A former chapel with a gold ceiling, multiple staircases, hidden spaces, extensive outbuildings, and rooms still waiting for a defined purpose gives this renovation an unusually complicated canvas. Rather than presenting the house as a finished showcase, the tour embraces that unfinished state, moving between completed bedrooms, active construction zones, temporary facilities, storage areas, and ambitious future plans. That makes the property feel less like a polished design reveal and more like a genuine long-term restoration whose decisions are still evolving.
The clearest strength is the attention paid to how the layout has changed and how individual spaces connect. The opened wall between the kitchen and former chapel creates an L-shaped living and dining area, while the proposed removal of the secondary staircase is explained as a way to create a ground-floor toilet and additional rooms on the floors above. Future ideas—including a master bathroom, two dressing rooms, a hidden bedroom entrance, pantry cabinetry, and a utility area—are described in enough practical detail that viewers can understand not only what is planned but why. References to floor plans and earlier listing images are particularly useful for a property whose unusual arrangement could otherwise become confusing.
Completed rooms also provide evidence of the design direction rather than leaving everything at the level of aspiration. The kitchen, coffee station, restored radiators, pink bedroom, former chapel living room, and finished top-floor bedroom demonstrate a consistent interest in preserving character while introducing highly personalized decoration. Original or recovered elements such as fireplaces, exposed beams, doors, and architectural details are treated as features worth incorporating rather than obstacles to modernization. The host's willingness to admit when work was performed by electricians, grandparents, carpenters, or other helpers also keeps the DIY framing reasonably transparent.
That same openness makes the unfinished spaces interesting. Several rooms do not yet have permanent functions, with possibilities ranging from offices and sewing areas to games rooms, a snug, cinema, gym, and sauna. Asking viewers to weigh in suits the ongoing-renovation format, although the repeated uncertainty means some parts of the tour provide more speculation than concrete design information. Plans such as vaulting a ceiling, installing extensive cabinetry, rebuilding the greenhouse, replacing an exterior structure, or creating elaborate hidden entrances remain intentions rather than completed results, so their eventual practicality cannot yet be judged.
The bathroom section temporarily changes the character of the tour through a lengthy sponsored demonstration of a Bambu Lab 3D printer. There is a genuine connection to the renovation: custom pieces are shown being used for tile cutting, clamping, measuring around pipes, cleaning, drawer organization, and silicone finishing. That practical specificity makes the integration more relevant than a generic advertisement, especially because it connects to problems encountered by an amateur renovator. Even so, the segment becomes an extended product pitch and substantially interrupts the architectural walkthrough just as the tour reaches the first floor.
Outside, the scope of the project becomes even clearer. A new patio and stonework sit alongside unfinished paths, drainage or weatherproofing concerns around bay areas, plans for cobbles, an intended greenhouse rebuild, an extension marked for demolition, a former stable envisioned as a gym and sauna, a large workshop, and a future laundry and boot room. The spontaneous diversion to celebrate the reappearance of a familiar squirrel adds personality and captures the informal appeal of the presentation, although moments like this also contribute to a tour that can wander. The final circuit back to the front of the property ultimately reinforces just how interconnected—and occasionally bewildering—the house and its outbuildings are.
Pros
- Detailed explanations of room connections, planned alterations, and previous configurations make an unusually complex property easier to understand.
- Completed spaces provide tangible examples of the renovation's personalized approach to historic features and modern functionality.
- Original fireplaces, beams, doors, restored radiators, and the former chapel are treated as architectural assets rather than simply being replaced.
- The host distinguishes between her own DIY work and jobs handled by electricians, carpenters, family members, and other trades.
- Unfinished rooms, exterior works, storage areas, and practical problems are shown candidly instead of presenting an artificially polished renovation.
Cons
- A lengthy sponsored 3D-printer demonstration interrupts the flow of the house tour despite having a legitimate connection to the renovation work.
- Numerous rooms are still described through competing possibilities, making portions of the tour more speculative than informative about the eventual finished house.
- The informal presentation occasionally wanders through repeated explanations, storage clutter, and spontaneous tangents that could have been edited more tightly.
- Some ambitious future alterations are discussed mainly in conceptual terms, leaving their final design and practicality impossible to assess yet.
The combination of historic character, unconventional spaces, candid construction mess, and highly personal plans makes this a more engaging renovation update than a conventional finished-home showcase. Its loose pacing and conspicuous sponsor section occasionally dilute an otherwise informative walkthrough, but the openness about what has been completed, what remains uncertain, and how the house is evolving gives the tour considerable authenticity.
