A house tour of CHARLOTTE GAISFORD'S COLOURFUL ENGLISH HOME

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So today is a very special day! We are here at  Charlotte Gaisford's house. Yeah. And so many   of you because we have to say - yes - we got the  antique slipper chairs in our in our attic room   and we got them and we needed to reupholster  them. Hmm, hmm. And someone suggested   try Charlotte Gaisford's fabrics -  that's very kind - they are amazing.   Yeah. And we checked them and became obsessed. And  this is the woman who designs all the fabrics and   wallpaper. Thank you so much. Oh no, it's great.  Well, I mean I really enjoy doing it. I'm really   glad they looked so gorgeous. I mean because I  think someone told me that you'd done them so   you have to watch these this lovely couple from  Germany. Well, thank you so much for having us.   Where are we here? So this is - this is the  drawing room in here. So this is the drawing   in which I did I actually repainted in lockdown.  And I just painted it green - wonderful - which is   Invisible Green um, color which is amazing.  It goes so well with antiques and - yes - old   stuff and goldy things. Yes. Yu know it's  just a really warm green. I just and and   the fireplace - yeah - just, I don't  know, it just brings it to perfection. I mean we got that from an antique shop. It cost  me a hundred pounds. Did you? There was an auction   and it was completely falling apart. And we got  it and it was just and I just literally painted   it. And that's all I've done. Oh I see. And then  we put the fire in and then the and then it was   raised up a bit. The builder raised it up so it  feels sort of bigger than it actually is. And I   just put like bits and pieces, I got that mirror  that cocoa mirror up there and it's just sort of   basically, it's a really well used room this. Yes.  I mean it gets used, it's fun because it feels,   I wanted it in a way to remind me of a sort of  comfortable in a way it's a bit like Granny's   drawing room because because I used to have a  grandmother that used to live in London. Yeah.   And she lived in like South Kensington. She had  this really nice drawing room and it was really   comfortable, with really comfortable sofas. And  then when people come for dinner, they'll always   come here and they have massive everybody ends up  having a massive drinks party. And then when they   come to actually sit and eat the food before they  don't notice what they're eating because they've   had too many drinks. This is usually the case. And  this is the fabric we have we have as well. Yeah,   that's Betty. Betty yeah. Because I named that  collection after the dogs. Yes. That was named   after Betty and that's Rosie. So you've got  Rosie. Yes. By the way we have Rosie here. Yeah,   that's Rosie. The fabric was named after Rosie.  She've very friendly. Betty is next door. That's Rosie. Yes. Yes, I read that - yeah -  that you name your fabrics - it just makes it   easy to remember. Oh that's true. Because  when you send it to the printers as well,   they have to remember the name of the  fabric and it just if I name it in some   strange name - yes - then everyone gets  confused so I just make it really simple   to remember. Isn't this the Rosie as well?  Yes, it's the other way around, it's called   open red as opposed to red. So we have that for  our slipper chairs. You've got the red. Yes but   that this is the red the other way around. Yeah.  That's so beautiful. Yeah. And look how nice this   goes with the - yeah that blue the blue pom-poms.  Yes. It works really well. Oh absolutely. Yes. Do   you actually have - yeah - a favourite favourite  fabric? Not really. It's so difficult. I think it   depends I sort of go, I sometimes do a fabric and  then I I really like it and then I decided to go   on something else and I said I never have I'm  not very good at favourites. Yes. You know but   I'm always doing you know I'm always sort of  like redesigning trying things out and stuff.   You know so I don't really have a particular  favourite. I do like the I love the curtains.   It works really well in here. And I think it's  because it's it's light it's a light fabric   against a dark background and it's just that's  what I really like rather than having a dar,   I think a dark fabric in a curtain can look a  bit heavy. The front door -yeah - used to be in   the middle here because it used to be it used to  have a sloping roof coming down but then what we   did was we did this is called a hip roof so we  hipped the roof into the big roof and this made   a bigger room than was here before. Okay. So then  now we just have we have this as an entrance hall,   we have the drinks they have the drinks cupboard  over here. So when you come over here - I I must   admit we actually stole the idea - yeah, yeah  - Jörg having a bar. You've got to have a good   drinks bit so this is the drinks are in here. Oh  that's gorgeous. So we just have all so you come   in have a drink and then but it's hidden away so  it's not like a bar. Yeah. I mean I think you can   either go for it and have a have a really sort  of vulgar bar on the corner but I quite like it   it was like a sort of retro, bamboo. You know  that they have like this miniature little bars   and you can really make an issue and make a thing  of it - yes - but we just have this sideboard and   then we just have the drinks in here. Yes. And  then we just do drinks and have a drink and then   it's - and I I remember when you did Instagram  Stories about this room. Yes. I saw this - oh yes,   yes - and spent hours - yeah, trying to find  something. Yes, yeah. I got these lamp bases and   I just painted them red. Literally just painted  them red and they. And they made a real you know   they made a real difference - oh yes - you know  because I always believe in having big lighting,   big things you know rather than like little light  make a big lighting I think is really important.   When we had Covid and I was meant to do this um,  you know you might have a stand in London. I was   and I had to collect everything together and  I thought it could be cancelled at any time.   Yeah. So what I did was I decorated this room as  well so that if it was cancelled everything that   I've made or had to get made - yeah - I could  put back into the house. Yes, yeah. So these   are two spare beds which I had already and I just  brought them down to London. So everything in here   is um, is all what I had in my stand at Chelsea.  Yes, I love that. Because it was going to be it   could have all gone wrong. It could have  been cancelled and I'd had all this stuff   made - I really love that - so that's why I put  I call this my Chelsea Room now. But I've sort   of inherited all the bits and pieces and it's  all there sort of lives and my ancestors lives   and you know everything which I quite I you know I  like that you know it makes you feel comfortable.   Yeah. It's just old - memories - your memories you  know I like that. Me too. You know the oldness. I   just - you know - I just love combining - yes  - things like that and it looks so warm. Yeah,   yeah. And I try and do things like I try and do it  something symmetrical so you make it so it's like   a little vignette you know so you can sort of see  you know like it's sort of slightly symmetrical   but you sort of styled it - yeah - you know so  it's sort of like its own little decoration.   Yeah. But the thing about I find with wallpapers  it gives a room an atmosphere. Yes. And it also it   decorates the room - yes - you know decorates  the whole room, brings it together. I think   it totally changes a room. Yeah. It fills it  in. And I remember you saying - yeah - like   I mean you have a lot of patterns -yeah - you  don't have really plain fabrics, do you? Well,   no. I do sometimes do I've got a plain  I sometimes mix in with the plain. Yeah,   yeah. But I find it's like textures are really  important so that's a text that's a warm texture.   Things like the pom-poms will give you a texture.  Yes. I just seeing this all the patterns and it   looks so beautiful together. Yeah and then you  know if you don't want to have all the cushions   you can take what that cushion away and just have  one cushion. Yeah. But I think the thing is you've   got to think of it's it's to do with scales. Yeah.  And also if you think I've only used two colours.   I've used green, I've used red but then I've got  different patterns within those colours. So that's   what makes it feel - yeah - simple. Whereas  if I had lots of different colours and lots   of different patterns and it would look a mess  - yeah - but because I keep the colour palette   simple - yeah- that's what makes it. And and  also the scales. You've got small scale, medium   scale - yes - and they're sort of help, they're  not fighting against each other. Yes, that's true.   See what I mean? That's true yeah. And that's the  thing with small patterns are like a neutral and   then you can put a bigger pattern in front of it.  It looks absolutely amazing together. Yeah. Market   a second hand shop in Hexham and I just liked the  shape of it - yeah - and then I had it covered in   and then I put the red - that's beautiful -which  makes it, brings it up more and shows the gold   more but it's not, the thing about it is you think  oh my goodness I'm going to put red with the green   but actually - yeah - it's a little bit of it  goes a long way. The majority of it is green. It   just highlights it and it shows the green better.  That's true and in combination - yes - beautiful.   That's another cushion. Again that's a sort  of it's the knot pattern but it's a neutral   but they sort of go together because  they're different types of patterns. So this is your guest or one - one of them yeah  yeah yeah - one of your guest bedrooms which is   so beautiful. Well, I sort of decorated it. I  did all the wallpapering myself - yes - and um,   and it was a combination of lots of stuff  that I had. Like I had the spare wallpaper   and I had the spare the head it started with  the headboards because they have moved from   another room so I sort of coordinated it with  the headboards. Yes. But I wanted to sort of   break it up a bit and make it and it's quite  a sweet little room. It's like the last spare   room so it's not it's like when we're got lots  of people and they can come in here. And I had   some of this spare fabric so I just brought it all  together. So it was what I had in hand and that's   how I've created it. So it was you you know start  having a starting point which is the headboards   and then I sort of worked out what else I  needed. And that's how I worked out this   room. What really fascinated me when  I watched it - yeah - you put it on   Instagram Stories, right? Yes, I did yes. Yes. Like the border, this is a trimming. It's a   trimming. The thing is I was desperate to put  a picture rail up - yes - but I couldn't get   a joiner - okay - because it's important well,  I do know one but I couldn't he couldn't come   or something happened. Anyway, so I thought I  would get this trim this trimming and I just put   it around to make it break it up and actually it  worked really well. Yes, it's brilliant. You know,   when like seeing this - yeah - I think so many  people would shy away - yes, yes - from combining   two wallpapers Yes. This looks so nice. Yeah  but it was just again, it's the different scales   and the different sort of connected through the  colour. Yes. You know. I think it's so cosy. No,   it's great. It's worked out really well.  Beautiful. You know but it's just a sort   of it's just literally little spare bedroom so  it's it's not you know this there isn't anything   any hanging space or anything. It's basically got  all the windows which are very low level because   where they sort of put the straw out you know  so - yeah - and we literally just we just um,   it was used to be able to get to it from below. So  behind there is a bit of a void where there used   to go up some stairs. And then you could come in  through here. But you always had this beam across   so it was always going you would have to sort of  stand underneath the beam. And it always used to   be a storeroom. Yeah. So anyway, we decided it was  absolute derelict so we've made it into a bedroom.   So it's worked really well. It's beautiful. So  then now what we do is we have so I've got my   lamps which I got from Chelsea from somebody  called, they are called Kingatu and I just   thought they were great. I just love the gold -  yes - on them. Yeah. And anyway so I got these   again. I had to get them and then I've used  them for us. And that's good. And I really,   I I do love this wallpaper. Yeah, that's good.  That wallpaper's good. Yes. It's just a small,   like a design and the curtains are always like  little and diddy, the little curtains so I've   made them look a bit more interesting with the  pom-poms. Yeah. And can I just say that - yeah - I   absolutely love your pouffe. Oh yeah. This is  again, this is I had this done for Chelsea. This   is gorgeous. It's done, there's a company called  The Clockhouse Furniture - okay - and they made   all the sort of upholstery that I had on my stand  in London. I'm always so amazed what difference   cushions make. Yeah, they do. I think they just  I think they bring your eye in. They're sort   of like a focal point - yeah - even though  they're just a little thing. I always think   they're like the focal point in the room.  Yes, yeah. Don't you think? Yeah. I think   they are important. Oh yeah. So you've always  loved colour? Yeah, I've always loved colour.   I've always liked to create a characterful room.  You know making it characterful and adding things   to it. Everything has a story or it just makes  me feel happy you know. And if it's organised,   I like to have a clean organised room. I don't  like to live in a mess. But I I like to sort of   know that I've done a good job of all the soft  furnishings and they'll last and they'll look   nice for as long as possible. Yeah. I had this  before I I did what I do now but I still really   like it. Yes. And I just think it's just really  and I don't really want to get rid of it or change   it because I just really like this pattern. Yeah,  yeah. You know. I do as well. You know, it's just   something really nice about it - yeah - you know,  I've always really liked it. Yes. And I don't want   to change it. No. So and it shows that you can  put, I like to mix up different sort of things.   This is the your studio. Yeah, this is a studio.  This area here is photography so I've got some   I've only got these because I got this fabric  back from Paris and it's um, I've just hung it   up so it's a this is photography here. Just  wanted to show you the bestseller. That's   the tiger print. That one there. That's the  tiger one. And that's really popular. Yeah,   that's really popular. I've got wallpaper in  that as well. Yes. And fabric. Yeah, yeah. And that goes everywhere. Seen it in bathrooms.  I know. It's everywhere. And another one as well.   The Americans like this one. This is called The  Countess. That's from my very first collection.   Oh yeah. And that's called The Countess.  And that sells a lot. You know every sort of   like that's always quite good to have a stripe.  Yes. You know you have a stripe and a different   scale. Oh yes. And that's the thing you know. How  it brings it to sort of - this is the fabric that   you have in your pouffe. Yeah yeah, that's right.  That's just like a stripe. That's really really   nice. You know, so that's quite good. Yeah. You  know. But I mean you know things like you know   that's that's very quite a neutral one. Yes. That  would go with lots of different things you know.   That's quite popular. That sort of thing. Yeah.  You know. This is very popular for curtains - oh   yes - because it looks really good in a curtain -  yeah - it's because it's like the way it moves you   know. That's really good. People buy a lot of that  for curtains. Yeah. And then things like this one.   They buy it for curtains as well. That one. Yes.  I've got that. That's really gorgeous. That for   curtains you know is quite good. Yeah. And you can  feel I must say that the quality is great. Yeah,   it's a nice quality fabric. Because I actually  did a thing the other day and I bought I got   loads of samples of other people because I wanted  to see how they did their sampling and what their   base cloth was like and their colours. Yeah. Just  literally just out of interest. And I was really   shocked some how horrible some of the base cloth  is. Oh dear. It's also mixtures. This is all 100%   cotton and linen. Yeah, you can just feel it.  So it's natural. 'Cause it not it's not like a   hasn't got any man-made fibre in it. No, no. You  know. I draw lots of pictures so I do I I'm quite   prolific at drawing. So I do things in black and  white because it goes into the computer so I don't   worry too much about colour at this stage. I just  do drawings in black and white. And if I do them   on tissue paper it works in the scanner because  I scan them all in. And then things like if I   do pencil drawings as well you know. Oh wow. So  I do a lot I do lots of drawings. You know I do   things like you know I'll do um, I'll do like  half something so I'll draw a half - okay - and   then I'll just reverse it over but I I know I  can reverse it in the computer. Yeah. So when   I'm doing my drawing, I'm sort of thinking about  how I do it on the computer as well. Yeah. So it's   sort of you know, I can so I just all I need is  the main thing and then I put them together. The   other thing is you can't really do a whole room or  a house in one person's fabric. Yeah. You need to   have a mixture of things. You can't just use, you  can't, people say to me 'oh I want to do my whole   house in your fabric' and you go 'I think you  probably find that quite difficult'. You know,   really you need to have a variety of stuff so  maybe use my fabric for the curtains, someone   else's for the cushions. You know you don't have  to use my fabric for everything because it's I   haven't really designed it to do a whole you know,  I haven't redesigned the fabric - yeah - to do the   whole house. You know it's like you know that's  the thing. Anyway, I think designing a room,   you need to bring in lots of other people's stuff  as well. And design is when you watch professional   interior designers, they're really clever at  putting together other lots of designers fabric.   Yes. And that's what works. And then this is  just wallpaper that we have which we just use for   sampling. So it's just you know, we just cut it  off. We always give people a really good sample.   They get a good size wallpaper. This is actually  the first time I'm touching your wallpaper.   Oh is it? And I can feel the quality. It is good.  It's really good. It's very good. Very robust. And people always say can I put it in the  bathrooms and things? I've got all my bathrooms,   most of them are wallpapered - yeah - because  it's really tough. Oh yes. And you can use any   wallpaper paste. Anything. It's really easy.  It's because, it's paste the wall so it's   really strong. Oh yes. I don't even think it's  paper. I think it's something called substrate   it's called. Very good. It's it's really  difficult to rip. Cause there are I mean such   differences. Some wallpapers. I know. Like you  touch it and it falls apart. It's horrible. No,   this is really good quality. Oh yes. It's good.  And some of the designs remind me a little bit   of Scandinavia. I don't know if what what do you  think Jörg? It's like, I don't know if you like   Scandinavia? Yeah, I love Scandinavia. Of course  I do. I think it's great. Yeah. You know. Yeah,   that's sort of like it someone someone's  American picture, an American put that on the   on the ceiling. Yeah. In their nursery. Yeah. The  ceiling? On the ceiling but it's meant to be it's   like a background wallpaper. Yes. It's meant to  be something that's not it's just going to create   the atmosphere rather than take over the room.  Yeah, exactly. You can still put other things   with it. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's the  one you have in one of your guest bedrooms. Yeah,   that's right. Yeah we've got that above the  thing - yeah - you know. And then you've got   one. This is hilarious. This one. This is what  you call a statement. This is called 'The funky   elephant'. Oh wow. And this American, I did this  as a digital image of this on the and then this   American designer wanted it as a wallpaper. I said  it's a it's a digital picture that you're looking   at. It's not real wallpaper. And then I had it  printed and it came out like this. Wow. It's   called The funky elephant'. Wow. So if you want  to have a statement, that's a statement. Yes.   You know what I mean? Yeah. But people put that  in their loo or all that. You know downstairs   or somewhere bright Yeah, yeah. You know. And  then and then then this wallpaper was this was   done from a lovely old house not far from us. And  it's called Healy Hall. And I drew this. It took   me about three weeks to draw it but it was from an  old wallpaper. Oh that's nice. And I drew it all.   It was, I I had it was I took some photographs of  the wallpaper and I sort of I had to go over it.   It was a special sort of brush that I used on  my computer. Yeah. I did every layer. I did a   colour. Hmm. And I've created it. It was a really,  I don't know how I managed to do it but because it   was screen printed, it's quite blocky because  you've got different ,every screen printing you   have a different colour for every screen. Yes. So  I just did that. I just found the colours and and   then it and then it worked out really well. And  that's called 'Healy Monkey. Yeah. Um, because it   was it was the um, there's a monkey there. Yeah.  But that that's that's been a very successful   wallpaper. Fabric as well you know. But that's  from original old from a house in Northumberland   which I quite like doing resurrecting old  wallpapers. Yeah, yeah. So we're in Charlotte's   kitchen here and wasn't it a lockdown project as  well that you painted the kitchen? Oh yes. And   I'm always painting the kitchen cause I get bored  of the colour. And I think well I might as well   just do a bit of another paint. So then I changed  the handles and I changed the colour but that's a   good thing about this kitchen. It was meant to be  painted. Yes. I did do dark blue but it was a bit   too dark. And I felt like when I came down the  morning in the dark and the winter it was a bit   too dark. So I wanted to make it a bit lighter.  Swedish Blue it's called. That makes sense. Yeah.   Um, you know but - that's beautiful - but it's  always changing the kitchen. I'm always doing   different things to it. You know. So it's  just a little telly area for me really. Yes,   yeah. And then um, so no one else really watches  the telly because they don't really want to watch   the same things that I watch. It's a beautiful  space. Yeah, I know. I I must say - yeah - I'm   a kitchen person. Oh yeah. I do edit my videos in  the kitchen. Oh right, yeah. But don't you find,   we we always have the saying in Germany -  yeah - no matter how big or small your house   is people always end up in the kitchen. Yes  definitely. When you have a party. Oh yeah,   definitely. Everyone's always in the kitchen.  Yeah. Yeah, definitely. They are around this   island. Everyone stands around the island.  Yeah, I know, I know. It's unbelievable,   isn't it? Unbelievable. We can't thank you  enough. Oh I know, it's been fantastic. Well,   thanks very much for coming. It's been an honour  to meet you. I honestly can't thank you enough.   That was a dream. No, it's been really  good. I've really enjoyed having you.   Thanks for coming and thinking of me. We  did as well. And coming and having a look.   It's been a pleasure to show you around. Same  same. Yeah. Thank you so much for having us.   Pleasure pleasure pleasure. Anyway no, thank you.  Thank you. We are sure you will enjoy it. And let   us know what you think. So we'll see you again  very soon as always and until next time. Bye. Bye.
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Length: 23min 32sec (1412 seconds)
Published: Tue Oct 11 2022
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