Julie's probably one of the hardest working Americans married to a Brit living in the United Kingdom I think perhaps I've ever seen. America sends warm greeting to Julie and her lovely family for a healthy,prosperous new year.
Why not make the bathroom upstairs a J̌ack and Jill bathroom. Leaving the large window whole in the main area with a pretty tub and shower section. With a toilet sink/vanity /mirror on either side of that central with the bath tub and shower. Of course, lockable doors between rooms.
Julie you can be totally ruthless cutting back the wall growth to the ground, believe me it will grow back next season then you can train it to grow to a manageable height.
Dust mites and microscopic house fungal spores invisible. If you break out on a rash you'll know too. Wear a dust mask definitely. Best wishes and really looking forward to up and coming videos on this cottage renovation . Sooo exciting.
The only thing wrong with a classic fixture with beautiful hot and cold water taps, is that you can have hot water, and you can have cold water, but you'll never have warm water from your taps. That's how it was when I moved into my 1925 house. I had to change it, and pretty quickly.
Julie I know you are working so very hard.. You help bring out the Beautiful Culture of the Cottage..I hope to stay there one day..we just moved and settling in..much appreciated your videos
Beautifully done! Julie, it's not just gardening gloves you need, but also WORK GLOVES!!! You will notice that the craftsmen wear them. You should, too! (I am speaking from experience here. Save your hands as much as possible.) Also, use tools as much as possible to lessen the stress and strain on your hands. You will be glad one day if you do and if you don't, you will suffer the pains in later years from overuse and strain on your joints. Word of experience here....
I’m loving this and wish I could come over and help ! I’m a hard-working, widowed American retired and love doing this sort of thing. I love to garden and the garden there is going to be needing some time and help and I can’t wait to see what you’re gonna do out there with the garden around the cottage. Its all going to be so beautiful. I’m enjoying watching and looking forward to seeing your progress and learning with you!❤
Julie I love your enthusiasm for giving the cottage a look that is complimentary to its English past but bringing it to life for today’s holiday people! Looking at the big trees surrounding the cottage, maybe it’s time to have a cut back or trim to open up the grounds. ❤️❤️
Greetings from across the pond. Here in the US, the molding at the top of the wall is called: crown molding or cornice. Molding 3 to four feet on the wall is called chair rail, and at the bottom of the wall is base board . The trim around door is called door casing, door trim, or architrave molding . The smaller trim on the wall for picture is picture molding or box trim or picture rail. If the wall is covered with 3 to four feet high wood, the wood is called: wainscoting the trim on top is chair rail. I hope this helps
My dad is a contractor, he calls it Chair Railing if it runs around the center here in America (it is also called picture railing when dropped from the ceiling I see online). I have it in my house at the moment.
I’ve not come across rails going along the walls at that height here in the US but many of our late Victorian and early 29th century homes have what we call chair rails along walls. They are at about the height where the top of a high back chair would touch on the wall.
JULIE PLEASE!!! ive been wondering what you did about the gap in the bathroom window when you put up the wall to make 2 rooms? PLEASE i need to know...
I love the idea of the project, but I have to say I wish you would go with a different interior designer who isn't afraid of color and character (hey, props for the orange chair). There's very little left, but I do have a very kitch style--which I think is PERFECT for cottages and particularly ones that guests will stay in! The kitchen tile was so good. 😭Valiant effort to you all, though.
Loved this video!!!! I was wondering what was happening with this cottage. It's been a long time since we saw anything on it. This was a nice and long video and we got to see so much of the process. Julie, you were right on there lending a hand where you could. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
LOVE THIS HOUSE!! Another fine job to all who worked on this project! Well done once again!! Thank you for all of your hard work Julie, Malcolm et al!! Fantastic!!
What a darling darling little cottage. Love the side and back yards. They have such potentialbince you tame it. I think I can move in whenever you give me the go! It was fun seeing you working all alone. That's the way I love to work but enjoy working with a crew too. So let me know!!✈️
Pulling out those old moldy carpets must have been miserable for Julie!!! I was also thinking "you need a mask!" the whole time. Pulling carpet is a nasty, painful job! I don't think any of the workmen wore masks for this renovation, which seems unusual. Maybe they did off camera.
Looks amazing, love thwt you can go to the storage unit and find furniture to use , love the table and side tables . Reuse repurpose, I’m not a fan of curtains hanging on the floors , even if it is the style , they always get dirty and dusty
Hello Julie, I was wondering,,,, as a fellow American who has always wanted to visit the U.K., would you and Luke consider having a raffle for all your American fans/subscribers to win a trip for 2 to stay at one of your cottages? Just a thought. Anyway, I love all the hard work you both are putting into preserving history! Love your channel!
Julie, I could spend the rest of my life in that sweet cottage! Tips from an old pro.... Make it easy on yourself when removing carpet...get a utility knife and cut it up into manageable pieces so you don't have to wrestle it. Also, I've found that I'd rather have hardwood floors but when it's been the case that I could not, I've used wall-to-wall seagrass which is a natural product. I would then put a big rug on top of that. Altho I used to sell high-end carpets, I would never have a wall-to-wall nylon carpet in any home I live in. It gets gross after awhile. With rugs, I have them rolled up and taken away to be cleaned once in a while. Wool carpets are the best. Also, I'm allergic to almost everything. Dust mites are the worst! Once all that gross carpet is gone, it'll be a lot better. Maybe take a benedryl before you start back on that carpet job and wear a mask. I don't know how far along you are on this bathroom job but do your guests a favor and do not get the separate faucets for hot and cold. To get warm water, you must fill up the sink or bath to the temp you want. That's so 40s. Get a faucet that has both hot and cold coming from the same spout. I too like the hot and cold ceramic writing on the faucet, you just don't want separate faucets for each temp. And as a former, carpenter, builder, designer, owner, and remodeler of an old home.... you must have a good cordless screwdriver. It's essential and invaluable. As far a picture rails, I don't think we have them here (at least not on new buildings). It would seem to me that those were used to have wires or chains for hanging pictures because you can't put a nail thru stone to hang pictures? Not sure. We have chair rails, but those are lower and are to keep chairs from marring the walls. Myrtle was my grandmother's name
@@kristinedunner988 That's absolutely right but she was talking about black anyway. Personally, I wouldn't go that dark unless you want to clean every floor everyday.
Don't worry, Julie knows how to hit back although I thought her remark about Luke being plain and boring like his shoes bordered on the sarcastic, quite unpleasant. Even Malcolm winced.
Love the greens! A suggestion: for artwork, maybe you could showcase some local artists … the artworks could be for sale also - with a commission to you of course 😊😊
Thought putting a pocket door for the upstairs bedroom. (Built behind the closet that you plan in putting on that same wall) What a fun and challenging project. It will be amazing when completed.
To answer the question on picture railing or whatever the picture molding was called. I have always heard it as picture/frame rails when I worked in a small gallery in the American South. I think it is also called hanging rails or picture hanging rails. I do know in the past probables 40yrs in many public schools and in some college dorms there has been the practice of using a cork strip in place of picture rails which is usually called a cork railing. However I grew up in the American south which imo uses more British than American English compared to the rest of the US so I could be very wrong. 1:32:49
If you’re going to change out the hardware on the doors, I would like to buy some. I have an 100 yr old milk house that the handle broke and I need to replace them. Let me know.
Beautiful grounds. Beautiful cottage. I wish there was more of a kitsch style used with these old cottages--especially ones that will be guest houses. You could lean way more into the Hunter/Keeper's Cottage idea if you weren't afraid of more unique details, and it would be more appealing and grab more traffic if it had a more unique flair in my opinion. I was very sad to see some of the little details go, but I do admire your efforts, all of you.
Viscountess you have all done such a wonderful job, is this now on Air BnB yet? Your taste and styles of interior decorations blends in with the area and ambiance of Mapperton.
Juli, you look much better in red than in sad green/brown onesie, which you could let go for good. The red onsie was not too large, but suitably loose where appropriate. Not all clothing needs to be tight or looks the best when tight. Your red onsie looked just right. --M.Arch.
Funny! Here in California, if one pronounces the word "soldering" the way the written word appears (by saying it with the letter "L" sound), one might expect to be corrected, and instructed to say it as if it were "sawdering". Julie said it as "sawdering", and it was mentioned to her that the "L" should be pronounced, the way the written word appears.
Question about the Biopool - you probably saw on the Mapperton Channel that the biggest issue they had with their pool, was when they forgot to turn off the inlet and I think they had issues with ground water leaking in in various places as well and the pool filled up continuously with new nutrient rich water - and they had a big algae outbreak. With your biopool being spring fed, have you got a similar way to mitigate the continuous fresh nutrient rich water coming into it - some sort of diversion pipework/valves? I imagine it is something you have spoken about with David Pagan Butler - I am just interested - maybe if the water isn’t coming off fertilised farmland, it doesn’t have quite the same issues?
This episode is terrific. I wondered what was happening at Keeper's Cottage. Thanks for the upload. Wow, to quote Barack Obama, Julie, you have a right to 'bare arms'.
I think you mean to "bear arms": 1. to carry or be equipped with weapons. 2. to serve as a combatant in the armed forces. But you can also bear arms with bare arms.
I have cast iron sink with small yellow stain. It reappears now and then after I used hydrochloric acid on just the stain. Open windows first and pour directly from bottle and after a couple of minutes just wipe it off. You must maintain sink between tenants with bleach. Just spray on and let it sit. Anytime a dish is left to sit on the stain area; it will reappear. 😅
Julie's probably one of the hardest working Americans married to a Brit living in the United Kingdom I think perhaps I've ever seen. America sends warm greeting to Julie and her lovely family for a healthy,prosperous new year.
by now she is a brit.. former American..lol
@@4dbakAND WE ARE BRITISH NOT BRITS, THANKYOU WE HAVE THE GOOD MANNERS TO CALL YOU AMERICANS NOT YANKS.🇬🇧
She's my inspiration.
Only an American would call it 'a fairytale cottage', its a very sweet house, I look forward to watching the journey Julie
I think you both need to stay in your guest cottages and rooms at least once. It would be a nice staycation for you both ❤
Why not make the bathroom upstairs a J̌ack and Jill bathroom. Leaving the large window whole in the main area with a pretty tub and shower section. With a toilet sink/vanity /mirror on either side of that central with the bath tub and shower. Of course, lockable doors between rooms.
Julie you can be totally ruthless cutting back the wall growth to the ground, believe me it will grow back next season then you can train it to grow to a manageable height.
Malcolm is truly a gem! Juli and Malcolm together create beautiful places. Luke makes me smile. You all are lovely people.
Dust mites and microscopic house fungal spores invisible. If you break out on a rash you'll know too. Wear a dust mask definitely. Best wishes and really looking forward to up and coming videos on this cottage renovation . Sooo exciting.
The only thing wrong with a classic fixture with beautiful hot and cold water taps, is that you can have hot water, and you can have cold water, but you'll never have warm water from your taps. That's how it was when I moved into my 1925 house. I had to change it, and pretty quickly.
Sorry but the orange chair is ghastly!
@@cherylbutler446 Why are you answering to that commenter?
Oh!! I am feeling Sense and Sensibility vibes!!!!! Can’t wait to see that yard mowed, how adorable! ❤
Julie I know you are working so very hard.. You help bring out the Beautiful Culture of the Cottage..I hope to stay there one day..we just moved and settling in..much appreciated your videos
Omg! Your jumpsuit is stunning. It looks fabulous on you! Oh yeah, the cottage is adorable!
Beautifully done! Julie, it's not just gardening gloves you need, but also WORK GLOVES!!! You will notice that the craftsmen wear them. You should, too! (I am speaking from experience here. Save your hands as much as possible.) Also, use tools as much as possible to lessen the stress and strain on your hands. You will be glad one day if you do and if you don't, you will suffer the pains in later years from overuse and strain on your joints. Word of experience here....
Best of luck to you and everyone involved in the Mapperton Estates and Gardens ❤
I’m loving this and wish I could come over and help ! I’m a hard-working, widowed American retired and love doing this sort of thing. I love to garden and the garden there is going to be needing some time and help and I can’t wait to see what you’re gonna do out there with the garden around the cottage. Its all going to be so beautiful. I’m enjoying watching and looking forward to seeing your progress and learning with you!❤
So smart for Julie to know exactly what everyone is suppose to do and how they are to accomplish it. It will be money well spent.
Julie I love your enthusiasm for giving the cottage a look that is complimentary to its English past but bringing it to life for today’s holiday people! Looking at the big trees surrounding the cottage, maybe it’s time to have a cut back or trim to open up the grounds. ❤️❤️
I would have absolutely loved the floor stained. All that work, just to paint it black.
❤ love watching you renovate this beauty.
Greetings from across the pond. Here in the US, the molding at the top of the wall is called: crown molding or cornice. Molding 3 to four feet on the wall is called chair rail, and at the bottom of the wall is base board . The trim around door is called door casing, door trim, or architrave molding . The smaller trim on the wall for picture is picture molding or box trim or picture rail. If the wall is covered with 3 to four feet high wood, the wood is called: wainscoting the trim on top is chair rail. I hope this helps
My dad is a contractor, he calls it Chair Railing if it runs around the center here in America (it is also called picture railing when dropped from the ceiling I see online). I have it in my house at the moment.
I’ve not come across rails going along the walls at that height here in the US but many of our late Victorian and early 29th century homes have what we call chair rails along walls. They are at about the height where the top of a high back chair would touch on the wall.
JULIE PLEASE!!! ive been wondering what you did about the gap in the bathroom window when you put up the wall to make 2 rooms? PLEASE i need to know...
It's a 3 panel window. They will give the center window over to the wall and reframe a window on each side.
@@susananthony2366 OOOOH makes perfect sense ...TY!
I’m with @kellyburgess671. I hope they didn’t waste all that light in a wall and put in some kind of glass tile or something. 🤞🏻
Love watching you and Luke. The work you both do is amazing!
Looks amazing. Well done team. ❤
I love the idea of the project, but I have to say I wish you would go with a different interior designer who isn't afraid of color and character (hey, props for the orange chair). There's very little left, but I do have a very kitch style--which I think is PERFECT for cottages and particularly ones that guests will stay in! The kitchen tile was so good. 😭Valiant effort to you all, though.
Loved this video!!!! I was wondering what was happening with this cottage. It's been a long time since we saw anything on it. This was a nice and long video and we got to see so much of the process. Julie, you were right on there lending a hand where you could. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
LOVE THIS HOUSE!! Another fine job to all who worked on this project! Well done once again!! Thank you for all of your hard work Julie, Malcolm et al!! Fantastic!!
What a darling darling little cottage. Love the side and back yards. They have such potentialbince you tame it. I think I can move in whenever you give me the go! It was fun seeing you working all alone. That's the way I love to work but enjoy working with a crew too. So let me know!!✈️
great change from Cinderella to Lady Cinderella - a true fairy tale 👏👍
Julie please wear a mask while stripping the carpets because of all the dust, we don’t want you to inhale gross stuff 😷😷😷
Pulling out those old moldy carpets must have been miserable for Julie!!! I was also thinking "you need a mask!" the whole time. Pulling carpet is a nasty, painful job! I don't think any of the workmen wore masks for this renovation, which seems unusual. Maybe they did off camera.
I'd also use work gloves and knee pads. Take care of yourself Julie ❤.
No gloves either and then ,with all the dust, she thinks it’s a “dogginess” that makes her nose run 😂
I absolutely love having this long of a video. I can watch while going about my day. And it's the best. Thanks, Julie!
Wow Julie! You knocked that wall down with the sledge hammer! Way to go!
Looks amazing, love thwt you can go to the storage unit and find furniture to use , love the table and side tables . Reuse repurpose, I’m not a fan of curtains hanging on the floors , even if it is the style , they always get dirty and dusty
Hello Julie, I was wondering,,,, as a fellow American who has always wanted to visit the U.K., would you and Luke consider having a raffle for all your American fans/subscribers to win a trip for 2 to stay at one of your cottages? Just a thought. Anyway, I love all the hard work you both are putting into preserving history! Love your channel!
Fabulous 👌🏽 😘🍄
OMG I Absolutely Looooooooove Your Energy It's Beautiful ✨️🥰✨️ Love Watching Your Videos You're So Entertaining ✨️🤩✨️
Love love what is happening with the cottage colours. So fun
Fantastic content. Thank you for your commitment.
Thank you for taking me(and my Guide Dog Ripley)along. We both enjoy the show immensely👌🏾🦮
It should be lovely.😊
Well done to the project manager and her team. Stunning job, exquisite rooms ❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful Julie! Way to crew mmmmm hugs and love!😊
LOVE what you've done with the place! Such vision! Bravo.
Enjoy watching - both of you redo this lovely cottage -
How wonderful it is when you can choose furnishings from your own storage supply. I love when that happens.
Julie, I could spend the rest of my life in that sweet cottage!
Tips from an old pro....
Make it easy on yourself when removing carpet...get a utility knife and cut it up into manageable pieces so you don't have to wrestle it. Also, I've found that I'd rather have hardwood floors but when it's been the case that I could not, I've used wall-to-wall seagrass which is a natural product. I would then put a big rug on top of that. Altho I used to sell high-end carpets, I would never have a wall-to-wall nylon carpet in any home I live in. It gets gross after awhile. With rugs, I have them rolled up and taken away to be cleaned once in a while. Wool carpets are the best.
Also, I'm allergic to almost everything. Dust mites are the worst! Once all that gross carpet is gone, it'll be a lot better.
Maybe take a benedryl before you start back on that carpet job and wear a mask.
I don't know how far along you are on this bathroom job but do your guests a favor and do not get the separate faucets for hot and cold. To get warm water, you must fill up the sink or bath to the temp you want. That's so 40s. Get a faucet that has both hot and cold coming from the same spout. I too like the hot and cold ceramic writing on the faucet, you just don't want separate faucets for each temp.
And as a former, carpenter, builder, designer, owner, and remodeler of an old home.... you must have a good cordless screwdriver. It's essential and invaluable.
As far a picture rails, I don't think we have them here (at least not on new buildings). It would seem to me that those were used to have wires or chains for hanging pictures because you can't put a nail thru stone to hang pictures? Not sure. We have chair rails, but those are lower and are to keep chairs from marring the walls.
Myrtle was my grandmother's name
Except that dark coloured floors show so many bits of dust, dried mud, hair etc. Cheers.
@@kristinedunner988
That's absolutely right but she was talking about black anyway. Personally, I wouldn't go that dark unless you want to clean every floor everyday.
Looks great, but think about putting lamps by the nighstands for reading.
Bravo Julie, to you and all your team! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Love your spunkyness. Fun to watch!
Love what you all did with the Cottage 🌹
All in one video! delightful, thank you
Love the black picture frames in the dining room.
Oh my, you going out of the frame just to yell I'm taking a photo reminds me so much of my dad 😂
Luke sure enjoys teasing Julie.........
Don't worry, Julie knows how to hit back although I thought her remark about Luke being plain and boring like his shoes bordered on the sarcastic, quite unpleasant. Even Malcolm winced.
Yayyy… a new episode
Good hardworking American woman!!!
Julie, you are just a delight. I am coming to mapperton 🇨🇦
I love watching your house transformations.
Now for some perennial's and bulbs in the garden. I would stay here! Maybe some berries planted on a fence? the gates could frame a garden patio.
Great🎉 Only thing, that orange chair and side table made me think about IKEA 😅
Please, please, where is the drinks wrought iron table in the family room from. Love it.
Take a rest over Christmas
Brilliant! 😊
I absolutely love this cottage..it is a dream !
I would LOVE to do this!❤ If you have another cottage or project, I would seriously want to help! I have nothing but time to focus on a project.
Love the greens! A suggestion: for artwork, maybe you could showcase some local artists … the artworks could be for sale also - with a commission to you of course 😊😊
Thought putting a pocket door for the upstairs bedroom. (Built behind the closet that you plan in putting on that same wall)
What a fun and challenging project.
It will be amazing when completed.
To answer the question on picture railing or whatever the picture molding was called. I have always heard it as picture/frame rails when I worked in a small gallery in the American South. I think it is also called hanging rails or picture hanging rails. I do know in the past probables 40yrs in many public schools and in some college dorms there has been the practice of using a cork strip in place of picture rails which is usually called a cork railing. However I grew up in the American south which imo uses more British than American English compared to the rest of the US so I could be very wrong. 1:32:49
Hi Julie, I’ve always known them as picture rails here in America although you don’t see them much in our homes😊
If you’re going to change out the hardware on the doors, I would like to buy some. I have an 100 yr old milk house that the handle broke and I need to replace them. Let me know.
I would suggest taller lamps in the bedroom with green pillows. The proportions aren't right.
Wonderful production!! The results are perfect!
Yes yes go with the lighter green for dining room!!!!
Howdy from Brookings Oregon. Love all your videos. 🤠
Black floors are great!
Of course you can do it you are amazing😘
More patience than I have, I would have an electric trimmer for that job!
Beautiful grounds. Beautiful cottage. I wish there was more of a kitsch style used with these old cottages--especially ones that will be guest houses. You could lean way more into the Hunter/Keeper's Cottage idea if you weren't afraid of more unique details, and it would be more appealing and grab more traffic if it had a more unique flair in my opinion. I was very sad to see some of the little details go, but I do admire your efforts, all of you.
Wonderful.
Viscountess you have all done such a wonderful job, is this now on Air BnB yet? Your taste and styles of interior decorations blends in with the area and ambiance of Mapperton.
Juli, you look much better in red than in sad green/brown onesie, which you could let go for good. The red onsie was not too large, but suitably loose where appropriate. Not all clothing needs to be tight or looks the best when tight. Your red onsie looked just right. --M.Arch.
I love the color of that backsplash!
BEAUTIFUL!
Funny! Here in California, if one pronounces the word "soldering" the way the written word appears (by saying it with the letter "L" sound), one might expect to be corrected, and instructed to say it as if it were "sawdering". Julie said it as "sawdering", and it was mentioned to her that the "L" should be pronounced, the way the written word appears.
I wish I had a cottage like that!❤
No safely glasses while sledgehammering! Ak PPE!!!
Looks lovely🇨🇦
I use the term dado for the picture rail. Dado can also refer to chair rail at a lower height 🇨🇦
1:28:56 that position reminds me of a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania called Kensington AKA zombie land
love this
Question about the Biopool - you probably saw on the Mapperton Channel that the biggest issue they had with their pool, was when they forgot to turn off the inlet and I think they had issues with ground water leaking in in various places as well and the pool filled up continuously with new nutrient rich water - and they had a big algae outbreak. With your biopool being spring fed, have you got a similar way to mitigate the continuous fresh nutrient rich water coming into it - some sort of diversion pipework/valves? I imagine it is something you have spoken about with David Pagan Butler - I am just interested - maybe if the water isn’t coming off fertilised farmland, it doesn’t have quite the same issues?
This episode is terrific. I wondered what was happening at Keeper's Cottage. Thanks for the upload. Wow, to quote Barack Obama, Julie, you have a right to 'bare arms'.
No one likes him… wouldn’t be quoting him
I think you mean to "bear arms": 1. to carry or be equipped with weapons. 2. to serve as a combatant in the armed forces. But you can also bear arms with bare arms.
@@blr4076 No one like Drone Pig Obama
I have cast iron sink with small yellow stain. It reappears now and then after I used hydrochloric acid on just the stain. Open windows first and pour directly from bottle and after a couple of minutes just wipe it off. You must maintain sink between tenants with bleach. Just spray on and let it sit. Anytime a dish is left to sit on the stain area; it will reappear. 😅
Looking very fresh. Still missing some charm . Little decorations here and there 🤗
Pumice stones work very well at removing rust on porcelain tubs and sinks.
I’m visiting the UK right now but won’t make it to Mapperton. Hanging out in Bristol with family
Passion flower in the US is called clematis.
"clematis and passion flower are not the same thing, but there are some species that look similar"
Regarding picture rails…I have always called it picture molding in the U.S. We had it in our 1925 bungalow.
In California we call them picture rails.
Julie is amazing a strong motivated woman….
Love it. Bravo. Wait...are the bathrooms open to one another via the windowsill? Huh...