A Touch Of Magic In A Little Yorkshire Cottage

Hello from Pocket Cottage, a rather sweet name for a rather small house, don't you think? We are in Stillington, a small and very charming village in North Yorkshire. Pocket Cottage is a Georgian cottage dating back to 1746, right on the village high street. quite something to think about how much this little house must have seen over the centuries and how many generations have called it home but what makes Pocket Cottage particularly special is what lies behind its front door. Okay come on in I'll show you everything and I think you will really really love it because we do. This is very very British to have like a curtain in front of of the door because It just helps to keep the cottage warm. Welcome to the sitting room slash dining room. All in one because it's such a tiny cottage. The name Pocket Cottage does do it justice. It's almost like a doll's house. So adorable. But we love it so much. And as mentioned, this house dates back to 1746. So it's Georgian. And what you can see here. It's the original Ingle Nook, makes it so characterful. Also the low ceilings, has to be like that. And well we have a wood burner here. The cottage is very colourful, playful, like a doll's house come to life. So where to start? Well the colour here, I don't know if you can see it, it's a very dusty pink and that's Edward Bulmer. John Quill, we love Edward Bulmer. I think they have such amazing colors and plastic free. We can really recommend them. This banquette, I think it makes such great use of the space. See? Also here, wood. I really love the curtains and the blinds. They are vintage. So I don't know the brand. It could be Colfax & Fowler, but it's beautiful. I love a floral fabric because to me So quintessentially British and this here is something I really love as well. Look at this leopard fabric. This is vintage Colfax and Fowler. Isn't it great? I just can't get over the banquette because it's almost like you are in a pub but it's in a cottage and I love that. Throughout the cottage you see a mix of old and new which I always love. All the blankets are vintage and this here is a favorite of mine and well you know what I will tell you in the next room this pattern here because it's something I discovered recently. The next room is my favorite A doll's kitchen come to life literally. Look at this. The tiniest kitchen and it almost feels Like a pantry but it is a kitchen and it's so beautiful and actually this is my favorite fabric. It's vintage and actually it started the entire theme here for the downstairs. So also here on the walls is John Quill but my favorite bit is the color of the kitchen. See it's yellow and this is Farrow & Ball. I love. I just love a yellow kitchen and look at the floor. So the checkerboard floor is hand-painted. See, this is, they are Farrow & Ball colours. I think it works so well with the yellow. Isn't this just adorable? Throughout the cottage are hand-painted details and all of the colours are little green colours. This, isn't this... Beautiful. See, I actually forgot to show you this. So before you enter the kitchen, another hand painted detail. And this kitchen is tiny, but we have a big range cooker. We have a dishwasher, a microwave. And I just love all the details, all the lights. It makes it so Incredibly cozy. Such a cosy kitchen and... This is the fridge. Very small. You know what I just think that this dusty pink works so well with yellow. It looks absolutely beautiful. Behind the kitchen lies the garden room. That is such a highlight. Hi Jörg. Hello. So we have a garden room. A very tiny one. But look at this. I love this. Behind the garden This is the small courtyard but look at this. Okay, it's so hard to film because everything is so tiny. And this here is vintage Laura Ashley, a rosebud fabric which I love so much. Look at this. This is a lamp. Reminds me of Beatrix Potter. So this is a fabric. By a brand that I have come across very recently. I showed you the pillow in the sitting room. This is called Sporty Stripe. Okay Ottoline is an amazing Dutch brand based in London founded by Ottoline de Vries. Not 100% sure about the pronunciation but her style is incredibly playful and colourful and well if you don't know her I will put the link down below in the info box and also other links like wall colours and fabrics so if you want to know more check out the info box below the video. But this to me is so unexpected to have a garden room in such a tiny cottage. I just hope you like it because we absolutely adore it. The yellow just makes me happy and you even have quite a lot of work top considering It's just adorable. Jörg decided to sit by the fire because he just likes it. He likes to be very hot and I nearly forgot to show you something. This here is the laundry room. Look at this. Even space for a washing machine. And I nearly forgot to show you something else. I think you will love it. This here is our cottage mouse called Minnie. It's not real but I love it. Let's go upstairs and yes, this is the door that brings you upstairs. I know it's so deceiving. Before I go upstairs, look here. More gorgeous hand-painted detail. Look at this. Isn't that beautiful? Where to start? Well, first of all, This is another Gorgeous antique fabric and actually clothes hanging here and you know what plenty of space. So this here is the same vintage fabric as this one so much. Let's go into the small bedroom first. See so many details. So this is the small bedroom. I love it. It's a great color scheme. A very Pale blue on the walls. The fabric here is beautiful. This is a GP&J Baker fabric. I love GP&J Baker. And it's called Caspian. As you can see, Persian park scenes. Beautiful. So hard to film in these small spots, but I love it. And see, also here, the very same fabric. Great on a chair, doesn't it? The size of the cottage. It's a great bedroom. I really hope you like it. Another favourite of mine. Be happy. Beautiful vintage blanket. Getting out of the bedroom is somewhat challenging because as you can see we have the staircase right here. So through here is the bigger bedroom which feels so airy and spacious. It's not big but it feels quite big if that makes sense and it has a little It's a little bit of a Wild West feeling, because, well. Because of the pictures and then also because of the headboard it's a bit of a tribal fabric I really really love and what makes this room a bit almost I think it gives it a bit of an American feel because the entire room is it has panelling also the ceiling the ceilings are quite high. I love this bedroom some antiques here it's really great and also Big window. So it's very bright in here. I completely forgot to show you something because this cottage is obviously listed because it's so old you are not allowed to change the windows. But what we do here in the UK is like we attach like a secondary window if you can call it You can keep out the draft if that makes sense. So yeah, that's a solution to work with here in the UK. This room is really great, isn't it? I think the high ceilings just give it a different feel. And now you need to see the bathroom because that's really nice too. Small but lovely. The bathroom. Yellow, black and white. To me, very timeless. And this yellow... This is a yellow that I love so much. It's from Farrow and Ball called, called, sorry, Sudbury yellow. And I love it with the tiles. It's beautiful. It's such a tiny bathroom. I think it's very elegant. Still, details. This is something that I really enjoy showing on our channel. You don't need a big space to make it beautiful. You can see what you can achieve. Stunning and adorable. Well, I still need to show you the courtyard. It's very tiny and you can't really sit outside now. Still, the courtyard. Oh, no, it's still raining. Well, I have to be quick. So, as you can see, you can sit here with four people. We have a barbecue grill. It's a great size, honestly. It really is. So. This is the view from here and I need to go back inside because it's raining. Sorry about that. We always get a lot of comments whether you can hear the neighbours because in the UK lots of cottages are terraced cottages, Victorian terraced houses. You can't hear a thing here because I think the cottage is so old the walls are very thick and that's great. We can't hear a thing. There's another interesting fact about Stillington, so the village that we are in. Laurence Sterne used to live here, and he was the vicar here. So the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman, he wrote, I'd never read it, I must admit, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, and he was the vicar here in the local church for quite some time, I think for more than 20 years. And later he moved to Shandy Hall in Coxwold. It's very nearby. We went there last year, filmed it for YouTube. We stumbled upon it by accident. It's such a lovely village, so I will link that for you as well. Currently going for a little walk here in Stillington. It's raining, but um... We just want to have a look around, and tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday, which is why you see these poppies everywhere. Yes, and it's a remembrance of, let's say, the soldiers who gave their lives for King Country, and so that we can live in peace. Yes, and… The, maybe if you don't know it, the symbol of the red poppy is... Yeah, it dates to the poppies on the fields of Flanders. Yes, and it's a very important day here. And I'm always moved very much. Me too, me too. Especially because I served. Yes. Opposite St. Nicholas Church is the post office and a little village store. Next to it... ...is a cottage that's probably currently being refurbished. There are beautiful cottages throughout the village. Oh, yeah. How about this one? Yeah. That would be nice. That would be a dream. Let's see. There's a library in a telephone booth. Okay. It's quite full, isn't it? Yeah. Wow. Actually, I see these more and more in Germany as well. They do it there as well. I mean, it's a very good idea. Does anything take your fancy? I don't know. Interestingly. John Cushion. No, but that might be interesting. It's a Japanese author. Yeah, that's true. OK, next to the telephone booth is Stillington's Primary School and Nursery. I just wanted to show you the building. Really loves this one. Oh, yes, it's beautiful. And the right, the right one is gorgeous as well. And you know what? It's November and look at the roses. The roses are still in bloom. Yeah. Definitely a baby sink, but suits this cottage. Looks good. Oh, yes, it does. This looks so good. The cheese has the perfect colour. Yes. Fake shepherd's pie. With green beans and, yeah. And yolk. I mean, well done. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. It's a night to celebrate. Yes. It's bonfire night. So we've never shared it on our channel, but it's such a British tradition. So on November 5th, but today is actually November 7th. So November 5th. Yeah. Yeah. Since November 5th, 1605, you have Bonfire Night, Yeah. Yeah. and it remembers the failed assassination of the King when he was visiting the Parliament a year before. Yes, King James I. So Guy Fawkes and his other conspirators tried to blow up Westminster Parliament. We celebrated here. Because that wasn't a bonfire. Now we have a bonfire now. Can you imagine? They celebrate this. Yes, they celebrate that it didn't happen because the king was saved. That's true. Yeah. Yes. So let's have a look at Stirling. Guys, we have the worst weather. But yeah, we are in the UK. It's fine. This is going to be huge. Oh my gosh, it's so hot. Yeah. It keeps you warm. It's huge. Yeah. Huge. Yeah. Very hot. I had to move away because it's so warm here. I don't know the English word for it, but in German we have some kind of music which is called Blasmusik. From here, it sounds like it, but it's not. It's like music that you would hear in Bavaria. Hum ta ta, hum ta ta. Really good. Reminds me of New Year's Eve. Yeah. It's bad luck. Yeah. Come on. Schön. Let's come again. Like, by the faith. This, to me, was like New Year's Eve. Yeah. It was a bit like, yeah, New Year. Exactly. This is what we have in Germany, but it's not a thing in the UK, so this for me. Yes. Guy Fawkes is New Year's Eve for us. Yeah. It's like New Year's Eve. That's why I said. It was good. It was fun. Good morning. Good morning. It was fun. Good morning. Good morning. So, we came to a very tiny village in the North Yorkshire National Park. Yes, Hutton-le-Hole. Yes, we've never been, and it looks very nice. Yeah. And it just crossed my mind. And while Jörg is called Sausage Roll, so that's his second name as a German. Yeah, Jörg Sausage Roll Wick. My name is... I don't know. Mrs. T. Because I love tea. So we passed our British citizenship tests. And if we don't get the citizenship because of that, I don't know what's happening in this country. We'll see. We are quite British, I think. We have become quite British. It looks like such a nice village, doesn't it? Yeah, very nice. Most of the cottages were built between 1650 and 1750. And I find it so picturesque with the stream in between, just in the middle of the village, running through the village. It's gorgeous. No sausage roll for Jörg. Mr. Sausage Roll has a cappuccino. Yeah, because they had no sausage rolls. And so, I mean, as you can see, we went to a tea room here in Hutton Le Hole, and this is banoffee cake. Mrs. T has tea. Yeah. Very hot one. Do you want to know my favourite thing about Haddon Hall? She'd walk around freely in the village. It's so beautiful. A cottage. And before we leave, we want to have a cup of tea and a nice fire. This tea, Highgrove loose leaf tea. I would like to buy a refill. The Highgrove shop only sell the entire tin. So what we do is, we just fill it up with other Earl Grey tea. I just love Earl Grey. My favourite German treat, Lebkuchen. So, it's not, well, we are very careful because we don't want to spoil Christmas for us. Yeah. But we saw these, or Jörg, because I don't have these. Well, you saw them at Lidl. Yeah, Lebkuchen, gingerbread rounds. Oh, delicious. I just love them. Oh, Schokolade. You know, this makes me nostalgic. When I see these it brings me back right to my heart. Yeah, my grandma had these. My parents, we have those at home. Yeah, you use them for dessert. But very simple desserts for like apricots in a tin or not apricots um... Peaches. Peaches. Peaches and with some cream, whipped cream. Yes. We discovered something in a shop and this is... Almond flour and it's Italian. How do you pronounce it? Ricciarelli, maybe. I don't know. We have to leave. Yes, it's Sunday evening and we have to go home. Yes, we love this cottage. I'm not It's so lovingly done, isn't it? Yes, it's so cosy. Yes, I will. sure I don't know, I have fallen in love with the tiniest kitchen ever. Yeah. if you But I'm sure when you're at home, you will love our kitchen again. I will probably appreciate it even more to have more space. can So we hope you like this video. hear Thank you so much for watching. And as always, we'll see you again very soon. Until next time. me. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye-bye.