An English Artist’s Life Inside a Transformed 19th-Century Schoolhouse | HOUSE TOUR

Hi Homeworthy. I'm Graham Carr. Welcome to my home in Wiltshire. Can't wait to show you around. You're watching Homeworthy where we believe every home has a story. My name is Graham Carr. I'm an artist, designer and I live in Wiltshire in the country and welcome to my home. About 40-45 years ago I was living in London and I wanted to move to the country and luckily I was doing a job down here in Wiltshire which is only about an hour from London so I thought this is the most perfect place to be and so in fact I rented a cottage nearby about five miles from here and was looking around and eventually found this the old school building which was in a totally derelict. Nobody had lived here ever before and it had been empty for two years after it was given up as a school and I decided this is the most perfect space and here we are 40 years later and it really works for me. So this is what I call the big room which was the original school room. This is where the, it was divided in two as far as I know. There's just a curtain in between and there was a big stove in the middle to keep the poor kids warm and but then when I arrived here the ceiling was falling down and it was just a total mess and you could see there were drawings on the wall where people had been on the market for two years. People have thought what can I do with this space you know but nobody bought it but I was the only person that was interested. So here we are and this is how I've transformed it into what I call the big room and filled with all the things that I really like. This is a kind of desk a sort of proper desk that I don't really work at very often but this is rather wonderful carving here of a skater which is quite unusual you don't often see that and this behind me is the pitchfile which is from India and it's this religious piece but it's what I love is the lotus flowers which are kind of just even rose floating in the background with Krishna in the middle but it's sitting on our new wallpaper which is a kind of more civilized not civilized but a proper way of doing the lotus flowers in correct rows and so on but I love the combination of the two things the primitiveness and the kind of more stylized and this big collection of sort of pots of Delft Chinese and Korean and sitting on an Italian from Genoa a painted piece of furniture which I mean superb and the movement in the painting is just absolutely lovely and these little kind of scenes in each door and it's a lovely piece. These are rather wonderful they're from a church I have a set of four of them which the antique dealer had them and she didn't want to sell and she she loved them like I love them now and eventually she had to sell and she she offered them to me and I said well I've got to have them I've wanted them for 10 years so and here they are they're in the room. This rather wonderful dog that's belonged to a great friend of mine called Annabel Lindsay and I always said I loved it it was in her house in the country and I had a monkey a Chinese monkey about that height and we did a swap I had the dog and she had the monkey so we I think we were we were both pleased with what we got. This is a very interesting piece of work here I mean it's rather a fine gentleman a French carving I don't know whether it was originally painted but it's something really quite special I mean there again it was came from a really good French dealer who who has wonderful things and I just had to have it I know it's just really rather special but these pots here these come from a wonderful chap who's in Ludlow I'm trying to think of his name but he's a wonderful potter I bought an awful lot of his pots and the drawing behind is a charcoal sketch which I'm I have such admiration for it I could never do that which is it's by this the same man painting up there it's the same sitter as well he's called Graham Wilcox he's a Scottish artist I mean really really wonderful but it's a big kind of you know difference of the modern with the kind of antique a lot of different things going on and the chandeliers are quite interesting actually they're a pair of them I've had you know over the years and these I used to go to Paris quite often and friends of mine had a flat in on the Isle Saint-Louis and we used to go to Clignancourt to the antique flea market and I saw these and I thought these would be absolutely perfect for the room and so I said right I'm going to have them big decision how am I going to pay for them but there you go and so right send them over and it was so funny because it's quite an unusual you know funny story really because I was waiting for them to arrive very excited I thought a huge box were going to arrive with it from the lowering the man came walking up to the door with like something from Ikea like a sort of big flat packed box and there were the two chandeliers because they collapse into nothing they're just on a string in between and so clever so I was I mean I could have saved an awful lot of money because I used to drive to Paris I could have just packed them in but it's quite a funny story anyway but I love them because the scale is so good in the shape and they're sort of round about the date of about 1800 1790 1800 as I said I love textiles so I've got a collection of cushions here which are all different nationalities and whatever but these I'm rather proud of because I had a wonderful Japanese kimono that was in fragments really but I bought it years and years ago and and I managed to get some made some yards made of the fabric copying it almost exactly it was made in Miramar I think whatever it's called now it's in Vietnam no somewhere like Vietnam whatever and I couldn't believe it when it arrived because it's absolutely beautiful but this is from Uzbekistan this is from Uzbekistan as well it's a modern fabric is French rather good it's a rather good colour some more cushions here these are wonderful Indian Kalamkari prints which I absolutely love the kind of I love the red in it I mean it's kind of it's so real you know these are Uzbek wonderful tulip pattern more Uzbek there you know which is the Carnation pattern and behind it is this wonderful car which I kind of fell in love with it reminded me of a car I had when I was a child they you know they made them for children which was that was for a child as well but the colour combination is rather good too the coffee table that I have it was never a coffee table it was originally a mortar it comes from the Himalayas it has three holes in it where some sort of seed was there and they pounded it too and it's kind of it has this sort of tray so all the kind of I suppose it was the the bad bits came out and the good bits stayed inside I'm not quite sure how it works but it's the most beautiful shape out of one well it was half a tree obviously one of those wonderful you know cypress trees or something like that the fireplace is quite interesting it's uh it's French it's a copy of a Regence which is from 1720 well this is 19th century but I just love the shape of it almost looks gothic as well above it is an Italian mirror and about the date of about 1800 I love it kind of the simplicity that the kind of the gilding on the top and these gentlemen here I'm really not quite sure who they are I mean to me they could be either Mexican or Italian I mean they're carved out of wonderful wood and they're kind of a bit eccentric but they're rather good looking towards one another the pots are Italian Montelupo which we've now done a wallpaper which is taken from this pattern here because I've always loved that that was the reason I bought them there's always a reason that I buy these things that you know something picks up on the plate is also Italian really quite early these pots down here these are quite interesting because they they um they come from Spain I do this trip what I used to do the trips twice a year going to drive into Portugal but I fell in love with these they I saw them on Instagram or something and I love the kind of primitive marking on them and there was a set of five which I've got I bought all five and it made me drive to Seville to buy them and found this wonderful shop with wonderful people and I just love the colors I always thought I'd sell them but it never happened but over here we've got we've got another big collection of things again I mean this is rather beautiful lamp base I think Indonesian something like that and this is this is this is beautiful absolutely it's wonderful Japanese bird which is a perfume burner you put the uh the cinders in there and the perfume and then the smoke comes out of the beak of the of the bird it's really beautiful shape but what made me when I saw it you don't see them very often is my friend in Portugal where I worked for about three or four years she had one sitting on the fireplace and it's always I thought I always wanted one of those so I found it as somewhere near Buxton up in the the whatever that part of the world is called anyway it was an antique fair there and I just had to have it behind is a is a Chinese horse the terracotta horse I don't know what date it is really but whether it's a copy or whether it's real or whatever but I love the shape again but behind it is a is a quite interesting abstract painting it's actually I've had it for 40 years now because when I went to Montreal which I went there when the house was being made into a house the school was being made into a house I went to a gallery and this painting was there and uh it's the man who painted it I think his name was Savoy something like that French Canadian and he was very influenced by Japanese artists and it's an abstract with I just love it I would never get rid of it and it's super um this is a rather beautiful pot here um I can't remember the name of the artist but he's in Bath and he's quite interesting because he puts metal into the clay and then he makes the form and lets them dry and then he he goes to different sort of strange places like the Bahamas or whatever he buries buries them underwater so the metal changes colour and I wish I could remember his name because he's he's so clever but it's so fascinating and it's the most wonderful colour it looks as though it's been under the water there's a rather good shape too this is a pot which um is from Thailand as far as I know rather good shape but it could be modern as well over here this I rather like this this beautiful figure here it's a copy of a painting made by a ceramicist called Jane Muir and it's copying a painting Elizabethan painting of the two sisters who had two babies it's a kind of very graphic thing and she's made a wonderful ceramic copy of it which is lovely rather nice interesting colour there the glass and that's the painting by Elizabeth Blackadder of pheasants which um it's quite interesting because the the female you know is more beautiful than the male really which is normally the other way around because the the male is not a little more colourful but the way she's painted it is beautiful wonderful drawing of the of the the claws and so on and here is the dining table set up for you know with with an interesting collection of things again they the plates came from Italy they're from Bassano in northern Italy when I was on their trip with with some friends of mine and they they have a big thing about mushrooms and these are all the different mushrooms that are rather good baroque shape the glasses came from um Palma Mallorca and they they were that's interesting again because uh from Murano in Italy I don't know why but some of the the people who made the glass they moved to Palma Mallorca and they set up their own little company making glasses and this is a copy of a very early 17th century glass but made you know they still make it now wonderful over in this corner there's there's a rather interesting um painting Indian painting of a peacock but it shows the the front and the back of the peacock which is quite unusual which is and it's beautifully painted the detail and you can actually if you get close to it you can see the the markings on the front of the of the feathers through that and it's so clever the way they've done it I mean it's it's amazing I think the the back is almost better than the front because the the front is is more kind of as you you know normally expect them the peacocks to be these are more of the Spanish pots that I which I love I mean look at those markings aren't they great self-lamp French chair from from Lyon and this shouldn't be here really but it's it's um I got it out of my studio because it was getting covered in you know paint spatters and I rather love it it's I've never seen this kind of border before painted on the table and so typical sort of you know central motive but this this is just absolutely lovely so this is the staircase that I put in when I originally moved here to my bedroom and one and only bedroom then going up onto the mezzanine floor well I've always been artistic I always sort of painted and drew from very young age eventually I moved to London and I was very lucky because I answered an advertisement in the Evening Standard in Evening Standard in London and it was for a decorative artist and I didn't know what it was but I thought well I'd try for it and it was the start of my career as I am now really because it was working for somebody called James Smart, Jim, who was a wonderful eccentric designer decorator whatever you want to call it and I worked with him for about five years something like that learning how to restore painted furniture for for some of the the antique dealers the best antique dealers in London and also for the National Trust as well and then I started on my own and since then I've done a varied sort of things from garden design to restoring Chinese wallpapers to traveled all over the world to all sorts of places even to Japan to do a job there and so it's been a very interesting career and very interesting clients as well so this is my first bedroom it's changed an awful lot actually there was a four-poster bed here originally but there have been lots of transformations but this is how it is now which is quite fun it's sort of there's a big mixture of things again a lot of Chinese pots and ceramics rather wonderful figure over here the Han dynasty lady waiting which is rather good and these are perfume burners again from China they go like that you put them the stuff you're going to burn inside and then the smoke comes out of the the dogs of fu whatever they're called but I love these they're just wonderful those birds the scale of them is just so good they probably would have been painted originally with kind of pink and white a little bit like this one here this part here I'm not quite sure where it comes from but it's Asia somewhere but it's the most beautiful shape and lovely textures as well I love these kind of early markings the panels there are two gilded panels here which I found in London and I think they're kind of good luck or something but they're they're painted with little bats and clouds and god knows what little figures with a rather lovely painting there's two color gold here which is quite interesting this is African which I love the pattern is mud gloss just such a good pattern absolutely lovely and those that's a kind of a modern fabric but it's there again it's a good design the cover comes from India tie-dyed just nice subtle colors and another panel there gilded panel and another bird which which goes with the other one so there's a collection of four of those all of the same scale they must have all come from the same place rather interesting chair here it's Portuguese but it's it's so it's got it's quite wide and it's got a lot of movement to it and the carving is absolutely lovely I bought that when I was when I was living there a long time ago it's some interesting pots Chinese pots love this one so simple beautiful these chairs are lovely I bought those in Portugal when I was there painted but they're Italian rather than Portuguese but I just love the scale of them they're almost like people again you know they have character I think they're fun all of the Chinese ceramics I was very lucky because I found a dealer in Antiquities and he was able to bring things out of China but through a Chinese person and they they were at affordable prices which was so good because normally these things were huge huge prices in the sort of antique shops in London so one was able to amass the things over you know over a few years as I could afford it and it's like the pots and so on they all came from the same source wonderful it is dried up now you can't you can't get those things I was lucky to be able to do that at the time when I first moved in and I always used to love this view even though it's changed quite a lot since since I've been here over the years but now it looks particularly good as well because being up at this height and seeing the scale of the roofline and so on I mean imagine this was built in 1840 1850 I mean those beams have not moved at all I mean they're absolutely wonderful and it supports the whole building I mean it's just lovely but you can see the whole collection of my kind of curiosities really but you can see that you can see all the different kind of quality of things from here well when I was younger obviously I did enjoy dancing and I was quite a good dancer I think I mean I have you know memories of night clubs and god knows what and it was all good fun and then you know I've got into this Instagram thing and and I suddenly thought well you know what's what can I do to make it new I mean they kind of prompt you in a way to do things differently and so the people you attract different people more people and so I thought dancing I mean a lot of people are dancing you know and I can still do it just about so it's this is this is where I am now which is it's quite fun and one shouldn't feel kind of nervous about it because it's it just moves the body you know and we need to as you get older you need to move the body otherwise you become a kind of stagnant thing we don't want that so this is the the garden hall the back hall to the to the house which is part of the original and this has also changed an awful lot I mean the trouble with me is I get bored with things so you kind of move on to another decoration anyway at the moment because I'm working with Mia Ray and we're doing these wallpapers I felt it this is the the the design from the Montenupo ceramic that I showed you on that on the fireplace this is the my interpretation of it and we've done it in a green version which is that it's just that wonderful movement of the leaves and so on there's a French mirror here gilded mirror wonderful glass you can't really see yourself in I rather love this stick I got this in in in it's for catching sheep I think I bought it in Portugal it's the shepherd's crook but a really good one you know sort of pull the leg like that it's quite fun the fabric I bought in Uzbekistan in Bokara it was all very narrow widths of of I forget the name of the fabric now it's been it's a mix of of cotton and silk anyway but dyed with a with a kind of ecat pattern I mean they they do wonderful colour combinations and so on but quite nice to bring it back from there and a long time ago about four thirty years ago something like that this is one of my favourite pieces of painted by me I mean I had it I used to produce a lot of painted furniture and for years and years I had this wonderful man who made furniture for me and we could do copies of Italian pieces or make up our own whatever it is but I especially love this and I don't ever want to part with it I love the painting on it and there again is linked to our wallpapers because it's the it's the queen's necklace pattern and it was our inspiration for the wallpaper so it's painted in blue and white but I don't know it's one of my favourite things like a lot of things are but this one is a special one moving on into the bedroom this is a secret door into the bathroom go to the bathroom first I did start collecting when I was very young actually I remember when I was still at home living with the family and so on there was a little antique shop in in our village and I bought a spear which was from Africa god knows why I want a spear at the age of 12 or 13 or something but I had some pocket money and I bought that and then I started collecting little pots and things like that and so and it was obviously part of my kind of makeup you know I wanted things that that sort of made me interested in you know it sort of opened up another world to you know and then I started working in the arts and working for interesting people and good clients and of course they collected things so it became a bit of a compulsion to to start collecting but I don't collect the normal things I mean it's sort of I love things that make my my painting and and so on my my creative thing more exciting so I'm surrounded by stuff that I really like and it could be from anything from very classic sort of 18th century furniture which I love chairs I've got a thing about chairs and to paintings my most favorite thing is in the big room there's there's a it's called a pitch wipe which is from India it's actually a religious painting of lotus flowers all in rose and then with some Krishna in the middle but it's I love the way it's done it's very crude painting and we've actually made a wallpaper with Mia Ray that is is similar but it's a much more sort of civilized version of it which I have that was one of the first things I bought in London was a fragment of a pitchfork which is almost the same as a wallpaper but I love things that just they have a story to them and you know I've bought them all in different places different countries and and just made a collection and far too many things but it's good fun they're inspiring so the walls there again I painted it several times but this I was inspired by going to India staying in the Samod Haveli in Jaipur and the bathroom that I had was all in marble but it was this design and I thought well I can't do a marble bathroom but I'm going to copy it and do it in my colors so this wonderful chevron pattern which it makes a good you know good thing for a small space and it's a kind of unusual because it's got a high ceiling and so on so that's quite fun these are rather wonderful these these are steps staircases and they come from West Africa can't remember the name of the state I should know because they're Dogon that's what it is but they're rather beautiful I've got a collection of four of them which which I absolutely love it's they're like a piece of the mirror's quite interesting because it's it was actually framing the most wonderful Persian painting which belonged to a Persian I think Persian princess a friend of mine was was doing reframing this this painting and they didn't want the the original frame that it was in so this is the original Persian frame which I think is wonderful and I've copied it in a sense because it's actually quite simple but it has little mirrored sections which is lovely this is quite fun I bought it the other day in Livington at the fair that it comes from from Tibet or the Himalayas anyway and it's just sort of fun thing there used to be a very posh antelio there before but this I think is much nicer actually the mirror is is Portuguese rather nice design rather wonderful carving rather good painting here which is aboriginal you see I like a lot of different things but they all kind of go together and I make it work African piece here which is rather good with the horns and so on coming to the bath there's quite a funny story there as well because the the where I stayed in in Portugal where I lived there this friend of mine she found this bath in London and she thought it would do for her she thought it'd be absolutely perfect because it's the most beautiful kind of 19th century French painted painted with with imitation marble and she was going to take it to ship it to Portugal and then I said I was going to have which actually never happened in America when I was working there I was going to have a friend of mine was going to make a bath in wood in the special wood which was like the Japanese had but it was going to be that sort of shape and she decided that she didn't want this metal bath she wanted my wooden wooden bath instead but unfortunately the the wooden bath never happened the guy never got around to making it which is so sad because it would have been wonderful but I still ended up with the painted bath which I'm very pleased about as well but poor Gordana she went without Coming into the bedroom these are some of my favourite more favourite things but they're paintings by a native red Indian from America obviously but he's rather special the first one I bought is a shaman a deer shaman I love the way he paints it's it's kind of very kind of graphic in a way but his colour colour sense is just beautiful and we had them framed with it was silver gilt I think they're rather good favourite jacket there as well and a belt these are my the two dogs that I've had since I've been here dear old Ozzy was an Irish water spaniel and then Palmer who was a Manchester Terrier both very different dogs one had a very kind of Rastafarian coat and the other one had a very smooth shiny coat but both great characters the wardrobe is English as far as I know but I love the colour and the kind of distressed you know decoration she's almost gone really favourite jacket unfortunately more Indian miniatures here and this is this is quite an interesting painting this one is by gosh I can't remember her name now it's not awful anyway it was painted in some 1920s 1921-22 something like that and it was in the the Royal Academy as far as I know and she was thought of as one of the great portrait painters at the time and she did go on to paint but she didn't become that famous but she has I love that this is one of one of the sisters the fabric that's on the walls is actually uh it's cruel work from India I'm in modern and I was lucky enough a friend of mine was bringing it over from from from India and I bought enough to make the curtains to start off with which was great then he had some more came came over and but it was a slightly different scale it was slightly smaller in scale so I decided I bought it anyway because to get blue and white is quite unusual and uh but it doesn't actually notice I mean that scale is different than that one but the colour is the same which is great and so I put it on the wall which is which is good and also made the four poster bed out of it and the valance and so on and the bed cover there was enough to do all that which is great the beds I've had several different beds has had several different lots of things um but this is one I had made but not the columns these are originally from India but I repainted them with this wonderful chain pattern on well I think it's wonderful but I took that from from from an Indian design and we made the bed head and I did that kind of the graphic it was like some snow coming down but then covered the whole thing in in uh the cruel work fabric and over here is the original pitch vibe that I bought years and years ago it was one of the first things I bought in London and this is what we've copied for for uh it's a it's a similar thing it's not exact copy from for our wallpaper with Mia Ray and it's the pitch vibe with this beautiful border and it's almost faded on that one I've sort of the newer one obviously I've put in more awesome but I love the faded look of that it's so good the mirror is French um not sure about the date probably about 1750 something like that but I love the carving on the top more Montelupo you can tell I like that it's this beautiful design it's so good they were all apothecaries pots which is uh and obviously you know I have quite a lot of quite a lot of them now but uh they were all used I mean they were not meant for decoration really they were they were used to to put liquids in and so on and pour it out rather beautiful you see the different hand from that one to that one it's so different they're all painted you know by individual people so this is the entrance uh to the to the house but it was the original entrance to the for the school as well and it was one of the first things I painted and it's it's taken from an Italian panel that I bought in London and it's a chinoiserie and very primitive and the colors I absolutely love and they're African masks I always mix things up and make it a little bit extraordinary I don't like to be too precious about things and odd things around here but this is the entrance hall this pot which is I think sits rather well against my painted wall is actually a 19th century pot with a kind of French influence but beautifully painted um irises in the most lovely beautiful kind of emerald green lovely colors over here we've got a Portuguese mirror a gilded Portuguese mirror and uh and two French pots you see I mix everything up it's sort of it doesn't matter which country it comes from it's just as long as they look well together a little medieval table underneath which the which the pots are sitting on it's from African to Portuguese to France to you know it all makes and it works you know it all makes a good thing so here we are in my office total chaos but it's not as bad as it normally is but um and then more collection of things which inspire me to to for painting and goodness but it's a lovely space lovely I like the overhead light which is so good and more um some quite interesting modern sculptures here which are by a Scottish artist again seem to like Scottish artists and can't remember her name but she's rather good but she was given she won a scholarship to go to Japan and this is her inspiration from from from that from that trip to to Japan and this rather modern form I think they're rather beautiful kind of very angular heads and so on and they're just masks at the top rather than a complete head but they're you know juxtaposed with um Chinese ceramics he's rather wonderful this big figure over there he's kind of uh he has a snake and a kind of tomahawk thing a sort of mallet it all has symbolism there's all you know one of the Chinese are wonderful because they have all these they're rather good figure over here the white one he's he looks like a he looks like a you know somebody who goes underwater with one of those sort of helmets on but there again there's there are two Jane Newham sculptures which are which are um ceramic figures which I love with the blue spots and this rather funny faces but he has a peapod on the top of his head which I think is it's just brilliant I don't know why I think it's brilliant but I just do it's kind of it makes you laugh which it's all about the desk where some work gets done try to get organized sometimes picture of my palmer there um the desk is is uh Scandinavian Swedish and it's been I love the painting on the on the cornice which is so good but the colors are just so good as well great scale hides a lot of multitude of sins inside it that's one of our new wallpapers there which is quite fun good red lacquer Delft tiles which are always an inspiration because we're doing wallpapers of that it's actually very difficult to describe my style actually because even though I've worked with you know doing jobs which were kind of very fine decorating really my style isn't like that it's a little more kind of rustic but but still but still goes into great detail and I love color which John Fowler taught me about and and I love different textures and fabrics and textiles it's not very English it's more continental than it is because I actually lived in Portugal for some time and I picked up on you know those sort of countries like Italy and Portugal and Spain and France they they painted everything that didn't move you know that was quite exciting in England where it was slightly more contained and you know we don't do it in such an exciting way but that's been a big influence on what I do and and now I'm designing wallpapers at this age you know and it's still great fun which is you know finding new things and uh just another way of you know um making life exciting so moving into the into the studio where all the serious work gets done a lot of the you know the painting and uh whatever and the collections of things still carry on paintings galore um I've recently got this cupboard this is wonderful French cupboard that I bought in in Paris which has got a whole lot of textiles inside which uh is so useful because it hides it all the way and keeps it kind of safe as well this is a table that I've painted which is uh painted with the Delft tiles an imitation of Delft tiles and all the patterns that I really like especially that one there it's so good and that's a a piece that was I mean just made for for stock really you know this is a mirror frame that I'm working on at the moment these are some of my paintings that I've that I've uh I've sort of this one's finished there are other ones underneath which are unfinished I'd rather like that one actually which I really must get on and finish it it's of a local house which which I really like it I love the kind of scale of that but I love painting the grass so this is another of my paintings here this I rather loved it because it was a a field it was in um between Wales and England Herefordshire and it was a field I stopped to have I don't know a picnic or something there was this field of buttercups and it just went on and on and on so I thought I've got I took a couple of photographs and I did a painting eventually but it was the mixture of the of the buttercups the mauve clover and that little I forget what it's called I don't like a little blade of of brine I forget I forget plantain I think it is but it was this wonderful combination and I've been back there since but it's never looked like that again but um it's rather good this is another sort of painting that I do um which is originally got the idea from somebody asked me to copy they bought an Italian bedside table and on the top it was painted with this kind of trellis of ribbon with herbs tucked underneath it but it was all in a sort of trompe l'oeil of what it should look like and I always thought it was such a good idea so I've sort of emulated a few times now and we're now going to make a wallpaper of it which is which is fun as well and we've just done one the wonderful blue background which is going to be sensational but it's lovely to be able to do these things but this shows it before without the flowers and so on just as the bare trellis which is quite I've got to work on that one this is this is a wallpaper that we've just produced which is rather good these are not the final colours but I love the design of that and this is a frame I'm working on at the moment for we're doing a shop we're helping somebody in a shop in in Goldborne Road in London and we're full of wallpapers this is and so I'm doing a frame just to put our one of our wallpapers in this is the Boccara wallpaper but this is not finished it's going to have another I want to do painted irises on there which I think would be fun and that's quite interesting the ball rushes that's an idea that John Fowler had the man that I who was such an inspiration for me he painted a room for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in France at the mill I think it was this I don't think was ever carried out like that but he had a piece that I copied and it's ball rushes which is rather good shape I think lovely to paint as well kind of very free the chandelier it's a great scale and it's just fun to have there even though it's oversized I think it works it's a very important thing the home I mean it's it's where you feel at peace I think and when you can recoup you know from the from what the world throws at you it's very important to be to have your home and be surrounded by things that you love and an atmosphere that you love that's why I love colour because because it's colour is kind of enveloping especially in the big room here it kind of when you walk in you just feel at home which is really nice home worthy it's been wonderful showing you around but it's really time for you to go now so goodbye thanks for watching go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content and shopping guides