Our home is an 1840s weavers cottage in Yorkshire. I could probably also fill a whole video with quirkiness 😅 but the main one has to be our double size third floor half of which is a flying freehold over the neighbouring house. The third floor would have originally been a loom room where weavers from several of the neighbouring cottages worked. The space is now divided into two bedrooms and a 30ft double height living room, which always takes visitors by surprise in what would have originally been a two up two down cottage. I love having our main living space tucked away upstairs away from everything else, it feels so peaceful. And it is quite a mindful act to take ourselves away from the kitchen downstairs which is definitely a "working" room to relax in the living room ☺️
It really is a beautiful little house. I love it. Sitting on the stairs chatting is lovely. I like that. I tend to sit on the stairs a lot always have😊
When I was growing up, we live in a 1960s house with proper wood floors throughout, and fruit trees in the backyard. I loved hearing the birds in the trees, and the creak of the wooden floors. My parents really made that beautiful house a home. It was sad when they moved
I grew up in a two story house that was built in late 1800's for cotton mill workers. two rooms downstairs two bedrooms upstairs. The stairs were closed in but were in the kitchen, A pantry was in the kitchen under the stairs. No indoor bathrooms until much later.! Guess where they put them!! Yes enclosed some of the big porch and bathroom was right at the kitchen!! I loved that old house! They were duplex so mother and I lived in one side and grandmother and uncle lived in the other side! Great memories! Oh yes! we had a coal burning fireplace and a coal burning heater in the kitchen. Later gas lines were installed but I missed the fireplace so much! My grandmother not so much!!
We have a 1905 semi. What we love that is still remains is.. the high ceilings; picture rail in front room and all original 4 panel doors downstairs, skirting boards and half way up the stairs is a single pane stain glass window...not big but sweet and has the curly window arm.
My husband and I love your channel - we care for my 90 years old mother 24/7 since her stroke. She can't speak now and is bedbound but we watch your channel together and she's absorbed by each video from start to finish. Your home is beautiful. Not just bricks and mortar but is food for the soul - absolutely radiates the peronalities and emotions of you and your mother but of all who have gone before, in the walls and in everything you have in it. What stories it holds! Read this and weep Ikea. Oh, and we love chintz too. Very well done Hannah. You have given my mum a lot of pleasure.
My goodness, this has brought me joyous tears, may I share this comment on my other socials? It is genuinely the reason that I make videos and share my love of the charm of bygone eras. All my love to your mother, and to you and your husband ❤
‘‘Tis a lovely view out of your upstairs window!!! You know, for as scenic as the countryside can be, there’s something so comforting about one’s home being tucked in amongst the town-folk…
There are things about your house that you say are odd that are very common here in Canada, like toilet rooms with no sink (in circa 1890-1900 houses), a bathroom being off the kitchen, and the stairs leading into the kitchen. I live in a 1928, Craftsman bungalow in Canada. Both the stairs to the basement and the stairs to the attic lead directly into the kitchen. As far as I know, Craftsman bungalows were never made in the UK. We love so many things about ours: the wood floors with Art Deco edging, the old fashioned front porch, the mountain view, the corner windows, the original fireplace with original glassed-in shelves on either side, the basement-y smelling unfinished basement, the amazing wood support beams, the original kitchen cabinets, the cooling cabinet in the kitchen, the built-in cupboard and drawers in the hallway, the ironing board cabinet, the wood trim on doors and windows, the original Art Deco doors, the original brass doorknobs ... You get the idea.
Totally identify with some of these things. I had a 1840's home where the stairs started in the kitchen and it became a place to sit and chat whilst meals were being prepared, dishes were being washed. I now lives a 1930's flat and I am lucky that it has lovely large windows and also a sun room. I don't have a fire place or a tv, so I have my arm chairs close to the window and the old iron radiators so I can take advantage of the views of my neighbourhood out of the window, whilst reading or watching videos on my laptop or just having a tea or coffee and watching the world go by. or if the weather is not too cold I sit in the sun room.
Grew up in a 1909 Duplex with more Victorian style. Live in a 1940 single family home now. Both in a town outside of Harrisburg, PA. My home has Tudor archways, a stone fireplace and the original wood floors. So glad no one 'updated' any of it.
I love this video and love reading all the comments 😊 we have a bathroom just off the kitchen downstairs too and with a grubby blacksmith/bushcraft instructor husband and a mud goblin child it's an absolute boon! Being able to go straight from outside to the shower is just brilliant. I adore our open fire and log burner too and my little open staircase which is perfect to decorate for Christmas. We're in a 1900 colliery terrace with two up two down and a tiny kitchen/bathroom extension downstairs but it's a palace and I absolutely adore it. ❤
I built my home in 2002 with an open plan and large windows. I so love the large windows that bring the outside inside. I live in the tropics so I literally get the outside coming inside but I love it
I love almost everything about my 1940s home. *I love that all my rescues have plenty of windows with wide sills to sit on. * I love that it's not open plan. I live in an alpine region of Australia and being able to close off rooms on freezing days and nights is wonderful. *I love my high ceilings. I don't feel claustrophobic. I love the decorative cornices on those ceilings. * I love the old built in linen closet directly outside my bathroom. It holds all my towels and linens right where I need them. * I love the old tiled shelf at the end of my cast iron bath. It holds all my girly skincare haircare body wash etc.. * I love my kitchen though it was renovated by a previous owner it was done in a cottage core style which I love. * I love the views outside of my old wooden casement windows. I live rural and have cows as neighbours on one side with beautiful rolling hills where I can watch the fog roll through. *I love the old fashioned cottage garden that is my most beloved project in bringing it back to life. Oh dear I've written a novel 🙃 I love my home I think it's the best place on earth. I also love your channel and consider you a kindred spirit 🏡😻
In my 60s post modern bungalow, I have a fabulous sunroom, resplendent with a pine feature wall, which I love and views out to my back garden and bird bath. I love that I have a courtyard for hanging out the washing and parking vehicles that I do not have to look out onto. I love my garden. I love the laundry with the unfilled window section left open from when the sunroom extension was added, which serves as a fantastic bar for parties. I love that my sunroom is big enough for all my books as well as a huge desk and a cane lounge suite. I love my blackwood kitchen with room for a small kitchen table. I love that I do not have an ensuite bathroom, but do have a second toilet off the laundry, so don't need to go to the bedroom wing of the house, during the day. I love my kitchen table and the pull out extra bit of bench space. I love my dishwasher. I love my hills hoist clothesline. ie the solar and wind powered clothes dryer. Most of all I love hearing the birds chirping away outside and watching the weather rolling in from the west, as well as sunsets!
We still have a bathroom off the kitchen. In fact you have to go through the kitchen to the bathroom and toilet, we have a little square porch between them both ,which is just about 4 foot by 4 foot then tiny bathroom, kitchen is a gally kitchen small but we love it. Our house is a 1910 terraced house too. We just did the bathroom and kitchen to reflect a somewhat 1930s to1940s feel , so bottom walls are deep green, as they had back then like in our Grans house, she had black and white but we went for the very dark green and white for a bit more warmth. Also we did our kitchen cupboards a dark sage green, with black porcelain handles and like you like you we went for the square black and white floor, through all three which we just finished doing just two days ago , just have to edge off the flooring now. We managed to source some 1940s look kitchen curtains too, very simple and we stain glassed the bathroom window because the kitchen hall and bathroom are single brick, you get a lot of condensation at this time of year, so to improve it's warmth via windows and to reduce condensation we put a stained glass look film in the window, and air purifying plants throughout to reduce any mold but it works great because now we can leave curtains open too, so it's constantly ventilated and no one can see us in the bathroom. Found a beautiful classic 1930s large print of a woman on the beach in a bathing suit with cloch type head cover and a greyhound standing up to greet her , it really helps make the bathroom look more vintage which we love too.
I'm living in the last home I'll ever own. It's a small 2 bedroom, 1 bath build in 1955 (US). I love the layout, it's the most perfect! I love that it has rooms, not open concept. The kitchen has the original cupboards with plate rails for large serving platters. I feel cozy when I'm home.
I really like your 1920s house! I wouldn't want to move away from it, if I were you, either! Our house is a 1914 house, and just as quirky. We've lived in our house for 44 years! We have a basement that you can't get to from inside the house. You have to go out the front door, walk down the path around to the basement door, and use a key to enter the basement. I'v often wished we had a trap door down into our basement, but can't think where to put it, as our house is very small. Still we love our house, and are quite used to it. Our house is 110 years old, and still a lovely little home! I'd love to visit your house to get a proper look at its insides. You seem to belong in your house. Thanks for sharing it with us on UA-cam! ~Janet in Canada
My parents have a shower room off the kitchen and it was so practical if you needed a wee while cooking, no running all the way though the house and up the stairs
Were renovating a 1880s farm next to a little forest. We brought back loads of charm. For example a see trough fireplace in between the bedroom and the bathroom.
I miss my grandparent's house terribly. It was built in the 1920's and even though my grandparents did a lot of remodeling to it, they kept several of the original features. It had the cast iron radiators, and even still had the coal chute and storage in the basement. Sadly, its since been sold and then torn down, but if it hadn't I would've figured out a way to buy it back.
My two-story house was built in 1924. One of my favorite features is the laundry chute. There's a bench in the upstairs hall by the wall. The lid on the bench covers the laundry chute. The lid doubles as a waiting bench for the bathroom. On the first floor in the kitchen is a small door on the wall. Open the door to access the downstairs laundry chute. I can't imaging living without one.
In the house I grew up in and later moved back into to care for my mother we had a fireplace very much like this. The stones and tiles surrounded it. My kids were raised in that house too. They both have scars from falling on the stones. It was a grand fireplace though and the memories are priceless.
Never mind smelling what's for dinner while you have a shower, I thought you were going to mention smelling what what was for YESTERDAYs dinner emanating from bathroom while in the KITCHEN . Love these bathrooms off the kitchen, such nostalgia
I live in a house that was built in 1891, and like you, I love a wood fire. The living room has a nice fireplace that has given us many happy memories. It is flanked on either side by large bookcases that run floor to ceiling. I fell in love with the house when I stepped into this room the first time. There is also a very large screened porch wrapped around the house in an L shape that is situated perfectly to catch cool summer breezes. It is my favorite thing in warm months to start my day at a little table on this porch. Another of my favorite things about this house are the many windows that let it light, but that also allow me to have little views. The house fortunately came with trees, in particular, several sugar maple trees that are a delight to watch change from early spring to the first snow... they turn brilliant oranges and reds in autumn. Windows that did not come with a lovely view, I have changed by adding wild bird feeders, water bowls, a couple of flowering apple trees, bee hives (yes, I keep honey bees and can see them when we are eating meals at the table), and with small garden beds of pollinator plants and veg, so that from the windows I see nature, garden, trees, and some of the street and neighbors houses (which I find comforting). I love that you love your kitchen stairs! My quirky bit are the nearly century old kitchen cupboards. Most people would like more modern cupboards over these hand made, amateur, and unusually large cupboards. They are a bit awkward with the large cupboard doors, but I have come to love them as they have much more of a pantry feel. Because of my location and the age of this house, there are solid wood floors throughout, and there is a basement here, with quirky split stairs, half the stairs going to an outside door, and there is a coal room, and a root cellar, and on the cement basement floor you can just make out a circle, where originally there was the cistern. I loved the description of your home very much! I appreciate that it got me to think of my home again, as if I were coming here the first time. I'm very much looking forward to seeing more of your videos! Thank you.
When we were re decorating my sisters bedroom we stripped the wallpaper to the original wall and found some children’s drawings, we’re guessing they were war time or not long after because they were of bomber planes and tanks. One of them was a cockpit under the window so we think the kid must have pretended to be a pilot while looking out the window
You have a beautiful house. I love it! And you're right, a fireplace makes a house a home. I myself live in an apartment designed and built in the 80's. It's been renovated since a tornado hit it several years ago, but it's like some architecht's first go at a living space. All the boxes are checked, without much thought to how functional the arrangement of things are.
I live a world apart from you, in South Africa. I recently bought a new house with this random little, high window in addition to the large ones in the main bedroom. The previous owner had a blind in front of it, but I had the interior of the house painted before I moved in, and the blind was shabby, so I decided not to put it up again. It was a very big surprise to find that the early sun shine through this window, and move across the room in the morning. I can almost tell the time by it. And better still, sometimes the moon is perfectly framed by the it. I don't know if this was the purpose of the little window, but I absolutely adore it, and will never cover it up.
My home is a beautiful Edwardian house built in 1905. There’s several things I love about it! The brick, I always wanted to live in an old brick home. Brick homes are sturdy and they posses a certain charm about them. Next door is an identical home right next to mine, both houses were built for two sisters. Each one owned a home and actually had a conjoined backyard with a pavement path to leading to each other’s homes. The entrance way and main staircase are definitely amongst my favorite. I’ve painted them a brilliant purple and green with lots of artwork and antiques to bring out the historical aspect of the house. I love the tall ceilings and large windows throughout the house. A room we’ve worked very hard on is our library, we’ve made it into a proper sitting room where we can enjoy a meal or read a book nestled up to the fireplace. I have exposed brick in parts and it makes me think of the men who built the home and them laying layer by layer of brick down. We have a lovely little powder room underneath the staircase on the first floor that we’ve painted and decorated in an Edwardian fashion. I love my two other bathrooms as well. The second floor is a full bath that I’ve painted a masculine deep green with a retro floor tile for my husband. I have my own private bathroom on the third floor that’s attached to our master suite. It’s a full soaking tub that I’ve made into my own little oasis surrounded with plants, art, and custom mural of the moon from “A trip to the moon” that I painted on one of the walls. Our kitchen is a little more modern but I’ve definitely brought a kitschy element to it. It’s painted a deep blue like Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul and is of course decorated with art and vintage inspired appliances. Another room that I absolutely adore is my dressing/yoga room. It’s very glamorous vintage Hollywood with an authentic Victorian pink fainting couch! I have a large round vanity that was built here in Western Pennsylvania that I added round dressing room light bulbs too. Another cool thing I found out is that I own the forrest behind my home so my husband and I are in the midst of turning it into a large tiered garden. Overall I really love my home and all of its quirks. I would much rather live in an imperfect home with character than a new soulless modern house 😅😂 thanks for sharing your home with us, it’s very inspiring!
My flat isn't vintage (well maybe technically) but it has a shower with a curtain that's a single step up and down, and let me tell you being able to move freely in that shower is wonderful every time!
I love your house too, what a lovely cosy place it is…I really enjoyed watching your Halloween videos. It was our 50th wedding anniversary and we visited the church where we married all those years ago it was all closed and doors locked we were a bit disappointed but then from behind the church appeared a beautiful witch 😮 we chatted and she took some lovely photos of us together..bless you Hannah x
My home (i still live with my parents) was built in 1930, and there's still original features to the home that i adore like the chandeliers (there are 3 total, and they're located in the living room, dining room, the hallway), the porch light is still original, and it has beautiful detailing on it but the back porch one broke and has been replaced with something close to the previous one. I also love the fire place that's in the living room, it's been bricked up for awhile but there is white and blue bricks in front of it with a mantel on top it. (the bricks around the fireplace, and the mantel have been painted white) also love the kitchen cabinet that's in the wall, with the doors underneath it. (I think they're the pantry doors?), i love the medicine cabinet in the bathroom too, along with the laundry poles that are in the yard! 😊
Yeah, why did we ever get rid of plate warmers. My husband and I put our in the microwave to warm them. Yours looks charming. 😍I know weird to have plate warmer envy, 🤣, but it really comes down to what you appreciate having in a home. The only thing I appreciate about my little apartment, besides the low rent, is the location. I'm tucked up in a little mountain gold rush town. Its beautiful pine trees, and rugged landscape calm me, and its quiet most of the time.
I am in Charlotte, NC and 57 year young woman. I have been watching your channel for a while now and just love your content. I love your vision, your humor, your love for your family and your pigeons. Keep up the good work.
Also a book I got was given to a person i now know who in the 1940s I bought in 2014 for 2 pound in chairty shop. Had appeased worth a lot. But I wouldn't sell it as it turns out it belonged to my great uncle I never met as he passed before I was born got accidentally put in chairty shop I got it back . I love it back in the family
What an absolute delight! Love the fireplaces, love the stairs off the kitchen, love the stove...and absolutely love your pigeons! Your house reminds me of my Grandmother's house that would have been from the 1800's. I have her dining room set where I sat at for my 4th birthday. Beautiful memories. I have a big old 120 year old farm house style (in Canada) and every room has something quirky about it...and my house has such a good energy to it. The only thing that is missing is a fireplace. If I ever win a lottery....she's going to be fixed up just like she once was. A big applause for your love of beauty.
What a beautiful home you have! I particularly liked the original fireplace, and the fact that you keep pigeons (which reminded me of the neighborhood my grandparents lived in - their neighbor kept pigeons, and it was so fun to watch them get let out for some exercise whenever we used to visit). I now live in a quirky stone farmhouse from the early 19th century in the northeast U.S.. Like you, one of my favorite spots is the staircase which comes into our kitchen; I like mine because it has a funky little door two steps up to keep the heat in the room, and because it's a great place for our cats to keep an eye on whatever we're doing in the kitchen (it's fun to look up and see a little, furry face peering around the top of the door frame). I also like that every room tells a story: the places where there are little burn marks on the floor from coals falling out of the stove (interestingly, this house never had fireplaces, but there is a place for a stove pipe to get into the chimney in every room); the little metal signs from some long ago roadside stand that were used to nail over a couple knot holes in the floors (a little awkward to vacuum around, but I can't quite bring myself to get rid of them; they aren't in the main floor spaces any way); and the hole cut in the dining room ceiling/office floor - finished using a stove pipe and collar, but not actually used for a stove - which was basically a vent to allow warm air from downstairs to flow upstairs to the bedrooms. Old houses are so much more fun, and so much more full of personality and homeliness, than are new ones!
I have a 1970s 2 up 2 down mid-terrace, not exactly vintage but I love the 70s. I love my original carpet (I had to clean the heck out of it when I moved in this time last year) and I have to say I’ve very glad I brought a carpet cleaner to keep it looking nice. I have the original interior doors,although sadly not the handles and could find any replacements. I also have the original stair rail and wood panels on the ceiling of the stairs but it’s been painted white so doesn’t look great.
Sometimes on Friday evenings (or when needed) I relax with a glass of redwine. It must be in my old inherited wineglasses from my grandmother. 😅 And I have a big old book cabinet that I rescued from my inlaws basement. It is in dark brown mahogany, with glass doors. It is an absolute beauty. It was quite an ordeal to get it cleaned out, as my father in law kept paintboxes and tools in it. 😂 You know, back in the 90s and before, people kicked old antiques and brought in pine furniture. Now it sits as a piece of jewelry behind my dining room table, containing all my treasures, from books to teasets. 🥰
What a lovely, cozy video! Your home is beautiful and seems like a peaceful, incredibly pleasant place to live. I am envious of your cat and pigeons--I have wanted pet pigeons since I was a teenager, but where I live now I cannot have birds at all, and even if I could, hawks also live here. 😂 😅 (I mean. I _could_ technically have pigeons--there are mourning doves and other pigeons that live here too. But I also know for a fact that one of the neighbors keeps and flies a hawk, AND there are wild hawks, so. 🙃 ) That's the quirky, unique element to my home, which I would not change: I live in a suburb in California that backs right up onto a natural area, so we have a lot of wildlife and beautiful hills and mountains right behind and all around us. All chaparral desert. I used to walk past cactus patches when I was catching the bus to college. (The house is a plain stucco house, though. 😅 ) (Edited for spelling and to correct 'pets' to 'birds'.)
Seeing the neighbours going about their business when im at my desk in the spare bedroom 🤣 (their houses are on a hill behind us so their kitchen/dining spaces are at the level of our second floor). It was the biggest compromise to this house, it being so overlooked, but it is weirdly nice sometimes seeing the signs of living around you.
You lucky, lucky, lucky woman!!! My dream was always to have a fireplace in the kitchen. Can't be too rich or have too many fireplaces in your home!! Wonderful.
I had my house built in 2003 with the intentions of making it look like an old home. I have steps going upstairs from the kitchen, hardwood floors, and green and white ceramic tile in the kitchen.
The first house my wife and I owned was a 3-storey 1914 townhouse in Lancaster, PA. Hardwood floors, natural woodwork, honeycomb tiles on both bathroom floors, stained-glass windows, tile hearth in front of the fireplace. Heaven on earth? Not exactly. Crack sales went on right outside our front door, and a neighbor insisted on playing her stereo full blast when she got home from work at midnight. We now live in an 1845 farmhouse in northwestern Vermont. No stained glass, but the two neighbors whose house we can see from ours are a farm couple who keep decent hours.
My home also has a bathroom right off the kitchen, and I also like to open the bathroom window (in warm weather, unlike the present) when I bathe. I'm out in the country, so hearing the birds and insects and distant train whistle from time to time is lovely! I also like the handsplit beams in the basement and our lack of central air/heat. There's nothing like a woodstove or fireplace to promote togetherness in cold weather!
You have a lovely home with lot's of character and you have embellished it with things that you love it looks really cosy and welcoming unlike some modern mimilist houses then again they can give a sense of space, I prefer cosy, your pigeons are great well done. 👍.
We're temporarily living in a maisonette built in 1850. My favorite parts are stained glass door to the lounge and into the main bedroom from the ensuite bathroom, The skylights in the upstairs hall, and the private front garden, as well as the views of charming buildings, trees, and a bit of mountains in the distance. Focusing on the positive is key, since there are other features that are more a hassle than anything else.
I live in a relatively new build townhouse in the US and my downstairs bedroom and bathroom are right off the kitchen. Love your home! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I have a 1950’s house in NZ. In my kitchen under the bench (counter) i have a pull out chopping board/wooden shelf. So handy to have the extra bench space
When I lived in my grandparents’ house, which was built in the early 1950s, they had an internal vacuum system. I loved it! You didn’t have to drag around a vacuum unit, only a long hose you plugged into each room. Such a quirky option! Your home is adorable 😊
Let me get this clear: you have a hose attached to the wall in each room of your house? Does the dirt then just go into the wall? Is there a filter you have to clean out?
Totally agree! I love it as well. I can't believe all houses don't have a central vac system. If I were to do it all over again, I'd install that in a blink.
@@SusanForeman1963 lol yes. I believe they had a container that collected the dirt in the basement. I never had to do anything with it, so I’m not sure how often they emptied it. I’ve only seen one other house with this tech, but I’ve seen it in old MCM magazines, etc.
The pigeons made me cry; they are so beautiful flying around the house.
Our home is an 1840s weavers cottage in Yorkshire. I could probably also fill a whole video with quirkiness 😅 but the main one has to be our double size third floor half of which is a flying freehold over the neighbouring house.
The third floor would have originally been a loom room where weavers from several of the neighbouring cottages worked. The space is now divided into two bedrooms and a 30ft double height living room, which always takes visitors by surprise in what would have originally been a two up two down cottage.
I love having our main living space tucked away upstairs away from everything else, it feels so peaceful. And it is quite a mindful act to take ourselves away from the kitchen downstairs which is definitely a "working" room to relax in the living room ☺️
It really is a beautiful little house. I love it. Sitting on the stairs chatting is lovely. I like that. I tend to sit on the stairs a lot always have😊
Period homes have a charm that you can't replicate.
That's why we love them most
I love your house im 16 and my room is crammed full of antiques and old furniture
That's so cool Andrew, what got you into vintage and antique furniture? 🥰
When I was growing up, we live in a 1960s house with proper wood floors throughout, and fruit trees in the backyard. I loved hearing the birds in the trees, and the creak of the wooden floors. My parents really made that beautiful house a home. It was sad when they moved
Im in the US, and i own a 1920 Craftsman. It, too, has the stairway and bathroom off the kitchen. I love my old lil house.
I grew up in a two story house that was built in late 1800's for cotton mill workers. two rooms downstairs two bedrooms upstairs. The stairs were closed in but were in the kitchen, A pantry was in the kitchen under the stairs. No indoor bathrooms until much later.! Guess where they put them!! Yes enclosed some of the big porch and bathroom was right at the kitchen!! I loved that old house! They were duplex so mother and I lived in one side and grandmother and uncle lived in the other side! Great memories! Oh yes! we had a coal burning fireplace and a coal burning heater in the kitchen. Later gas lines were installed but I missed the fireplace so much! My grandmother not so much!!
You didn’t live in Style by any chance, did you???
I think your home is lovely 🥰
You're a great talker.
Your house is really cute and has so much personality. I love it
We have a 1905 semi. What we love that is still remains is.. the high ceilings; picture rail in front room and all original 4 panel doors downstairs, skirting boards and half way up the stairs is a single pane stain glass window...not big but sweet and has the curly window arm.
I too love my log burner - mine stands proud of the fireplace, so I can boil a kettle, bake potatoes, or rustle up a stew on top. Lovely.
I think your home is adorable ! And I agree with you on all points.
After all those postives to your home, I kept thinking, you should never leave, what a darling place and the pigeons
My husband and I love your channel - we care for my 90 years old mother 24/7 since her stroke. She can't speak now and is bedbound but we watch your channel together and she's absorbed by each video from start to finish.
Your home is beautiful. Not just bricks and mortar but is food for the soul - absolutely radiates the peronalities and emotions of you and your mother but of all who have gone before, in the walls and in everything you have in it. What stories it holds!
Read this and weep Ikea. Oh, and we love chintz too.
Very well done Hannah. You have given my mum a lot of pleasure.
This is so beautiful to read ❤❤❤
My goodness, this has brought me joyous tears, may I share this comment on my other socials? It is genuinely the reason that I make videos and share my love of the charm of bygone eras. All my love to your mother, and to you and your husband ❤
‘‘Tis a lovely view out of your upstairs window!!!
You know, for as scenic as the countryside can be, there’s something so comforting about one’s home being tucked in amongst the town-folk…
There are things about your house that you say are odd that are very common here in Canada, like toilet rooms with no sink (in circa 1890-1900 houses), a bathroom being off the kitchen, and the stairs leading into the kitchen. I live in a 1928, Craftsman bungalow in Canada. Both the stairs to the basement and the stairs to the attic lead directly into the kitchen. As far as I know, Craftsman bungalows were never made in the UK. We love so many things about ours: the wood floors with Art Deco edging, the old fashioned front porch, the mountain view, the corner windows, the original fireplace with original glassed-in shelves on either side, the basement-y smelling unfinished basement, the amazing wood support beams, the original kitchen cabinets, the cooling cabinet in the kitchen, the built-in cupboard and drawers in the hallway, the ironing board cabinet, the wood trim on doors and windows, the original Art Deco doors, the original brass doorknobs ... You get the idea.
5:20 that toilet is marvellous. Also, it’s nice to live together with your mum
Being able to see the creek from my window.
It's Thanksgiving tomorrow here in Kentucky & what a great video to watch that focuses on gratitude!
My sentiments exactly. This video is full of beautiful thoughts, positivity and happiness.
Your house isn’t just a house it a welcoming cozy home xx
I have an old farmhouse, and I could not imagine living without the wraparound porch, the fireplaces, and the high ceilings!
Totally identify with some of these things. I had a 1840's home where the stairs started in the kitchen and it became a place to sit and chat whilst meals were being prepared, dishes were being washed.
I now lives a 1930's flat and I am lucky that it has lovely large windows and also a sun room. I don't have a fire place or a tv, so I have my arm chairs close to the window and the old iron radiators so I can take advantage of the views of my neighbourhood out of the window, whilst reading or watching videos on my laptop or just having a tea or coffee and watching the world go by. or if the weather is not too cold I sit in the sun room.
Grew up in a 1909 Duplex with more Victorian style. Live in a 1940 single family home now. Both in a town outside of Harrisburg, PA. My home has Tudor archways, a stone fireplace and the original wood floors. So glad no one 'updated' any of it.
I love this video and love reading all the comments 😊 we have a bathroom just off the kitchen downstairs too and with a grubby blacksmith/bushcraft instructor husband and a mud goblin child it's an absolute boon! Being able to go straight from outside to the shower is just brilliant. I adore our open fire and log burner too and my little open staircase which is perfect to decorate for Christmas. We're in a 1900 colliery terrace with two up two down and a tiny kitchen/bathroom extension downstairs but it's a palace and I absolutely adore it. ❤
Mud goblin! I am bringing that one into daily use. 😂
I built my home in 2002 with an open plan and large windows. I so love the large windows that bring the outside inside. I live in the tropics so I literally get the outside coming inside but I love it
Truly, a nice, cozy home.
I love almost everything about my 1940s home.
*I love that all my rescues have plenty of windows with wide sills to sit on.
* I love that it's not open plan. I live in an alpine region of Australia and being able to close off rooms on freezing days and nights is wonderful.
*I love my high ceilings. I don't feel claustrophobic. I love the decorative cornices on those ceilings.
* I love the old built in linen closet directly outside my bathroom. It holds all my towels and linens right where I need them.
* I love the old tiled shelf at the end of my cast iron bath. It holds all my girly skincare haircare body wash etc..
* I love my kitchen though it was renovated by a previous owner it was done in a cottage core style which I love.
* I love the views outside of my old wooden casement windows. I live rural and have cows as neighbours on one side with beautiful rolling hills where I can watch the fog roll through.
*I love the old fashioned cottage garden that is my most beloved project in bringing it back to life. Oh dear I've written a novel 🙃 I love my home I think it's the best place on earth.
I also love your channel and consider you a kindred spirit 🏡😻
Another fellow Aussie here from regional Victoria.
Your home and its surroundings sound delightful.
Nth East Vic here. While I'm in a small town I can relate about the Alpine area 💜🇦🇺
Thanks for the replies. This is the best channel with the best community. Nice to see fellow Aussies enjoying it also ☺️
My house was built in 1920 and I love it. Have lived here almost 33 years. I kept the "state of the art" 1970s kitchen.
You keeping it so real. Love it!
My potting shed built by my husband and a dear friend. Makes me happy.
In my 60s post modern bungalow, I have a fabulous sunroom, resplendent with a pine feature wall, which I love and views out to my back garden and bird bath. I love that I have a courtyard for hanging out the washing and parking vehicles that I do not have to look out onto. I love my garden. I love the laundry with the unfilled window section left open from when the sunroom extension was added, which serves as a fantastic bar for parties. I love that my sunroom is big enough for all my books as well as a huge desk and a cane lounge suite. I love my blackwood kitchen with room for a small kitchen table. I love that I do not have an ensuite bathroom, but do have a second toilet off the laundry, so don't need to go to the bedroom wing of the house, during the day. I love my kitchen table and the pull out extra bit of bench space. I love my dishwasher. I love my hills hoist clothesline. ie the solar and wind powered clothes dryer. Most of all I love hearing the birds chirping away outside and watching the weather rolling in from the west, as well as sunsets!
I adored every second of this video.
We still have a bathroom off the kitchen.
In fact you have to go through the kitchen to the bathroom and toilet, we have a little square porch between them both ,which is just about 4 foot by 4 foot then tiny bathroom, kitchen is a gally kitchen small but we love it.
Our house is a 1910 terraced house too.
We just did the bathroom and kitchen to reflect a somewhat 1930s to1940s feel , so bottom walls are deep green, as they had back then like in our Grans house, she had black and white but we went for the very dark green and white for a bit more warmth.
Also we did our kitchen cupboards a dark sage green, with black porcelain handles and like you like you we went for the square black and white floor, through all three which we just finished doing just two days ago , just have to edge off the flooring now.
We managed to source some 1940s look kitchen curtains too, very simple and we stain glassed the bathroom window because the kitchen hall and bathroom are single brick, you get a lot of condensation at this time of year, so to improve it's warmth via windows and to reduce condensation we put a stained glass look film in the window, and air purifying plants throughout to reduce any mold but it works great because now we can leave curtains open too, so it's constantly ventilated and no one can see us in the bathroom.
Found a beautiful classic 1930s large print of a woman on the beach in a bathing suit with cloch type head cover and a greyhound standing up to greet her , it really helps make the bathroom look more vintage which we love too.
I'm living in the last home I'll ever own. It's a small 2 bedroom, 1 bath build in 1955 (US). I love the layout, it's the most perfect! I love that it has rooms, not open concept. The kitchen has the original cupboards with plate rails for large serving platters. I feel cozy when I'm home.
l wish the relationship you have with your mother is the same l will have with my little girl when she grows up.
I so love your cozy adorable home 💝🌸
I really like your 1920s house! I wouldn't want to move away from it, if I were you, either! Our house is a 1914 house, and just as quirky. We've lived in our house for 44 years! We have a basement that you can't get to from inside the house. You have to go out the front door, walk down the path around to the basement door, and use a key to enter the basement. I'v often wished we had a trap door down into our basement, but can't think where to put it, as our house is very small. Still we love our house, and are quite used to it. Our house is 110 years old, and still a lovely little home! I'd love to visit your house to get a proper look at its insides. You seem to belong in your house. Thanks for sharing it with us on UA-cam! ~Janet in Canada
You're so very lucky to still have your mum. ❤
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I'm in a old house my stairs in in the kitchen love my house it's very cosy,
Appreciation. Accepting. Association. Being happy and happy that you're happy. I think a cup of tea at your house would be a grand experience.
My parents have a shower room off the kitchen and it was so practical if you needed a wee while cooking, no running all the way though the house and up the stairs
Live in this kind of house and love it not much modern but it's cosy and love the trains in bottom of garden better than people
I just love an old country house in the city. It's quite unique and really my dream.
Were renovating a 1880s farm next to a little forest. We brought back loads of charm. For example a see trough fireplace in between the bedroom and the bathroom.
I miss my grandparent's house terribly. It was built in the 1920's and even though my grandparents did a lot of remodeling to it, they kept several of the original features. It had the cast iron radiators, and even still had the coal chute and storage in the basement. Sadly, its since been sold and then torn down, but if it hadn't I would've figured out a way to buy it back.
My two-story house was built in 1924. One of my favorite features is the laundry chute. There's a bench in the upstairs hall by the wall. The lid on the bench covers the laundry chute. The lid doubles as a waiting bench for the bathroom. On the first floor in the kitchen is a small door on the wall. Open the door to access the downstairs laundry chute. I can't imaging living without one.
Lovely garden with the houses and road in the view. Perfect
Our 1949 house built by my hubbys uncle has the bathroom off the kitchen as well. We live in Pennsylvania, USA
In the house I grew up in and later moved back into to care for my mother we had a fireplace very much like this. The stones and tiles surrounded it. My kids were raised in that house too. They both have scars from falling on the stones. It was a grand fireplace though and the memories are priceless.
I just adore your home please don't ever move i love it❤
Never mind smelling what's for dinner while you have a shower, I thought you were going to mention smelling what what was for YESTERDAYs dinner emanating from bathroom while in the KITCHEN . Love these bathrooms off the kitchen, such nostalgia
I live in a house that was built in 1891, and like you, I love a wood fire. The living room has a nice fireplace that has given us many happy memories. It is flanked on either side by large bookcases that run floor to ceiling. I fell in love with the house when I stepped into this room the first time. There is also a very large screened porch wrapped around the house in an L shape that is situated perfectly to catch cool summer breezes. It is my favorite thing in warm months to start my day at a little table on this porch. Another of my favorite things about this house are the many windows that let it light, but that also allow me to have little views. The house fortunately came with trees, in particular, several sugar maple trees that are a delight to watch change from early spring to the first snow... they turn brilliant oranges and reds in autumn. Windows that did not come with a lovely view, I have changed by adding wild bird feeders, water bowls, a couple of flowering apple trees, bee hives (yes, I keep honey bees and can see them when we are eating meals at the table), and with small garden beds of pollinator plants and veg, so that from the windows I see nature, garden, trees, and some of the street and neighbors houses (which I find comforting). I love that you love your kitchen stairs! My quirky bit are the nearly century old kitchen cupboards. Most people would like more modern cupboards over these hand made, amateur, and unusually large cupboards. They are a bit awkward with the large cupboard doors, but I have come to love them as they have much more of a pantry feel. Because of my location and the age of this house, there are solid wood floors throughout, and there is a basement here, with quirky split stairs, half the stairs going to an outside door, and there is a coal room, and a root cellar, and on the cement basement floor you can just make out a circle, where originally there was the cistern. I loved the description of your home very much! I appreciate that it got me to think of my home again, as if I were coming here the first time. I'm very much looking forward to seeing more of your videos! Thank you.
my home I cannot imagine living without low ceilings with wooden beams in the wall too and a thatched roof ugh it's just stunning
When we were re decorating my sisters bedroom we stripped the wallpaper to the original wall and found some children’s drawings, we’re guessing they were war time or not long after because they were of bomber planes and tanks. One of them was a cockpit under the window so we think the kid must have pretended to be a pilot while looking out the window
My daughter and I both love older houses. America doesn't have houses as old as Europe but we've got some nice 200 years (and younger) houses.
I’ve just come upon your channel and I’m loving your videos! I really enjoy vintage style 💚
I love your house, it has such character! 💕💕
You have a beautiful house. I love it! And you're right, a fireplace makes a house a home. I myself live in an apartment designed and built in the 80's. It's been renovated since a tornado hit it several years ago, but it's like some architecht's first go at a living space. All the boxes are checked, without much thought to how functional the arrangement of things are.
Those pink slippers with the little puffs on top are so cute!!! My home was built in the late forties and it is small and cozy, very dear.
I live a world apart from you, in South Africa. I recently bought a new house with this random little, high window in addition to the large ones in the main bedroom. The previous owner had a blind in front of it, but I had the interior of the house painted before I moved in, and the blind was shabby, so I decided not to put it up again. It was a very big surprise to find that the early sun shine through this window, and move across the room in the morning. I can almost tell the time by it. And better still, sometimes the moon is perfectly framed by the it. I don't know if this was the purpose of the little window, but I absolutely adore it, and will never cover it up.
I love your stories about your home..so interesting!
My home is a beautiful Edwardian house built in 1905. There’s several things I love about it!
The brick, I always wanted to live in an old brick home. Brick homes are sturdy and they posses a certain charm about them. Next door is an identical home right next to mine, both houses were built for two sisters. Each one owned a home and actually had a conjoined backyard with a pavement path to leading to each other’s homes. The entrance way and main staircase are definitely amongst my favorite. I’ve painted them a brilliant purple and green with lots of artwork and antiques to bring out the historical aspect of the house. I love the tall ceilings and large windows throughout the house. A room we’ve worked very hard on is our library, we’ve made it into a proper sitting room where we can enjoy a meal or read a book nestled up to the fireplace. I have exposed brick in parts and it makes me think of the men who built the home and them laying layer by layer of brick down. We have a lovely little powder room underneath the staircase on the first floor that we’ve painted and decorated in an Edwardian fashion. I love my two other bathrooms as well. The second floor is a full bath that I’ve painted a masculine deep green with a retro floor tile for my husband. I have my own private bathroom on the third floor that’s attached to our master suite. It’s a full soaking tub that I’ve made into my own little oasis surrounded with plants, art, and custom mural of the moon from “A trip to the moon” that I painted on one of the walls. Our kitchen is a little more modern but I’ve definitely brought a kitschy element to it. It’s painted a deep blue like Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul and is of course decorated with art and vintage inspired appliances. Another room that I absolutely adore is my dressing/yoga room. It’s very glamorous vintage Hollywood with an authentic Victorian pink fainting couch! I have a large round vanity that was built here in Western Pennsylvania that I added round dressing room light bulbs too. Another cool thing I found out is that I own the forrest behind my home so my husband and I are in the midst of turning it into a large tiered garden. Overall I really love my home and all of its quirks. I would much rather live in an imperfect home with character than a new soulless modern house 😅😂 thanks for sharing your home with us, it’s very inspiring!
Your home sounds completely fascinating and wonderful!
It all sounds gorgeous, and so individual. What a wonderful home, not just a house. Thanks for sharing 🥰
This is so sweet ❤
My flat isn't vintage (well maybe technically) but it has a shower with a curtain that's a single step up and down, and let me tell you being able to move freely in that shower is wonderful every time!
I love your house too, what a lovely cosy place it is…I really enjoyed watching your Halloween videos. It was our 50th wedding anniversary and we visited the church where we married all those years ago it was all closed and doors locked we were a bit disappointed but then from behind the church appeared a beautiful witch 😮 we chatted and she took some lovely photos of us together..bless you Hannah x
Such a soulful house. I cry when you told the story about the fireplace ❤❤❤❤
My home (i still live with my parents) was built in 1930, and there's still original features to the home that i adore like the chandeliers (there are 3 total, and they're located in the living room, dining room, the hallway), the porch light is still original, and it has beautiful detailing on it but the back porch one broke and has been replaced with something close to the previous one. I also love the fire place that's in the living room, it's been bricked up for awhile but there is white and blue bricks in front of it with a mantel on top it. (the bricks around the fireplace, and the mantel have been painted white) also love the kitchen cabinet that's in the wall, with the doors underneath it. (I think they're the pantry doors?), i love the medicine cabinet in the bathroom too, along with the laundry poles that are in the yard! 😊
Love the Beryl woodware plates!
Yeah, why did we ever get rid of plate warmers. My husband and I put our in the microwave to warm them. Yours looks charming. 😍I know weird to have plate warmer envy, 🤣, but it really comes down to what you appreciate having in a home. The only thing I appreciate about my little apartment, besides the low rent, is the location. I'm tucked up in a little mountain gold rush town. Its beautiful pine trees, and rugged landscape calm me, and its quiet most of the time.
Love the pigeons
What a beautiful video, i love your gorgeous home ❤❤❤
oh I hope you don't plan to move - what you have is a lovely home - like heaven on Earth...
I am in Charlotte, NC and 57 year young woman. I have been watching your channel for a while now and just love your content. I love your vision, your humor, your love for your family and your pigeons. Keep up the good work.
Also a book I got was given to a person i now know who in the 1940s I bought in 2014 for 2 pound in chairty shop. Had appeased worth a lot. But I wouldn't sell it as it turns out it belonged to my great uncle I never met as he passed before I was born got accidentally put in chairty shop I got it back . I love it back in the family
I have a wood burner too and I love it! I actually look forward to winter so I can light it every day!!
What an absolute delight! Love the fireplaces, love the stairs off the kitchen, love the stove...and absolutely love your pigeons! Your house reminds me of my Grandmother's house that would have been from the 1800's. I have her dining room set where I sat at for my 4th birthday. Beautiful memories.
I have a big old 120 year old farm house style (in Canada) and every room has something quirky about it...and my house has such a good energy to it. The only thing that is missing is a fireplace. If I ever win a lottery....she's going to be fixed up just like she once was.
A big applause for your love of beauty.
What a beautiful home you have! I particularly liked the original fireplace, and the fact that you keep pigeons (which reminded me of the neighborhood my grandparents lived in - their neighbor kept pigeons, and it was so fun to watch them get let out for some exercise whenever we used to visit). I now live in a quirky stone farmhouse from the early 19th century in the northeast U.S.. Like you, one of my favorite spots is the staircase which comes into our kitchen; I like mine because it has a funky little door two steps up to keep the heat in the room, and because it's a great place for our cats to keep an eye on whatever we're doing in the kitchen (it's fun to look up and see a little, furry face peering around the top of the door frame). I also like that every room tells a story: the places where there are little burn marks on the floor from coals falling out of the stove (interestingly, this house never had fireplaces, but there is a place for a stove pipe to get into the chimney in every room); the little metal signs from some long ago roadside stand that were used to nail over a couple knot holes in the floors (a little awkward to vacuum around, but I can't quite bring myself to get rid of them; they aren't in the main floor spaces any way); and the hole cut in the dining room ceiling/office floor - finished using a stove pipe and collar, but not actually used for a stove - which was basically a vent to allow warm air from downstairs to flow upstairs to the bedrooms. Old houses are so much more fun, and so much more full of personality and homeliness, than are new ones!
I also have pigeons. 😊
I have a 1970s 2 up 2 down mid-terrace, not exactly vintage but I love the 70s. I love my original carpet (I had to clean the heck out of it when I moved in this time last year) and I have to say I’ve very glad I brought a carpet cleaner to keep it looking nice. I have the original interior doors,although sadly not the handles and could find any replacements. I also have the original stair rail and wood panels on the ceiling of the stairs but it’s been painted white so doesn’t look great.
Sometimes on Friday evenings (or when needed) I relax with a glass of redwine. It must be in my old inherited wineglasses from my grandmother. 😅 And I have a big old book cabinet that I rescued from my inlaws basement. It is in dark brown mahogany, with glass doors. It is an absolute beauty. It was quite an ordeal to get it cleaned out, as my father in law kept paintboxes and tools in it. 😂 You know, back in the 90s and before, people kicked old antiques and brought in pine furniture. Now it sits as a piece of jewelry behind my dining room table, containing all my treasures, from books to teasets. 🥰
What a lovely, cozy video! Your home is beautiful and seems like a peaceful, incredibly pleasant place to live.
I am envious of your cat and pigeons--I have wanted pet pigeons since I was a teenager, but where I live now I cannot have birds at all, and even if I could, hawks also live here. 😂 😅
(I mean. I _could_ technically have pigeons--there are mourning doves and other pigeons that live here too. But I also know for a fact that one of the neighbors keeps and flies a hawk, AND there are wild hawks, so. 🙃 )
That's the quirky, unique element to my home, which I would not change: I live in a suburb in California that backs right up onto a natural area, so we have a lot of wildlife and beautiful hills and mountains right behind and all around us. All chaparral desert. I used to walk past cactus patches when I was catching the bus to college.
(The house is a plain stucco house, though. 😅 )
(Edited for spelling and to correct 'pets' to 'birds'.)
That was fun. Thanks.
Seeing the neighbours going about their business when im at my desk in the spare bedroom 🤣 (their houses are on a hill behind us so their kitchen/dining spaces are at the level of our second floor). It was the biggest compromise to this house, it being so overlooked, but it is weirdly nice sometimes seeing the signs of living around you.
Love your kitty...she sure is enjoying your house and garden.
The shrine that we have in our new home in Osaka, I love it so much. Plus the kitchen it’s my dream kitchen
I have fireplaces in my kitchen, den, and living room! I would miss that if we moved, but this is our forever home! Love your home!!
You lucky, lucky, lucky woman!!! My dream was always to have a fireplace in the kitchen. Can't be too rich or have too many fireplaces in your home!! Wonderful.
@ thank you so very much. Blessings!!
I had my house built in 2003 with the intentions of making it look like an old home. I have steps going upstairs from the kitchen, hardwood floors, and green and white ceramic tile in the kitchen.
The first house my wife and I owned was a 3-storey 1914 townhouse in Lancaster, PA. Hardwood floors, natural woodwork, honeycomb tiles on both bathroom floors, stained-glass windows, tile hearth in front of the fireplace. Heaven on earth? Not exactly. Crack sales went on right outside our front door, and a neighbor insisted on playing her stereo full blast when she got home from work at midnight. We now live in an 1845 farmhouse in northwestern Vermont. No stained glass, but the two neighbors whose house we can see from ours are a farm couple who keep decent hours.
Neighbours really do make a great difference!
Lancaster, Harrisburg and York have some pretty architecture. But I couldn't live there either. 🙂
I had the same house, stairs in the kitchen and bathroom downstairs, also 1930 Belgium
My home also has a bathroom right off the kitchen, and I also like to open the bathroom window (in warm weather, unlike the present) when I bathe. I'm out in the country, so hearing the birds and insects and distant train whistle from time to time is lovely! I also like the handsplit beams in the basement and our lack of central air/heat. There's nothing like a woodstove or fireplace to promote togetherness in cold weather!
You have a lovely home with lot's of character and you have embellished it with things that you love it looks really cosy and welcoming unlike some modern mimilist houses then again they can give a sense of space, I prefer cosy, your pigeons are great well done. 👍.
We're temporarily living in a maisonette built in 1850. My favorite parts are stained glass door to the lounge and into the main bedroom from the ensuite bathroom, The skylights in the upstairs hall, and the private front garden, as well as the views of charming buildings, trees, and a bit of mountains in the distance. Focusing on the positive is key, since there are other features that are more a hassle than anything else.
I always wanted firwplace 💪✈️😊🙏🔥
I live in a relatively new build townhouse in the US and my downstairs bedroom and bathroom are right off the kitchen. Love your home! Thanks for sharing it with us!
You have such a beautiful home! I hope you don't move anytime soon☺
I have a mudroom entrance. Great for wet clothes, dirty shoes, and a bed for the dog.
More 1940s 50s 60s 70s & 80s mukbang cooking please
I have a 1950’s house in NZ. In my kitchen under the bench (counter) i have a pull out chopping board/wooden shelf. So handy to have the extra bench space
When I lived in my grandparents’ house, which was built in the early 1950s, they had an internal vacuum system. I loved it! You didn’t have to drag around a vacuum unit, only a long hose you plugged into each room. Such a quirky option! Your home is adorable 😊
Let me get this clear: you have a hose attached to the wall in each room of your house? Does the dirt then just go into the wall? Is there a filter you have to clean out?
Totally agree! I love it as well. I can't believe all houses don't have a central vac system. If I were to do it all over again, I'd install that in a blink.
@@SusanForeman1963 lol yes. I believe they had a container that collected the dirt in the basement. I never had to do anything with it, so I’m not sure how often they emptied it. I’ve only seen one other house with this tech, but I’ve seen it in old MCM magazines, etc.