Inside Tash's eclectic treasure filled home | Living in colour

hey guys welcome to my home come on in hallway isn't that interesting so let's just skip through that bit um come on into the main living space so this room is what totally sold us on this flat when we were renting we were like all we were looking for is like one big massive room which hello this is I spent ages trying to work out the layout for this space in an ideal world would of to have two of these chord sofas either side of the fireplace and then having two chairs here but this is a home that needs to work for us and functionally that didn't work um I also don't have the money to buy another one of those sofas so this old girl we've got still I think I've had this sofa for I think 10 years now um and it makes myself happy because one foot broke when we had a house party and someone was jumping on it and now actually every single foot I won't tell you the brand but every single book has broken but it's the comfiest sofa and it's actually where I sit and then Sam sits here we've got this these beautiful big windows that are absolutely stunning they do let in light but what you can see very clearly probably from this video is it's always great in London always great and this is a room that faces North I needed to choose a neutral because a landlord really wanted to keep it light and neutral which also actually I really like because it's a room we use all the time so keeping it light was really nice so I went for white 06 which is a white with a pink undertone so it's got this sort of warmth to it it's not yellowy um and it's really lovely because then obviously we went for the eggshell to help and I've done the eggshell on everything the ceiling the woodwork the walls and that just really helps reflect more natural light around the room and then I actually wanted to bring my personality and Sam um Sam's my husband by the way he's not some like random guy that I just always refer to um but Sam and I I wanted to bring our personality to the space I wanted to create somewhere that wasn't somewhere which I needed to show off or like it was for work or it needed to be Instagram perfect so it's really important that this home told Sam and I's personality and everything I would go as far as saying pretty much most of the things in this room um we've collected over time and all have a story I'm trying to think okay this guy she'll be so happy that I'm highlighting it in this video my older sister made this for my grandfather it's an ashtray I think she made it when she was like eight this I reckon would sell for a fortune it's so cool and I've I've always loved it and actually I stole it from home um and again like this old card box was my granny's um and my mum had these doves even though they're a bit random but in her bedroom um and then when you come over here this actually is a really cool example actually I'm excited to show you on this video pink and green was the color combination that we really wanted to go for up here not only because most of our stuff was pink and green already um but also I just love that complementary color pairing and I always talk about bringing in a third color that third color we wanted it to be the mustard yellow and so I've got accents sort of of that color which you can see in little pops like in the rug here and then the bars and the chair over there but these books I need to find out where I got them from you can buy by the meter and they're so goddamn cute like where's a good one this is the one they're actually real books and they're so beautiful and they're all old and they're I mean that is an amazing color combination um but yeah really lovely way to inject some color if you are have got neutral on the walls lovely way bring it through books if you've got like large shelving you know you can fill it full of like Trinkets and you know colorful ornaments coming over to the dining room these croissants I obviously have out here all the time didn't just get them for you um so this diamond space super cute again my style has moved away from this like this is much this is more Farmhouse and actually Ideal World I'd want it to feel a bit more contemporary a little bit more modern over here but we've always had this again I've had this table like you know the sofa over there for years and my style has changed so I will probably look at you know selling this and getting something else but for now it it feels so cozy and I love it over here um and it's a really nice table to work from during the day something else that you guys might be picking up on is the amount of art that is everywhere art is a huge passion of mine and for me it's where I get all of my inspiration when I look at a color scheme for a room actually this the picture over there I'll show you in a minute is the one that inspired us with this whole flat but always playing with height I think it's really important when positioning art it's really important that everything's not symmetrical it's fun to play around with like height and we've got these gorgeous really amazing High ceilings which I mean I I couldn't get up there I had to climb on this to hang this and I ideally would have gone a little bit higher but I love the way that that picture takes your eye up and draws attention to the whole room oh another great thing if you've got shelving put a piece of art and just break up the back of the shelves it's really nice having a picture um to do that and this is the picture that inspired the whole um color scheme for the whole flat this is my favorite picture it's of a beach in Cornwall actually all of these pictures by this one are set in Cornwall which again is the place that is so special to Sam and I got to highlight this picture so this Sam actually did himself this masterpiece um he did that I'm so proud of him I think that is the most incredible picture that's the first picture that he said he's painted in like well since like school but I think that's amazing so come on down spiral staircase again so cool it gives it that almost Loft feel to the place the features of this flat are pretty Sensational come on into the kitchen I would say that this room has had the most transformation or the biggest transformation I should say this was all brown in here everything was brown cabinets Brown there was really horrible handles and I don't know if you guys can see but like the floor is just it's not great but again we're renting so I bought a massive rug to hide the tiles and then I painted and it only took me a day took them all off primed it two coats this is blue 15 and I went for blue 15 again brings that sort of Cornwall feel to the kitchen but this blue has a really heavy yellow undertone that has so much warmth to it and when you then upcycle the handles these are from plank Hardware um and I use them a lot in my mood boards honestly they're so stunning and they just inject like warmth into this already quite dark space went for the white 06 on the ceiling and on the walls as well to carry on that neutral flow and then this part here I'm gonna turn into a window seal that could be almost like a little reading Nook and then out here I see myself in the summer my dream is to like put a table and chairs or build sort of Bunker seating out there and almost I don't even think that difference yeah serve the food like through here I love cooking and when Sam and I first moved here we didn't see ourselves spending much time in this kitchen but actually because I cook so much Sam loves to like hang out with me and so our Dream would have been to have like a lovely bistro table with amazing chairs um and maybe one day we will but this was outdoor furniture that we had I mean years ago that I painted in blue 111 and like it's great it does the job I want to get little um cushions because they're not very comfy um and then another trick just get really big oversized plants to hide a horrible you know fridge cables that you can't move um and then actually that's the lit color palette that I created um some of those colors we actually didn't keep um but I know that tells the story I love that picture now we go into the bathroom now this isn't like the most exciting part of the home but this fills my soul with happiness we've got his and her sinks finally um even though this is a one bed flat the fact that I've got these sinks I feel so Grand in here um we didn't do much decorating all I did was use leftover white o6 that I had on the walls and I just these were a bit tired so I just gave them liquid paint but yeah nothing much there's no natural light in here so got a little fake plant called Gary in the corner there can't kill that one which is quite nice this is then our main bedroom and I love this room it's got a natural curve to it which I think is just showing the character of the building and the theme that I wanted to go for again is to pull those blue tones down the Red Thread that I have going throughout my whole house is pink so you'll notice every room has an accent or a link to the pink color which just really helps connect the spaces together I posted this a couple of years ago these right this is controversial Soho House would love the way I've styled this but I was actually thinking the other day I really agree and I was saying this um to the guys in the office it's so fun to like play around with what you've got and like you know one day you might want to have colored cushions the other day you might want to keep it a bit more simple um but I actually was really liking the layout of this bed but I preferred it like this actually these I mean I got from Facebook Marketplace for a fiver I think they have five pounds each I'm gonna paint them I want to do something quite creative with them I don't know what yet but I will paint them but I love bedside tables with a bit of storage I think when you live in London you don't have much storage at all and then oh actually the owner I don't actually know what this looks like in here so bear with me okay it doesn't look too bad but what I really wanted to show you was hold on I don't know if you can see I just used leftover blue 15 paint from the kitchen and did it in here I didn't have enough of the doors actually I need to do those but it just quite nice way to like brighten up the inside of a cupboard come on up come on up so that's my home I've got I've got a load of candles to blow out um if you guys have any questions when it comes to color always just drop us a comment like we're here to help I'm pleased I got to show you a bit of me and a little bit about the space that makes me feel happy and safe oh my God I got so tired from the stats I'm not used to stairs my last flight didn't have stairs I'm knackered [Music] what's going on