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Amen.
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you .
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So I've been living here for Seven.
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- Let's start eight months, seven months now.
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And when I first moved in, I just thought to almost completely empty, it was like bare bones to the place, there was more cardboard in here than anything else.
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Whereas now, it's pretty much all finished and Anyone who knows knows how obsessed.
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I am a butterfly, I love being here.
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I miss when I'm not here and everything like that.
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thought I'd show you all.
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the pretty much finished product finished piece.
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There's a few more things I would like to change but really, I literally couldn't be any happier with it.
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So yeah, there's lots I want to show you and hopefully I won't ramble because I'm quite passionate about certain things.
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So obviously like the fabric in the house hasn't changed, but lots of new things on set.
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And whenever you do my favorite thing, was this mountain peak and it's still my favourite thing, mostly to health.
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half dead planks.
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like this one here which I've been obviously neglecting.
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for quite some time now and to just keep an order amount of candles
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this big set of everything
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and the same goes for vases actually i can spot one two three four five vases down here six
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and only one of them is actually in use so always thinking practically, things like that.
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But yeah, this is her favourite bit.
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The mirror is just from eBay.
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It was just an eBay find.
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I wanted something really vintage and French looking and it kind of doesn't look that vintagy.
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but I'm learning to live with it.
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And when I was a fire case it was empty I always had this huge vase, it's from LSA, they do the best plain glass vases.
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always filled with lilies, I've got some avarolies in there at the moment as well, but I always have pink or white lilies in there just to fill this space.
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Not that it really needs to feel like I think I've done quite a good job.
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you you Amen.
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you and then next corner this lamp is from Urban Outfitters and the thing it's on is just made with cardboard,
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it's from Tiger, it was a moving in from one of my oldest friends.
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And when I put this lamp on top of the cardboard thing, it was one of those beautiful moments where it just matched perfectly and was meant to be.
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So that made me happy and continues to make me happy actually.
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Then this trunk I've had for ages.
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This I've had I must have had this for like 6 -7 years now, it was with me in Manchester.
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It's just from Homestead.
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I can't give you a link which is a real ball ache.
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And then let's do the lab first, it's from French Connection.
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just a gold lamp that actually doesn't work.
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So this is purely decorative.
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And then sticking
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all of the artwork
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that I have I wanted everything to have a bit of a story behind it
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so if anyone came around and asked a question I'd be able to tell them.
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Nobody who's been here has ever asked me that question but I live in hope.
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This one I got, I saw it in Copenhagen
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when I was there with Lindsay for Fashion Week and absolutely loved it and then ordered it online, it's by an artist called Anne Bovak.
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And then I had it framed and I obviously think investing in good frames is well worth it, it makes such a difference.
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I love that thing so much.
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And then I have another half -dead plant here.
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This is going to be an ongoing theme of just me neglecting living things, which is why I can't have any pets or any big responsibilities in life.
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But that's from Ikea.
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So moving around the room, as I said, the mantelpiece was my favourite bit but it has since been trumped. about this.
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I've had one of these chairs for years and it's the newest thing that I have in here.
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They're by a designer called Harry Batoa and I've probably said that wrong but we'll just go with it.
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And they're called the Diamond Chair and I got the Conran shop.
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And I wanted chairs to go in front of this window for ages
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because the bay window
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and the way it meets the parquet floor is one of those little things that gives me great joy in life.
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I didn't want something that was going to conceal that joyful moment for me.
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So these are the perfect solution because of the wire mesh, you can sort of see through them.
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And I really like how heavy and dark the metal is against the lighter.
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colours of the window and the wood floor.
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They're really comfy as well.
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You're just going to have to believe me on this because I know they don't look comfy but they genuinely are.
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and I'm obsessed I could go on and on but I'll leave this one here.
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She could go on and on.
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you Amen.
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you And now onto the next sections where we sit soft as Catherine always says.
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The sofa is the only piece of furniture that was here already there in the gym, this is my landlord
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And it's a cream sofa and it was a bit dirty and removed in anyway so I wanted to cover it up.
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me and a cream sofa is not going to be a match made in heaven, there's going to be tea and coffee over that in no time.
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hence it's covered with loads of throws and cushions and everything
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but it's dead cosy and also a bit of fluffy
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so I can always tell when someone's been around because they then have
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loads of cream fluff attached to whatever they've been wearing.
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And then the artwork that I've got above here, the three smaller ones are all drawings done by my Uncle Luigi who's an architect.
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There are sketches on different projects.
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And this one is from a shop called Magma.
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I think they actually have them in London, but the one I got it from is in the Northern Quarter in Manchester.
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And it reminds me of Manchester and I really, really love that.
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that little drawing.
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And then another lamp, this one's just from French Connection, currently bulbless because the bulb went last night
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and I didn't have a spare one in the drawer because I'm not a full responsible adult yet.
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My mum would always have a spare one in the drawer.
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And then moving down, this is the other favourite, favourite, favourite thing in all of here
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which is this coffee table it's by paulo piva
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and i bought a website called panamo on panama i can't remember i'll link it
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and they have loads of design and vintage furniture it's incredible
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So this has been seen on Pinterest that I've been obsessed with ever since and it's literally just a sheet of glass.
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muscle structure and again you can see the floor throat which I'm going like.
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This is my pride and joy.
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And then on top of the pride and joy, just some coffee table books which I think everybody needs.
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Lots of them are about photography, film, there's an inventors one there.
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Matthew Rolston and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8
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Obviously true essential here and then this one is which is something I want to show you, is a photo album.
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I got Mum one for Christmas and got myself one as well.
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So it's literally, well it's a photo album, we all know what size and Fuck.
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doing that in jail.
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But it just looks really nice on the coffee table because they have so many film photos printed out.
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It's a good way to keep them all and then let people flip through when they come round.
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Another section I love.
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I love all the sections.
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So I obviously live and work at home, and the dining table is my workspace, which I have to seemingly tidy up.
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Normally it's an absolute bombsite and there's parcels and there's mugs and there's everything everywhere and it's not this nice at all.
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But yeah, this is where I work and then on the rare occasion
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that people come over and I cook for them and we don't order or take them, I eat on the floor.
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Dean just made a face.
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Sometimes I do cook for people.
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I'll tidy everything away.
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No, I want twice I cook for people.
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I think we should put a link at the bottom to Deliveroo.
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Shut up.
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So yeah, this is why I do all my work.
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Obviously, I'm going to have a pencil.
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What now?
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It should say, burnt toast today at the bottom.
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So you don't really cook.
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I managed to stop the smoke alarm.
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You'd burn water you.
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Oh my friends text me. So yeah.
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I haven't because I'm not here.
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Thank you.
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Amen.
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you Right from the top left everybody quickfire we've got Lindsay,
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Catherine, Dad, me, Mum, me, me, Katie, me, Connor, me, - Emma.
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- It's all about you.
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- It is all about me, isn't it?
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I have a running theme within there.
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I need to put one of you and me up on here.
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- All right.
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Anyway, not spacey, sorry, I can't do it right now.
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Oh, let's do this bit next.
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This, um, is my Uncle Luigi's, it's a letter story.
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I got it filmed with an absolutely eye -watching amount of film photos
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Charting leads for god knows what for things I haven't had in ages but I don't throw them out.
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Sunglasses with which one pair I ever wear.
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And then receipts.
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This is why I try and keep accounting, but it's really not good at all.
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I actually love this.
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It's just so, so nice.
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And then over here I've got another dab plum.
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I just can't keep anything alive, as I said and two more
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pictures on the wall which are also designed by my uncle Luigi.
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These are something that he did for
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a company or something or other
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I just really like the colours which is probably really insulting to the work but it works really well in here.
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- - Welcome to the kitchen where I burn toast on a daily basis.
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Not much changing here since the last video I did because
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don't really require much new kitchenware on account of not really cooking.
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I do drink a lot though, so I've got lots of new glasses.
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I'm a weird thing.
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for glassware, so there's quite a lot here.
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I also smashed them so they're all in a higher rotation as well which is nice.
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Just down here, if you want down here.
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Evidence of a really healthy and nutritious meal I cooked yesterday when people around.
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Mmm.
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Baw baw.
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Um, but.
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Just like mummy used to do.
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But yeah, there's so many things in the kitchen that are like posh sink.
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which I have to keep really clean, so I do like it but love /hate as well.
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Placetime pans which looks really nice.
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Marble which is very Instagrammed
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but also you have to clean it to put it on Instagram so I'm not keen on that.
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And what else?
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This is a bit redundant, this apart from hosting off license on it.
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I don't really know what else to do with these shelves but we just make it work.
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That's just your weekend stash up there.
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That's Saturday.
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That's just the weather whistle.
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And that's true.
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So it's always an absolute bombsite in here because obviously it's mostly clothes and have a bed,
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essential things to bed during a lamp over the The picture is of Tropea, which is where my Uncle Luigi lives.
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He features heavily within my home and it's how it looked in
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15 Zuzburse a long time ago
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and it's perfectly done one of our family friends did it and absolutely look it's beautiful also Got nicely framed,
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always worth it a mirror which is from my mum's house
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and chandeliers in every room even the bathroom some of us are just
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that fancy and then a six foot clothes rail which is fit to burst, there's shoes under the bed, there's shoes all down here,
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there's the chair, everybody has the chair which you just use to pile up.
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washing and knitwear.
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I seem to use it to pile up knitwear for some reason that I can't bother to put in a cupboard.
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And then there's more clothes in here that nobody needs to see.
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And the doors are broken.
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This is how glamorous my life is.
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Behind the scenes.
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and into the bathroom, the final room, it's literally four rooms, it's flat.
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Chandelier as well, I just want to point that out.
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Quite proud of that for surprising.
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And it's just, it's just really nice bathroom.
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Parquet floor, I don't want to do this and sound like an estate agent, I feel like I keep sounding like an estate agent, but the parquet floor does run throughout.
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And then it's got a nice old bath, which is actually coming off the wall a little bit.
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So every time I take a bath, I'm so tense that I'm going to go through the ceiling, but it's not happened yet.
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And then all the metro tiles all through here.
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And then there's a toilet and there's a sink.
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So everything that you'd expect from a bathroom.
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This doesn't disappoint. For storage...
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and oh this is just such a mess because there's so much just a wire
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thing you can get this from all over the place I'm
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sure I'll be able to find a link for something like it online
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and it's really good fun to fill it with so much stuff
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and then always wonder when it's going to come rip wall but it hasn't yet so we do good.
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So the one thing that I want to ask your opinion on is, at the moment there is no rug.
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I've had a beautiful cream rug from Lara Doot.
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down for ages and I had it in Manchester it was just starting to look a little bit old
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So I got a new rug and then also got rid of the rug for a bit.
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And now I can't decide whether to go no rug new rug.
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I'm going to put the new rug down then you can all tell me what she sees
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And now the road has materialized.
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It's from our duty and kind of is Aztec mine?
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Maybe that's wrong?
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And the reason I picked it out was because the colour, the mustardy colour running through it, matches to the coffee table.
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Not before.
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Thank you, thank you!
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The mustardy colour matches two of the coffee table books that I have and I really like that colour, but I'm feeling like it takes over the room a little bit too much,
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but then I also like how different it makes the room feel.
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So I might just take it off and put it down as well and feel like I need a rug.
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because it's not too hard to do that.
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Yeah?
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you . so Bye.
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Just spotted a massive bit of fluff under the side, so that's gonna really bug me out.
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This concludes the house tour.
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Let me know - I'm out of the rug.
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I'm swaying towards no rug at the moment.
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I hope you've enjoyed this.
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I love my flat.
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I really like it because it feels different and it feels really neat and there's lots of beautiful things that I genuinely, I mean it's so sad but every time I look at my coffee table I feel happy
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which is a really sad band, do need to get a live, but It makes you happy then I think it's better enough.
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Thank you so much for watching everybody and I will see you in the next one.
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Do you do a gang sign at the end of the night?
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Peace, love.
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Thank you.
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What is it?
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Peace, love.
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You're just doing this.
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No, you're doing that.
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No, you're just doing that. And cut.
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Grammar & Expressions in Context
Let’s break down 3 key structures from the video to boost your speaking:
- "I’ve been living here for seven months now": The present perfect continuous tense (have/has + been + verb-ing) shows an action that started in the past and continues now. Use it to talk about ongoing experiences, like "I’ve been studying English with YouTube for a year."
- "It was one of those beautiful moments where it just matched perfectly": "One of those + [noun]" is a great way to describe a relatable, memorable experience. Try it: "It was one of those days where everything went wrong."
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Common Pronunciation Traps
Even with clear speech, some words in the video can trip up learners. Watch out for:
- "Vintage": Pronounced /ˈvɪn.tɪdʒ/, not "vin-taj." The "t" is soft, and the stress is on the first syllable. Practice saying, "I found a vintage mirror on eBay."
- "Copenhagen": /ˌkəʊ.pənˈheɪ.ɡən/ – the "h" is silent, and the stress falls on the third syllable. Repeat: "I saw that artwork in Copenhagen."
- "Avarolies" (likely "avalanches" or a misspoken "amaryllis"): Even native speakers stumble over tricky words! Focus on clarity over perfection—if you mispronounce a word, keep going. That’s how fluency grows.
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Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been living · they've been wearing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | hasn't changed · I've been · I've done |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Anyone who knows · link which is · things, which is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is just made · was meant · been trumped |
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