Inside a Warm and Timeless English Country Home in Hampshire - HOUSE TOUR

Today we're stepping inside the Hampshire home of interior designer Holly Vaughan. 12 years ago, Holly and her husband made the decision to leave London behind in search of something slower and more grounded. Drawn back to the Surrey-Hampshire borders where they both grew up, they found themselves craving rural life, space to raise a family, reconnect with friends and family nearby, and embrace the countryside while still being just an hour from the city. And these insects here on the wall are actually my grandfather's. He was an entomologist in the Sudan. So it was nice to kind of have a bit of that family history there. This is a place that felt right almost instantly, and today Holly has transformed it into a warm and welcoming country retreat that balances timeless design with real family living. I think this fireplace, the log burner is always on in winter. We love it in here. It's quite a small room, but this is one of the original rooms and I just love the feeling. So join us as we explore Holly's thoughtfully designed home and discover how she created a space that feels both rooted and refined. I definitely, I need the countryside and the sort of quiet and the green around that really, really helps it every day. And we always try and get out for walks around the place. So I think it's definitely this home and its surroundings definitely kind of inspire, inspire what we do a lot. To watch Holly's episode ad-free, scan the QR code on screen or visit homeworthyplus.com for access to all of our latest episodes ad-free and to receive other exclusive membership perks. Hi, I'm homeworthy. I'm Holly Vaughan. Welcome to my home in Hampshire. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. I'm Alison Kenworthy, the founder of Homeworthy, and we take you inside the world's most beautifully decorated homes and introduce you to the brilliant people who live there. Hi, Homeworthy. I'm Liz Lang. Welcome to Gray Gardens. Click the join button below to access all of our latest episodes ad-free and watch extended cuts of this and other homes, opening the doors to new rooms and exclusive content featuring our beloved hosts. I can't wait to see them. I'm so excited. And if you're looking to shop items inspired by this and other Homeworthy tastemakers, be sure to use the product links below or scan the QR code on screen to find fabulous furniture, coffee table books, and accessories that can transform your house into a home. Hi, I'm Holly Vaughan. I'm an interior designer and welcome to my home in Hampshire. We moved to our home about 12 years ago now from London. We were looking to get away from city life. We knew we wanted to have a family. We were engaged and we were both from a similar area around sort of Surrey, Hampshire borders. And a lot of our friends had started to kind of move back to this area and, you know, our parents still lived here. So it was just a kind of natural almost coming home for us to move back to this area. And we knew, you know, a lot of things around here. The schools for the future. It was great. And we love rural settings. My husband struggled in London and was commuting outside, you know, a long way outside of London. So it made sense for us to move here. And it doesn't feel like it's too far. It's only an hour from London. So we kind of have the best of both worlds living our rural country life, but also we can hop on and be in town in an hour if we need to be. So that's what really brought us to move back to this area. We started searching for houses and saw a lot of different houses. We actually made an offer on a house and nearly went through with it, but it sadly had Japanese knotweed and we had to pull out at the last minute, which was really upset about. So what's now our house was a sort of, you know, round two of searching. And it was pretty instant. I'd gone to look at a few houses a couple of times. My husband was really busy working, so I was having to look at a lot of them just on my own or with my mom. We drove down there. It's sort of got a driveway in between trees. And the minute I saw it, both me and my mom just said, that's it. There was nothing perfect about the interior. It was not our style at all, but we just knew that it was the right house for us. So here we are in the entryway to our house. We have this little kind of little entryway, which didn't really have anything there when we moved. It was very bleak, quite dark. And so we took out the old, they were sort of terracotta tiles, but they were again felt very dark and closed in. And we put some really sweet little delft tiles down, which have some references to the things that we love, like horses, nature, things like that. And this whole entryway really connects the old part of the house. So you can see the really old beams here with the newer extension part of the house. And the stairs which go up to our bedrooms and things. So I kind of wanted to make the two parts come together. It's quite a hard room because you've got a lot of different walls, a lot of different features, and sort of where to start the colour and where to end it was tricky. But I kept this, it's quite a sort of human pink. It's from Atelier Ellis, which is one of my favourite paint brands, which I think is a good mid-colour. It's a bit of interest, but not too dark. And this carries on up the stairs. And then this lovely yellow colour called Pollen, which we've taken around on the staircase. I am a big fan of yellow, as everyone who knows me knows. And this is a lovely little downstairs loo, which we've just repainted. And again, quite a bold kind of bit of an ochre yellow, which is a Mylands colour. And this entryway leads down to two living areas, our living room and our kids' playroom. A few pieces in here. I picked up this wall cabinet, which nearly got taken off me on social media, actually, when I posted it. I got that at Kempton Market, where I find a lot of things for the house and for clients as well. So yeah, that was a nice bargain. And you just kind of collect bits and pieces. And then we've got a couple of these copper bits of art, which we bought off a dealer. I actually bought for my husband's 4th anniversary, the star signs. And then we have some, again, little vintage kind of pieces on the stairs down here. I decided to change these wall lights recently, actually. It's a bit of an awkward area and it was quite dark. So we just wanted to uplight it a bit. These lovely little terracotta wall lights. And this painting's from my favourite shop down in Rye called Soap and Salvation. So they've been big supporters of us and we have them as well. And just lots of little knickknacks to kind of make the entryway feel a bit more homely and a bit more purposeful. So my career actually started in fashion. And after a few years working in fashion, I realised that it wasn't right for me. And so I decided to steer into interior design, which is when I started studying at KLC, School of Design. And I did my course there, which I learnt a lot from. And I really had to start from scratch. I had to start interning. Interned for a couple of wonderful designers. And I realised that it was quite tough at that point to find a junior role in the industry. So I kept trying, but alongside that, decided to start up my own company, which at the time was called Holly's House. And I started that as a one man band interior design studio with a little shop alongside. So I sold homewares and furniture and all things interiors. And I ran that business for about seven or eight years. I learnt a lot. I loved being a shopkeeper, but also I found it very tough at times. And the lease was coming up on the shop. So we decided to give that up because I was looking to move to the countryside from London. That's really when I was looking to start a family, have children. And I needed to make sure that the business was going to work around that. And so for a few years, I just did projects on the side. And then everyone kept saying to me and my husband, why don't we naturally start working together? Because what we do fits. He was a carpenter and then moved into building and project management. And he was at the time managing for a property development company. And so we decided to start a company together one month before lockdown hit. It was a tough start. It's our first six months, but I had an interior design client already who needed a contractor. And that was our first job over lockdown. And that's how our business Vaughan Design and Development started. And that's where it's sort of gone from there. Nearly seven years ago now. This is our main living room space. This is more of a formal kind of living room space. Not so much one for the kids. It's kind of got all my favorite bits in, materials that I love. So yeah, the main kind of two pieces, which from our investment pieces in the house for this sofa and also this big sideboard here, which are from Pinch. I think everyone knows pretty well, but I've known Russell and Una since they started the business and I love everything they do. So our upholsterer, John, who does a lot of our work in the business, recovering old pieces for us. And he helped me. He did the sofa. I found the sofa on eBay. It was a bargain, but it had a bit of a backstory in that it actually was covered in moss. So we had a bit of a kind of checkered history. And we thought that we might have to burn it or take it to the tip. But John managed to save it and cover it in this beautiful Beata human fabric, which I think I wanted to introduce a couple of bold prints because it's the biggest space in the house. I wanted to keep the walls a bit cleaner, kind of keep that spacious feel. I've got a lot of interest going on with the beams and things. So I just wanted to introduce a bit of pattern, kind of lower down on the upholstery. And I think it just makes a really fun addition to the more sort of formal feeling of the room. Yeah, I've got a lot of vintage pieces in here. The marble coffee table, which I found down in Brighton. With a vintage dealer there. It's quite a weighty, weighty table. But I love just filling it with kind of, yeah, random objects that I found. And my favorite coffee table books. This, our big fireplace, is actually when we bought the house, it was just in red brick. And it was obviously built with the extension. So it felt a bit jarring. Felt like it didn't really fit in with the house. It's quite imposing. And so I decided to bring, I was bringing in a lot of these kind of brown warm tones along with the wood. And it just made sense to paint the brick and bring in this sort of lovely deep brown color, which is again another Atelier LS color. And just, yeah, soften the whole space with some plants. It's the lightest space in the house. So I have got a lot of plants in here. So we have a lot of lighting in this room. I love lamps. Table lamps, floor lamps. And so I've got a couple of my favorite floor lamps here and over here. These are from, yeah, some favorite dealers, Folly Chambre, who we've bought some great pieces from Nat in the past. And yeah, lots of lamps all around. This big rattan one here. And my big ceramic lump in the corner is one of my favorite kind of original pieces that I had when we bought the house. And I really, really was keen to find the right spot for this. And again, this beautiful lilac swirl glass lamp, which is from Anemone Interiors. Leah, who's an incredible dealer, and she finds really unique, often Italian pieces. So yeah, I love what she does. I've got a lot of artwork in here. So these pieces of art, I took my time sourcing them because it just, I think it maybe took me a good sort of three, four years to get these pieces. But this nude here is from Collection Apart, who's I think based in Sweden, does some amazing, amazing things. And again, these pieces are from a little gallery down in Rye. And yeah, I've really just kind of collected. And again, a few pieces from Kempton, or Ardingly Antiques. I often find some good little pieces there. And these insects here on the wall are actually my grandfather's. He was a entomologist in the Sudan. So it was nice to kind of, yeah, have a bit of that family history there. What we loved about this house was all the original features. It was originally a kind of worker's kind of cottage farm house, which has then been extended by the original owners. But they did, they'd extended it really sympathetically and used, you know, continued the beams. It's a lot of, you know, a lot of wood, which we love, warm textures. And so really the bare bones of the house were, you know, just as we wanted them to be. There was, we didn't need to make any big, huge layout changes. The flow of the house kind of feels like it had to be this way. I think the only thing we've really changed is that the dining room, what was the dining room is now, is now a kid's room, a kind of hangout playroom. But other than that, we've kept the layout the same. We just have kind of gutted the interior and just made it completely into our own. It had really sort of dark wood stained floors where the wood was actually beautiful oak, but it was just covered in a thick, kind of heavy varnish. So we sanded everything, all of that back, you know, did some work to the beams. And then it was really kind of good to just, yeah, completely redecorate, strip out the kitchen, the bathrooms, obviously. And I just add, you know, kind of like sympathetically add character to it because it already had a lot of character. It's got wonky walls and beams everywhere. So yeah, it was just really adding, adding our stamp to it, but we did it in a quite an organic way over time. We didn't have a budget to go and do, you know, everything at once. Yeah, we, and we used a lot of salvage materials along the way. Obviously my husband was working on a lot of building sites and would come home with like, you know, one salvage radiator or an interesting piece of wood. And we, yeah, we, so we did it very kind of organically over time. We're in the playroom. This was actually originally a dining room when we bought the house. Had a very stark, big table in. And for a couple of years before we had kids, we did use it like that, but it's actually the opposite end of the house from the kitchen. And as our kids started to grow and the toys grew, it made more sense to, yeah, take our dining space close to the kitchen and make this a space for the kids. So we've only just recently actually done a bit of work in here because as the kids have grown, it's just, yeah, we've kind of made it a bit more to suit their needs with this new carpentry kind of unit that we've built. So this, before we just had some freestanding shelves or with sort of drawers in and it just needed a bit more book storage. The boys, one of my boys is an avid reader. The books were growing and it's a bit less toys and a bit more sort of knickknacks and books. But I did have this beautiful, it's called a marriage chest, which I'd bought from Pato Interiors, who's one of kind of the original dealers that I've bought a few things from for work. And she saw some beautiful marriage chests. And so I instantly bought this up when I saw it, not really knowing where it was going to fit. And for a while, it was sort of crammed in the corner next to something else. But actually when I designed this wall, that our carpenters made, I decided to do it, place it around this and we sort of keep their old toys in there so they can access them when they want to, you know, TV. And then I've added these sweet little, these rose uniac lights. Although I often use vintage lighting, there are some more modern, newer lighting that we often use in projects that I absolutely love. So I added those in and then really, yeah, in the rest of the room, it's a tiny little sofa. It's an old loaf sofa and we left it. It was just grey and a bit boring. So we decided to, rather than kind of invest in a whole new sofa, John, my upholsterer, made some loose covers, which I often do in projects if there's sort of a piece of furniture, a sofa or some chairs that the clients, you know, they don't hate, they're comfortable, but they need a bit of a new lease of life. So, and I love this. It's a kind of nice linen, slubby fabric. So it's very relaxed, can hide a multitude of sins and put this kind of skirt on the bottom, which just, yeah, kind of softens the room. And then this fabric is a, on the armchair, is a Svendsten fabric, which is one of my all-time favourites. A bit of a kind of random purchase, but I kind of always encourage that, that you don't necessarily know at the time how or where it's going to work. But this is an old tub chair that I sourced, I bought at Kempton Market again, and John, our upholsterer, recovered it in this fabric, which I think is great for the kids and again, hides a lot of stains and things. And then, yeah, we repainted in this Atelier Ellis blues, a different colour on the ceiling and the walls, I just think is quite calming, relaxing. And this colour here is, on the joinery, is tea and toast, which is one of my favourite colours of theirs, but I hadn't got to use it up till this point. This is an old cupboard that I bought years ago and actually had in my London house. It's kind of really one of the only things that's kind of managed to fit in. And we just put some nice Christopher Farclough fabric behind there to hide, that keeps all our board games in. And the piano, which is actually mine from when I was a child, and when we bought this house, my parents kind of sent a few things our way and said, these are yours to take care of now. So yeah, it's very, very old, missing a few pieces, but yeah, the kids love it and it's nice to be able to give it a home again. So I feel like my style as an interior designer has definitely evolved. I think what I tend to hear from people is that I do have a style. I find that hard to kind of define, and obviously on every project, on every client project we're doing, we're working to a brief and that person has come to us for a reason, something they've seen. And it's always tends to be a different image that they've seen of a space that we've designed, but there is something linking, you know, linking our style across those projects. The brief can be really, really different. And I think, you know, the pallets and the house essentially, a lot of it is led by whichever house, you know, we are designing because that does really affect, you know, how we design it. So yeah, I think I definitely have a style that's my own or our own with the company. And that's definitely my home is really what, you know, what my style is. You can see that throughout our client designs as well. It just might be a bit more, you know, going towards that client's brief a little bit. Here we are in the snug. This is probably the most used room in our house, probably because of, I think this fireplace, the log burner is always on in winter. We love it in here. It's quite a small room. This is one of the original rooms and I just love the feeling, the fireplace, the beams. This did have one of the kind of classic pea green carpets when we moved in that was covered in stains. So one of the first things we did was my husband laid the wooden floor in here. We went for parquet. So it's actually mixing up. It's just in here that we have the parquet. Whereas there's the straight boards running through the rest of the house and then into the tiles here. But it's just keeping that cosy feeling. Kept the walls quite neutral because there's so much wood going on. This rug is one of the newest things we've got in the house, actually. I love the, yeah, the checkable pattern and that's from a Rum Fellow. Again, this sofa was actually the very first thing that we bought when we got the house. This is from Merci, which is that store that everyone loves in Paris. And I got it to, winged it, getting it on a van with a friend over from there. And it just, yeah, it's just kind of very slouchy and easy to live with. Coats with our kids and dog and everything else. With the fireplace, we just wanted to kind of make a feature of it. So we put some hops and dried hops up which drive everyone crazy because they're always falling down. But I think they look lovely. And added these little vintage plaster reliefs above up here, which I kind of wanted to feel a bit like some of the things in this room had always, always been here. Again, another vintage armchair, which we actually haven't got around to re-upholstering, but I also quite like it in its natural state. So, well, yeah, we'll see whether that happens. We've got a unit here that, again, is something that my husband built when he kind of salvaged. He had a bit of marble salvage material from a building site. These doors that were being kind of thrown in a skip. So he just knocked that together and then added some nice knot handles from Beate Humann, which kind of hides away all the TV stuff. And in here, I've got some nice little pieces of art. These were a complete bargain, actually, on Natalia Violet Antiques, who's on social media, on Instagram. And you can get some great little finds from her. And we have this added in an ottoman recently, which was again made by our upholsterer, John. And this is my favourite fabric. I've used this in a couple of projects and I just think it's quite pretty and feminine and I love the orange tones. Here, a few of my favourite vintage pieces. This is a vintage lamp picked up on Goulburn Road a long time ago, right when we first got the house. And we just, again, a bit of salvaged marble that we've popped up and just added a few little finds over the years. I think this painting was from Medium Room, who sells some great pieces of vintage art. And I just find it really, really calming to look at. This is our kitchen. This was, again, kind of covered in white melamine when we moved in. Had a really, really dark terracotta original floor, which I would normally love that in most circumstances. But unfortunately, in this room, where we struggle with light, it's got quite low ceilings, it just felt like it was really darkening the whole space. So we lived with it for a while and then found these reclaimed tiles and decided to go for it. So it's a bit bold. We've gone for a checkerboard. I do love doing a checkerboard in a lot of designs, but as long as it's something that you feel you can live with, then it's not a sort of trend idea at that time. But these are very well used. As you can see, they're sort of very vintage looking. And when we set about redoing the whole kitchen, we decided we were going to use a lot of reclaimed materials. I wanted it to be something that really wasn't a trend led, something that really fitted in with a sort of rural farmhouse. And I've done a lot of painted shaker style kitchens and I do really love those and there's a lot you can do with them. But I think, yeah, we found this original, basically scrap wood. So I've got old paint on it and everything. We kept it for a few years and decided that, yeah, we would clad the kitchen in it. So we found a great local joiner and he thought we were a bit crazy but went with our vision of repurposing it on here. So yeah, we had not a great budget for the kitchen. So yeah, we really kind of just made it work with the reclaimed materials. The agar was one thing that we sort of saved our budget for. We moved into the house. Actually, this wasn't already here but it really felt like the house, it really suited the house and we love an agar. So yeah, we put that in and that was kind of central to the kitchen and also having a big butler sink like this. And then we went with concrete worktops which haven't been the easiest to look after but I think they really suit, you know, the style of the kitchen. And overall, it's been quite a hard-working kitchen and yeah, really done well with all the kids and animals that go along in here. We added in the pink Zelige tiles which I absolutely love. These were from an amazing company called Emery AC which sadly shut down but we source things like this from the Mosaic Factory now and I just love the undulation in them, the different colours. And yeah, that pinky tone was just a really good kind of contrast to the sort of more neutrals and greys. And I love a red and pink together, so with the backsplash in the floor. This is quite a hard-working kitchen space. It's not big and originally we had just a sort of freestanding single fridge and we realised as the family was growing that that wasn't gonna cut it. So this fridge freezer is a late addition but it's kind of become the hub of our kitchen and we've started designing some lovely joinery for some projects around integrated fridges and so I just had enough space to fit one in and Jake, who's our joiner, cutting edge joinery managed to bring our design to life which was a bit complicated with the wonky wall but yeah, we've added these Beate Hume handles and it just feels like quite a nice luxury in our otherwise quite rustic kitchen. And this is our dining area. So yeah, really good for us. We're a family of four, a bit more of a stretch at Christmas time but yeah, we originally had a log burner, another fireplace in here but it didn't really work because we just didn't use it. It was too hot when you sat next to the table so I decided to take the log burner out of this space and make it into something a bit more fun. We did a tiled worktop here. These tiles are from Marlborough Tiles and then did a little skirted cover which hides some really useful storage which we're a bit short on in here underneath and it just means it's more space for me to put some vases and knickknacks there. Our table is actually one thing that's not vintage in here. This is from Wood Edit who are amazing. They make kind of bespoke tables, consoles, radiator covers run by a really nice husband and wife and yeah, everything, they source the wood. They've got just a few lovely designs and it's stood the test of time really, really well and I think fits in nicely with all the sort of vintage things around. We added these plates on the wall because I just feel like it needed a bit of a feature and yeah, it just feels quite true to the sort of style of the house. So we just added these one by one. Fewer vintage, a few are new and yeah, it's been really fun kind of collecting little bits, little pictures and plates and things to go on the wall in here and just make it feel a bit more homely. I have two young children, they're now six and nine so we've grown up with them in this house and kind of, you know, our house has evolved as we've had young children and growing up and a lot of our clients have really young children or they're about to start a family so a big part of really all interior design I do does involve children in some way and people having a young family. That's kind of always at the back of my mind. Everything we do, whether it's a banquette in a kitchen, you know, and you know you've got the upholstery there that has to live through, you know, young children and the way that they use it but also you want it to feel lovely and feel like how you would want it to feel. As a grown-up, you're paying a lot of money to have that lovely, beautiful fabric in your home so it's just a really considered decision with everything we put in. You've just got to think, okay, you know, we maybe won't go for that kind of bright white fabric that's unwashable and there's so many choices out there now and I think, you know, practicality, I don't let it lead everything. I don't kind of say, right, every rug's got to be washable but we maybe say, well, this is a great vintage rug and it's got, you know, deeper, darker tones and you maybe wouldn't notice if, you know, if something's dropped in it as much as you would a kind of clean, modern, perfect rug. And I think we use a lot of vintage pieces and a lot of kind of a bit rustic, a bit worn and that's what makes that piece, you know, it makes a space feel like a home and so I think that plays a big part in just thinking not everything has to be completely, you know, being able to throw in a washing machine every day but you just have to think, you know, okay, this has got to stand up to, you know, living with a whole family and I just also think that kids' spaces, you've got to think really how they're going to use them and at what age. You know, we've just had a little move around in our playroom and thought, okay, they're getting older now so we change it into a bit more of a kids' hangout than a playroom and I think as long as you're keeping that in mind and giving them that flexibility and entertainment in their spaces then you can also have your spaces and co-exist. This is our primary bedroom. This is a part of the extension of the house but we love it because we get to wake up to look out the windows to kind of rural setting outside and that's kind of what led us when we bought the house. The bed was actually tucked away in the corner. It's a bit of an awkward room to lay out because of the beams, these structural beams and then we decided to centralise, put the bed in the middle so we could look out the view and work everything else around it. So yeah, we were led a lot by these, by the beams and kind of the structure of the space but my husband, who's quite handy with making things, built this headboard for us out of some, again, some scrap wood, salvaged wood. Although I do love doing lovely upholstered headboards for my clients, this just felt kind of one of those things that we could live with for a long time and later on added this beautiful light from Pinch which I adore and just the kind of natural feeling of the fabric and the softness of it just makes the most of the vaulted ceilings, yeah, which we love. And some of these fabrics on the bed, this is a Howell fabric that John, our upholsterer, actually made for me as I think an offcut and a little gift and then this is a Welsh blanket which I got from Retuvius actually, one of my favourites. We get a lot from them for projects and this old quilt underneath I got at a vintage fair quite recently actually so that's been, that's lovely. This is one of my favourite pieces, the vintage pieces in the house which is a kind of chest of drawers. We don't have a huge amount of storage in this house so this house is kind of, yeah, some clothes and things for me and I just love, it's got all the original paint works and markings on it, that was from Dean Antiques and yeah, we really kept, wanted a really calm feeling in the whole room so a lot of this fabric is a really kind of neutral linen from Ian Mankin and then I just added a little braid along the edge to just bring a little bit of interest and texture and then because I need, I don't sleep very well in summer so we needed an extra blackout but that worked quite well because it gave me an excuse to add these lovely roller blinds in another house. So that little vintage dressing table, I do love kind of wicker warmth and texture that it brings and it's quite a hard little space to fit something so I was quite happy when I found something that fit perfectly and this, my favourite, kind of my only really investment piece of art is a Caroline Popham painting here which just feels very calm and then added in this really fun stool again made by my upholsterer John which just brings a bit more interest and pattern to the space and then yeah, we've got lots of kind of little knickknacks and bits of art Antoinette Poussin, my favourite French designer, love her prints and just little bits that we've collected over the years this is an old, we actually picked this up at a sort of salvage, really local salvage place it was going for nothing and I thought that's actually perfect shoe storage because we don't have any. So this is in the family bathroom which is really our kids bathroom this is one of the spaces that we've done more recently and I wanted it to be kind of fun have a bit of colour, some interesting tiles but also grow with the boys as they got older we've got these encaustic cement tiles on the floor which, yeah, just bring a really nice pop of blue through and also wanted to work we actually used the original sink and toilet whilst bringing everything else in new because I just really love the style of them and thought they were really unique so we've got this old, this little medicine kind of cabinet here which just had a glazing on and I put this lovely Sister by Studio Ashby fabric behind which we had some offcuts of and yeah, I just love how the blues kind of pick out the floor this was again from Pato Interiors from Lovely Cat So in this bathroom, one of the main things that I wanted to factor in was these amazing taps and shower from Water Monopoly one of my favourite kind of bathroom supply brands they are, you know, fairly big budget so that's why we worked with, you know, factored those in kept some original features and have these really fun nickel and blue taps which I think is a nice touch for the kids a bit playful but also will stand the test of time we've again got some Zelige tiles, my favourites and these are just that pop of sunshine I think I've just seen some references of the blue and the yellow and gone with that and then on the walls, this is actually a rose uniac paint it's a kind of really, really soft kind of buttery yellow which ties everything in and then I've got a couple of vintage pieces that I saved for ages this light, which was off an auction actually a Swedish auction and it's again a sort of yellow but more mustard tone and this beautiful original mirror which I think I got from Folly Schaumburg again which yeah, just kind of fitted perfectly in the space obviously there's not much space to play with we had to create a bit of a false wall here because there were beans everywhere so it was an interesting space to work with and we went with a fitted bath because with the kids it just makes a lot more sense when there's water going everywhere so yeah, we added in a howl, again a howl blind just to kind of add a bit of sophistication to what's otherwise quite a playful feeling space so this is my son Finley's room he is nine now and we've just got, this Christmas, moved him into a bigger bed so he's very excited about showing off his new bed so yeah, again this was a headboard style that I just drew up and our brilliant upholsterer John made it which I showed it to him and he was thankfully willing to go for it but he said, oh I want a bit of a different colour, not just blue so we added this piping, this green piping in and yeah, this room really, obviously the bare bones of it are lovely and he's got this sort of tall vaulted ceiling but it is again very awkward because there's not much wall space because lots of beams and things so that kind of determines the layout of where we put things so it's been an interesting one to work with and as he grows, he's got his sort of, obviously all his bits, his guitars in this, this is an old sort of fireplace but I think it, you know, it's lovely to keep the old brick he's got a nice little, this is a side table from Scumble Goosey who we actually sourced a lot of things from and he can paint but yeah, he likes the original wood here and then this is again the old sofa that we got off eBay years ago my mother was cursing me because we had to, we went with a car and it didn't really fit so we ended up having to drive home without hanging out the back of the car but this is a beautiful, it's called ginger cord fabric I love using cord because I think it's just a bit unexpected for upholstery and this is from Tissues d'Alene which is again one of my favourite fabric suppliers and yeah, I just, we actually were maybe not going to keep the sofa but then thought it okay, then thought he has space for it and he actually hangs out here all the time so happy we kept that and recovered it and he got a few kind of vintage pieces like this rattan chest of drawers which he picked up at Kempton that was a good bargain and this old desk which is definitely not perfect but I think it works really well for a little boy's room and we just upholstered this chair to make it a bit more comfortable for him again this cupboard because we don't really have any built-in joinery in these rooms this is an old cupboard and it was grey it was kind of painted a bit of a boring grey when we got it so we decided to paint it a bit of a pop of, I think this is bamboozle to my son's horror but he actually now loves it and again this bit more storage here this lovely vintage chest which was from Soap and Salvation, one of my favourites and this little cute rug which he's had since he was younger which is a handmade piece off Etsy I think, a little Swedish rug yeah which really just ties the room and this little vintage picture above his headboard which he actually picked up in a local town called Petworth they've got some great antique stores and I think yeah just these sort of reds and blues quite primary colours but keeping it all neutral at the same time I definitely feel like this home and really the surroundings are they definitely inspire what you know what I do in my work I definitely I need the countryside and the sort of quiet and the green around that really really helps it every day and we always try and get out for walks around the place so I think it's definitely this home and its surroundings definitely kind of inspire what we do a lot and it is really our forever home in a sense and so I think if we're ever moving from here it's because probably our kids have flown the nest and we want to kind of just decide we want to downsize and be in an easy lock-up place and go away so yeah I think it represents a lot about us and and yeah what we love to do and the kind of nature that we love to love to live in really Bye Homeworthy! It was lovely showing you around my home See you again soon Bye! Thanks for watching! Go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content and shopping guides