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On November 19th, 2016, in the heart of Mid-City, New Orleans native and local artist Kristin Malone opened a storefront stocked with handcrafted items that are exclusively made in the Deep South. From Texas to South Carolina, artisans are hard at work creating products you can feel good about getting and giving. With a focus on quality, affordability, and purity, you can buy gifts for home, for him, for her, and for them.

Simply, it's local lagniappe - that something extra we get by supporting our locals.

Bienvenue to HOME MALONE.

 

A little history of Home Malone:

May 2011: Home Malone was formed as a part-time hobby. The studio space was an alley carport in Lakeview. Our first sale was a refinished chair sold through Craigslist. 

August 2011-March 2013: Home Malone joins The Creole Cottage space, a store on Magazine street selling refinished furniture and other home decor. Along with refinished furniture, Kristin begins adding hand painted, distressed wood signs. Custom work request increases.

Fall 2013: Home Malone opens their Etsy shop and began wholesaling rustic wood signs which are still best sellers to many local retailers.

January 2014: Kristin leaves her full time job in industrial sales to pursue Home Malone full time but still working in industrial sales part time. 

April 2014: First market set up at Harrison Avenue Market and begins taking on custom art requests. 

Fall 2014: Wholesale accounts expand as well as art market venues. Home Malone moves into a studio space at St. Vincent's Guest House on Magazine Street.

Feb 2015: Home Malone is commissioned to create an 8ft x 8ft outlined mural for the grand opening on Le Meridien in downtown New Orleans. 

August 2015: Home Malone's first #PaintYourNOLA paint party hosted at Le Meridien and featured on News With A Twist. This opportunity creates a line of paint party events and designs. 

2016: Furniture refinishing is phased out as paint party bookings increase and larger art market participation expands to Arts New Orleans, Covington Three Rivers, Red River Revel, and Peter Anderson Festival.

June 2016: Home Malone leads a paint party at Sopo, located in Mid City. The event led to a request for another paint party at Sopo's store, but found out the store was moving locations.

September 2016: Home Malone secures the lease to the former Sopo space and moves to the Mid City location and hires our first employee. 

November 2016: Home Malone retail opens its doors.  

2017: Kristin steps away from her part-time sales industrial sales job to focus on her new pregnancy, the growing storefront and paint parties. 

Fall 2017: Home Malone retail celebrates one year with a new baby and a full heart to see the community's support for local made product. 

Fall of 2018: Home Malone signs a lease for a new location on Magazine St. 

February 2019: Home Malone Magazine Street opens its doors!

Spring 2021: Home Malone secures a lease for a production facility in New Orleans. The extra space was much needed as the store and wholesale operations expand.  

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