I’m sure it feels like it’s going slow to you but to me it’s happening much faster than I expected when you first bought the house! Especially considering the condition it was in. You’re doing a beautiful job, thanks for sharing it with us!
I saw the notification and thought oh boy I've got to sit down and watch. The floors are beautiful. The dinning room is going to be gorgeous. You've worked so hard to make this a beautiful home I know you're tired. It will be so worth it in the end.
You are so motivated, nothing seems to phase you. Love the progress made so far. It looks fab, love the wall colour you choose..TFS..oh l love how you spent your birthday in IKEA, great savings on the oven !!
You did such a great job and from afar it looks like lots of fun. Don't give up! Think about all the nice and cozy moments you will have in your own perfect home
I know sometimes it feel so overwhelming and almost claustrophobic with everything stacked in piles on top of each other and the mess just never ever ends. You start in one end and end up doodling in the other end and all of a sudden the entire house is all half done. Seriously though dont get disheartened, from one full house renovator to another the best tip I can give is to completely finish one room and dont move on until it is done, you can then close it and move on and go in there and breathe when the house feels like it is choking you lol. The next tip to not get crazy is to not actually have any furniture in your house and just add furniture the the room you are working on at the moment. It is a game changer and maybe its just me but it gives some free space in the brain to get creative and prevent overload. I know thats not possible for everyone to have a storage space etc but the process is so so so much better for sanity and happiness.
having the 2 shades of stain gives a depth of color, to me it always looks better when you have both cool and warm in a floor that way when you change out decor or wall paint it will always go with the floor--it sounds like a happy accident to me
I just want to thank you for showing the clutter, bc it makes me feel so much better ab my piles. We have been in renovations for a year now and sometimes it gets so overwhelming. I just have to remind myself that I'll get there! I love the new dining room colour, that was a great catch. Changing it totally changed the room. I also love how the floors turned out, happy accidents are the best!
When you sand the rest of your floors, always sand down the length of the board, not across the floor boards. You will leave marks from the sander that will show up in the wood once you stain them! Ask me how I know this, lol.
I’ve been watching your channel for about a month now and I am absolutely in love with everything you are doing! It has inspired the basement renovation I am currently working on right now a ton! Keep up all this hard work and just know I get so excited whenever you post something new 😂
The floors are beautiful! I like the new color in the dining room, too. Food for thought - too much of any color (light or dark) puts the room out of balance. While it may seem a great idea to go all lighter, in order to showcase the lighter color, there needs to be some dark to set it off - and visa versa. Most coastal designs I've seen make a point of including something darker in the mix to accent the rest. I'd be tempted to refinish the mantle rather than paint - you have the stains that match the floor? Why not use that instead of paint? The mantle is intended to be a focal point, paint will make it fade into the wall. Looking forward to the next round. :)
Love the darker floors - definitely a better choice than the original plan! Also that oven is gorgeous. Replacing skirting boards is *such* a pain though - the mess that you'll create by removing them is huge and worth reconsidering when you're already moved in (we luckily removed all of ours and dealt with the debris/holes in the wall before moving in and have slowly been putting in the new ones this last couple of weekends to finish off new floor+wall paint)
Just discovered your channel and I LOVE IT!!! I live in the UK so when I watched a homemaker video it is hard to find the things used because as said I live in the UK and we don't have stores like Target here. But you mention stores I can go to like the Range. Anyways plz don't stop you are the queen of decor! :D
I really love the progress you are making! I myself also got very excited over an oven. Our old one has been sounding as if it would explode any minute for multiple months.
I adore all your renovating but personally i would have put a new floor above the old wood. I lived for 10 years in a home with such floors buuut cleaning it hell nahh, also then my allergies got worser and i also got small wood pieces in my foot because of it being used😂. I get the money saving part, but were there more reasons for not doing all floors before moving and after painting. I am interested. I know i will never ever get wood with small spaces between with much old dust under but still it looks pretty pretty awesome. 🤗🤗❤
I love that your bringing an old Victorian Lady back to life, the only thing that makes me sad is when people renovate they overly modernize the older homes such as light fixtures, doors, windows, and removing, and painting over beautiful woodwork with workmanship you don't see anymore. You can take your Grandmother's antique mirror and have it resilvered. Your hard work is paying off beautifully! Love from Phoenix, Arizona
I know its a bit late now but if you ever need to apply stain to the floors again you can get a woolen applicator pad on a long handle which makes it so much easier to apply. It must have been painful doing all of those floors with a paintbrush. Your home is looking gorgeous 😍. xx
So pleased the floors turned out alright in the end. Very similar colour to mine, which is also a Victorian house. I am sure many of us watching your updates have all gone through some disasters/mistakes at some point and can relate to your initial mistake.
how dare you to hate the house! it is a dream house, you are living my dream, i know sometimes seems like a nightmare but it is yours, your baby, and a beutiful house. I hope you can finish it soon and start to enjoy it.
hang on Hermione you're doing so great, I know a renovation is frustrating, I'm doing one too (hence why I love your channel!). When nothing is going the way I want, I try to focus on the little wins. Hope this helps. xxx oh btw pipes are fine without boxing don't worry about that, you did well painting them in the same colour as the wall. Also I absolutely love the new colour of the your floor, this dark is super chic!!!
I love these DIY-airy videos! It's clearly a lot of work, but these are wonderful to watch. It'll be worth it in the end!! You've already done wonders to this house :)
It starting to look like a really beautiful home. You are working so hard! Give yourself a big pad on your back. And remember to enjoy the progress you have already made. It's easy to get caught up in how much still needs to be done and forget how far you have come and how bad it was to start with. Can't wait to see the final results. Love from Denmark
Wow I love the floor it looks great kind of rustic looking! The sitting room looks lovely. You have inspired me that secondhand stuff can look very nice when put together well. You have a good eye for creating a beautiful home. Well done so far! 😍👍
I liked your video! I love seeing British homes as it reminds me of my youngest daughter who moved to England almost 3 years ago after meeting and now being married to a British man. (We live in the US) She's expecting my first grandchild (a girl) in January!
Your messy pile is so much smaller. Congrats! Didn't see a good looky, looky at your new table but I bet you are glad to be almost done in there. We learn from our mistakes not our successes and I've even picked up some pointers from your bloppers.
It's looking lovely. We're in a 1900 terrace and I love doing it up a part from having to put anything on the walls. If you drill or hammer the brick just crumbles 😱
I am actually building a “sort of” bookshelf (we basically just hang up stained reclaimed wood on a wall) for our living room and I accidentally bought a stain that ended up drying super dark but I am very pleased with how it turned out. Sometimes, the prettiest things happen by accident. That said: I love how your Floors turned out! We moved a while ago and our budget is very tiny. So decorating our new space takes much longer than expected. Seeing your home really inspires me because you guys are taking your time as well. I have seen many youtubers redoing their homes and they pump tons of money into their houses and get it done so quickly. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that but your house journey is so much more relatable! ❤️
Awesome video Hermoine, the floor came up looking great! I'm not sure if you only have the stairs left to do now but I sanded the floor in my Victorian bedroom a few years ago and I found using a long paint roller (like what you would use for walls) much easier than a brush for staining and varnishing. Putting in decking screws, sanding with the grain and gap filling also helps everything go on smoothly and stops those pesky loose or squeaky boards. What colour is the paint in your guest bedroom? It looks fantastic with the new light shade.
It works best to sand with the grain and direction of the boards when doing hardwood floors. Also when applying the stain there is a tool you can get that looks like a Swifter style dust mop that makes staining floors so much easier. Good luck. P.S. I like the pipes just painted.
The floors look beautiful and I love you style. Planning of copying it in my new flat. However I think ill have more minimal furniture - your rooms are very busy - which I suppose is always the case for a diyer :). Love your videos!
I really liked the floor colors. Your home is really coming together very nicely. I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Gale Flowers
How are you finding the floors, specifically drafts through them? I have a Victorian home too with nice boards I have considered stripping and using as the actual floor, however they are not tongue and groove so the drafts between the boards are quite noticeable, even when covered by carpets you can feel cold air at floor level. I have seen thin wooden fillets that can be fitted between them, but it's a lot of work. I'd be interested in your thoughts especially as the weather turns colder!
Your House is beautiful! But in my opinión there are a lot of furniture in there. I think it shows better if You do the space more spacius. But i LOVE your vídeos And ideas! Thanks a lot beautiful girl!
sorry about not finishing my message. don't text & sleep! LoL.. As I was saying...Its amazing how well alcohol works on ink marks, scuff marks, I even use it on my purses if I get a mark on it. Just get you some cotton pads/balls & apply a little amount of alcohol then wipe the area w/a gentle hand. I hope that works for you dear. Congrats on your place. May God bless you & your family! GN!
I just realise that we have the same coffee table!!is this with the extra heavy "legs"(sorry,I don't know how is the word in english..)and the drawers?
I’m sure it feels like it’s going slow to you but to me it’s happening much faster than I expected when you first bought the house! Especially considering the condition it was in. You’re doing a beautiful job, thanks for sharing it with us!
...just me who loves the dining room pipes exposed including the unpainted copper tops? I think it looks lovely, but I’m not a fan of boxing in x
Totally agree! At first I thought it was done on purpose!
Same here
Me too
Add me in too!
So agree on that
I saw the notification and thought oh boy I've got to sit down and watch. The floors are beautiful. The dinning room is going to be gorgeous. You've worked so hard to make this a beautiful home I know you're tired. It will be so worth it in the end.
Love the floors! That was a good mistake 😁
You are so motivated, nothing seems to phase you. Love the progress made so far. It looks fab, love the wall colour you choose..TFS..oh l love how you spent your birthday in IKEA, great savings on the oven !!
You did such a great job and from afar it looks like lots of fun. Don't give up! Think about all the nice and cozy moments you will have in your own perfect home
I know sometimes it feel so overwhelming and almost claustrophobic with everything stacked in piles on top of each other and the mess just never ever ends. You start in one end and end up doodling in the other end and all of a sudden the entire house is all half done. Seriously though dont get disheartened, from one full house renovator to another the best tip I can give is to completely finish one room and dont move on until it is done, you can then close it and move on and go in there and breathe when the house feels like it is choking you lol. The next tip to not get crazy is to not actually have any furniture in your house and just add furniture the the room you are working on at the moment. It is a game changer and maybe its just me but it gives some free space in the brain to get creative and prevent overload. I know thats not possible for everyone to have a storage space etc but the process is so so so much better for sanity and happiness.
having the 2 shades of stain gives a depth of color, to me it always looks better when you have both cool and warm in a floor that way when you change out decor or wall paint it will always go with the floor--it sounds like a happy accident to me
I just want to thank you for showing the clutter, bc it makes me feel so much better ab my piles. We have been in renovations for a year now and sometimes it gets so overwhelming. I just have to remind myself that I'll get there! I love the new dining room colour, that was a great catch. Changing it totally changed the room. I also love how the floors turned out, happy accidents are the best!
It's coming together so beautifully. Really enjoy watching your updates. Very inspiring. X
When you sand the rest of your floors, always sand down the length of the board, not across the floor boards. You will leave marks from the sander that will show up in the wood once you stain them! Ask me how I know this, lol.
Jeanna Walton no need to ask, you found out the hard way right? 😀
Love the darker floor stain. Looks great. The paint colour is lovely too. Good on you for pressing on
No! You're doing such an awesome job! This is real life, and I'm really thankful that you're sharing it with us!
Absolutely loving watching the progress of your house, these are some of my favourite videos to watch xx Dani xx
Looks fab!! Love your floors and paint colours!
Why not go for tiles in front of the fireplace? Might be a safer choice than a wooden hearth?
I’ve been watching your channel for about a month now and I am absolutely in love with everything you are doing! It has inspired the basement renovation I am currently working on right now a ton! Keep up all this hard work and just know I get so excited whenever you post something new 😂
The floors are beautiful! I like the new color in the dining room, too.
Food for thought - too much of any color (light or dark) puts the room out of balance. While it may seem a great idea to go all lighter, in order to showcase the lighter color, there needs to be some dark to set it off - and visa versa. Most coastal designs I've seen make a point of including something darker in the mix to accent the rest.
I'd be tempted to refinish the mantle rather than paint - you have the stains that match the floor? Why not use that instead of paint? The mantle is intended to be a focal point, paint will make it fade into the wall.
Looking forward to the next round. :)
Love the darker floors - definitely a better choice than the original plan! Also that oven is gorgeous. Replacing skirting boards is *such* a pain though - the mess that you'll create by removing them is huge and worth reconsidering when you're already moved in (we luckily removed all of ours and dealt with the debris/holes in the wall before moving in and have slowly been putting in the new ones this last couple of weekends to finish off new floor+wall paint)
All your videos are soo fun to watch, I can't wait to see what you do with your garden!
What I like about your house is that you can make it to your liking and you're doing a good job
Just discovered your channel and I LOVE IT!!! I live in the UK so when I watched a homemaker video it is hard to find the things used because as said I live in the UK and we don't have stores like Target here. But you mention stores I can go to like the Range. Anyways plz don't stop you are the queen of decor! :D
I love the floors sooo much! They add a lot of warmth to the room. I can’t wait to see your next update!!!! I’m obsessed lol
Just got to watch this now, but yay! My parents have the same oven and we love it!
Those floors are more fresh looking than the previous stain that you have. Just my opinion.
I really love the progress you are making! I myself also got very excited over an oven. Our old one has been sounding as if it would explode any minute for multiple months.
I adore all your renovating but personally i would have put a new floor above the old wood. I lived for 10 years in a home with such floors buuut cleaning it hell nahh, also then my allergies got worser and i also got small wood pieces in my foot because of it being used😂. I get the money saving part, but were there more reasons for not doing all floors before moving and after painting. I am interested. I know i will never ever get wood with small spaces between with much old dust under but still it looks pretty pretty awesome. 🤗🤗❤
Great work, the house looks beautiful, I especially love the floors
Careful if you do rip out the skirting boards as you might rip off your plaster
It was a great video! I have enjoyed watching all the progress and I am in love with that Grey.
Love your channel, very inspiring videos and you are such a sunshine! ♥️
It's so pretty and you did a good choice
Looking forward to the new updates
I love that your bringing an old Victorian Lady back to life, the only thing that makes me sad is when people renovate they overly modernize the older homes such as light fixtures, doors, windows, and removing, and painting over beautiful woodwork with workmanship you don't see anymore. You can take your Grandmother's antique mirror and have it resilvered. Your hard work is paying off beautifully! Love from Phoenix, Arizona
Love your updates and seeing your progress on the farmhouse! You are so talented.
It’ll all be worth it in the end Hermione. You’re doing a wonderful job on your home.
Keep up the good work. All of your hard work is looking good so far!!!
I really like the darker floors! They look really nice and cozy, like you said :)
I know its a bit late now but if you ever need to apply stain to the floors again you can get a woolen applicator pad on a long handle which makes it so much easier to apply. It must have been painful doing all of those floors with a paintbrush. Your home is looking gorgeous 😍. xx
Doing a great job. Yes, renovations lose their charm after awhile but once it's all done it's sooooo rewarding.
So pleased the floors turned out alright in the end. Very similar colour to mine, which is also a Victorian house. I am sure many of us watching your updates have all gone through some disasters/mistakes at some point and
can relate to your initial mistake.
how dare you to hate the house! it is a dream house, you are living my dream, i know sometimes seems like a nightmare but it is yours, your baby, and a beutiful house. I hope you can finish it soon and start to enjoy it.
Amazing!!! Floors and the whole process is very interesting inspirational and exciting
The floors look amazing and I love the new paint colour in the dining room. Great bargain with the cooker.
hang on Hermione you're doing so great, I know a renovation is frustrating, I'm doing one too (hence why I love your channel!). When nothing is going the way I want, I try to focus on the little wins. Hope this helps. xxx
oh btw pipes are fine without boxing don't worry about that, you did well painting them in the same colour as the wall. Also I absolutely love the new colour of the your floor, this dark is super chic!!!
I love these DIY-airy videos! It's clearly a lot of work, but these are wonderful to watch. It'll be worth it in the end!! You've already done wonders to this house :)
Love how your house is looking!
It starting to look like a really beautiful home. You are working so hard! Give yourself a big pad on your back. And remember to enjoy the progress you have already made. It's easy to get caught up in how much still needs to be done and forget how far you have come and how bad it was to start with. Can't wait to see the final results. Love from Denmark
Wow I love the floor it looks great kind of rustic looking! The sitting room looks lovely. You have inspired me that secondhand stuff can look very nice when put together well. You have a good eye for creating a beautiful home. Well done so far! 😍👍
The color in the dining room looks fantastic
I liked your video! I love seeing British homes as it reminds me of my youngest daughter who moved to England almost 3 years ago after meeting and now being married to a British man. (We live in the US) She's expecting my first grandchild (a girl) in January!
Laura Steinert congratulations 😊😊
Laura Steinert congratulations 😊😊
Looking great- in awe of your diy skills
Love the new colour for the dining room. Good choice.👍
Your messy pile is so much smaller. Congrats! Didn't see a good looky, looky at your new table but I bet you are glad to be almost done in there. We learn from our mistakes not our successes and I've even picked up some pointers from your bloppers.
the house is coming together beautifully :) amazing job
It's looking lovely. We're in a 1900 terrace and I love doing it up a part from having to put anything on the walls. If you drill or hammer the brick just crumbles 😱
I'm loving all your home update videos : ) Have a lovely weekend!!
I am actually building a “sort of” bookshelf (we basically just hang up stained reclaimed wood on a wall) for our living room and I accidentally bought a stain that ended up drying super dark but I am very pleased with how it turned out. Sometimes, the prettiest things happen by accident. That said: I love how your Floors turned out! We moved a while ago and our budget is very tiny. So decorating our new space takes much longer than expected. Seeing your home really inspires me because you guys are taking your time as well. I have seen many youtubers redoing their homes and they pump tons of money into their houses and get it done so quickly. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that but your house journey is so much more relatable! ❤️
Fabulous! You are working hard!
A happy accident with your floors. WHEH! You've worked so hard on your renovations. They are paying off because it's all looking fantastic!
Awesome video Hermoine, the floor came up looking great! I'm not sure if you only have the stairs left to do now but I sanded the floor in my Victorian bedroom a few years ago and I found using a long paint roller (like what you would use for walls) much easier than a brush for staining and varnishing. Putting in decking screws, sanding with the grain and gap filling also helps everything go on smoothly and stops those pesky loose or squeaky boards.
What colour is the paint in your guest bedroom? It looks fantastic with the new light shade.
i love your updates please dont stop!
It works best to sand with the grain and direction of the boards when doing hardwood floors. Also when applying the stain there is a tool you can get that looks like a Swifter style dust mop that makes staining floors so much easier. Good luck.
P.S. I like the pipes just painted.
Love watching your videos - love your Victorian home it's beautiful
U can mix match lamp shades
The floors look beautiful and I love you style. Planning of copying it in my new flat. However I think ill have more minimal furniture - your rooms are very busy - which I suppose is always the case for a diyer :). Love your videos!
The staircase banister is beautiful. You have so much stuff. How do you move around the house?
I prefer the pine color. But then again, I am biased, I love wood finished with a red hue.
Keep going, I'm so excited to see the steps done :)
Looks fantastic, love the floor colour, it was a great mistake 😃👍🏻
I really liked the floor colors. Your home is really coming together very nicely. I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Gale Flowers
Floor color looks great darker
When you're in the middle of messy stuff, you don't need to excuse the messy stuff. I've been enjoying watching your process/progress... 😀✌👌
How are you finding the floors, specifically drafts through them? I have a Victorian home too with nice boards I have considered stripping and using as the actual floor, however they are not tongue and groove so the drafts between the boards are quite noticeable, even when covered by carpets you can feel cold air at floor level. I have seen thin wooden fillets that can be fitted between them, but it's a lot of work. I'd be interested in your thoughts especially as the weather turns colder!
Love all your videos I can't believe you painted them by hand I would have used a roller
Floors are beautiful but did you seal them? It will help protect them and make them easier to clean 😉
I know it’s oppressing but it’s so inspiring for us! Great job!
I looooooove that darker floor
Kindof off topic - but that dark teal color in your bedroom is amazing! 😮❤
the floors were an amazing mistake! it breaks up the white and makes it look super cozy (:
💞🎂Happy Birthday. ❤️😎. The floors look great!
This is amazing! What's the name of the new dolor in the dining room?
It’s coming together so wonderfully!!!
💕💕💕
You literally just uploaded this as I was watching your last DIYary video and I am THRILLED
Can you tell us how much this whole renovation costs??
Your House is beautiful! But in my opinión there are a lot of furniture in there. I think it shows better if You do the space more spacius. But i LOVE your vídeos And ideas! Thanks a lot beautiful girl!
I’m in love with your videos ahhhh!!
love the new onelights
sorry about not finishing my message. don't text & sleep! LoL.. As I was saying...Its amazing how well alcohol works on ink marks, scuff marks, I even use it on my purses if I get a mark on it. Just get you some cotton pads/balls & apply a little amount of alcohol then wipe the area w/a gentle hand. I hope that works for you dear. Congrats on your place. May God bless you & your family! GN!
good choice for the floors
i like the floors
You guys are doing an awesome job
Ahhhh... you are living my dream !
That floor stain is gorg!!!!!!
We love your floors great mistake you made there.
Loving the longer video!
I just realise that we have the same coffee table!!is this with the extra heavy "legs"(sorry,I don't know how is the word in english..)and the drawers?
So excited to see! Thumbs up and u have even watched it yet!
Love the glass lamp, but in our Ikea it hasn't yet arrived. Do you know its name?
IM SO SAAAAAD the wall color in the kitchen was so pretty to me :((((
I enjoy all your videos!!👍