Addison’s Attic, at 5075 Main Street in Spring Hill, is more than a store.
The half-consignment, half-antique vendors shop, which sits next to Early’s just south of Lowe’s, is where you go to search for a forgotten gem or to sell something like your beautiful-but-not-you-anymore dress.
It trades most heavily in lightly-used ladies apparel, shoes, jewelry, accessories, furniture, home decor and housewares, seasonals and odds & ends.
But more than the pleasures of antiquing or vintage treasure hunting, or looking for a killer deal on a designer item; it is about doing those things with the people who do them at Addison’s Attic.
“I enjoy being in the store because a lot of people from the community come in, and a lot of customers become our friends,” Meropi Falkenburg, who bought the store from its founder three years ago, said. “It is a great way to be a part of the community.”
Falkenburg, who grew up in Middle Tennessee and has a degree in Industrial Engineering, first fell in love with the store’s place as a hub in the community about four years ago. Diane Whisnant had opened Addison’s Attic in 2009. When she started considering retirement, she started looking for someone to take over. Falkenburg took the opportunity, and for the last three years has run the store.
At first, she was in the store all the time. But eventually she hired two girls to run things during the week and a third for the weekend, and last April, the store moved suites for more space.
Now things are running smoothly again, and Falkenburg mostly likes to enjoy the sense of community and connection the shop seems so conducive to.
Anyone who brings in an item to sell on consignment splits what it fetches 50-50 with the store. The various antique vendors, who rent booths, keep more in a 90-10 split.
The store is open from Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rules and more information can be found at its website, AddisonsAttic.com.
