Detailed Review
Miller’s Residence is a small but opulently decorated hotel. The 50ft candlelight drawing room is extravagantly theatrical overflowing with paintings, books, candelabras, embracing the essence of the English country house. The eight individually designed rooms are named after romantic English poets and decorated the spirit of each. If you feel like writing your own poem you can connect your computer to Wi-fi or take a DVD to escape. The owners Martin and Ioana Miller (the name behind Miller’s Antique Guides) have created the ultimate home-away-from-home. Guests sit around the carved oak fire place, helping themselves to wine ant spirits at no extra charge. The atmosphere is relaxed, romantic and very private. The entrance is discreet through a red door up a hand painted staircase and you are in Miller’s maximalism.
Press Quotes
"A tucked-away, deep-red door in Notting Hill leads amazed first-time guests into a bygone age, and a different, richer, more exotic world than the one they've left outside."The Telegraph 07
Independent Reviews
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"Enchanting and fantastical, the boutique hotel is filled to the brim with antiques and rooms are named after the Romantics."
Miller’s Residence
By Vanessa Kaoukji
The best time to arrive a Miller’s is in the evening so that, although it will be harder to find the discrete entrance identified only by a small plaque, the sense of theatre will be greater. Because at night hundreds of candles are lit and as you enter you will be greeted by swathes of fabric tumbling on to the floor like a waterfall, an empty picture frame, amphoras, antique ornaments, and a staircase, loving hand painted by Ioana, one half of the Miller partnership. In fact as soon as you arrive at this 8-bedroomed residence, Ioana and Martin Miller will treat you like one of the family. This really is more of a residence than a hotel. Martin Miller, of Miller’s Antiques Price Guide and recently of Miler’s Gin fame, obviously knew what he was doing when he created this theatrical, bohemian, trendy establishment, although you could almost believe that it had all been thrown together by accident. And that is part of the charm. It’s as if the entire contents of a large country house have been crammed into a three-storey apartment. It’s a mix between beautiful antiques and bric-a-brac that keep your eyes busy all the time and constantly surprises one. The 40 foot drawing-room-cum-dining-room is the centre piece of Miller’s and has acted as the backdrop for so many magazine shoots that its hard to keep track. The six bedrooms and two suites are each named after a poet, their most well-know poem is painted onto the door, but other than that, there’s no real link between the poet and the room. They are decorated with the same attitude as the drawing room – antiques, ornaments and books to browse through, but nothing is too precious that you need to worry about bumping into things, which is bound to happen as space is limited and Ioana and Martin will have been serving complimentary drinks downstairs. Tennyson is the only room with a four-poster bed, Coleridge is a warm, red room, and the Wordsworth suite is another favourite for fashion shoots. Breakfast is the only meal that is served here, but as the hotel is only a stone’s throw from Notting Hill and Portobello road there’s a wealth of cool hang-outs to visit. Westbourne Grove is lined with good restaurants to suit every taste, and ask the hosts at Miller’s who’ll be happy to recommend their favourites. Guests should remember that this is also a family home, so don’t expect to find anonymity here. And don’t be surprised to find guests or friends sitting in front of an antique sedan that houses the television when you come back after dinner – its all very informal and fun. But to keep up with the times ADSL is being installed in every room. Anyone looking for something a bit different in London will find it here.
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