Restoring the Original Door and Starting the Bedroom Transformation

Good morning everyone, happy Sunday. I hope you're having a lovely weekend so far. You are joining me today back in the house. I did say last week that we'd be going to the Cotswolds in this video but I've actually managed to squeeze an extra video in this week and then next week we're going to be going to the Cotswolds so we actually leave tomorrow morning but you'll be seeing that next week. So we've got one more week of house updates, what we've been doing this week and I thought I'd catch you up really quickly because quite a lot was going on in the past few weeks and now we've come to a point where it's nice and relaxing. We get to enjoy the house a little bit before more works take place and in last week's video I think I showed you things happening like the front door, like the kitchen worktops but everything is now complete. So let me give you an update as to what everything's looking like at this point in time. If I start with our front door, this is what we were having done last week whilst everything else was going on in the house. So our countertops were being done, our kitchen cupboards were being painted and then whilst they were drying Kyle was actually working on the front door. Now this front door is most likely original, it looks to be original which probably means it dates back to the 1830s so we can only assume it's been there for a very long time but when we bought this house it was looking a bit weathered, it had lots of cracks in the paint, lots of chips, lots of scuff marks from where people have been opening it with their feet and it just needed to be sort of stripped back and then treated and painted which is what we've done to it. So when we started this was a really ugly red colour, kind of like a, I don't want to say like an orangey red but it wasn't a deep dark maroon which is what probably would have looked nicer but we decided to sand it all the way back, Kyle did this and then he basically fixed all of the crevices, the cracks, instead of using a filler he used an epoxy which expands and contracts with the weather whereas filler just cracks and it won't take very well. So it was all treated with the epoxy, Kyle then applied a primer and an undercoat and this was his secret to getting the really high gloss finish which is what we wanted because traditionally these doors would have been a really really high gloss and we wanted to sort of emulate that from this sort of time period and the colour we chose was actually Studio Green by Farrow and Ball. If you know of the colour it's a really dark green, kind of black but when the sun hits it it shows a really deep green colour which is really beautiful. I love colours that sort of dual aspect where they sort of change in the lights and the Studio Green was meant to be the perfect option however we discovered during the process that Farrow and Ball actually no longer do or they no longer create oil-based glosses, they're all water-based glosses and Kyle just informed us that it will probably not look as shiny and it won't have the full gloss effect that we were looking for so we actually went to Little Green who do oil-based glosses and we found a colour called Obsidian Green which is virtually the exact same colour, it's a very very dark green, it looks more black than it does green but we decided to go with that instead because we chose the oil-based gloss, put it on the door and we absolutely love it. It does look quite dark uh which is probably not what we were going for however traditionally these houses would have had dark reds, dark green front door, dark blues uh so it is very much in keeping with the house and I think once we get some plants out the front it will really soften it so I'm loving how it looks. The gloss effect on it is incredible, you can literally see your your full reflection in it, you'll be able to tell the time on your watch, it's brilliant. Kyle did an incredible job on it so very very happy with the front door and I'd say outside the front that's pretty much all we can do at the moment without getting permissions. Eventually we'd love to replace all of the tiles at the front, we have a step up and it's kind of like a meter, two meters sort of porch way outside and then you have the inside porch way as well. Ideally we'd like to get all those tiles replaced with like bullnose um yorkstone steps that would look really pretty and then obviously we'd want some planters. Last week we spoke about evergreen sort of shrubs with maybe some floral planting behind just to soften the outside of the space because outside the front there's no plants at all, no one on these squares has a front garden, it's all paved. Some people have trees, some people have bushes but I think we could do a really really beautiful landscaping job outside there and eventually I would also love to have a wisteria. No one else has a wisteria on this square so I'd be need to do a bit of research to see whether it's possible um there might be a reason as to why no one has them but again plants is something we're not doing at the moment it will be in a few months time maybe next year I'm not too sure. And then whilst the front door was being painted Chad has actually touched up all of the exterior brickwork it's all covered in a render I think it's called stucco I'm not too sure but it's a white render that goes around all of our railings inside the front of our door and the doorway there's a massive arch over our door that also is painted in it's just a brilliant white so Chad touched up all of that it looks really really pristine and then he also painted the entire front patio and if you see him out of this window in a minute it's because he's also painting the back patio yesterday we jet washed it got all the sort of algae and the moss off it and we're going to paint it and then eventually we'll take out the floor the concrete flooring in there we'll put some new tiles in at the moment we're just tidying them up painting them making them look a bit fresher which is very exciting whilst we're in the living room I quickly wanted to show you the tv so this is the Samsung it's not the frame it's the Neo QLED something but it basically has the same features as the frame tv it's just better quality so top tip if you're looking to get a frame don't get the actual frame because it's really blurry and it's not as high quality I will link it down below but I think this is the Neo QLED 2025 we got this from John Lewis in the sale I think it was around it was meant to be 2000 pounds and it was down to 1300 I think the sale is still on so if it's still on I will link it down below but this is the art setting on the tv which hopefully will show you what we're aiming for it to look like obviously we will be getting a gold frame to go around it I then want some chains and a sort of old vintage picture rail above it so it blends into the wall and looks like a piece of art ideally I would like to get some art above it I just need to configure the spacing and see a I need to find the artwork I don't have any artwork for this but I'll need to configure it to make it look sort of fitting to the space and then the radiator if you can see down there is here at the moment because we took it off for all the works around the shutters so our plumber is going to come in the next few days to lift this this is so heavy it's solid cast iron and when they took it off it took three men to move it I wasn't one of those men so when we put it back on I'm sure it will just take two me included but this will then be going back under the window and then I would ideally like a big I want to say Georgian but I'm not too sure at the moment but I'd like a very similar to the dresser we just bought a nice wooden console table because I do want to sort of hide this tv maybe have a lamp some decorative objects maybe some florals just to sort of make this more of a styled space than just an empty vacuous area with nothing there and I think that could look really lovely and this sitting room is big enough to sort of handle it so very excited to see this come along but this will not look the same it will look blended in and it won't look like a tv so hopefully I'm sharing the vision and you're seeing it I'll try and put up some inspiration pictures now maybe I'll do an AI image of what it will look like but yeah trust the process it's all hidden I do need to just touch this up this paintwork up here but I'm loving how it looks so far and I hope you do too welcome to the kitchen I still haven't found the best angle to showcase this room yet so bear with me on the angles but this room is coming together really nicely and I'm loving how it's looking at the moment it feels like we have our dream kitchen of our old house that we wanted with the improvements that we wanted to make but basically this is our dream kitchen all the cabinets have been painted by Kyle they look incredible he's done all of the insides we then have the wood sort of sides but he's painted everything really really well so very happy with that and then I changed all of the cupboard hardware to the DeVol air loom collection they're a bit different so we've got some pulls here we then have if you can see over here the latch which is probably my favorite and then at the end we have the boho I think DeVol pull handles as well so again the mix and match of the cupboard hardware I'm in love with someone actually did ask me today what's my opinion on mixed metals and I personally will always choose an unlacquered brass or a brass that will sort of change over time with a patterner however I do think mixed metals can look really beautiful in our old bathroom albeit it wasn't a choice that I made consciously we had a mixture of sort of metal they were kind of like champagne looking taps and then we had oil rubbed bronze shower fixtures and I think if you do it well the mixture of metals can look really beautiful but in this kitchen I have chosen to do all brass the brass is treated to a degree it's oiled with something but again as we touch it over time it will darken it will develop a really lovely patterner so that's what I prefer when I'm choosing bits for the kitchen but these taps again the same thing they are from DeVol in collaboration with Perrin & Rowe so everything has been changed out for newer versions if you can see the chandelier is looking beautiful I don't even know if you can see that in this shot it does need a few more chains to lower it just to make it look perfect but the wiring for the actual light is too short so I'll have to get my trusty dad to extend the cable at some point sorry dad if you're watching I did not tell you about this but that would be lovely to have it hanging a little bit lower because it does look a bit too high but the piece de resistance for this kitchen is these worktops this was something we didn't realize we wanted so badly but these worktops the Iroko worktops were very very badly damaged I did kind of think they looked quite cool when we bought the kitchen but now seeing these in place all restored all oiled up they look so beautiful I hope it comes across on camera but it does look like a show kitchen they're so soft so shiny and this I think it took six or seven coats of wax to get them looking like this the inspo picture that we kept putting up for the past few weeks we weren't able to achieve that amount of gloss I don't even know how the DeVol team were able to achieve that but this has had around six coats of a full gloss wax finish to seal it all in hopefully all the bits we drop on it so oil wine won't soak into it because it's had all that protection but it's a really deep sort of chocolatey nutty color and it's so beautiful it goes really well with the red and then when we get our table to go in the middle of this our island slash dining table we'll have a Carrara marble top so it'll be a nice sort of mixture of materials and touch points in this kitchen so very excited and then the next steps for this kitchen so all of that sort of stuff is done we then painted the pantry cars painted it all made it look pretty and then the plans for the kitchen over the next few weeks will be to sort of demolish this as it looks now and then add tiling add two lights either side we haven't decided yet what we want we're going to go antique shopping when we're in the Cotswolds to try and find some lights but ideally some form of wall lighting maybe with some milk glass or some form of ceramic the DeVol lights are our go-to at the moment so we're trying to source something antique first but if we can't find anything we will just be getting these lights in the next few weeks so that's on our list to find this weekend two lights for here these shelves will be coming out the reason they're not at the moment is because there is electric led lighting plumbed into this wooden shelf and it does go behind this tile here so we haven't touched this just yet but all of that will be coming out and then we are going to have our DeVol cream subway tile going all the way across quite a few of you have commented saying you're new to the channel and you haven't actually seen our previous kitchen i think i showed a snippet of it last week but if i show you these are the tiles that we have chosen hopefully you can see but they're a cream off white color they're all handmade so they have a slight variation in color some of them are more milky some of them are more pale and that across here is going to look so pretty so i think we're going to go up to around a meter in height and then add a border all the way along this middle section is going to have the brass rail going across to hang our pots and pans and then these two areas either side will be break between all the pots and pans and then lastly this oven we have ordered the new oven from le conch it's a three month lead time i believe so end of july is when we have the date for i think it's july 22nd 27th or something like that that we have the delivery date booked in for so this will be coming out and then the le conch oven will be coming in i'll try and send out the way now so i can do an ai image of what this will look like in the next few weeks but hopefully you see the vision hopefully you like it this is very much our dream kitchen we love the red we love the wood with a mixture of the marble and the tiles it's just what we like it was the same in our old house but if you if you like it why would you change it that's my dream kitchen that's chad's dream kitchen so and it goes with this house so we're very very happy with how it's coming along and over the next few weeks we'll be able to share with you the space coming together so very very exciting so let me take you downstairs into the main bedroom where we're going to be starting the transformation it's not going to be finished in this video i've got a lot more to do i've got a so this will not be finished in this video this is very much the start but we're sharing this renovation with you how it happens in real time things don't happen all at once things happen gradually so let's going to get started by showing you the paint color i actually picked it up a few weeks ago when i went into the edward balmer store on pimlico road i walked in and this color was on the wall it's part of their new chatsworth collection and i just fell in love with it so hopefully you guys like it but let me take you downstairs now and i'll show you the current state and let's start the transformation welcome to the next room in the house that i'm going to be tackling i don't really think i've spent much time in here with you all since i revealed the house i think we did a quick tour and then since then this room has sort of been off limits and that's because it looks like this we have odd artwork on the walls that will not be staying there let me just address this we also have curtains that i had to order online that aren't custom to the floor so there's lots of things i need to tackle some of the things i'm going to do today like uh shortening these curtains sew them off and make them prettier than what they look like currently but the reason i brought you into this room today is because i'm actually going to start decorating this room if you've just joined for this video then you would have missed in the past few videos we've talked about how we've just recently purchased a grade two star listed house what that means is anything that we're wanting to change in this house we realistically have to get permission for because it's such an old house they treat it like everything has to be overseen by the council by the planning authorities and they don't want any of the original fabric taken out of the house so in terms of adding cornice adding ceiling roses in terms of skirting boards paneling if you wanted to do that things like that will possibly need to go through a planning planning consent so we're currently in talks with the people for that at the moment to see what we can and can't get away with doing relatively sooner rather than waiting a few years to get it done so at this point in time instead of me rambling on all i can really do in this room is paint change fabrics add furniture and i'm very very excited to get started with this if the color is coming across correctly on the camera then you will notice it's a light airy really bright pink which is really beautiful but it's not really the color that i i gravitate towards so what i'm going to be doing is keeping the pink but taking it to something a bit more characterful a bit deeper with a bit more complexity so i tested a few samples as you can see on the wall you will also see the sun coming through this room because it's a south facing room so this room gets so much light despite it being in the basement but it can really affect the color as you'll see the color will shift quite a lot as i'm speaking but some of the colors i've tested are up here you can see i've got different shades of sort of reddy pinks uh we then tested i think this was french gray was it french gray by fire and ball that is a no-go i don't even know why i tested that in here but then i also toyed with the idea of trying a really deep and dark moody brown red in here which i very quickly did not like the idea of because it's such a bright room i really want to keep the brightness but add a bit more complexity with the color so i've been steered away from this color this is etruscan red by far and ball and this color here is called etruscan brown which is another color by edward volmer that i actually came across on pinterest and it's why i sort of ordered some samples from edward bomber and i've fallen in love with quite a few of their colors but this one it sort of shifts from a pink to a salmon to a brown it's a bit too not what i was thinking the color i fell in love with when i went into the edward bomber store is called freudian and this is it right here it's a kind of an earthy pink a bit brown a bit pink but it's quite muted and it's so so beautiful it's such a beautiful color so what i'm going to do today is take this on all of the walls i'm going to avoid the windows the skirting and just do the walls because i actually purchased an emulsion which doesn't show up as nicely on woodwork is a bit too chalky so i am going to tackle that today i'm going to also take these curtains up so they look a bit more presentable so i'm going to go grab my paint brushes grab my rollers try and cover these floors with something and then get to painting i'm very excited to get this paint on the walls because at the moment this room doesn't really feel like a me room or a chad room it just feels like we're living in someone else's house once we transform this space it's quite a big room to transform so i think it's really going to sort make us feel a bit more at home we are on day two of painting the main bedroom i think it's coming across quite patchy in some areas and i think it's because the previous paint was a modern emulsion of some form so this paint is not sticking to it as easily this is only my second time using the edward bomber natural paints and i do i've been told and i have sort of seen that it does need quite a few coats this has had two coats now so this is the best part of the whole room at the moment it's very full and this is sort of giving the correct color whereas everywhere else is very patchy and it's a bit deeper bit darker in certain areas but this is what the color is going to look like hopefully hopefully you guys like it but i was just going to pause and show you these sort of plans for the room so decoration wise i'm imagining lots of sort of dark colors in here so in my opinion the wood goes really well with the color it's a nice contrast and i was thinking to add some new bedside tables in so i'm going to look for some really dark wood possibly marble topped chest of drawers for either side of the bed something with a bit more storage because in this room controversially i don't really want cupboards and i don't want any storage so we're going to try and do two bedside tables where we can keep our daily clothing items that we need and then we're going to use one of the guest bedrooms and possibly make a part of the hallway into some cupboards because again a bedroom to me should be quite relaxing i don't really want clothes everywhere and i know inevitably we're just going to be chucking clothes on the bed on the floor and it's just going to get messy which is what i don't want for this room so i think some nice dark picture frames on the wall could look really beautiful i do think the gold frames work well as well but i think it would be nice to have something a bit different to this room so i need to do a bit more art shopping which is not a bad thing but then i also i'm going to spin you around and show you the windows because i'd love to get your opinion on what i should do with them the current dilemma i've got the windows now and i'm debating whether i should paint them the same color as the wall whether i should keep them in this really beautiful soft pink shade or whether i should take them to more traditional and paint them white the outside of this space is the front patio so everything is painted in white the outside of these windows it's a dual tone window so these are white on the outside and then pink on the inside so my thought process is either but it could either be quite traditional to make them white but then would it sort of not flow with the room very well because i might have to paint the window ledge white as well if it was this color on the wall the freudian color it could look a bit too dark but i think it would frame the outside quite beautifully and we're also eventually going to be having plants and everything growing of the wall so i think having the sort of reddish pink window panes and frames could look quite nice looking out into a white and green background but i also equally really like this color so i'm i'm stuck in i'm stuck in my decision process at the moment so any help would be very grateful hopefully this isn't going to be as split as the windows because it was literally 50 50 upstairs on keeping the pine shutters or painting them so let me know your thoughts down below another thing i need to ask you is also whether i should color drench the ceiling in here i know quite a few of you like color drenching and a few of you really dislike it and i think it's because most people think it's a modern trend but it really isn't it dates back to quite a long time ago color drenching has gone on for a very very long time so it would be traditional in that sense but typically georgian ceilings would be of the same color as the skirting or it would be a different color from the wall color so you'd keep a ceiling white and then a paint color would be different on the walls i don't think it really matters down here because again it's a basement no one would have really lived down here it would have been the cooking area and the place for the staff so we're not really in keeping with those times if you think about it that way so i think i am going to color drench the ceiling it probably will be painted by the end of this video but let me know your thoughts again on whether you think it should be color drenched or not another thing i wanted to address really quickly was the bed i'm debating whether to go full-on traditional and get a wooden four poster bed i think they're so pretty and i've always wanted a four poster bed i think they are a bit trendy at the moment so i'm not sure whether i'm being fed into the trend but i would love a four poster bed in this room i don't know whether the ceilings are a bit too short for it i'd have to sort of configure measure and see whether it would fit and look nice in here but if it wasn't a full-on four poster bed i love the idea of having a canopy bed where you sort of attach a pediment to the back of the wall and then drape fabric behind and around the bed just on the wall side so that could look really beautiful but i'm debating on whether to sort of go full-on fabric or whether i mix up having the four poster bed with two wooden posts at the bottom whether just do fabric on all of them i'm not too sure but i did walk past this shop the other day in pimlico road when i was going to pick up some edward volmer paint uh the i think it's called so on it might be called but they had a four poster bed with all the canopies draped with this fabric and it was so beautiful and i ordered this fabric it's very expensive so i am going to be really planning on what i'm going to do because i don't want to spend that much money and for it to not really go with the room so i am ordering lots of fabric samples at the moment but this is probably my most favorite it's a linen fabric with a printed uh floral floral pattern on top of it and i think the work really well with this room so whether i do curtains not too sure i don't really want the curtains to match the canopy if i do a canopy on the bed i think that would be a bit too matchy-matchy so let me know your thoughts down below whether you like these fabrics there are some other ones i've ordered uh there's this sort of red quadrant looking one i think that's the same in a different color way so that's just a green color and then you've got some more green options they were just really beautiful so i ordered those and i'm going to add those to my fabric samples and sit down here when it's fully painted and see which colors and which patterns work really well uh but yeah i'm really excited to get some fabric in this house because in our old house as well i didn't do any fabric things i didn't want to spend that much money on a house that wasn't going to be our forever home whereas i feel like this house it makes a bit more sense because we are going to be living here for the foreseeable so fabric choices really will play a key part of this room otherwise it's just going to feel like a terracotta red box which is not the vibe i was going for so i'm going to stop talking now and continue painting i'm going to give this one a second coat possibly start on the ceiling so let's get painting also please excuse my eyes for the past week i've been suffering with the worst hay fever so if i look like i've been dragged through a bush with my eyes and i'm crying that'd be why uh but as you can tell this room has had three coats of paint on the walls now i'm not going to lie it is quite patchy as you apply it i would assume because it's a natural paint it needs a few more coats than a normal paint um it's kind of annoying but i do love the color and i do love the finish that it gives so i'm just going to live through it you can see the ceiling has only had one coat and this is how patchy it comes across on the first coat bear in mind as well the color underneath the ceiling was white so that's what it looks like but i am loving the color it's adding a really nice charm and moodiness to this room so i'm going to continue painting this i probably won't get it finished uh for the end of this video but i just wanted to give you a really quick update to show you what it's looking like but i'm loving it so far and then i don't think i've shown you but this is the curtain that i took up the other day i just added a really simple like seam at the bottom it's nothing professional um i do think it looks quite good so quite happy with that i measured them to drop on the floor slightly so they sort of elegantly drop on the floor they do need to be steamed so please do ignore what they look like at the moment but very happy with how they're looking i then just need to finish off the other one it's quite difficult in this house at the moment because we have no table space obviously we don't have a dining table or anything so i'm laying them out on the floor um and measuring them on the floor which is kind of inconvenient so it was taking me it probably took me around an hour and a half yesterday to do it uh but this one i'll need to do um in a few i probably will try and finish that today but i'm loving how they look these curtains are actually quite pretty they are just off the shelf ready made um obviously they were too long but they're from the cotswold company they're a really pretty sage green pinstripe and they are blackout so don't any light three in the mornings and it has actually really helped my sleeping i normally wake up quite early because of the lights but these have been a godsend so very happy with them they are probably the nicest off-the-shelf curtains i have come across in a long time i did have the other ones in our old house from john lewis they were velvet and this house i didn't really want to get velvet curtains so very happy that i came across these but i will leave the link down below if you guys are interested but yes i am loving how this room is coming across at the moment it's kind of giving me italian vibes the pink that you see on the wall is very much what you see like a rendered tuscan villa um color color wise and i think it looks really pretty i obviously need to scrape that off made a bit of a booboo there but loving how the pink window is looking against the dark pink wall i thought i'd really quickly give you a tour of the outdoor patio at the front of the house this is a tap south facing patio so you'll be able to tell it gets full sun all day long but it's kind of shaded so these hydrangeas are doing really well so we've got two hydrangea annabelle's here these annabelle's they are annabelle's yeah um you can sort of see how quickly they're growing but in a few weeks time they'll have their flower heads on them we've then got some rambling roses these are david austin i'm not sure what they are the lady of the lake they're a pink rose which i think will look really against this backdrop pink against the white they as you can tell are really growing quite quickly so we have one on this side and then one on this side so in a few weeks time again they should be climbing the walls we might need to put some supports in here to help them um then down here we've got some salvia caradonna but i've not opted for the purple these are the pink ones and salvia and roses go really well together because you'll be able to see on these roses here are lots of aphids and these aphids suck all of the sap out of the rose buds and it will make the roses not as like full and bloom they actually probably won't bloom because they suck all the life out of them so what i need to do at the moment is go and grab some pesticides i know that's not the best thing to do but once the salvia starts to flower it should negate all of the aphids and it should i don't know whether it's the scent of the flowers whether it's the scent of the leaves but it does deter the aphids from landing and ruining the roses so that's a good little tip if you're a gardener this is really gross but you can just pinch all of the aphids off and they will fall off so if you have some roses that you need to treat then just do this for the time being but you can see the tiny little flower buds underneath are already starting to come through so i mean i'm gonna do this for now it's very disgusting the other thing you can do is order some ladybirds ladybugs and they are the natural predator for aphids so really gross but you can try and introduce some ladybugs and they will eat all the aphids so i might try that i might just get some aphid killer who knows but they are under planted with i want to call this wire vine i've got some old ones that they're sort of trying to grow they're potted in this pot i've then got some ilex cronata this is a really good alternative to buxus which is this here but in the uk you get something called box blight or the moth caterpillars will eat all of it and it will just die really quickly this does have cobwebs in it so i'm not sure if this is already starting to succumb to the moth but ilex cronata is a really good alternative because this is moth resistant so they don't eat the leaves it doesn't ruin them and they are pretty much the exact same thing and they're also shade tolerant so they actually really enjoy being in full shade so i've got two balls i might replace these cones in a few weeks time if they don't survive but they're doing well at the moment there's another hydrangea annabelle here and then at the bottom i've potted some really tiny chocolate cosmos plants these are really beautiful flower that actually smell like chocolate and they love full sun so i'm not sure but i've got i think two in there three in this one and then one in here again some more salvia carried on another pink version another buxus pyramid and then you'll notice on the windowsill in my planters i've got some tiny erygeron plants this is erygeron carpenskinus if i'm saying that correctly these are mexican fleabane they're really pretty dual-toned flowers so they start off white and then eventually they'll turn pink and you get these sort of alternate flowering colors at the same time which is really beautiful but these are going to spill this one's doing a really good job this is a bit more mature as you can see but they're going to spill over and create a sort of a little cottage vibe in here so i put three in there three in there three in there and they should grow really really fast so in the next few weeks again by probably late may to early june they'll be blooming non-stop and then in these tiny little pots i have planted some actual cosmos cosmos don't know how you pronounce it but i've got some seed packets that i've started sowing i don't know if they're going to survive out here because it is quite hot and i will need to keep on top of the watering but i've put some in these four um two here two here and then two here but they are some double click snow puffs i think sounds very flamboyant but they're really tall white uh cut and come again plants which should be really pretty in here as well and my plan was to plant them sort of between the areas at the backs of this sort of border which i think would look really lovely so yeah this is how the garden at the front is coming along and obviously it looks really good because chad has repainted everything so in the next few weeks this is going to be green so remember what it looks like right now i'm not sure if i have any footage from what this patio looked like when we bought the house but chad has just given it a jet wash he did it actually jet washed it yesterday and then today he's given it a fresh coat of sort of all brilliant white paint uh and it has made it look a million times better so eventually this will be the concrete will come out the bottom it'll be tiled we are looking to try and get some doors put in these instead of these two windows uh but yeah we have to speak to an architect about that but it's already looking a million times better obviously eventually we will need to take all these bricks back to the brick as well they need to be all chipped off like in our old house um and then hopefully the original brick under there is quite pretty i doubt it though because at the top you can kind of see that it's red brick i'm currently filming from inside the bathroom which again this window needs to be desperately replaced as well so there's lots of things we need to do these windows are very very old critter windows but again this patio already is looking a million times better this is completely north facing though so i need to do some research on the best type of plant to put in pots a to grow up the walls to give it some greenery and b just to flower i don't really like ferns and ivy sort of growing up the ball so i need to do a bit more research to find out the best plants so that should be quite interesting to do over the next few weeks but this is already looking a million times better hello everyone i'm currently editing this video and i've realized there is no outro so i just wanted to really quickly jump on and say thank you so much for watching i hope you've enjoyed this week's video obviously we started the bedroom transformation i have yet to finish it so i still need to add another coat to some of the walls and the ceiling but it's looking really beautiful so i will show you the update next week but we are currently in the cotswolds so next week we'll be going to the cotswolds we've been bringing you with us we've done some little touring of some antique shops already but we're going to some really pretty villages we've brought our tape measure with us so we can try and measure up for some pieces for our new house yeah really excited to take you with us because we're exploring an area we've not been to before so it should be really lovely so thank you again for watching i hope you've enjoyed this week's video and i shall see you next week for another one see you very soon