豪宅秀 【豪宅秀】吉妮芙·哈里斯的迷人鄉村小屋：探秘16世紀的英格蘭鄉村別墅

Hello Luxury Home Show My name is Genevieve Harris and welcome to my 600-year-old cottage nestled in the English countryside Come on in This kind of feels to me a little bit more cottagey and this is a little bit more grander for entertaining Legend has it that King Henry VIII had actually slept in this room What's really fascinating is that some of them actually have witches' marks engraved into them So this is the kitchen We moved here seven years ago And one of the reasons I loved this house was it had just a lovely feeling to the kitchen It was a lovely size The kitchen actually was completely falling down It really had nothing to it So we had to rebuild the whole thing The only thing that was here was this old oil agar and it is my favorite bit of the house It's the heart of the home All the animals go They cuddle up to it in the winter It's really cozy and it's just a joy to cook with We wanted to design a kitchen that looked like it had always been here And we chose the color actually by accident It started off as being a dark green which was a really beautiful color But it just didn't suit the space And I came upon this yellow and it just, I don't know, it just spoke to me It was really cheery, really kind of happy and I just love it When we moved in there was a space outside of the kitchen that was just completely overgrown And my idea was to have a little kitchen garden with some raised beds herbs where I could grow my vegetables And it was kind of the first thing that we did before we started to build the kitchen And it's just such a lovely space to look out onto When I'm doing the dishes I can look out, see everything growing And it just works really well for the space So this is my little vegetable garden It brings me so much joy I grow not just vegetables But sometimes I've got some cut flowers as well So I've got some cosmos, some sweet peas Always have some lettuce Right now I'm growing some broccoli So what I try to do is always have something That I can nip out and pick Below the raised beds is a herb garden It gets lots of sun And I've always got fresh herbs That I can use in my cooking So it's just so handy Outside of the kitchen It's just really, really nice So now we're back in the kitchen I'm going to show you a room Next door to the kitchen that is so useful Traditionally it was called the scullery And it was designed for an area To do all your laundry and all of that And actually that is kind of What we use it for now But we use it for lots of things We've got Bear's bed It is her bedroom I also do my laundry And sometimes the kids will sit And do homework here Sometimes I'll go on my laptop Do a bit of work It's really nice to be near the kitchen And the best bit about it is In busy seasons like Christmas You can put all of your junk in here Shut the door And leave it So it's very, very handy for that So coming out of the kitchen To the right I've got a little boot room I've got a loo and a sink And then to the left I've got a very tiny room But it's one of my favourite rooms So this is a very traditional larder Or pantry as some like to call it It is my favourite room in the house It's somewhere there I can put all of my preserves And my jams and pastas And obviously my champagne And what I love to do Is just to come in here And stare at everything And try and think up What am I going to make for dinner tonight So this is the dining room It is very, very cosy It's one of the oldest parts of the house I absolutely love hosting I love having loads of friends around And it's just my favourite thing To have everyone crowd around the table A big feast Everyone tucking in some delicious food Lots of wine And what I often think is It's 600 years old Who is eating here What could these walls say What gossip has been heard It's just incredible really So a very special portrait This is Frank Gresley It's painted by Harold Gresley Who is my husband's great, great grandfather And I just love him And I love that he looks down onto the family While we're feasting And now I'm going to take you into the drawing room I'm laughing right now Because Bear is literally Following me around the whole house Doing the tour with me So I had to formally introduce you This is Bear So this is the drawing room Originally there wouldn't have been a ceiling 600 years ago It would have been one big hall But over the years These rooms change And they put in a beautiful big brick floor And obviously the ceiling We limed wash the beams actually They were originally a really dark brown And it kind of felt quite oppressive So we used traditional lime wash And I think it kind of really lightened it We've got this amazing Engle look fireplace It's just so beautiful It originally had an open fire here And we put in the log burner Because although I really, really wanted An open fire Every time we lit it Because it had such a big flue It would sometimes smoke us out So we would have a room full of smoke Which wasn't ideal So we put it in the log burner But it's very cozy in the winter It's a great room for entertaining To have drinks and nibbles Before going into the dining room for dinner And it's just a great space Because it's such a long room It's about 40 feet long We actually added another fireplace And we tend to actually use the room In two sections So if it's just us, the family We will sit here for an evening Light this fire and watch TV If we've got guest rounds We'll use more of this area So it's kind of we use it in two sections But this kind of feels to me A little bit more cottagey And this is a little bit more Grander for entertaining Practically every single window in this house We had to replace They were all rotten It was in such a bad state But we had to replace them like for likes They had to be exactly the same as they were So these windows We had to have them re-leaded And the new frames But I wanted a color And it was quite difficult To kind of incorporate a color into the beams So I decided to put the color Into the woodwork for the windows and the doors And I chose this green And it's called invisible green And the whole point of it Is to kind of bring the outside in So I've got the planting outside And the green kind of brings it in So you haven't got that barrier Between house and garden Which I really love Right that's the downstairs Let me show you upstairs Okay so this is the upstairs We've got four bedrooms And I'm going to start with this one Which we call the solar So this room traditionally Was called the solar Because it was south facing And the sun shone on it Which made it really warm And usually the most important people Would sleep in the solar Because it was lovely and warm Compared to the rest of the house And legend has it That King Henry VIII Had actually slept in this room Apparently he was visiting the area And doing some wild boar hunting In the woods across the street Which is pretty incredible So the windows we actually replaced And we were really really lucky Because when we bought the house They were square windows And the architect found evidence That there was originally arrowhead windows So we were able to put them back And I think they're really charming Really beautiful And they're quite a feature From the front of the house This one's really interesting too It's a mullion window And it's crazy to think That back 600 years ago There wasn't any glass So none of these windows Would have had any glass in them It would have been just shutters So you can imagine How freezing it would be Other features that I love Are the amazing oak wide floorboards The lime wash beams Really beautiful And this gap advertisement For my husband's trousers So coming down the corridor You can really see the difference Between the two eras of the building So this is the old bit of the house This is slightly more modern I say it's modern It's Georgian It's still very old But you can see in the master bedroom It has a really different feel to it So the ceilings are a lot higher Bigger windows Much more symmetrical Typically Georgian You look at the fireplaces It's very much of that era I absolutely love designing this bedroom It's very me I love the pale blue It's very light and airy And I deliberately chose Very English Quintessentially English country aesthetic I've got the Colfax and Fowler chintz curtains Which I sourced from eBay William Morris print on the sofa Lots of kind of antique textiles The patchwork quilts And yeah I mean Lots of the furniture I did source locally from antique shops The haberdasher's cabinet For all my knitwear To me it kind of is a real look Of English country house aesthetic Which is my favorite So actually in this room This doorway here had an arch And this one didn't And it always really bugged me Because Georgians wouldn't have done that It would have been symmetrical So we fixed the arch Made them exactly the same The two doors One of them is just a closet And the other one weirdly just had a sink For no particular reason And not a loo So we put a little en suite in here So now we've got a loo and a sink Which is very handy So I'm going to take you down To see all of the bathrooms On this side of the house It's very typical for very old houses To only have plumbing on one side of the house So all of the loo's All of the sinks Are on this side of the house I'll show you them in a minute But I want to show you One of my favorite Little antiques in the house So I'm going to show you this I absolutely love it It's my perfumery Sometimes you see French ones But it's very rare to see English ones And I put all of my perfumes in it Absolutely no one is allowed to come into it And have a look Except me I have all of my treasures I love it So we've got a bathroom And a little loo But this is the main one And I'll come and show you So this is the main bathroom We actually haven't done that much to it It was one of those things That was the last thing on our list to do And when we first moved in We had all these ideas Of how we wanted to change it It's pure 1960s And actually after living here for a little while We kind of have grown to love it I've added a few things to it So I wanted the space to feel like Not so much a bathroom But more of another extra space to live in So I've got my little chair I've got a little dresser I can sit and have a cup of tea While I'm running a bath And just relax So this room is really, really special It's got this amazing high vaulted ceiling And this incredible crown post Which is actually really unique to this area of Kent Hence it being a whole house Really high ceilings And originally the floor wouldn't have been here And it would have been one massive room With a big fire in the middle The top mezzanine The reason it is there Is that people used to sleep up there Because the heat obviously rose And it was a little bit warmer for them We did actually think about Putting a little rail up at the top So that my son could go up there and play But we never really got around to it But it's kind of a neat feature And yeah, so this is his room It's a very unique room And he's a very lucky boy To call it his bedroom So most of the rooms in this house Do have fireplaces Just because there was a time When there was obviously no electricity And it was the only way to keep the room warm This one we don't actually use anymore But we have thought about reinstating it Because it would be incredible to have it open But it's just got this beautiful Bressemer beam Really high fluted chimney stack What always amazes me Is that all of these incredible Huge bits of oak were A, taken from the woods At the back of our house So everything is really local And B, what is just blows my mind Is that the whole construction of this house Was done by manpower There wasn't any machinery So everything was hoisted up by ropes Just incredible So talking about these ancient beams What's really fascinating Is that some of them actually have Witch's marks engraved into them It was 600 years ago And they believed in witchcraft They believed in evil spirits So over the thresholds Of some of the fireplaces Where they thought that the spirits Would come in through a fireplace Over the doors And sometimes over the walls There are these amazing marks That are inscribed into the wood So there's lots of different marks here Some of them are actually carpenter marks Some of them were witch's marks It's kind of on the fence Which is which There are experts in this field Which I definitely am not But you can see the circle here You can see the V There's a V there Often it stood for a Virgin Mary And there's just really incredible Signs of history And signs of the age of this building And then upstairs We've got my daughter's room She's very modern She doesn't like anything antique So I'm not really going to dwell on that room So we have about three and a half acres here When we first moved in There was no garden It was completely overgrown It just had been put to lawn And all the beds had been removed So slowly I put everything back The way I wanted it And this is one of my favourite bits It's the orchard Let me show you So this is the orchard One of the first things I did Was I planted some fruit trees And I picked traditional varieties We've got apples, pears, plums and cherries I knew that I wanted to have a kind of Meadow aspect to it Because I wanted to really encourage Pollinators and insects Bees and moths and butterflies And it really works As the seasons go by We get so many different wildflowers That attract the nature And it's just so beautiful to watch I'm going to show you next door Our vegetable patch Come with me So this is a bit of a work in progress But bear with me So we've got raspberries here And we've got rhubarb And they kind of just look after themselves But they're so so lovely To come in the middle of the summer Come and pick some fresh raspberries It's just so nice And it's particularly nice for the kids to do Also bear often steals them Over here is a new project of mine What I really wanted to do Was create a beautiful cutting garden So I have planted very many dahlias Now right now you can't see them But hopefully by the end of the summer I'm going to have a long cutting garden We could just come Pick bunches of flowers Bring them into the house And it will just be a very lovely thing So watch this space Few months Should look very good So as I said previously There was no garden It was literally just lawn everywhere So the first thing I did was plant All of these little box hedges everywhere Now they're lovely and established But originally they were teeny tiny plants But it kind of gave a bit of a structure To the garden And then I knew my planting scheme I wanted it to be very cottage garden Very English countryside Cottage garden So with that There were lots and lots of roses And particularly some old English roses And I've got probably 20 to 25 varieties So tons of them And then from May onwards You just get the most incredible display And scent It's just so beautiful And then in amongst the roses I've got lots of perennials Things that actually don't take a lot of maintenance But just kind of look after themselves This is never going to be a perfect garden I haven't got a gardener I do it all myself And it is certainly not manicured It's a bit wild But it's kind of something That just brings me so much joy Because it isn't perfect There's beauty in the imperfection Is what I say So that was the tour of my house I do hope you enjoyed It was an absolute pleasure Showing you around my home If you did enjoy You can always follow me On Mrs Truffle Pig on Instagram And I write about all my country ramblings On Substack Genevieve Harris See you soon Hi Luxury Home Show My name is Pearl I'm a designer And this is my home in Somerset Come in Wow