How I get my old house ready for autumn.
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- I love period homes, but if there's one thing that they need, it's good preparation for cold weather! And so, today, I am going to take you through the routines that we follow and get our old home ready for autumn.
Our home was built in the 1800s and was the headmaster residence attached to a private boarding school for eight boys! Wouldn't swap it for anything new ever! Love your home.
Our house was a dormitory for girls belonging to what was a near-by private girls school !
I absolutely love the aesthetic of old buildings and period homes, but I sacrifice that love for comfort by choosing to live in a newbuild home, that I've decorated with a mix of modern and vintage items, as I really cannot tolerate the cold in older homes, even with all the hacks of staying warm. Hats off to anyone who can. Your home is an absolute gem, and your content is very peaceful to watch. Thank you. ❤
I live in a 1890s house where my late husband and parents lived. It's a big house with very little central heating. All winter bedding is fleece and a high tog duvet, plus pj's. I wear fluffy slippers and at night a fleecy dressing gown. I love it but it's too big for now. Once the estate is settled I'll move.....to a small old terrace house.... with full central heating, I hope!!!!! My dream terrace house would be edwardian but my kitchen will have my real and retro 20s and 30s kitchenalia which I love!
I live in area where there's lots of 'old school' terraced houses with bathroom at back of the kitchen on ground floor, solidly built and I'd move into one too given the chance
I love the idea of having a small blanket but over your shoulders at night. I had never thought of doing this and yet it is such a simple perfect idea!!! Thank you.❤
Preparing for the colder months also includes, in my house, the use of heavy curtains across front and back doors. Even if there doesn't seem to be any draft, it does make a big differance. Another is the heavier curtains on windows, and there are also ones I put at the end of hallways. I am in Melbourne Australia, and my rented house was built in 1913, and we do get cold temps here much like UK. I am loving your channal and feel in good company with your community. Cheers.
Really lovely soothing video, thankyou! At the moment all the heating we have in our tiny cottage (used to be a gardener 's bothy apparently) is a couple of plug in electric heaters, so we're used to wrapping up warm. I have boot-style slippers, they keep my ankles warm as well. Feather duvets, blankets. When reading in bed I'll wear a wooly hat & fingerless gloves. Might possibly get a wood stove installed one day! Xx
I remember those days .We lived in a drafty old Victorian house in Essex England ,we would spend a Sunday cutting logs which would only last the week if lucky.We had a serving hatch from the living room into the kitchen when you opened the door you would get a blast of cold air and your hair would fly .We had the old sash windows too .We had a hip urge front door ,I made lovely red velvet curtains from old school curtains that were no longer needed.We would close them right across at night .I went to the local junk market and found two “winceyette” or as they say in USA flannel long striped nightshirts the kind you see Scrooge wearing .Me and hubby wore them in the winter we looked hilarious but they were warm .We were remembering about them recently .We live in Florida now but once we get that autumn feeling I start to put throws and heavier bed linens out .
Your videos always feel like a hug 😊
Ahh I’m so jelly ❤ here in the south of the Carolinas in NC USA we are still hitting 80-90 degree days. Whilst fall is here, we’re still swimming and sweating 🥵 I love your home and the way you have decorated it ❤❤❤
I love these tips! 😊 Our home was built in 1930, and our kitchen, dining room, and living room are the coldest during fall and winter, especially if you're near the front door in the living room, or the back door in the kitchen. We have a fire place in the living room that has been blocked off from sometime but it would be nice if it could work again 😊❤
My old french cottage is the rest of a huge farmhouse that was broken down before my arrival. It’s gettiing chilly in the evenings and I’m grateful for many of your ideas, as electrical heating is out of budget. I have found old heating bricks that I put beside the fire and wrap in cloths to warm the bed. Thick woollen carpets help with the cold floors, blankets, cushions and warm sweaters insolate from the chill of the stone walls. I love my old cottage.
The sound of that log burner go is so nostalgic for me! i wish we could have one but we are in a new build and it would be ridiculously hot if we did!
My Foursquare home is from 1920 and while quaint, leaks heat from every one of its 13 giant windows. In winter, the living room is an ice box no matter how high I turn up the heat. That being said, I truly love my old house.
Great advise...I would add having a good tea cosy to keep your teapot nice and warm longer, that way you don't have to get up so many times while reading under your blanket 😅 ❤
I just love a hot water bottle, I was bought up in a big old Victorian house in the 60s, we didn’t have any heating apart from the fire in lounge. We used to get ice on the inside of the windows in the winter, so a hot water bottle, jumpers, socks etc were vital. Unfortunately I’ve become a bit soft in my old age.🧡
@@jenniferboyle2865the inside of my 1920 house windows ice up sometimes in Winter too. I wear an electric blanket type shawl to compensate.
Ooh tea cosy best Christmas present ever from my mother in law who's unfortunately passed now she always gave unusual yet useful gifts
@@ajvintage9579 That’s a great idea, we had sash windows so the glass was really thin, but we made it really cosy🕰️🧹🕯️🧡
Love this video and all your videos, your home is beautiful ❤❤❤
Lovely and cosy
Enjoyed your video! My house isn’t as old as yours, it’s a 1932 craftsman farmhouse with wrap around porch. I do know how chilly it can get and I have an old ladder with many seasonal throws and ones older ladies have crocheted or sewn for me. Even in the summertime there is one degree difference on my air conditioner between being too hot or freezing. The walls in the dining room, living room, den (snug?) and library(yes I have a library! Was the original master bedroom but as there are 3 bedrooms upstairs I made it into a library) are plaster which stays pretty cool. My only working fireplace is the one in the library which previous owners converted to gas. Since the den is where my grands and I watch movies and is on the shady side of the house I got an electric stove to sit on the hearth(all the fireplaces originally had coal burning stoves) and only heat that room as needed which helps cut costs. Happy autumn across the pond!🧡🎃🍁🍂
Hanna, when i lived in an old property, i rented. i learned what true cold was, so now, i sleep in-between 2 duvets of 15 togs, one below me, and one above the most i've done since is direct a fan heater under the bed to warm it up, only for an hour, so i'm toasty, whatever the weather. i would love to go vintage, but not that far back.
This was so lovely to watch. Thank you so much.
loved your outfit 🤎
The second duvet came out a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve had the leccy blanket on twice already!
I love your fire. I miss my old house where I had one
I was born and raised in a house very similar to yours. We had sash windows (draughty, rattling, iced up inside on a Winter’s morning), open fires (including in the bedrooms - no central heating whatsoever), a back boiler for heating bath water, an enamel gas cooker like yours, concrete floors beneath lino or VERY thin carpet (no underlay as I recall - too expensive). The memory of the cold stays with me to this day. Frozen fingers, toes and chilblains were just the norm. We always had hot water bottles, socks, dressing gowns but they just didn’t help. Beds were made up with linen sheets, blankets and eiderdowns but were always freezing to get into in Winter, regardless of what you wore. I wouldn’t go back to those days if you paid me…
I absolutely love this. As someone who lives in an older house, some things are renovated but there are many vintage old and retro things which you just have to live with and deal with. One of my favorite things is that we heat up our livingroom and hallway with wood fire, in the livingroom we have space above the stove for several kettles which heat up and increase the humidity due to the heating and cold reducing the humidity for us. It's also great for using the hot water for hot water bottles or washing the dishes ❤lots of love to you and your mum from Germany 🇩🇪
Everything looks so cozy ❤
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this, thank you. Was intrigued by ethanol burners, so had a look online. Far too expensive for me, so I’ll continue to wear multiple layers in front of my ‘pretend’ log burner! (ie it has a flame effect but does not emit heat still psychologically it makes you believe it’s warm!!). Very true regarding the cost of living crisis, it’s very de heartening, Enjoy and relish time with your Mum. I miss mine terribly still even though it’s been 6 years. x
In the colder months, I have a flat sheet underneath my duvet, I sleep with bedsocks on, so I also put a hot water bottle underneath the flatsheet, where my feet are. As long as my feet are warm, then the rest of me is fine. My house is always colder inside during the winter and hotter inside during the summer 😅
My 1920 house is the same.
This is what my childhood was like in the 1960s/70s. We had a coal fire in the living room and an old kitchen with a big built in dresser along one wall, a range in the fireplace (but we didn't use that), a Belfast sink with taps on the wall plus a big kitchen table in the middle of the room. I loved it and would love to have that set up again if I had the space.
Lovely video with beautiful music. ❤
Extra hot water bottle tip: wrap your hot water bottle in a large scarf or jumper (tuck the arms inside the folds so they aren't flapping around) it will distribute heat more evenly & stay warm MUCH longer. My hot water bottle is still hot in the morning if I keep it under the covers too. Even outside of the covers the wrap method still keeps it warm enough that 24 hours later it's still warm.
Trying this! Thanks for the tip
Hey Hannah, any chance we can get a short giving an update on the baby pigeons? Fascinated about those little guys.
Brilliant video 😊
Looks very cosy ❤
Thank you. I miss a cooler climate.
Lovely video❤
I loved my parent's drafty old Victorian house it broke my heart to sell it.
Dont forget the draft excluders, typically in the shape of a sausage dog or just boring long cushion. And you can go a step further and hang a door curtain in front of your front door to stop any gusts coming through letter boxes or loose window panes. We had those in our old house growing up.
We were our dressing gowns shawls blankets no mould or condensation thank God
so cozy so adorable , can I just be a guest with my miss marple novel :))) Thank you for your work and videos!
My dad's parents has something that I think they used to flatten the grass but I'm not sure what it was. It was more decoration but it had a long handle it was attached to something like a heavy round cylinder made of either pot concrete or cement. I will have to ask my mum the name the
I remember my grandma's log fire plus those tools yes she had the same one my mother's mother next to her coal fire. Stephen had some sort of bucket and a little cold house they called it it was like a wooden homemade container under the back window. They had allotments in the gardens where the grew veg and fruit especially rhubarb and apples. Plus strawberries and raspberries they were the favourite fruits for my grandparents. The groove things like broad beans runner beans potatoes carrots turnips
All sorts of things. My parents copied their parents we're having allotments in the garden with concerned in greenhouses. My dad's parents had a shed under greenhouse like my parents what does parents actually had a large millstone or two stuck in the back garden it was that big
Opening the windows for at least 10 minutes a day also helps with potential mould development. I tend to move around a lot in this time to get an air current going and wipe down any areas around the windows and the walls to make sure there's not even the slightest risk of build up (with a dry cloth). Always good to get a dehumidifier (the mini ones) for each room since the UK is just sopping wet to the most evil degree.
Nice ❤
I really enjoy spring I suffer seasonal disorder pts
I loved your vlog , thank you for sharing x
Lovey cosy autumy vlog😂❤❤❤
Lovely
The food warms plate
H Hannah ... I find such quiet loveliness watching your videos, thank you! I keep meaning to ask ... have you watched the old UK series The 1940's house? I just found it on UA-cam! Such an interesting show/social experiment. Xo from New Zealand
Hello, Hanna. I suffer from SAD as well. I have tried those “sunlight” lightbulbs, but they don’t work for me. I think I’m going to try your method of just reading it out. Thanks for the idea!
I was shocked at how much water was collected, until you showed the side and it wasn't very deep.😂
I shut out rest of world in my own little world lol in the 1950 home we live in in colder d times
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I heat one room it does get expensive to heat room
love your old home videos🤎🍁🍂mine is from 1920, and wisconsin is cold
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I have capsule wardrobe and capsule grocery list menu plan
I live in a 1950 home it gets so cold
decoration fire, get some coal, they produce more heat and last longer
Nice🤍🧡🤍