Georgian English Country House Tour

[Music] so roxy says hello hello come on in roxy stay stay there hello everybody so this is our new house that we've recently moved to i think it's been officially a month that we've been here is that right is it a month and we've fully unpacked now we feel really settled and i always knew i wanted to film a tour so we're going to take you around the house show you all the rooms maybe talk about some things that we want to do and definitely leave some comments down below because i want to film a q a about the house so if you're watching this video and you have any questions let me know and also if you have any suggestions because you're often a lot more inventive and creative than i am with coming up with suggestions of what we can do in this house so we've got years to come this is our forever home and yeah we've fallen in love with it if you are new here we live in cornwall and this is really rural remote cornwall in the countryside and we absolutely love it it is a georgian home so there's lots of period features it's not listed though so we can do what we want here and some parts of it i think have been changed in the victorian period that's what asavea said anyway some of the windows are georgian some of them are victorian and yes there's lots of lovely period features and let's show you around our staircase here and our hallway that leads out to the back garden which is i think lovely to come in the front door and it kind of all leads through the house i think the stairs were facing the other way or they were in the middle and this has opened up the hallway which is quite nice but if you come down here we can take you into the favorite part of the house the best part of the house that made me fall in love with this home i've got this doorway which is mostly always open but it helps with roxy if there's someone at the front door [Music] [Music] do [Music] this is the kitchen it's so beautiful it's got so much character and it's got argo which is amazing if you don't know what an algorithm it's just a very old-fashioned cooker and it's quite a nice thing to have in a country home so it's always a bonus when you come across one though i am trying to figure out how to use it it's got this incredible island which has another oven though this oven is broken so we're gonna have to replace that but this island is so incredible because i make recipe videos and it's gonna be so fun to be able to stand here and film and have all the space because our previous kitchen didn't have that and that was one of the reasons that we were looking for another home for a bigger kitchen to help with videos and everything got this huge sort of surface over here with a big ceramic sink which is amazing all this extra space over here lovely area for almost like a homage to tea this will not stay like this this is an integrated fridge that we recently bought we're gonna get it all built in so that will look very different right now it looks a bit of an eyesore but that would be so nice the actual kitchen as well i was surprised to find out because we actually only viewed the house twice it's all wood so that's really like a bonus because i feel like it's quite rare to have like a wooden kitchen nowadays you'd normally go for like mdf or something similar so we're keeping this kitchen because it's just i feel like it's handmade i feel like someone diyed this kitchen a long time ago and that's i love that it's so rustic and beautiful this is the argo they keep the house warm these um things on the top are always on not the most eco-friendly and we're definitely going to look into options for changing it over to solar powered because we do have solar panels on the house someone commented saying that's an option that you can do with argos so we're definitely going to research that but i'm learning how to cook on it it's quite fun and it's just look at this look how much character so so beautiful and even all the beans and we can dry all of our clothing on this up here and it's just the dream proper countryside cottagy kitchen come around here to see the main area of the room this is like the kitchen diner area you might recognize this table if you've been watching me for a while because it's come with me in every home that we've lived in it temporarily stayed at my parents when we lived in brighton but we've had this for ages this was the table that i grew up with it's got so many nicks and marks from when i was a kid there's even like little bits of gold on here when we do arts and crafts when i moved out i said to my mum i want this table because she had to get a smaller table for her kitchen and i was like please don't get rid of it it's so beautiful and they're so hard to come by now and i just i love it it gets better and better as it ages and i think the wood was from oh no no not the wood this used to be a table on a ship because the legs unscrew which is actually very handy when you're moving house we have another fireplace sort of opening here we need to sort out the wood burner because it's actually not really very safe because there's no half a wood burner guy told us that he was like yeah that's illegal you need to have a half and it's also propped up by some pieces of wood but we've got big plans here in this kitchen lots of storage we're going to be adding we were thinking of knocking through to our garage not so sure anymore but for the most part this kitchen probably will be very similar just spruced up some storage added and it will probably be the first room that we do because it's so integral to filming videos and our business and everything so it would just be yeah it'd be like a renovation but nothing too crazy still got my lovely dresser though i feel like we might have to sell this because we're planning on doing built-in storage in a window seat here but we'll see if we can put it somewhere else in the house i got this recently this beautiful dresser i got on facebook marketplace and it was only 145 pounds right and it fits absolutely perfectly in between these two doors you can see like it literally matches up to the height of the doors and i've put loads of my lovely plates and things on here to display and i was originally thinking of painting it but now i kind of love the color and i think it really really suits the room i'm going to change the handles though those are not my my style but it's just the most beautiful dresser facebook marketplace is the place to go most of our furniture is from there these chairs are and loads of our accessories and everything this is our temporary pantry because we we're going to get a built-in one so that it all can be hidden away but this is um a bookshelf that we got made for our previous home from rustic kerno absolutely love it it is so so useful for now as pantry and i just love the way it all looks there with all the storage this is the kitchen and i will take you through now to our living room [Music] so back in the hallway maybe i'll show you this quickly we've got our piano in the hallway i think we might move it to the other side because the removal men put it here but what do you think this side or the other side i haven't decided yet but in here is our living room which roxy is [Music] modelling [Music] good girl this is her seat she also has gotten into the habit of jumping up here onto the windowsill to watch us every time we go outside which is great because then it means all of the sofa cushions fly onto the floor this is our living room it's got all of our furniture from our previous home we're thinking maybe the seat is one too many pieces of furniture because the way this room is laid out is it feels a bit crowded in here we're not entirely sure this fireplace is the thing that we're still not sure what we're gonna do we had somebody around like i mentioned and this fireplace is not usable right now the wood burner because there's just a lot wrong with it and it's not certified so we're gonna have a think decide what we're doing with this room we're not sure and eventually we will change that and hopefully make it all open like in our previous house i'll link the video above but we did a whole renovation with cornwall wood burners with our previous wood burner and it was amazing what was revealed so i have a feeling there'll be something similar underneath here like there is in the kitchen it's turned out really lovely for now and really helpful storage with these kind of alcoves and it's really cozy in here and i love it roxy loves it too this floor though these floors these wooden floors they really need fixing up there's lots of scratches i keep on talking about what things are going to change it's just because i'm in that mindset i'm getting excited about planning renovations and doing all the interiors let's go now back through the hallway into the [Music] utility this is the utility please ignore the sound of the boiler the hot water is on this room has been so useful for looking after the animals feeding them for obviously just utility purposes all of this storage and if you come around here there is a toilet and a shower which currently is a cupboard look it's a cupboard for our cleaning products because the shower doesn't actually i mean i wouldn't use this shack because there's no hot water in this room but yeah this utility has been so great so far for storage purposes and to have a space separate to keep all the mess it's been so nice hasn't it alex has loved it because alex is the one who does the laundry i hate doing laundry eventually we'll change this again i'm not sure you'll have to wait and see maybe this will become a walkway through to something else maybe we'll make it into two separate spaces and have a downstairs loo and then utility separately i don't know because this all is all stained and stuff and it needs redoing i think it's not been done in a really really long time but these cupboards pretty great for all of our big dog food and cat food and everything like that but let's go upstairs and show you the bedrooms so let's go upstairs i'm halfway up the stairs we do have a cupboard here which is actually quite useful i feel like i want to change how this looks because it's sticking out a little bit but has been handy for our hoover and extra coats follow me should we go into the bathroom first let's save the bathroom let's go round this way and show you all the rooms so [Music] first [Music] this is the first bedroom this is a spare bedroom right now we just put our bed in here we've got a double bed from our previous home this was from facebook marketplace as well and we put like nice lovely bed sheets on here these bedside tables i always get asked about they're from worth i think i might be selling them because i'm not sure they suit they're a bit industrial kind of rustic for this home and i really want to go for something that really matches the georgian kind of roxy roxy what are you doing so these bedside tables i got them sent to me ages ago from worth and they have been the most amazing bedside tables but i want to go for something in this home that's very traditional very true to the georgian kind of style and something that's a bit more vintage whereas these i feel like are a bit more modern so i will be selling them and if i do i might post them on my stories because they can be posted because i think you can unscrew so follow me on instagram in case you want to buy those from me i've got georgian windows like i said on this side and then the ones on the front are victorian so that's kind of nice to have two different styles of windows the first big thing that we're doing is restoring all the windows because half of them don't open they've got draft issues some of the wood is rotten and i want them all painted white because right now they're green on the outside so that will be a huge project we've just booked it in to be done in july they have a really long lead time but i suppose it's quite a specialist job and it'll be amazing to keep the original windows rather than replacing them with new ones and just make them you know work properly and bring them back to life so really looking forward to doing that obviously this lovely wardrobe that we had in our previous home as well which we got on facebook marketplace of course actually i think that it was on facebook marketplace but i think she's called kathy's vintage or something i'll leave her linked below because she like upcycles vintage stuff in cornwall so she'll have loads of stuff probably on her website so i'll link that below but all the rooms don't really have much furnish furniture in them because this house is a lot bigger than our previous home and we haven't decorated with just unpacked [Music] this is our master bedroom which has the dreamiest bed that frankie is modeling perfectly he loves it it's so squishy it actually came and it was so much higher than we expected and i was a bit like oh my gosh this bed is ridiculous and since sleeping in it i love it i'm completely um turned what's the word i'm completely turned on no what's the word i'm completely you know when you switch your idea yeah converted i'm completely converted to a high bed now i used to have a much lower bed and this is just the dream and it's so cushiony the mattress oh roxy the mattress is from the sleep shop and it's a silent night eco mattress i'll leave it linked below again because a couple people have asked about that so yeah i'll leave anything that i talk about that i can link below roxy she can't jump up at this bed the previous bed she could lots of you are concerned about our old bed our rustic kernel bed we're selling it we wanted a super king because we're both really tall and so we've got a super king and that will be sold on to a new home a new family and they'll love it i'm sure we've got the view of the garden that's why we chose this as the master bedroom even though that bedroom's bigger the view is gorgeous and this is south facing so it's much brighter in here though it's not bright right now where's the sun come on sun it was so beautiful yesterday but yeah we've also got the wisteria which when it blooms we'll be able to see that from the from the bed and then we've got our chest of drawers from our previous house which we're going to keep and we just need to decorate in here and figure everything out i really want to do wallpaper in some of the rooms so let me know if you have any suggestions for colors or wallpapers or themes or anything i would love to hear all of your suggestions it really really helps because some of you just come up with the best ideas but let's go through now to the bathroom which i feel like a lot of you have fallen in love with so this is the bathroom has the most incredible tub which is massive i have had two baths in there and it is incredible the only thing i'm concerned by come around here is there's a massive hole on this side of the bath in the floor that is a bit concerning this shower also does leak a little bit every time i shower it has a little hole there so as beautiful as this bathroom is it does need some tlc and i feel like at first i thought don't think we'll do this bathroom anytime soon but since living here i kind of feel like maybe it will be something a little bit higher on the agenda just because of practicality and we do we did have a leak downstairs and the ceiling looks a little bit like there's been some water damage so i wonder if there's this is to do with that so we're gonna probably spruce this up a little bit fix some of the tiles fix the hole in the floor change things to be more our style and this yeah this shower leaks everywhere i would get a closed enclosure do you think like our previous shower because every time i shower just sprays all over but we've got this beautiful um what's this called got this beautiful sink unit with marble top and then this has space for storage which is great and i was thinking we could get another storage unit here again gorgeous view of the garden which when you're in the bath it's amazing especially in the summer now we've got lighter evenings i just cannot wait we have a linen covered here which is so amazing they added this i think when they moved the stairs which is a great idea and then here we have one of the rooms which you've seen if you watched my video recently doing my wardrobe i'll link it here [Music] i unpacked everything in here this has the most incredible set of wardrobes when we moved in originally we thought we would like change them because we were like oh i'm not so sure but since moving in i actually think that there's a real opportunity here and loads of you have told me about like diy ikea hacks and sent me videos where you can box it all in with mdf and put like a skirting board and make it look like built-in wardrobes and because they're ikea ones you can get different things for the inside to make it suit your needs so that will be amazing we can change the handles and just make it look like this is the wall so that would be a really fun project but for now this room is acting like a dressing room because we don't have kids and we're only two of us so we don't need four bedrooms and we don't need three spare bedrooms we wanted to actually put this room to use what it will be in the future i don't know but pretty great to have a dressing room for now because i've got my little table with all my makeup and stuff and alex's things in here too and this big mirror and also i've got my workout stuff so i actually have a designated space now that i can exercise which is so so nice love having this space and it's really like it's just kind of nice to have a room that's really empty like this to just have the space especially when we start renovating i feel like this will be very useful to move stuff in and out and the last bedroom [Music] [Music] [Applause] we recently got this bed as well because we needed another bed because we have three spare bedrooms this bed's from loaf and it is absolutely gorgeous we went with loaf because it's a british company i feel like they make their stuff do they make their stuff in britain i'm pretty sure it's like handmade and hopefully our guests will be very comfy in here but yeah we've got another chest of drawers that's the same as the other room really good size room all the rooms are very similar in size really and then in here has loads of stuff in it because basically yeah show them it is a downstairs ensuite and i will try and insert some footage of it when it's empty but basically there's a few things we need to put into the attic that we haven't got around to and then these duvets they are really massive and there's nowhere to put them and we need to get like either vacuum pack stuff or a proper bag that we can put them up in the attic because this is like our winter duvet and it's just so big that you can't compact it down i think that this was added when the stairs were moved which is kind of great because then there's an extra space for an ensuite so anyone staying has their own bathroom and that is everything upstairs roxy has followed us around having you she's like this is my bed you're not allowed on here come on then right let's go back downstairs so you can see a general like walk through so yeah dressing room hallway bathroom master bedroom spare bedroom and the stairs so that's the house wait for the garden tour and a little surprise as well outside which probably will come in like a month or so i really want to wait until some of the garden has started to sort of come alive because we we're not sure what's going to be out there and i think that it's going to look even more beautiful as spring progresses i hope you enjoyed this video make sure you give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you want to see us renovate this house because we've got big plans and we're really excited about being here it's the most gorgeous home and we're so lucky and so grateful to have moved into our forever home and it to be this incredible but yeah really excited about what's to come if you want to see more of the moving videos i have a playlist of our moving vlogs and also if you want to see us renovate our previous home i've got a renovation playlist so you can go back and watch us renovate our old home but yeah i will see you in our next video which maybe will be a q a about the house like i said leave questions down below and we'll answer all of those and talk about the renovation plans we have so yeah see you then thanks for watching bye

Channel: Madeleine Olivia

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Keywords: madeleine, olivia, House tour, countryside, cottage, Renovations, country, living, rural, interior, design, home, home tour, cottage tour, cottagecore, cornwall, cornish, cornish house, cornwall living, cornwall home, full house tour, madeleine olivia home, madeleine olivia house, interior design, period home, georgian home

Id: ZW4qiiNjxr4

Length: 22min 51sec (1371 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021