A Beautiful English Farmhouse Full of Books & Vintage Finds | House Tour

Hi Homeworthy, I'm Kristen Pears. Welcome to my home in Cornwall. Come and have a look around. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. Hi, my name's Kristen Pears. Welcome to my home in Cornwall. We'd been living abroad for quite a few years and I really had an urge to move back to the UK. I wasn't set particularly on Cornwall, I had a short list of about 10 properties. This was the first house that I looked at. In fact, it was the only house that I looked at, so it ticked a lot of our boxes. It had the holiday cottages, it had somewhere where I could teach Pilates, it had a really nice walled garden, so Chris was very into his veggie growing. What it didn't have was my dream house. I really wanted a Georgian house. I love Georgian architecture and although this house is from that period, it dates back to around 1750, I think, but it's had a lot of its original features stripped out over the years, but actually that turned out to be an advantage in the end, so we were able to start from scratch and really it's been a blank canvas for us. When we bought the house, we knew it needed some work. The cottages needed a lot of work, but the house had had a certain amount done to it. We did know we needed to replace the extension, so there was a utility room on the back. It was literally taped on and there was greenery growing from the outside in, so we needed to replace that. Then obviously, as you know with renovations, you start something and you find that you actually need to do a lot more than you initially thought, so we did quite a lot. We put in an extra bathroom, we renewed all the floors, we slightly tweaked the layout in a couple of places, just making it more suitable for the kind of lifestyle that we have. I've always been a big reader. I've read from being very, very small, so I have books pretty much in every room of the house, not the bathrooms, but everywhere else. I have a barn, which we'll look at when we do the house tour, which is kind of my home library, but I also have my penguin here, my vintage penguins, and that collection came about almost by accident. When we renovated, I realised that the alcove at the back of the living room was just the right kind of depth for paperback books, and I had a few penguins, the old tri-band, the classic tri-band design within my other book collection, and I thought maybe this is an opportunity to take those out and make a bit of a thing of them, and I put them on the shelves and they took up about a foot. So I started to collect them. I bought a few job lots to start off with, just to get me going, and now I tend to just buy things that I want to read. They're a lot more knowledgeable and serious collectors than me, but I like them because I'm reading my way through them. I review them on Instagram. I think I'm up to 220-something now, so yeah, it was almost an accident. There was a little bit of thought behind it, but it's turned into quite a big thing for me in terms of my reading life, but also as a decorative element in the house. So this is the living room. We have the penguins at the back of the room. This is the little alcove, the narrow alcove that I didn't know what to do with when we were renovating, and that's how the collection began. I just thought that it was the right depth for paperback books. This is a vintage piece. I've had it recovered twice because the cat scratched it the first time around. The DA1 arm chair is super comfortable. It's really springy. It's probably the most comfortable chair we have. The fabric is by Morn Textiles, which is another company that was founded in the 50s. They are still manufacturing today. They're based in Ireland, so I have quite a few pieces by them. This rug here is a Morn Textiles rug as well. This print is by Jenny, the lady that we bought the house from. She's a printmaker, and I thought it was really nice to have some of her work in the house to speak to that continuity of ownership. So the sofa is one of my favourite pieces of furniture. I love Scandinavian mid-century design, and this is by Bermundsen, who is Danish. It's his 2213 sofa. It's like all of his pieces. It's just a brilliant melding of form and function. Like a lot of my furniture, it's vintage. I buy a lot of vintage because I like the history. I like the fact that the piece has history. I like the fact that it has patina and character. Also, I think when we buy so much and we're always being urged to buy new things, I think buying vintage or buying second-hand is a really good way to reduce your environmental footprint. So we have quite a few months and pieces, but this is probably my favourite. The Eames lounge chair I bought for Chris, although he doesn't get to sit on it very often. It's usually occupied by Pat, but I think when Charles Eames designed this, he said he wanted it to be like a well-worn baseball mitt, and especially with it being vintage, it's got this really kind of lovely, soft, creasing quality to it, and it's super, super comfortable. The fireplace was open. The Inglewood fireplace was open when we moved in, but the wall was covered up. It had been plastered over. The lintel was exposed, but again, it really needed a good clean, so when we cleaned it, you can actually see that it's got this lovely green tone to it, and it's actually been split down a seam of copper, so it gives it that green tone, and it's got little crystals in it, so it actually sparkles in the light. So when we uncovered it, I don't know whether you can see, it's got newspapers in it, but there's a little bread oven there in the corner. They would have used that to bake bread, and obviously this was a farmhouse. This might even have been the kitchen originally. We're not really sure of the original layout, but as I say, the house didn't have a lot of period features left, so I really wanted to honour what was here, so we really wanted to make a feature of this, and as I say, we exposed the stone, and we had it all pointed with line, so it makes quite a striking focal point in the living room. The light, again, it's a vintage piece. You can see it's a little bit tarnished. This is a Swedish design. It's called bomling. I'm not sure my Swedish pronunciation is very good, but apparently it means boulder, so it's got that very kind of rounded boulder shape, and it's brass. I've used brass quite a lot throughout the house. The floors, when we moved into the house, the downstairs was all engineered oak flooring. Upstairs was a real mishmash, so we had some original boards, which we reused in the scullery as cupboards, and some modern replacement boards, so I wanted to create a sense of continuity throughout the house, and I've been looking at a I came across this company called Diniston. Again, it's a Danish company, and they make the most beautiful floors, so this is a Douglas fir. It's treated with lye, which stops it turning orange, and then we treated it with a natural oil. I actually really like that, that very pale Scandinavian white look, but it didn't work here. It needed something a little bit warmer, a little bit softer, so that's why we went with the natural oil, and it's now toned down at this really lovely, warm, pinky colour. Okay, so this is the dining room, so we've got a porch on the other side of this wall. It's quite small when we moved in, so I wanted to create a little bit more space for storage on the other side. I've got some built-in cupboards for shoes and coats and things, so I extended this wall, and it's exactly the right size for me to fit on this particular configuration of the Vitsu shelf. So I love the Vitsu, it's really practical, holds a lot of weight, and it's instantly recognisable, but also blends into any kind of interior. So this is where I have my interior books, my gardening books, my music, and some of my cocktail paraphernalia. So I'm very keen on cocktails, I have a little side hustle selling vintage cocktail glasses with a friend. So I've got a mix of modern and vintage things here, so antique decanters, and this is actually Christa's parents' cocktail shaker. And then these candlesticks are really where everything started for me in terms of mid-century design. So mid-century design wasn't really on my radar, I was very into art deco, and then I went into a shop somewhere living in Australia and they were selling mid-century furniture, and these caught my eye. They're very, very sculptural, I don't know who designed them or who made them, but they're Danish. And I bought them, really loved them, and then about two weeks later I went back to the shop and I bought a chair, and that kind of snowballed, it all spiralled from there, so I started buying a lot of mid-century furniture. The chairs are, these are vintage, I buy a lot of vintage furniture. These are Arne Jacobsen's Grand Prix chairs, they've got a really distinctive shape to them. The table, I had my builder make this for me, so we have denison wood floors throughout the house, it's a Danish company. I put those all through the house, I've used it for furniture as well, so my builder made the table for me. So on these shelves I have some of my vintage Leitch standard wear, so if you know anything about, if you're into pottery, you'll know that Bernard Leitch is considered the father of studio pottery, and he has his studio, he founded a studio in 1920 on the outskirts of St Ives, which is about 12 miles or so from us. It's still a working studio, and I've done a couple of pottery courses there, not that my pot's worth anything like that. I'm not really a huge fan of pattern, but I do like the work of Josef Frank, he was an Austrian architect and designer, and he designed for Sphinx 10 in Stockholm, so these are really, really bold, they kind of, they don't really go with anything else in the house, but he did have a theory, it'd be called accidentism, and his idea was that if you put together pieces that you love, that your interior will work, because everything just goes together, because the connection is with you. This is a throwback to my art deco days, I bought this when we were living in Australia, it's actually an English piece, it's made from walnut, and it's a cocktail cabinet, so this gets quite a bit of use. Friday night cocktails are a big thing in our house. I drink probably the same few cocktails on rotation, so martini is probably my go-to, but I'm also very fond of a spy cup, Manhattan, Negroni, anything that's easy and quick to make. So this is a piece, it's an oil painting that was given to Chris, so he used to be the captain of the Endeavour, the Australian replica of Captain Cook's ship, so he sailed around the world for 10, 11 years before the ship went to the Maritime Museum in Sydney, so this is Endeavour anchored off, I think it's Boston in Lincolnshire, so it's a really nice piece of Chris's history on the wall. The home is a farmhouse, it's quite basic, I think it would have been fairly small originally, and there are extensions out the back, so what was the original back wall, which you can see when we go into the kitchen, it's really really thick, and then people have kind of added on after that. It's got a quite a rustic feel to it, and I've tried to emphasise that with the work that I've done, so we've got a lovely wooden floor, and I've exposed stone walls, but in terms of original features, no, apart from really the fireplace in the living room, there's not much that's left that would have been here originally. So we'll head into the kitchen. So this is the original back wall of the house, and you can see it's enormously thick. Jenny, the previous owner, the lady we bought the house from, knocked all of this through to create the open plan layout, apparently there was just a serving hatch here before, and you entered the kitchen from that side at the bottom of the stairs. I had the kitchen made when we did the renovations, so the units, the carcasses, the drawers, and the base cabinets are from Ikea, and then I had my builder make some door and drawer fronts from dinison, so the same wood as my floor, but I stained it black for a bit of contrast, then he made the island for me. We've got a more utilitarian area at the back, but it's quite nice here, I've got some open plan storage, because obviously it flows through into the kitchen, so it's quite nice to have some things on display, although it is a dust magnet. So I have some pieces on here, some more pieces by Robert Welsh, so this is probably one of his most famous designs, the Hobart nutcracker, it's a really chunky piece of cast iron, and then these are a coffee set and a tea set. This is the Alveston teapot, which is known as the Aladdin lamp teapot for obvious reasons, and then a little bit more leech. People always ask about this branch, I've almost forgotten it was there, I brought it in a few years ago as a Christmas decoration and decorated it, but then I kind of forgot to take it down, and I quite quite like it there. So this is really high, it's very open in here, I think there used to be a bathroom above here from what Jenny told me, but she exposed all of the stone wall and had it pointed with lines, which I think looks lovely, and I did the same sort of thing in the staircase and in the living room as well. We had the pan rack made, so it's always good to have a relationship with local craftsmen, so a blacksmith made that for me for the pan, and he took my lids away, and each slot just fits a specific lid, so it's a really bespoke piece. This is quite a new addition, so this is a early 20th century plate rack, I bought that at a car boot sale last year, we had a fantastic car boot sale just down the road from us, so I'd actually bought it for a property we had, another holiday property we have in Penzance, but I couldn't part with it, it's so, it's so nice, and it forms a nice kind of bridge between the kitchen and the utility area, the scullery, which is next door. So this is what I call the scullery, so this replaces the extension that was taped on and had all the greenery growing into it, it's kind of the engine house of the business, so this is where we do all the practical stuff, so I grow and arrange flowers, and I put flowers in the cottages, we fill up all the shampoo and conditioner bottles, I make jam, I make scones for the guests, so this all happens in here. It's got this bank of cupboards in here, these were made from the original floorboards from the upstairs in the house, I really wanted to keep them, but there weren't that many to be honest, and I don't know whether you can see this, but they're not in great condition, they have a lot of old woodworm on them, but I really wanted to incorporate them into the house, so I got my builder to make me these cupboards. The island is a housewarming present from my parents, and then the wooden units which we have here and in the laundry area, these were actually in the kitchen when we moved in, so they're really nice units, we wanted to save them, but we needed to change the layout, so we brought them in here and painted them a really nice colour, it's called Jewel Beetle, it's a dark green, light little green. So this is a Victorian housekeeper's cupboard, I like to preserve and make jams and pickles, that sort of thing, so I keep a lot of my jars and bits of paraphernalia in there, and then the rack, the shelf with the pan rack, that was a find from a local reclamation yard, and I painted it that Jewel Beetle green just to tie in with the rest of the kitchen unit. This is my pride and joy, this is my pantry, I'd wanted one for years, so I kind of planned the whole extension around this, and it's great because there's just so much storage space and you can have like 12 different kinds of flour and not have to worry about it taking up too much space in your kitchen. People always ask about this, apparently it's a housekeeper's sink, it's just something that I picked up from a reclamation yard, apparently you sit your bucket on here, but it's just really useful for cleaning, and then I've got my collection of vintage vases, so lots of vintage Hornsea and Wedgwood, I do use them, but I just like looking at them en masse there, I think they look quite striking. If I had to describe my style I would say it was modern rustic, so I've really leaned into the wood and the stone, all of those kind of rustic textures, and then I've layered on the mid-century modern furniture, I love mid-century modern furniture, not just Scandinavian furniture, but all mid-century furniture, so I've built up quite a collection over the years, and it just sits really nicely with the kind of warm and neutral backdrop of the house. So when we moved in there wasn't a huge amount of storage in the house, so I've tried to put in as much storage as I can, that includes these cupboards here, which again we made with the dinison wood, so it's the same wood as the floor. The flooring in here is slate, it's Delabole slate, which is mined in the north of Cornwall, so I thought it was nice to have something Cornish in here. The front door was made by a friend of Chris, who's sadly no longer with us, but he was a fantastic joiner, so he made that door for us. So the shoe container where I corral all of the shoes, that's an antique dough bowl, which I picked up at a market in Cornwall, I think it's made from elm, really heavy, but it's a very handy piece for just keeping everything tucked away. So if you come through into the hallway, so the porch was quite small when we moved in, we've extended that, this is quite a big dead area, so I wanted to make it a little bit more useful, so obviously I've fitted some bookshelves in, actually that's all the overflow from my other penguins, so these are some of the different series, so the modern classics and the king penguins. My rug is from a Morocco tribal, so it's a husband and wife team who sourced vintage Moroccan rugs, and then again the stairs, more of the dinosaur wood, the staircase is actually one of my favourite features in the house, it's so wide and then it kind of curves round. So the wall is finished in the same way that the wall in the kitchen is, and that we cleaned the stone off and we had it finished with line pointing, it wasn't actually intentional, this was wall papered and when I stripped the paper off all of the plaster fell off as well, but I thought let's go with it because it looks lovely, it's got that nice texture and character and it works really well with the wood. The table I bought from a little antique shop in mid Cornwall, it's a Georgian side table, it has these kind of faux bamboo legs, so although I love mid-century furniture obviously I have a mix of pieces and I think it works quite well with the leather chair, that's another Burmese design, that's a Spanish dining chair, so it's a little bit eclectic. The lamp is from Puglia, we picked that up on our travels in Italy and then this is another vintage cast iron, this is a dish that you drop your keys in when you come back in from the outside. So when we moved in we only had one bathroom, so we wanted to put in another bathroom and we did that when we did the utility area extension. Chris loves the shower but I'm all about the bath, so I've been dreaming about having a proper deep cast iron bath for a long time, so we went for this lovely kind of batho style. The marble tiles here are also used in our bathroom upstairs in the ensuite and we use the same marble in the kitchen on the worktops and on the backsplash, so that's just again trying to create that sense of continuity through the house, reusing the same materials and again it's like these taps, so these are by a Danish brand called Bola, I've used these in the bathrooms and in the kitchen, they're unlike a brass which looks great but it's a real nightmare to clean if you want to keep them shiny, but it's like the floor, they were the kind of the things that I spotted when I was looking through magazines and really wanted, they were my big splurge items when it came to the budget, but I think if there's something that you really want you'll find a way to make it happen and then you can make savings in your budget elsewhere and they were absolutely worth it apart from the cleaning that's required. I am definitely a jack of all trades, I started out as a journalist, I did that for about 12 years, my husband is retired now but he used to work on tall ships, he's the captain of tall ships, so I lived with him in Bermuda and Australia and I was working as a journalist in Bermuda for a news website and I started to suffer from a bad back, someone suggested Pilates, so I got very into Pilates to the point where I decided I was going to retrain and I became a Pilates instructor and a personal trainer and then when we moved back to the UK in 2013 we bought a property with three holiday cottages, so most of my time is now spent running the business here and I run fitness retreats and most recently I've been doing reading retreats, so people just come and spend time hanging out reading books and chatting to fellow bookworms. So now I spend quite a bit of time on Instagram sharing my book reviews and a little bit about movies, photography from Cornwall, we live in a fantastic part of Cornwall so I'm always sharing bits and pieces from the surrounding area. The Landing is another one of those quite big, not particularly useful areas like the entrance area downstairs, so we took the loft area here which wasn't much useful so we took that out and re-revealed this beam which I think is probably one of the original beams in the back of the house and in order to try and make the space useful obviously I added a bookshelf and a chair. So this is another Maughan Textiles cushion, this is called the Shaggy Dog but to be fair I think it's more Shaggy Cat, it has quite a lot of cat hair on it and then on the other side we have a bookcase which was made originally for penguins, the penguin paperbacks, it was made by a company called Beaver Tapley. Unlike the penguin donkey which is the other penguin specific bookcase which is made by Isocon, this was apparently a commercial failure so you don't see many of these around but I actually spotted this in a local auction house so I grabbed it and I've got quite a few of my duplicate books on here. So this was a corridor when we bought the house and the entrance to the bathroom was here and it was quite a dead space so I really wanted to try and make it useful so it took me quite a while to work out how to do it, I literally had a brainwave in the middle of the night, I woke up with an idea of how we were going to do it. So we blocked the door off and we put the built-in wardrobes here so we gained lots of storage space and then I moved the entrance to the bathroom in in the bedroom so I created a kind of, for want of a better word, a suite. The bedroom is probably the lightest room in the house, we've got the windows on three sides so the cats are not allowed on the bed. The previous owner had opened up the roof space so downstairs is quite low in places but this feels really light and airy. The chandelier is French I think but we actually bought it when we were in Australia and brought it over here, this is the only room that it would work in because it's just too big to fit downstairs. It's quite a hodgepodge of furniture in here so the bed is Edwardian I think, quite nice and simple. The side tables, I've used these kind of tables elsewhere in the house, these are Danish again, these are a Severin Hansen design for Haslev and then we have rocking chair, that's an design, it's usually got clothes on it so it's actually more of a glorified clothes rack than a rocking chair. This is one of my absolute favourite pieces of furniture, this is another Bermondsen design, it's just got so much storage in it, it's fantastic, I love it. And the other thing in here that might be worth pointing out because people ask me about these a lot are the bedside lights, so these are Best Light, they are a BL6 design so they're really great especially if you like reading in bed, you can just twizzle it around so you've got some decent light for your book. So we don't have a view as such, we're in a little bit of a hollow but from here you can see the property, so the house, the main house sits at the back of the plot and then in front of it you have the barn which is now my library and then off to the left two of the holiday cottages, so they were originally farm buildings, one was a granary, I think the other one was a piggery and then in the centre of the plot we have the Pilates studio and around that we have a walled garden where I grow my cut flowers and grow some vegetables. This is our bathroom and again I've carried on the materials so the wood and the marble and the brass, the radiator is quite something, it's made by a British company called Eskimo, I have another one of their radiators in the barn with a different finish, so it's an electric radiator, they custom make it for you and you can have one of their finishes, so this is called for obvious reasons the Brassy and then we've got, you can't really see it but we've got quite a large walk-in shower here, obviously as I said earlier I'm all about the bath. It's hard to choose a favourite room, I mean I do love this room we're in now, the living room, it's very cosy particularly in the autumn and winter because we've got the wood-burning stove, a nice inglenook fireplace and I do just like to sit down and read and drink my tea. It's probably a toss-up between this and the barn which is my library and I like that for exactly the same reasons. So this is my barn library, it was quite literally falling down when we moved in, it's a granite structure at the bottom and then above that is cob which I don't know whether you know about it but it's a very old building method, so it's earth and straw and it's all compacted. It was in a very bad condition to the point where the surveyor suggested that we knocked it down, so this was actually the first piece of renovation that we did, we found a traditional line builder so we had everything stripped out and he rebuilt the crumbling wall. This back wall actually had been rebuilt at some point in the past with breeze block, it's obviously fallen down at some point and so I had that insulated with some cork boards to give the books some insulation and the plan was originally for this to be a home office but in the end Chris and I found that we were working a lot more in the house just on our laptop so it's become a bit of an indulgence really. It's a private space, generally the guests don't use it although I do open it up to people who are staying online reading retreats and it's really nice in here for coming in and sitting down and reading but also sometimes we'll eat in here and there's a set of doors that open onto the garden and we've got a little outdoor kitchen area there so it's really nice in the summer. Rather foolishly I thought that these shelves would be big enough to hold my book collection, I obviously bought a lot more books than I was anticipating so I have run out of space despite culling things. The shelves themselves are really simple, they're made from scaffolding boards so they're comparatively cheap and they're very strong so I sanded them and I painted them, they're farrow and ball mould breath and they kind of blend in with the books and as you can probably see the wall really slopes off on this side and I couldn't quite work out how we were going to make the shelves fit but my builder who I've worked with for such a long time has become a really good friend, he has an incredible sense of spatial awareness so he didn't do a template or anything he just got his jigsaw straight up the piece of scaffold board and it fits the wall so that was that was brilliant. I always really fancied a proper rolling library ladder but I never got around to it so this is just something that I picked up on eBay and it happens to align with one of these shelves, you do kind of take your life in your hands every time you go up it though and but it looks it looks nice it's got that nice kind of chunky rustic look. The chairs here are another of my favourite pieces, these are again a Bermanson design, this is called the J39 chair and in Denmark it's known as the people's chair, it's a really really iconic design, it was inspired I think by by shaker designs. It's just celebrated I think 75th anniversary of the design in the last couple of years and I think it's still going strong, it still looks really modern and it works in so many different interiors. The table is the shaker dining table by Mernson, this was a really big stuff up on my on my part, I bought it on eBay, it needed a bit of work and I thought oh I'll sand it and refinish it and I thought the top was a solid piece of wood and actually it's veneered so I sanded through the veneer and you can see the board underneath so that's why it has lots of books on it. So this is the the other end of the room that doesn't tend to get seen that much, it's usually all about the books in here but this is, there was a fireplace in this corner when we moved in but it it was quite small and it wasn't very functional so we had a really big fireplace built when we had the barn renovated and it's really nice to sit in here in the winter or the autumn, fire blazing away, a cup of tea and a book or the Sunday papers. The rug, the wall hanging, it's a Moroccan rug, just something that I picked up online and it really takes the plainness of quite a tall wall there so it was nice to decorate the thing because the walls are lime plaster which is quite soft so as soon as you start knocking nails into it it does crumble so we've attached that to one of the beams in the ceiling. One of the things that really drew us to the house was this walled garden, Chris is very keen on his vegetable growing and I've got quite into my cockpire growing as well so it's just coming to life now, we've just started planting things out but we have a lot of raised beds so around this side it's primarily vegetables and then the flowers around the other side and there's a greenhouse in the middle. So we've got some espalier trees on the wall, we have pears and cooking apples and eating apples, this will be full of raspberries shortly for this date, some nice autumn fruiting raspberries, they are always really delicious and then assorted vegetables, Chris has got beans going and then actually that enormous kind of pointy structure over there is my sweet pea support. On this side we've got herbs, all sorts of things in here, I don't know what half of them are but they're pretty good when you're cooking so you can just pop out and grab whatever you need. So the greenhouse isn't very pretty but it is quite big which is great because we can grow all sorts of things in here, we've got all our seedlings growing away ready to go out, I've got Chris in the garden digging up one of my garden beds. I think when you have space like this it's fantastic, it's great to grow all your own stuff but it really got me into the cut flowers so I started doing them for the guests checking into our cottages and then I thought I have all of this space so I started growing my own so growing a lot of stuff from seed and it's quite work but it's also quite therapeutic and then obviously you've got a really nice payoff at the end when you get to arrange your flowers. The previous owner did a really good job of creating a separate area for each of our holiday cottages so this is Smuggler's Remus that's tucked in here and she did a lot of planting including this ridiculous thing, it's Gunnera, it's a South American plant, it's absolutely enormous, it's not fully grown yet, there's a lot of subtropical planting here, I don't love it particularly, I like a lot more kind of cottage garden style but this is just so nice for the guests because you don't see this in a lot of the UK but it likes the Cornish climate, it likes the mild climate and the damp so it does really really well here. This is my studio so it was a tractor shed apparently originally and then the previous owner of the house was an artist and it was her artist studio and then I turned it into a pilates studio and personal training space. We've put down a proper sprung floor so if you want to do any jumping about it's really kind on your joints and I used to teach three days a week full-time but since Covid our cottages went mad with the booking so that's kind of become a full-time job although I still do sessions with the guests and I've run some fitness retreats as well. It's just such a nice light space, it's a joy to be in here and to spend some time working out. A home is, it's more than bricks and mortar, it's about the people so it's about your family and your friends and it's also about the things that you you fill it with so your possessions, things that you've collected on your travels, things that you've brought together. A good home should make you feel comfortable and relaxed and safe and it should also be an expression of your personality and the way that you choose to live. Thanks for watching, be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides and so much more.