Well this is a very impressive building towering over us
And it's on the end as well
so it's going to be dual aspect inside which will be incredible
We're already elevated
and once we get up there
goodness me what are we going to see?
It's strange also the door right on the corner
Seems really odd, you know?
You obviously expect the door to be further in
It's a very very handsome looking thing, isn't it?
Yeah I can see all the original details
up in that window as well
Shall we go take a look?
Let's do it
Wow
What an impressive staircase
It's absolutely incredible the way it sweeps up
And all those pictures
Imagine dusting those
I love the way the colours in here
have been carried through from outside
You notice that big front door
It was sort of black and it had the brass details
and that's in here as well
I love the anaglypta wallpaper
I'm a big fan of painted anaglypta
It looks brilliant when you paint it dark in a kind of semi-gloss
In fact I love it so much
I was thinking of changing my name to Anna Glypta
What do you think?
Ms. Glypta
This is just blowing me away
I think this is incredible
Everything
The colours, the decoration
Are you gonna ring the bell?
Oh yeah
To celebrate
Hey!
Look at all the details on the frames as well
Do you not think it's such a lovely thing to do
to have all your family pictures on a stair?
It's like the story of their life, isn't it?
Yeah
It's quite a menagerie, isn't it?
They've wasted no space
So we got like two purple swans and a quarter of a zebra
We've got half a window
Oh!
Being guarded by this terracotta warrior here
This is really really interesting that you get the...
There's the full window
So you have the window on the outside doing one thing
and the stairs just running right by it
It's all about preserving the elevation, isn't it Michael?
Yeah
Oh
And now the fun begins
Oh that is gorgeous
Goodness me
They're not afraid of being bold in this home, are they?
Yeah it's kind of gone from like granny chic
to like a tropical jungle up here
I like it
Do you know what I've noticed?
That the black and the gold
which we saw right from the start
seems to have featured in every other room
to a certain extent
You've still got it here
Yet the room is a completely different character
Yeah that's really clever, isn't it?
It's like they've worked with a palette and then modulated it
to create different atmospheres in the home
You come all the way up here it's like tropical rainforest
I feel like they've just let themselves loose
I feel as if we've ended up in the top of the tree
Yeah
Twee master bedroom
Look at this
Oh it's sort of very French boudoir, isn't it?
I know I feel like I'm in Provence
Do you like the birds on the wall?
I can imagine Napoleon and Josephine
being very comfortable in here
Oh look one each
Hang on
No
Think I can just about fit this one
You could get...
Oh don't burn your head
This home has really set us up
for seeing things that are a little bit quirky and inventive
and this is an absolutely classic example, isn't it?
I mean hats, lights
Why not
Who knew?
I think when you take on an old building
Particularly a building of a sort of an era that we identify
Victorian, Georgian, whatever
already comes with a certain tone
So I think it becomes incredibly important about
getting in tune with the building
and there is no question that the homeowners here
have done just that
When we walked in there was instantly so much to talk about
We were completely wowed straight away
It had like a granny chic it was quite like a cottage downstairs
and as we got higher up we got all this personality
There was just so much packed in
It got more vibrant, they got more creative
I gotta hand it to them it was really really impressive
Although the colour schemes through the home are sort of
underpinned by the black and gold
they've gone off-piste in the different rooms
So in here we've got this like lush green
The bedrooms are sort of soft colours
One of the spare rooms is pink and yellow
It's really witty and fun and personal
They've sort of stamped their personality
on this really rather splendid building
but without compromising it