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39 Comments
Yes!! Ghibli films inspire me SO MUCH. Also, the books Anne of Green Gables and A Little Princess.
YES! The real Borrowers! I thought I was crazy because THAT movie is what I think of when people say the Borrowers and no one remembers it, I thought I made it up in my head! I was born in 1973, so I am sure I watched when I was younger but forgot about it for the most part. I think this was why my grandpa made me a doll house that I still have! We had the Woodsey Squirrel Log House, loved it! My sister still has it.
The new Wallace & Grommit film just got nominated for a BAFTA today. Yeah!
Very new to following you on youtube , but already a huge fan as I love retro and vintage !!!
Shawn the sheep for me ( who wants Designer Handbag when u can have a Shawn the Sheep Handbag 😂)
Keep ur lovely videos coming xx
Yes the dens in their trees, I thought the same thing. They had all the things we do. ❤
Love the film Housewife 49
But adore the illustrations in all the Shirley Hughes children’s books. Magical.
Definitely a Grommet. 😂 I live in suburban St. Louis, Missouri USA, and I love nothing more than puttering around in my garden and kitchen.
I absolutely loved the Borrower books as a child. To this day I think about what they could do with little things that I see here and there. ❤
I still read the the Brambly hedge books! And I have a farmhouse type cottage on the 4th floor complete with fake beams. Visitors are always surprised when they walk through the front door! You can create a rustic and cozy home no matter where you live. Love your channel ❤
Dear Hannah,i love All creatures great and small,Peter Rabbit and Paddington(the original film). They show us that special inside of an english house,and the gardens, places and areas…i love the Brown's (Paddington)house. I wish my house was a bit like that maybe in the countryside…oh that would be so cute,but then Yorkshire and All creatures great and small is a very lovely place too 🏡🥰. I love that video very much,thank you😊.
This is such a cozy video ❤thank you so much for this ❤❤
I grew up in the 1970s
1990s in coastal New England. I lived near Salem MA and learned about maritime trade of spices and ceramics from China, Indonesia, and beyond. I found sea glass but it was seablue Willow pottery when I was a kid. MY grandparents were world travelers and between the 1980s obsession with Little House on the Prairie, Holly Hobby, my grandparents home filled with finds from all over Asia, my home is a definitely eclectic mix that I call maritime colonial- as I have inherited furniture from Southeast Asia and my New England coastal childhood. But the toys you mentioned (my daughters have them I think they might be called Woodsies or Woodland Families here? Their precursors in the 1980s was a toy called Woodsies- where a family of squirrels lived in a log house and when you opened the side of the soft log the inside was a house with a fireplace and welsh cupboard and it came with a story about being caught in a thunder storm and little fake wooden(rubber?) furniture. It was my favorite toy when I was 10 years old. It was the absolute coziest!I am old enough to be your grandma, I'm sure! Nonetheless, i so appreciate you, your aesthetic, and your advocacy of simplicity and slowing down. You are a wise woman! And I am grateful for your affirmation of what has always been my style. Now I have a name for it, cottage core, preserving and cherishing the treasures and ethos of our forbears, while keeping oneself planted in modern times. Thanks for all you do, Hannah. I look forward to visiting with you each week. (And I also believe there are living rooms in the rabbit holes!)
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Anne of Green Gables was what did it for me when i was a girl!
Gday there. This was enchanting. First time I have commented on here from this channel, as frustratingly, my other channel was not showing my comments on peoples vlogs, yet I could still see my comments, took a bunch of time for it to occur to me, that people were not seeing my comments, no idea why it does that. I have watched all your videos almost from when you first started 😀
Anyways, Beatrix Potter has always had my heart. Norman Warne was Beatrix' first love, he sadly & suddenly passed away at only 37 in 1905, they were going to be married, nobody publically knew that they secretly engaged, so heartbreaking. Beatrix married later in life to William Heelis. Beatrix owned many farms & bequeathed them to the National trust, so for future generations the lands are left as natural & not redeveloped on & for people & nature to enjoy. I have been to Hill top farm in the Lake District. Beatrix was an excellent painter & many other things as well I have the film on DVD & an array of Beatrix books 😀 Right there with you about all the adorable animals & imagining their burrows are just like Beatrix created 💙
Goodnight Mr Tom with the wonderful late actor John Thaw was a wonderful movie (I have on DVD) as you said, the story was very emotional in places. The setting where they filmed is called Turville, in Buckinghamshaire, which is where they also fimled the 1940 movie, Went The Day Well, I also have on DVD. The cottages are just stunning & have remained unchanged for many, many years. 😀
I also have seen the comedy Clarence many times (I have on DVD) with the lates Ronnie Barker & Josephine Tewson. The cottage their home is set in is very typical of the time 😀
I know you have seen the 1940s House TV show, do you have the book as well? Did you ever watch the 1900s house, The Edwardian house & the Coal House seasons they did? Then of course the farm shows with Ruth Goodman & Co 1940s farm, Edwardian farm, Victorian 😀There are SO many places, shows & books, history is just wonderful. Do you follow on here & IG, Through Lucy's Lens? You might like Lucy's videos 😀 Thanku so very much for sharing as always 💙 Ana. xx
So charming ❤️ Love that you're not waiting for the perfect circumstances or location to style your house the way you want. ❤ Inspiring!
Idk of you've noticed when you showed Wallace and Gromits kitchen….they had your stove even a plate warmer!
And quit a few Ghibli films are set in like the 40s/50s so some of the home interiors are similar to yours!
🪄 "This house into a beautiful beloved home!"
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE LITERARY WORLDS OF MOTHER GOOSE FAIRYTALES 🩷 BEATRIX POTTER 💚, and CHARLES DICKENS 💙❕️
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Team Gromit 👍🏻
❤❤❤Love this video!
I understand what you mean about W&G, it feels comforting in your home because it's likely it reminds you of your grandparents home? It certainly does for me, when I look at your home and specifically the kitchen, I'm a child again and my grandmother is cooking and I'm watching and eating my breakfast etc., I remember in the winter every morning she would get twigs and paper to light the wood fired stove. Honestly I love your kitchen so thank you so much for the beautiful reminder. 🙂💛
Ahhhh Wallace and Gromit are my favourite.
Australian here and I was counting down the days hours and minutes for the new movie.
Only complaint- Gromit needed to do more knitting.
I am Grommet ! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Love your home😊
The Burrow from Harry Potter is my dream home!
Oh yes the sylvania characters! I had those for my daughter when she was young and oh i wish we had them now. So precious!
I adore Wallace And Gromit and I so see the inspiration in your home
Have you ever come across the books "The Tales of Brambly Hedge" by Jill Barklem? I think you would love the style of these as they also have fully equipped houses within the trees. My mum read these to me when I was younger and they are very similar to Beatrix Potter, with beautiful illustrations!
as fare as the stair rail that's an easy fix. fax paint the white brackets an antique bronze or brass and you notice a awful lot of difference right there you could go ahead and darken the wooden rail just painting the white brackets and antique bronzer bra is going to have them blend in and that's all you need as far as I can see why you have that very old antique key 1920s to 1940s look I remember growing up
I really love what you have done to your house especially your kitchen,just love it and I really love the 1930’s green teapot on your dresser x
I grew up on Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter. Raised my kids with these plus The Little House book and Little House on the Prairie books and series plus Wallace and Grommit and Arnold Lobel and Eric Carle.
Of course I watched some of Call of the Midwife and way too much Jane Austen…
Last year I felt compelled to buy some tiny felted critters dressed as BP characters. I had no idea why (but they were $2.50 for about 12 of them)!
NOW I understand.
My new kitchen is c 1918-28.
Complete vintage masterpiece. People think it was always here. ❤
I have a claw foot tub (stand alone bath) and wall hung sink in there and everyone says, „ I expected to see a pull chain toilet!“
Lol maybe I need one too😂❤
You should check out Tasha Tudor. I think it would be a real treat for you. I love her books and cards and all the books about her garden and new/old house and also her puppets and doll house.
https://youtu.be/HaMeSrynug0?si=8IuA1zfi5uV2FKjs
Shirley Hughes children's books – Alfie and Annie Rose, loved the drawings of Their house when reading them to my kids. Father Brown's house (and the clothes they wear).
I went for the poverty stricken suburbanite look for my house, think early Eastenders and I’m doing it well 😂
Love your Channel, from Clinton, MA USA. I love your house and so insterested in the homes in the UK during the 40's. I live in a house built in 1904, but decorated 1930's/1940s. I have always been interested in in that time period. "Brighton Beach Memoirs" is a movie that I used to watch all the time as a kid and when I go back now and see it, I can see things that were in that house that I have now without connecting when I bought them, that they were in that movie. "Hope and Glory" is a movie I love about the war in England.