recipient to pick the escape of their dreams.
Lifestyle
Cosy Pre-Christmas Escapes for Two
The penultimate month is upon us! The clocks have turned back, we’re adjusting to the reality that 6pm bears resemblance to 10pm and what seems to have been a lengthy decent to Christmas has suddenly gained momentum, leaving us to ask the question - mid-November, how did you get here so fast?
Lifestyle
Nature´s Call to Get Cosy
As the autumnal darkness gently creeps in and the air turns cooler, there’s only one comfort that keeps me from booking a six month plane journey to finer climates and that’s my tradition of creating a warm cosy nest - safely burrowed indoors.
Travellers' Tales
An Ode to The British Countryside
Following the referendum, the question of British Identity has been brought into focus, my weekend homestay in the glorious British Countryside was the perfect staycation, an opportunity to reconnect with the motherland, all from the comfort and luxury of a Cornish stone barn, aptly titled Somerby.