@Jen Campbell You use the word “shielding” a lot in this video. As an American, I’m not used to hearing this word used in this way. Does it mean you are quarantining?
@@Steampunkkids I don't think so, I take quarantining to mean keeping yourself away from other people if you're sick and you don't want to infect anyone. Shielding is basically the opposite of that. Essentially I have just been in my flat, out on walks, or at hospital appointments (plus the occasional house viewing). It was a term coined by our government for those considered CEV. Though the official protections put in place have ended, many disabled people are still doing some version of this if they are able to (many factors at play, obviously, everyone's circumstances are different).
@@jenvcampbell Thank you! We don’t have a word for that in the USA. We should! Shielding is what my children and I do, since one has breathing issues. Thank you for telling me about this!
We have a lot of garden space, some shady, some sunny, some inbetween. We're in western Oregon, so a bit similar to English weather. My plants that do well in full shade or limited sun - japanese maples, hydrangea, a daphne, hellebore, hostas, ferns, bleeding heart, lady's mantle, violets, sweet woodruff... there's more, but I'd have to go out in the dark to jog my memory and I don't know where my flashlight is, LOL. But, that's a good start.
The kitchen shelf thing is called a ‘Le Mans’… My partner insisted we get them in our new kitchen. I was sceptical, but they’re probably one of my favourite bits now, such a satisfying action(!) and v useful.
I'm so glad it all worked out - so stressful! Loved seeing Lola giving the place the once over. I think a house feels like a home once you put your own stamp on it whatever form that takes. Love your kitchen cupboards & outdoor space is so good.
Jen, for plants for the garden - I cannot recommend ferns enough. They grow well in shady damp conditions, we've got a bunch in the corner of our garden where the sun doesn't really get and they're so beautiful and intricate and seeing the new fronds unfurl as they come up is so satisfying. They can cover a lot of ground if you've got gaps in the flowerbeds, and they're far hardier than people realise - they overwinter in our garden in yorkshire with absolutely no problem.
Having just moved ourselves two weeks ago, you have my full sympathies. The achy bod and the mush brain are REAL! It still feels super weird and surreal, almost like it's not quite real life again and we are living in an AirBnb but as soon as I got some books on the shelf, I felt like I could at least breathe a tiny sigh of relief.
Congratulations on your new home, Jen! Home is where your books are, so once yours are all unpacked I'll bet this new place will begin to feel like it belongs to you.
If you choose to put a fireplace (working or not) back in and wish to keep some original character of the house, look into local architectural salvage companies. They will probably have tiles, mantles, and maybe inserts that will fit with both the time period of the house and the location as well. They also may have some nice pieces of wood that could be used as shelving or for patching parts of the floor. I hope your home and garden turn out well. Best of luck!
Congratulations on your house! How wonderful for you. As you said north facing garden I thought "oh how wonderful" because north facing is lovely and sunny in the Southern Hemisphere! It took me a moment. Oh yes, it's our south facing equivalent. I'm not great at gardening, but if you check out the front gardens on the other side of your new streets as you walk around you'll get ideas for what likes the shady life in your area. I moved into my dream home in 2018, and I still have major projects to do. It does take time (particularly for me) to work out what I want in particular spaces - I don't have a great 3D imagination. But I knew from the get go that I wanted a library in my front room. I thought I'd have it done within 6 months. It isn't done yet, but will be done this year! I have a designer working on it. I've just recently ordered the fireplace I want (it took me quite a while to find that), and I'm so excited for it to finally come together.
Love your house. I suggest you look for sofas before you paint. We painted our living room a gorgeous butter yellow & couldn't find a sofa that the color & style worked for us.
I walked through the door of our house and that was that! Good luck in your new home. We have things to correct but they don’t take away from the feeling I have about this house. She’s a lovely slightly shabby thing. We had a lot of books that we moved ourselves. I have Fibro. I hurt my knee and got bursitis in it. Take care Jen 🥰🥰
Wishing you the best in your new home. Buying during a pandemic is so weird! We're almost one year into our home, and when we were buying last March, we had to go Sale Agreed before even seeing the house in person - just a zoom call!
Congratulations! Years ago when we moved into a sweet old house, the yard was a mess. Thru word of mouth, I was able to connect with a garden planner. She assessed the soil and sunlight and drew out a plan for both the front and back yard. It was SO helpful and gave me great ideas for starting up the garden. Her plans were like small works of art, and she charged about $ 150.00 to draw out some plans. Our yard was shady, and I grew to love hostas. My favorites were hosta alba - white flowers that were very fragrant. We also had rows of magnolia trees along the fences (white and very fragrant), candelabra plants, peonies and white hydrangeas and allium. Later we added more color. Forsythia, coral bells, lilacs, azaleas all did well in our shady yard. I learned a lot from going on garden tours in England and in the US and from going to the annual Chelsea Flower Show. I also loved the old Gertrude Jekyll books! It is magical to see a garden develop with love and a little attention !
Congrats on the move! It's so annoying that companies refused to move your stuff when asked if their employers could wear a mask... (and refused to make business?? ) I still don't get what big of an impediment is a mask for people, but you already experience this frustration in huge amounts I'm sure, given the UK regulations. Here in Quebec we still have to wear them, but I can tell for experience that it's getting very difficult to enforce the mandate in many work places... Anyway, I'm really glad for you!! P.S. I really love your vlogs, so much so that I have started rewatching lots of them while cooking to keep me company :)
Congratulations and I wish you many many happy times in your new home 😊 I loved hearing about the quirks!! It must be so lovely for you to not have outdoor space. All very exciting 💛 xx
Congratulations Jen 😊 We moved not too long ago and it's the first time I've ever had a garden, it's so exciting having my own outside space. For your garden - Hostas and Ferns are good for shady spots! 🌱
I absolutely agree with what you said that not knowing how long something is gonna go for makes time feel so weird. I went through my green card process in the US last year and the waiting was horrible because of that. It was actually quite fast (just 8 months and a half, which ia considered fast for the process), but while it was happening, not knowing how long it wojld go for was the absolute worst
Congratulations on the new house! I know exactly what you mean about knowing that you found it when you step in the new future home for the first time. I felt like that when I visited my current flat (a rent), it felt exactly right. And then I thought I wouldn't get it because they didn't allow pets, but I pleaded with the landlords and it all worked out in the end.
So happy for you, Jen! Enjoy your new house and projects! We have one room in our house that was wood panelling, we painted it light grey and it turned out into the most beautiful space we have - so don't be shy about painting yours.
That's a gorgeous lilac bush! Any shade loving plants will do. Hostas come in various leaf shapes sizes and colors, in addition to flowering. Some varieties of azaleas and rhododendrons can handle shade or part shade, and are evergreen in winter. Impatiens are great go-to annuals for shade. You have a blank canvas there, which means everything you plant will make a big impact. Congratulations!!
Yay, congrats on your move! I did a double-take when you said you hoped to be there for at least 10 years, and I realized it's because I have no idea when I'll have that kind of housing stability (I mean...will it ever happen??). I'm so glad all your boxes were checked and you get to really and truly settle in somewhere ☺
Congratulations! Love the video and how much love I can hear when you talk about your lovely new house 😊 I giggled a lot when you said about funny repair jobs....we moved in to our first home 6 years ago and holes in the wall had been covered up with wallpaper. It was....interesting 🤣 xx Ooo also, is that pretty bush in your garden a buddleia? x
Congratulations on your move, good to see Lola has given her approval. I was kind of hoping that you'd be near some woods, I enjoyed going on your walks.
You look very happy with your new (old) house, Jen! Congratulations on a successful move, and wishing you many wonderful years there. I can't help you with plant suggestions, as I don't have a clue!
Very best wishes for a happy life in your new home. You may be exhausted and sore, but you seem very relaxed and happy in this video. Thank you for making it - I'm sure nobody would have blamed you for taking a month off! Glad Lola approves! Looking forward to more excellent bookish and other videos, though I might miss the clothes rail and the wigs in the background 🤗
i'm so glad you two have successfully moved into your new home and i wish you much much happiness there...may love fill the rooms. and the garden! i believe lily of the valley likes the shade.
So happy for you! As for the office door, it was a common thing when wall to wall carpeting became popular. Doors had the bottoms cut off to accommodate the height of the carpet and padding underneath. All the doors in my house are that way as well, and our Victorian style house was built in 1910. We tore out the awful carpeting as soon as we were able!
I thought about carpets but it’s about five times the amount you would need to cut off for that. Maybe they tried to do that and damaged the door so they had to cut off more than they anticipated 😅
That would not be surprising! I wish I could share a photo here. The gaps under our doors are absurd, and of course taking out the carpeting made it so much worse.
So excited for you (and living vicariously while we can’t find a house…) We have a north facing garden and my tip is don’t get tricked by the random bits of sun it gets into thinking a sun-loving plant will thrive there… I’ve tried and killed many plants! Apart from those listed by others, bleeding heart (dicentra) does really well and is stunning and reliable, and roses! Lots of roses :)
Congratulations! Now that Lola approves of the new house, it's all good :) I know exactly what you mean about having a good oven for baking. Mine is not so great so I had to learn to modify recipes so I can get bread to bake and rise properly. Btw the little decoration on your left with the little rabbits (or are they mice?) is so heart-warming. Here's to many happy years in your new home.
How exciting a new home!!!! I can relate we moved into a home last July. We had lived in our other home 24 years so lots of stuff came with us even though we got rid of quite a lot. I think that you have to live in the house for a while & it will speak to you on such things as what areas will become. You will enjoy the process. Love love your floors.
Hey! Not sure what's available in your area (and which of these will work for your growing zone), but we have the same situation in our backyard. Fatsia, soft caress mahonia, flax lilies, coleus, impatients, coral bells, hostas, asparagus ferns, foxtail ferns (type of asparagus fern), cast iron plants, elephant ears, some hydrangea's can handle shade, and azaleas as well (flowers are toxic to dogs. mine leave them alone though). I'm in a more coastal warmer climate, so some of these may not work in your area or if they do you'll just need to cover with frost blankets. Some herbs can also handle shade like Sage since I know you like to cook. Congrats on the new place!
Congratulations on your new house! I'd recommend Hostas and Heucheras for your garden, they dont do much in terms of blooms but they have beautiful foliage. Especially heucheras come in all kinds of different colours. Plus, they are very easy to take care of. Bleeding heart plants are great for shady areas, too. Ferns will work, but you might want to look into whether or not they are invasive in your area, they are definitely in mine. I hope it will feel like home very soon!
Congrats on finding a new place that ticks all your boxes! 🥳 We've given up on finding a new place for the time being after we were outbid at the end of 2020 cause the search was just too disheartening. Wow, having to do all of your move by yourselves with a health condition sounds so straining. Just recently got an osteoarthritis diagnosis, having had so much inflammation, so I really feel for you. Hope you're recovering 💚 I love your wooden floors 😍
Congratulations on the new house. Very happy for you. I also always find it weird, about viewing a house for 10 minutes and then spending a sh*tload of money on it. It is the same here (Netherlands). But that 'chain' you are talking about I find even weirder. That we don't have. If one of the buyers in the chain here cannot buy or has to postpone for one reason or the other, it is their problem and they cannot just pull out. Thank goodness. Buying and moving is stressful enough without that. Hope you recover from the move soon. Enjoy the new place. X
I’m so happy for you to have found and moved into the house you wanted! The wood floors with their wide planks are beautiful. The garden is sweet. 🪴 I’m not sure of England’s woodland plants, but it’s fun to search for shade loving native plants too. I love the spring ephemerals where I live: bloodroot, Dutchman’s breeches, trout lily, Jacob’s ladder. And the good thing with a garden is that it too doesn’t have to all be done at once. You can plant some begonias and herbs in pots, and simply enjoy seeing what comes up out of the earth this year while weeding out anything that doesn’t please you. 🫖🌷🌻🥀 ☕️📚📝
I was just having that conversation with someone, that all of our huge decisions are made with very little time to contemplate. House buying, car buying, choosing a college/university, all huge decisions that are made after very short interactions. It's such a strange thing that we, as a society, have made into a norm.
Congratulations, so exciting! I'm looking to buy my first flat at the moment so I was feeling extra happy for you/interested in how it all went. Really helpful hearing that you didn't get it at first and how long you were looking for too as it can be disheartening. So happy it worked out well 🏡
Congratulations! It looks like you have another great worktop for all your baking and cooking preparations. Looking forward to new cooking videos whenever you get settled and ready for filming.
So happy for you! I'm hoping to move this fall (I was supposed to in 2020 haha) and am getting excited. Though I'll be doing it mainly alone so I'm quite nervous too...
Oh you have a purple lilac. Hakonechloa, primula, heuchera, dicentra, trillium, aquilegia, tricyrtis. Just to name a few things. Not sure what will work for your climate. I live in Massachusetts and gardening in the shade allows the gardener to concentrate on form and less on color.
I didn’t actually realise you were buying, I thought you were renting! In that case it seems like it’s gone through really quickly compared to what I’ve heard from other people. It looks lovely, hopefully you can relax and enjoy it now 😊
Jen really happy for you, I know that the place will become a home. So any writer ghosts in residence? I'm guessing no Lola didn't rush around the house barking at corners. Glad the oven and stove are good. Their not working on street are they. I sincerely hope not you had enough of that.
Ahh im so happy for you! I hope everything went as well as possible!! (I haven't watched the video yet so i shall soon find out haha) Hope you settle in well! ♡♡
It looks so lovely! so much light! I wish I lived in a house like that *.* that kitchen... those old wooden floors... I am a bit confused with the fridge, sofa and bed situation (because in Argentina we do things differently). The ones you had in the previous flat weren't yours? or they were but you had to sell them?
They came with the flat, generally speaking houses either come with appliances or don’t, or you can agree to pay money for the sellers to leave the appliances. So all of the main appliances were here apart from the fridge and there were no other furnishings. x
Gazzumping was something we were really worried about. In Scotland it doesn't happen as much as things are legally binding at an earlier stage. I wish we had that here, too. x
@@ametrinemoon It's when another buyer comes in after you've already agreed to buy a property, and are in the process of creating contracts, doing surveys etc, and offers more money, and the sellers decide to break their agreement with you and go with the new buyers instead. This means you can lose thousands of pounds in fees, as well as losing out on the house you were intending to buy.
Evening, everyone! Captions have been uploaded and will be live soon. Lots of love. xx
@Jen Campbell You use the word “shielding” a lot in this video. As an American, I’m not used to hearing this word used in this way. Does it mean you are quarantining?
@@Steampunkkids I don't think so, I take quarantining to mean keeping yourself away from other people if you're sick and you don't want to infect anyone. Shielding is basically the opposite of that. Essentially I have just been in my flat, out on walks, or at hospital appointments (plus the occasional house viewing). It was a term coined by our government for those considered CEV. Though the official protections put in place have ended, many disabled people are still doing some version of this if they are able to (many factors at play, obviously, everyone's circumstances are different).
@@jenvcampbell Thank you! We don’t have a word for that in the USA. We should! Shielding is what my children and I do, since one has breathing issues. Thank you for telling me about this!
We have a lot of garden space, some shady, some sunny, some inbetween. We're in western Oregon, so a bit similar to English weather. My plants that do well in full shade or limited sun - japanese maples, hydrangea, a daphne, hellebore, hostas, ferns, bleeding heart, lady's mantle, violets, sweet woodruff... there's more, but I'd have to go out in the dark to jog my memory and I don't know where my flashlight is, LOL. But, that's a good start.
The kitchen shelf thing is called a ‘Le Mans’… My partner insisted we get them in our new kitchen. I was sceptical, but they’re probably one of my favourite bits now, such a satisfying action(!) and v useful.
I'm so glad it all worked out - so stressful! Loved seeing Lola giving the place the once over. I think a house feels like a home once you put your own stamp on it whatever form that takes. Love your kitchen cupboards & outdoor space is so good.
As someone who has been searching for a house in the U.S. during an abysmal housing market, this q&a brought me some hope. Congratulations 🎉
Jen, for plants for the garden - I cannot recommend ferns enough. They grow well in shady damp conditions, we've got a bunch in the corner of our garden where the sun doesn't really get and they're so beautiful and intricate and seeing the new fronds unfurl as they come up is so satisfying. They can cover a lot of ground if you've got gaps in the flowerbeds, and they're far hardier than people realise - they overwinter in our garden in yorkshire with absolutely no problem.
Having just moved ourselves two weeks ago, you have my full sympathies. The achy bod and the mush brain are REAL! It still feels super weird and surreal, almost like it's not quite real life again and we are living in an AirBnb but as soon as I got some books on the shelf, I felt like I could at least breathe a tiny sigh of relief.
Congratulations on your new home, Jen! Home is where your books are, so once yours are all unpacked I'll bet this new place will begin to feel like it belongs to you.
If you choose to put a fireplace (working or not) back in and wish to keep some original character of the house, look into local architectural salvage companies. They will probably have tiles, mantles, and maybe inserts that will fit with both the time period of the house and the location as well. They also may have some nice pieces of wood that could be used as shelving or for patching parts of the floor. I hope your home and garden turn out well. Best of luck!
This is so exciting! The little snippets of the house look lovely 😊
Congratulations on your house! How wonderful for you. As you said north facing garden I thought "oh how wonderful" because north facing is lovely and sunny in the Southern Hemisphere! It took me a moment. Oh yes, it's our south facing equivalent. I'm not great at gardening, but if you check out the front gardens on the other side of your new streets as you walk around you'll get ideas for what likes the shady life in your area.
I moved into my dream home in 2018, and I still have major projects to do. It does take time (particularly for me) to work out what I want in particular spaces - I don't have a great 3D imagination. But I knew from the get go that I wanted a library in my front room. I thought I'd have it done within 6 months. It isn't done yet, but will be done this year! I have a designer working on it. I've just recently ordered the fireplace I want (it took me quite a while to find that), and I'm so excited for it to finally come together.
Love your house.
I suggest you look for sofas before you paint. We painted our living room a gorgeous butter yellow & couldn't find a sofa that the color & style worked for us.
I walked through the door of our house and that was that! Good luck in your new home. We have things to correct but they don’t take away from the feeling I have about this house. She’s a lovely slightly shabby thing. We had a lot of books that we moved ourselves. I have Fibro. I hurt my knee and got bursitis in it. Take care Jen 🥰🥰
Wishing you the best in your new home. Buying during a pandemic is so weird! We're almost one year into our home, and when we were buying last March, we had to go Sale Agreed before even seeing the house in person - just a zoom call!
Congratulations! Years ago when we moved into a sweet old house, the yard was a mess. Thru word of mouth, I was able to connect with a garden
planner. She assessed the soil and sunlight and drew out a plan for both the front and back yard. It was SO helpful and gave me great ideas for starting up the garden. Her plans were like small works of art, and she charged about $ 150.00 to draw out some plans. Our yard was shady, and I grew to love hostas. My favorites were hosta alba - white flowers that were very fragrant. We also had rows of magnolia trees along the fences (white and very fragrant), candelabra plants, peonies and white hydrangeas and allium. Later we added more color. Forsythia, coral bells, lilacs, azaleas all did well
in our shady yard. I learned a lot from going on garden tours in England and in the US and from going to the annual Chelsea Flower Show. I also
loved the old Gertrude Jekyll books! It is magical to see a garden develop with love and a little attention !
Can't wait to see more of your videos in your lovely new home, congrats!
Congrats on the move! It's so annoying that companies refused to move your stuff when asked if their employers could wear a mask... (and refused to make business?? ) I still don't get what big of an impediment is a mask for people, but you already experience this frustration in huge amounts I'm sure, given the UK regulations. Here in Quebec we still have to wear them, but I can tell for experience that it's getting very difficult to enforce the mandate in many work places...
Anyway, I'm really glad for you!!
P.S. I really love your vlogs, so much so that I have started rewatching lots of them while cooking to keep me company :)
Congratulations and I wish you many many happy times in your new home 😊
I loved hearing about the quirks!!
It must be so lovely for you to not have outdoor space.
All very exciting 💛 xx
I really enjoy your chat videos Jen. Mazel tov on your new home!
What grows well in share in my garden are violets and petunias! I look forward to them every year 😄
Congratulations Jen 😊 We moved not too long ago and it's the first time I've ever had a garden, it's so exciting having my own outside space. For your garden - Hostas and Ferns are good for shady spots! 🌱
I absolutely agree with what you said that not knowing how long something is gonna go for makes time feel so weird. I went through my green card process in the US last year and the waiting was horrible because of that. It was actually quite fast (just 8 months and a half, which ia considered fast for the process), but while it was happening, not knowing how long it wojld go for was the absolute worst
Congratulations on the new house! I know exactly what you mean about knowing that you found it when you step in the new future home for the first time. I felt like that when I visited my current flat (a rent), it felt exactly right. And then I thought I wouldn't get it because they didn't allow pets, but I pleaded with the landlords and it all worked out in the end.
So happy for you, Jen! Enjoy your new house and projects! We have one room in our house that was wood panelling, we painted it light grey and it turned out into the most beautiful space we have - so don't be shy about painting yours.
If I can be bothered to sand it, I might ☺️ x
It is dismaying that no moving company would wear a mask for you. Congrats and happy new place and cheers to many happy years ahead!
That's a gorgeous lilac bush! Any shade loving plants will do. Hostas come in various leaf shapes sizes and colors, in addition to flowering. Some varieties of azaleas and rhododendrons can handle shade or part shade, and are evergreen in winter. Impatiens are great go-to annuals for shade. You have a blank canvas there, which means everything you plant will make a big impact. Congratulations!!
Yay, congrats on your move! I did a double-take when you said you hoped to be there for at least 10 years, and I realized it's because I have no idea when I'll have that kind of housing stability (I mean...will it ever happen??). I'm so glad all your boxes were checked and you get to really and truly settle in somewhere ☺
Wonderfully to see your obvious happiness in your new home! I wish you both many years of family life and contentment within these walls! 💖💖💖
Congratulations! Love the video and how much love I can hear when you talk about your lovely new house 😊 I giggled a lot when you said about funny repair jobs....we moved in to our first home 6 years ago and holes in the wall had been covered up with wallpaper. It was....interesting 🤣 xx
Ooo also, is that pretty bush in your garden a buddleia? x
Very lovely kitchen!!!
I’m so happy to know you have woods nearby and that Lola will still be coming to stay ☺️
Wishing you happiness in your new home.
Congratulations on your move, good to see Lola has given her approval. I was kind of hoping that you'd be near some woods, I enjoyed going on your walks.
You look very happy with your new (old) house, Jen! Congratulations on a successful move, and wishing you many wonderful years there. I can't help you with plant suggestions, as I don't have a clue!
Very best wishes for a happy life in your new home. You may be exhausted and sore, but you seem very relaxed and happy in this video. Thank you for making it - I'm sure nobody would have blamed you for taking a month off! Glad Lola approves! Looking forward to more excellent bookish and other videos, though I might miss the clothes rail and the wigs in the background 🤗
i'm so glad you two have successfully moved into your new home and i wish you much much happiness there...may love fill the rooms. and the garden! i believe lily of the valley likes the shade.
So happy for you! As for the office door, it was a common thing when wall to wall carpeting became popular. Doors had the bottoms cut off to accommodate the height of the carpet and padding underneath. All the doors in my house are that way as well, and our Victorian style house was built in 1910. We tore out the awful carpeting as soon as we were able!
I thought about carpets but it’s about five times the amount you would need to cut off for that. Maybe they tried to do that and damaged the door so they had to cut off more than they anticipated 😅
@@jenvcampbell or they had to replace the door and were only able to find one that's shorter xD
That would not be surprising! I wish I could share a photo here. The gaps under our doors are absurd, and of course taking out the carpeting made it so much worse.
So excited for you (and living vicariously while we can’t find a house…) We have a north facing garden and my tip is don’t get tricked by the random bits of sun it gets into thinking a sun-loving plant will thrive there… I’ve tried and killed many plants! Apart from those listed by others, bleeding heart (dicentra) does really well and is stunning and reliable, and roses! Lots of roses :)
Congratulations!!
Can't wait to see how you decorate your office! Moving is so exciting and also totally intimidating 🏠
congrats on the new house! 💛🌻
Once the books are unpacked it will be home!
Congratulations on your outdoor space & your lack of construction noise 💜 (love your/your neighbor’s lilac bush)
Congratulations! If you’re into roses, there are some that grow in the shade. Looking forward to seeing what you’ll do with your yard. xx
Congratulations! Now that Lola approves of the new house, it's all good :) I know exactly what you mean about having a good oven for baking. Mine is not so great so I had to learn to modify recipes so I can get bread to bake and rise properly. Btw the little decoration on your left with the little rabbits (or are they mice?) is so heart-warming. Here's to many happy years in your new home.
Congrats on the new home! It's lovely you're still close to some nature. :)
How exciting a new home!!!! I can relate we moved into a home last July. We had lived in our other home 24 years so lots of stuff came with us even though we got rid of quite a lot. I think that you have to live in the house for a while & it will speak to you on such things as what areas will become. You will enjoy the process. Love love your floors.
Hey! Not sure what's available in your area (and which of these will work for your growing zone), but we have the same situation in our backyard. Fatsia, soft caress mahonia, flax lilies, coleus, impatients, coral bells, hostas, asparagus ferns, foxtail ferns (type of asparagus fern), cast iron plants, elephant ears, some hydrangea's can handle shade, and azaleas as well (flowers are toxic to dogs. mine leave them alone though). I'm in a more coastal warmer climate, so some of these may not work in your area or if they do you'll just need to cover with frost blankets. Some herbs can also handle shade like Sage since I know you like to cook. Congrats on the new place!
Congrats, Jenn!
Congratulations! I wish you all the best in your new home. The wooden floors are so lovely!
Congratulations on your new house! I'd recommend Hostas and Heucheras for your garden, they dont do much in terms of blooms but they have beautiful foliage. Especially heucheras come in all kinds of different colours. Plus, they are very easy to take care of. Bleeding heart plants are great for shady areas, too. Ferns will work, but you might want to look into whether or not they are invasive in your area, they are definitely in mine. I hope it will feel like home very soon!
Congratulations on the house move. Wishing you lots of love ,health and happiness 💕
Congrats on finding a new place that ticks all your boxes! 🥳
We've given up on finding a new place for the time being after we were outbid at the end of 2020 cause the search was just too disheartening.
Wow, having to do all of your move by yourselves with a health condition sounds so straining. Just recently got an osteoarthritis diagnosis, having had so much inflammation, so I really feel for you. Hope you're recovering 💚
I love your wooden floors 😍
Congratulations Jen and Mr. M on your new home!!!
Congratulations on the new house. Very happy for you. I also always find it weird, about viewing a house for 10 minutes and then spending a sh*tload of money on it. It is the same here (Netherlands). But that 'chain' you are talking about I find even weirder. That we don't have. If one of the buyers in the chain here cannot buy or has to postpone for one reason or the other, it is their problem and they cannot just pull out. Thank goodness. Buying and moving is stressful enough without that.
Hope you recover from the move soon. Enjoy the new place. X
I’m so glad you got the home you wanted. Congratulations!
I’m so happy for you to have found and moved into the house you wanted! The wood floors with their wide planks are beautiful. The garden is sweet. 🪴 I’m not sure of England’s woodland plants, but it’s fun to search for shade loving native plants too. I love the spring ephemerals where I live: bloodroot, Dutchman’s breeches, trout lily, Jacob’s ladder. And the good thing with a garden is that it too doesn’t have to all be done at once. You can plant some begonias and herbs in pots, and simply enjoy seeing what comes up out of the earth this year while weeding out anything that doesn’t please you. 🫖🌷🌻🥀 ☕️📚📝
Congratulations on the dream house, and also that thumbnail is great! 😍
‘On holiday with all of my stuff’ feels accurate 😅
A lovely, relaxing video 😃 I wish you all the best in your new home. I hope you will both be really happy. Take care of yourself x
Hope you will be very happy in your new home 🏡 for many years
I loved hearing all the birdies singing in the background :)
You Look so happy 😊 i am glad your moving process went rather smoothly. That Lola approves of your new home is an extra bonus
Congratulations Jen! I hope you and Mr. M have years of happiness in your new home.
Glad to hear you're enjoying the new place! I look forward to seeing your new shelves
I was just having that conversation with someone, that all of our huge decisions are made with very little time to contemplate. House buying, car buying, choosing a college/university, all huge decisions that are made after very short interactions. It's such a strange thing that we, as a society, have made into a norm.
Congratulations, so exciting! I'm looking to buy my first flat at the moment so I was feeling extra happy for you/interested in how it all went. Really helpful hearing that you didn't get it at first and how long you were looking for too as it can be disheartening. So happy it worked out well 🏡
In our darkest part of our garden we created a rock/log fernery.
Huge congratulations to you and Mr. M on your new home!
You seem so happy. Quite radiant! 🥰
Congratulations! It looks like you have another great worktop for all your baking and cooking preparations. Looking forward to new cooking videos whenever you get settled and ready for filming.
Congratulations on your new home also glad Lola approves ❤️
Congratulations to you both on the move and hope you get the well deserved rest soon in your new lovely home.
So happy for you! I'm hoping to move this fall (I was supposed to in 2020 haha) and am getting excited. Though I'll be doing it mainly alone so I'm quite nervous too...
Congrats on the dream home
Congrats, how exciting!!! ❤️
Congratulations on the move Jen! X
It sounds lovely Jen!!
congrats on the move!! hope you settle in soon :)
Oh you have a purple lilac.
Hakonechloa, primula, heuchera, dicentra, trillium, aquilegia, tricyrtis. Just to name a few things. Not sure what will work for your climate. I live in Massachusetts and gardening in the shade allows the gardener to concentrate on form and less on color.
Congratulations on the move! This was so much fun to watch :)
Congrats on the move!!
Congratulations on your move.
I didn’t actually realise you were buying, I thought you were renting! In that case it seems like it’s gone through really quickly compared to what I’ve heard from other people. It looks lovely, hopefully you can relax and enjoy it now 😊
So happy for you x
I'm a fan of ferns and astilbe for shade gardens!
Congratulations on your new house!!! 🙂
Geranium, bleeding heart and ferns are good for shadowy gardens
Congratulations ! I wish you very happy times in your new Home! I send 🍞 and 🧂, maybe thus is just a german thing?
All the best! 🤗👍🏻
Congrats Jen 😍🎊
Jen really happy for you, I know that the place will become a home. So any writer ghosts in residence? I'm guessing no Lola didn't rush around the house barking at corners. Glad the oven and stove are good. Their not working on street are they. I sincerely hope not you had enough of that.
Ahh im so happy for you! I hope everything went as well as possible!! (I haven't watched the video yet so i shall soon find out haha) Hope you settle in well! ♡♡
First? Excited to see your new home, if you decide to show it of course 😀
Hi. Like always I press the like button first then I watch the video. 😊
It looks so lovely! so much light! I wish I lived in a house like that *.* that kitchen... those old wooden floors... I am a bit confused with the fridge, sofa and bed situation (because in Argentina we do things differently). The ones you had in the previous flat weren't yours? or they were but you had to sell them?
They came with the flat, generally speaking houses either come with appliances or don’t, or you can agree to pay money for the sellers to leave the appliances. So all of the main appliances were here apart from the fridge and there were no other furnishings. x
@@jenvcampbell thank you!
You should have definitely moved to St Albans! I would have welcomed you with cake.
I can't believe all the Man with a van services refused to wear masks 🙀
I heard about "Gazzumping" as my cousin was looking for a house and that happened to her. I believe this doesn't happen up here.
Gazzumping was something we were really worried about. In Scotland it doesn't happen as much as things are legally binding at an earlier stage. I wish we had that here, too. x
@@jenvcampbell What actually is it?
@@ametrinemoon It's when another buyer comes in after you've already agreed to buy a property, and are in the process of creating contracts, doing surveys etc, and offers more money, and the sellers decide to break their agreement with you and go with the new buyers instead. This means you can lose thousands of pounds in fees, as well as losing out on the house you were intending to buy.
@@jenvcampbell How horrible. Not surprised that people are annoyed when it happens. I'm surprised this hasn't been stopped down there.
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16:45 More like "Couch-22" :P
Ha!