Colourful London Home Tour | Sarah Corbett-Winder | SheerLuxe Home Tour

i'm sarah corbett winder and i'm here doing a house talk with sherlock's welcome when we bought the house which was three years ago it really needed a lot of work it needed a lot of renovating everything was very i'm going to say very round like all the doorways were rounded and we made everything much more square kept all the walls this plaster color well i say kept the walls so the builders asked us what color should we paint the kitchen and my husband and i were like no no we're leaving the kitchen the kitchen is painted in the raw plaster it's kind of aged over time and it just adds a lovely spanish slightly holiday-ish feel to the kitchen and i honestly don't think you can find a paint color like it so you'll see on like the work tops we've gone for marble and then terrazzio as well but they're from the same family so they're sort of earthy and ready and brown we spent a lot of time designing the layout of our kitchen and actually at the last minute this island was the other way around and we moved it when we came for a site visit as well as having this island made which we really wanted to have seats around it as well that kind of idea of having a family breakfast at the island so we've got seats of both sides of the island i've always had this dream of having a big cabinet so we had it built so you'll see this this big chest cabinet that we've had created we've put a hat on it which you'll also see throughout the house we sort of put hats on lots of things and it's great because it fits perfectly in the space and you can fill it with wonderful things we wanted to create shelves a lot in the kitchen so we could put lots of like lots of stuff like plants and pictures and kind of just keep it quite relaxed and i guess sort of memories of our family as well so often when we go places we'll bring an object back i'm obsessed with collecting china fruits you'll see lots of china fruits around the house my dream has always been to have a lada in here you'll see that we've got everything kilmer jars a very nice place to come to when you're cooking and collect what you need and bring it out you'll probably start to see that i've got a slight form of ocd where everything is everything has its space seating in a kitchen i think is vital especially when you're having a cup of tea or a drink and what i have really enjoyed doing is finding this marble pillar which is great at the moment you'll see it's got an obje on it but also great for glass wine a cup of tea i mean anything really we designed our kitchen so the dining room well the dining room the dining table was in the kitchen so you can be cooking and you've got lots of friends having dinner party and you're all kind of together which is lovely also great with kids and then we really wanted this soft bench um situation which my husband designed and then we got some cushions and it's just great to hang out on originally the wall hit this wall had a massive picture on like one big picture which i'll show you later but it just wasn't it just wasn't working so we took it down and we're like let's just create this wall of pictures and collections and things we find and discover and it's really fun because we're always adding to it and it's just like one big memory behind us that we get to enjoy i found this beautiful marbled sink and it's made to measure so i measured it and it was sent over it took probably two months to make got delivered opened up the box actually our builders opened up the box and i got a phone call being like it doesn't fit i was like oh my god so totally my fault i'd measured it wrong which is so the kind of thing i do so now the sink it doesn't fit in the kitchen area but it's got a great home as a marble bar and actually everything happens for reason and we couldn't love it more so now we're in the library so it sounds very grand but so we've got this from here which is filled with books which connects to the sitting room so in the library it's a bit of a brighter yellow and then you'll see we've got all these bookshelves which my husband designed so we've done that here and done it over the archway and it's sort of got a bit of a grown up sort of a grown up slightly officey feel this is actually my desk here and there's a yellow theme running through and it's a very nice place to sort of hang out welcome to the sitting room this is where we kind of hang out we actually rarely watch tv but if we do watch tv it's in here but like have drinks and just it's quite a nice place to chill and read a book so we added this paneling which is super cheap you just buy bits of paneling and pop it in it was actually my husband's idea and it's genius because it adds a real grandeur to the room and just makes it a bit more elevated so as well as collecting china fruit i am a huge china dog i'm going to say addict actually it's getting quite out of control these are my friends i collect them from ebay charity shops vintage shops antique shops i mean anywhere i'm always looking for different types of dogs the fireplace was designed by my husband which i was so rude about anyway i really had to eat all my hats when it arrived because i love it and it's so different and it's just it's great it really holds the room and holds the dogs re-upholstering sofas chairs anything armchairs cushions is so expensive as i'm sure you all know so i'm very actually proud to be able to share this trick with you i just got the cushions re-upholstered and how much of a difference does that make it's like a whole new sofa so this chair is i mean it's amazing sensational and designed by my husband so i can give him full credit for that it's beautiful and it's the kind of chair that you just want to sort of nestle up and read a book or have a glass of wine and just you feel slightly like you're escaping from the world absolute nightmare to get into the house just squeezed in we scraped a lot of stuff but she made it and she's going to be staying here for a while okay so downstairs lou which is a very small space so we did it we covered it with stark striped wallpaper and actually using a dark stripe or a dark something in a small space weirdly makes it feel bigger and what makes it feel even bigger is smothering it with loads of mirrors and i mean any types of mirrors so it feels like a little dark bubble of mirrors just a wonderful little lou and world to go to now on to the staircase so of course we've got some brown actually got a sort of pinky color as well just to reflect the kitchen but what we've also done is we've smothered the hall up the stairs with pictures which i mean why wouldn't you so this is our little girl nancy's bedroom who is three so we went for this very beautiful penny morrison fabric which she's also got you'll see on her bed head as well which actually one day would be quite amazing if it was all over the walls as well but i think you can find a grown-up style fabric and still make it feel like young and pretty a little girly upholstered chairs are expensive but don't don't forget you can look for exactly what you want it to be upholstered in so for example this i found on ebay and i just searched pink striped armchair and it arrived as is and was a bargain of a price welcome to the kids bathroom so the theme of in here is red and of course red stripe so we've got red stripe wallpaper red striped tiles and i always sort of thought that a red stripe wallpaper had to go vertically but actually at the last minute my husband said let's do it horizontally and it actually looks quite nice there are also an awful lot of boats in here so my husband growing up when i first went to his parents house there were boats in the bathroom like this but probably not so many and i stole the idea and so when we moved in here we had a little not quite sure what's called a little shelf running around and filled it with boats of course every boat has to have some red in it though so the art i guess some pieces we buy from artists but also like for example the picture at the top there is an invitation to my sister-in-law's 30th birthday and then this is the napkin that my husband and i well that i used when my husband and i went on our first date but and i was hoping that we'd get engaged well i was kind of just i knew it was meant to be and so i kept it hoping one day i'd be able to pull it out and be like dude i kept this from my first date my point is it doesn't just have to be art you can put anything on your walls and i think what's so lovely is you put memories on your walls we wanted to create little i guess this is like a little station so halfway up the stairs and it's quite nice to sort of sit and chill out make a phone call or just be what i love most is i mean anything can be a piece of art i mean she's great i'll spare them blue stripes plates so we went for a very neutral headboard just to keep it very calm and white sheets but then added in bits of blue so we re-upholstered this in a check blue features here blue lights basically anything blue blue walls blue prints and for me i think it's then a really nice room to come into when a room has a color as a theme because then you can play with textures all sorts of things and it doesn't feel too crazy just justifying where every room has a color as well as being our spare room this room very kindly houses my summer and holiday wardrobe because yes i do have a serious obsession with clothes and these wardrobes are great because they're rattan they look beautiful but they also store a lot curtain pelmet so obviously we went for a brownie tweed but we didn't want it just to be a straight line so we thought let's make it scholarly i guess it would be rude weird if i didn't have a bag obsession as well as a close obsession so these are actually shelves that we had in our kitchen that were left over that we created to hold my bags to be able to see everything is so great so hence this idea evolved we really wanted to have our own floor where nobody could disturb us and we could come up and have a nice tranquil peaceful time the ceiling in here was originally really low and it was quite boxy so we thought to just open it up and see what was up there and we were so lucky to find these beams which we've just left and they've just opened up the whole room we then found this lantern which is actually a street light which i think is quite cool and that nice little brassy feel sort of fits in nicely we had this bed made i fell in love with the bed which i can't even tell you how much it was and it also came from america so the shipping the build the creation the paint would have been a i mean not even acceptable so we had it made which was i mean i don't think you can really tell the difference to be honest and we've got little accents of color around the room but i'd say in general it's quite a soft just calm relaxing bedroom another one of my dreams was to have a fireplace in our bedroom often we'll come up to bed in the winter sort of 8 30 9 o'clock have a bath put the fire on read our books i just feel like it's quite a grown-up thing to do we are now in my favorite room of the house of course our wardrobe but this is where i spent my husband and i spend our the beginning of our days and it's just such a joy to get dressed in we and it's really lovely we have a chat in the morning we get dressed i didn't want cupboards on the frames because i think clothes are so beautiful and i love looking at them so yeah here you are in my sanctuary i have so many fond memories growing up of my mother being at her dressing table and it was always a lovely place that i'd want to go to and see her and sort of be with her and it's very sweet the same happens with um with our children it's just a lovely place for them to come and be and i feel very sort of comfortable here and then once i'm dressed i'll sit here and choose my jewelry put my perfume on and it kind of sets me for the day my mother always said the key to a happy marriage is having your own bathrooms we couldn't do that so we went for our own sinks instead which i have to say is pretty life-changing it's also quite nice because you're at the sink the same time got some china dogs i mean there is not a place that you cannot put a china dog and then the sinks we went for have got this lovely shell beetle on which is just a bit pretty we wanted the shower to have like an earthy feel of course so we went for these green tiles which are actually handmade and i think you can really feel the sort of depth to them we put this marble lip here which to obviously stop the water all coming out instead of having it like a shower tray which you actually just found in an antique shop so this was a wedding present which we absolutely love and cherish you sit on it you put your clothes on it our children climb on it it's just a wonderful piece to have these pineapple lights are actually vintage if you can find things in pairs embrace it get them because it's a real it's quite rare it's quite rare to find in pairs our bath came with this wonderful paneling um and actually came in this color so it was obviously meant to be for our bathroom so there we are that's my house thank you for watching and i hope you found lots of inspiring and stripy things

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Published: Thu Aug 18 2022