Luxie Living sells handmade and individually etched glassware from Rose Ann Hall Designs. (Courtesy Luxie Living)
Luxie Living, a home goods shop with an emphasis on artisan glassware, moved to a larger brick-and-mortar location off Locust Street at the beginning of September.
The details
The store is located in a carriage house on the same property as owner Melinda King’s other business, Red Door Operations. Luxie Living originally was inside the main house on the property in a small room, which King said was for inventory for her online store.
The carriage house holds a variety of distinctive glassware sets and pieces from Rose Ann Hall Designs, which are handblown and etched. King also created specially designed mahjong tiles that she calls “MahjArt,” candles, beaded bags and totes, cards and other home gifts.
The store also has hand-created mahjong tiles. Owner Melinda King said she only produces 300 sets per design.Courtesy Luxie Living
King said customers must make an appointment to shop in the carriage house, but she said she is in the area “all the time” and has a very flexible schedule to accommodate shoppers.
The backstory
Luxie Living stemmed from King’s love of Rose Ann Hall Designs’ glassware. She started a Shopify account to sell the pieces after wholesale purchasing items from its facility in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, becoming the largest North Texas retailer of the glassware.
“I want everybody to be able to have everyday pretty things in their house,” King said of the glassware. “Whether you're just feeding your kids cereal or if you're having a dinner party.”
King said she decided to start selling mahjong sets after she began playing the game a year and a half ago. She said one of the big mahjong brands refused to sell her sets since her shop was only online at the time, so she decided to start creating her own tiles.
“For me, these tiles are not just like mahjong tiles; I think of them as true works of art,” she said. “I only make 300 ever [of each set] so they’re not mass produced.”
King said the name of the company comes from blending the names of her two Labrador Retrievers, Lucky and Trixie, that passed away more than 10 years ago.
Looking ahead
Now that King emptied out her smaller office in the main building of the property, she is revamping the space into the Luxie Lounge to host mahjong game nights.
King also teaches classes for $50 a person on how to play mahjong and provides snacks and beverages, which she recently started hosting in the lounge.
