Autumn House Tour: 400-Year-Old English Farmhouse & Cottage

Autumnal Home Decor

• 🍂 The homeowner showcases autumn-themed decorations throughout the house, including winter pansies, artificial autumn flowers, and sedums from the garden.
• 🎃 Gourds and squashes grown in the garden are used for decorative purposes, along with collected pine cones for firelighters.
• ✨ Twinkly lights are brought out for the autumn season, creating a cozy atmosphere, especially in darker rooms and window sills.

Historic Farmhouse Features

• 🏡 The tour highlights the 400-year-old property's original features, including a 1930s/40s main bathroom, lime plaster walls, and a 16th-century cottage kitchen.
• 🍽️ The Victorian kitchen features a reconditioned Aga, an antique plate rack, and a Victorian kitchen table, blending old and new elements.
• 🧊 A cold pantry in the cottage, used as a natural fridge before modern refrigeration, stores produce like onions and jams, remaining cold even in summer.

Ongoing Home Projects

• 🛠️ The homeowner is actively engaged in seasonal organization, such as sorting wardrobes for autumn clothes and decluttering storage areas.
• 🏗️ A significant project is the barn conversion, transforming a former storage barn into a living space with underfloor heating and an industrial log burner.
• 🍳 The barn features an unfitted kitchen that is still a work in progress, with efforts to find suitable furniture and improve water quality in a fish tank using a UV filter.

Countryside Living & Hobbies

• ☕ The video touches on daily routines like enjoying coffee in bed while admiring the view, and the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree in the bedroom.
• 🐾 Pets, including dogs, are part of the household, with a dog sleeping by the Aga and the mention of collecting eggs from chickens.
• 🎨 The homeowner enjoys collecting vintage items like prints for gallery walls, antique furniture, and vintage china, which they also sell.