Oh you two...so lovely to see a couple laughing together, supporting each other, debating the merits of words or issues together.

I love “The Positano Diaries”, so fun to see them at Mapperton!

Whenever I watch your videos I think you're inlaws must be so thankful for you. Only someone with you energy and enthusiasm could have taken this on.

So good Julie, to see you sitting on Luke's lap. It is a good picture of both of you.🙋‍♀️🙋

@MappertonLive

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😊 thank you

@brettanymichellelawson-top5197

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​@@MappertonLive I would have used a pretty sapphire blue with a pretty golden tenge

I live near Philadelphia. We call a picture rail a picture rail. Chair rail is something different. Picture rail is about a foot down from the ceiling and pictures are hung from it. A chair rail sits about the height of a chair to keep chairs from scratching the walls.

@dawelch69

Жыл бұрын

Same here in Virginia. We call it a picture rail, which is also different from a chair 🪑 rail that protects walls from chair rubs.

@sallyturner1669

Жыл бұрын

@@dawelch69 if your fortunate to have an original picture rail, there should be sliding hooks attached to the picture rail. But they’re usually long lost.

@oquassa

8 ай бұрын

@@sallyturner1669 We have picture rails as well and you can buy new hooks

Such a wonderful video. The cottage is going to look amazing. It was fun to see Nicki and Carlos. We discovered their videos last year. My husband finds them and thinks that they might be something that I would like. They usually are. Which is how we found the Mapperton videos. 😍

Julie - Thank you for the introduction to Nicki's and Carlo's channel - @NickiPositano. I have now started to binge-watch some of their lovely videos.

I love the video’s content but my favourite part is the back and forth banter between julie and Luke. 😂

I am so excited Nicki and Carlos are at Mapperton!! I have watched Nicki’s vlogs for a long time now she is such a friendly lovely person, same as Carlos.

I only follow three vloggers…. How unbelievably exciting to see you make a video together. Love it! It all started because I’m trying to learn Italian so I found your channel when I you purchased in Italy. Thank you for your commitment to your patrons. Love love love your channel. Both you and Nicki are real honest and not trying to impress…. Just share. How refreshing. THank you 😊

Free paint is always amazing. Paint is a picky thing, it hates cold temperatures. It's best to paint in the summer time.

Oh, the memories you brought back with the paint choosing for the cottage. My late mother in law always had green woodwork in her homes. She had a very specific green that she used for all the moldings and even her kitchen cabinetry. Thank you for bringing Dolly back for a nostalgia visit.

@MappertonLive

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Amazing! Thank you for sharing. :-)

I’m a long time fan of your channels as well as Positano Diaries. It warmed my heart to see you,Luke, Nikki and Carlo all together! It felt like a big hug 🤗 Also, Your cottage is coming along beautifully and I’m looking forward to seeing it at completion!

I live in America. I have picture rails in every room except the kitchen and frieze above. One of the reason I bought my house. I love them. Always a conversation piece. Love learning about the wall colors and the trim colors.

Great lessons in possible painting traps, thanks! The cute teasing between Julie & Luke is nice to see, like any other married couple. The two of you are working so hard! Julie, you're amazing! You'll try anything, which is fantastic. So many people just let tradespeople do the work without ever understanding how tough it can be on them day after day. Huge respect! Loving those greens

The cottage is well on its way to really become a fairy tale 😊😊

I am loving the process and the progress on the fairytale cottage! I’m so glad you’re doing a nice crisp white bathroom. You might want to consider a green grout that will match the skirting board colors. To pronounce the white paint color name correctly, just think of the author W. Somerset, Maugham; remember that the G is silent.

Picture rails are picture rails in the US. I love them -- seriously practical and attractive. The cottage is absolutely charming! I can't wait to see the end result.

Myrtle was my great grandmother’s name! 😃 Love the color choices! Here in the states the molding you mentioned is also called picture rails. You may be thinking of a chair rail, but that is lower in the wall. ❤️😊

The black varnish on the floor and the green on the wood work with the light walls is going to so beautiful. I can’t wait to see it! Great choices!

I was so excited to see Nikki and Carlo at Mapperton on her vlog, don't know if I would have been brave enough to swim in that pool, maybe in the summer!! Love the colors for the cottage can't wait to see the finish.

Great choices of colours for the cottage!! A huge surprise to see Nicki and Carlo appear as I also watch the Positano Diaries!! Will you be using your ‘English Fairy Tale Cottage’ to let out? Love to stay when it’s completed and ready to go and visit Mapperton and it’s surrounding countryside. You’re a natural doing your vlogs Julie and as I’ve said previously you’re professional, down to earth, humorous, factual and so interesting!! 👍🏻🏊‍♀️😃🥰🙅‍♀️

@MappertonLive

Жыл бұрын

Yes, will be available for let/rent this spring!

To be honest, it's really nice seeing you and Julie have such positive energy. That vibe ought to be the focus. :)

You guys are so cute, always put a smile on my face.

I can tell Luke really likes reminding Julie of her building faux pas! LOL! I love watching you two! 💜

I love to see Nicki and Carlo at Mapperton and to know that you are such a fan too. What a lovely mash up of some of my favorite channels. Her video in the pool was great. I’m so glad she took up your invitation. I hope she comes back in the summer.

Love the white tile, white paint in the bathroom. I like the idea of the darker floors with the lighter greens on the walls. I know it will be stunning when it is all put together!

We call the picture rail a picture rail in Texas... I love that sage color; same color we used in our bedrooms, with ultra white trim and ceiling. It's very restful. Public area is light gold, and the bathrooms a light yellow to reflect the light. Love it. The brighter tiles will help light the bathroom.

I love the colours that you've chosen, it's been really interesting watching the transformation. It's certainly been a lot of work and I look forward to the finished product which will no doubt be beautiful.

Love how you had the workers doing rag doll after 🤣

Omg, Julie AND Nicki Positano!!! Been following both since their beginnings!!! Yay! Love you both, girls!!!!! 🥰💜❤💜❤💜❤

Luke and Julie, you guys are thoroughly adorable and sooo entertaining! Luv your channel, and so admire and respect your efforts to maintain such an important part of Britain’s history! BTW, I’m in the US and I’ve always heard it called picture rail 😊

I love your enthusiasm and get down and dirty Julie….can’t wait to see the rest of this journey ! 💕

Hello Luke and Julie! I’m glad you guys are done with the cottage!! I think Julie needs to let Luke take over more of Mapperton live ❤

Oh my word…. Still cannot wait for the completed Keeper’s Cottage!….. Love love love 💕

Now Luke just has to practice his ventriloquist skills😂🙈

Julie this cottage will look gorgeous. Fabulous colors and I can’t wait to see it all finished. You and everyone there are doing a fantastic job. 👏🏻

Love that you and Nicki got together. The pool scene was hysterical. Love the colors in the cottage. Thanks for sharing 😍😘

Julie, you and Luke crack me up 😄. You are so cute together

My two favourite vloggers…..what a delight… both channels kept me sane in lockdown…well done and thanks

So lovely see Nicki at your beautiful home. It might have been unintentional but I noticed she matched the colours in your kitchen!😍

I love how involved Julie is with renovating and everything

Totally understandable that Christmas, and the damage by the rain, and the chance to recoup wonderful family heirlooms took your focus off the cottage. It’s coming along beautifully!

In the guest room it might be fun if the Tulips on the fireplace were hand painted to pop out.

This whole engagement is lovely!!!!! I'm hooked on this series.

Luke! You’re a funny fellow! I know why you married Julie. She’s a go getter!

I’m in Australia & my 120 year old ‘California Bungalow’ style timber house we bought in 2020 during Covid Lockdown has high ceilings with daddo rails (chair rails) in all the bedrooms & living room & picture rails in the living room. Timber floor throughout. It’s a beautiful house & I’m very happy here. We lost our previous house in the Bushfires here in 2019. Love watching your renovations.

I love you going over yoga with the guys. I tell anyone and everyone that says anything to me about a body part being stiff or sore to do yoga, it always helps! Lower back pain? Stretch the hammies!!

You guys are just hilarious 😂!!!

Julie do you think when the guy’s see you coming their like 🙄😳 run! 😂😂😂

So much going on! Great to see Malcolm again. Paint choices and floor stain will be perfect together. Can’t wait to see the finished look.

Love seeing Nicki and Carlo! Love the green paint and the idea of black floors for your cottage.

QUESTION Julie do you ever crave rooms with comfy sofas and chairs and furniture in today's styles? Love the progress and the colors you picked out.

I love Nicki! It was awesome to see you both together!

Fun to see your guests from Italy. I adore Nicki and Carlo. The progress on the cottage is wonderful!

Love the paint choices yes all the white for the master bath can always add the green with accents to match the rest of the cottage ! Green is soothing colour great choice fun video Julie you are very entertaining! Thank You

Julie, my great grandmother’s name was Myrtle, too. I was born on her birthday, but my parents decided Myrtle was too old-fashioned. I may have dodged a bullet there in school 😅. Lovely colors for the cottage. ❤️

@carolpom6920

Жыл бұрын

That’s so interesting. My g-grandmother was born in 1885 in Ohio. She lived to be 100. Her last name was Brandenburg so they nicknamed me Brandy. Had no idea Carol was my real name until kindergarten when I was looking around like everyone else when the teacher called my name!

How exciting to have Nicki visit and swim with you. Those sanders are physically demanding! I don’t think I will be trying to do that anytime soon. 😮 Love the color scheme. It’s going to be lovely! But painting in cold temps is not good. The paint will never adhere properly and will peel. Hope you have a warm spell soon.

I absolutely enjoyed your swim with Nicki! It was really fun. 🤗 I recommend watching the video. ☺️

Picture rail in America Chair rail is not the same. The purpose of a chair rail is to be on the level with the back of chairs. They protect the walls from being marred by chairs. Picture rails are obviously higher and are for hanging pictures without making nail holes in the wall.

@karenryder6317

Жыл бұрын

Exactly right. When interior walls were made from plaster (before wall board or dry wall was in use) a nail could create quite a crater or crack in the surface.

Idea for floors-- strip, then stick a black dye on , then sand again which will highlight the grain, then a mid dark tone, then polyx oil. 😁💙

Hello Luke and Julie love loved this video the fairytale cottage is going to look just fabulous your guests will be delighted Malcolm such a design guru the colours chosen for the rooms kitchen plans I’m excited my diy that’s painting😀is alive and the sealing of the wall tip before paint thankyou👏Who’s coming for lunch Nicki and Carlo ciao just Bellissimo 💖👌Thankyou for a fabulous video a perfect start to my weekend hmmm might do some painting grazie Amore 💖💖😘😘👌👌🌟🌟

I love the dark floors and the colors you have chosen.

Love your paint color choices. What a beautiful cottage.

I like the warm white! With the grey for trim!

I am from the South and most old homes have picture rails down from the ceiling or right under the ceiling. When homes had plaster walls, you would not want to hang a picture by hammering into your walls. Hanging from a picture rail offered a variety of picture placement. Very smart thing to do.

Bravo - can’t wait to see the next update! Great color choices.

your designer is undoing everything I was taught - I mean everything lol! but I have never tried his way so can't wait to see what I make of it all! I was told keep dark rooms dark and bright rooms bright. Trying to brighten a dark room will just make it feel cold, but using warmer colours will make it feel cosy. Using whites does not make rooms bigger or warmer, but using greys with a yellow base will. Rooms will look bigger if the skirting board is just one shade below the wall colour whereas a contrast will shrink the room. I am really looking forward to seeing what the rooms look like with undercoat then that will give an idea if the room could look smaller/bigger/ warmer/cooler. Very interesting!

@taraclarke2565

Жыл бұрын

I think that would be true of a bright white that can look cold and dingy in a darker space but they are using a gentle off white. Can't wait to see it painted and furnished!

Delighted to see what is happening at Fairytale Cottage. Love your plain light colours scheme for the walls and ceilings. But please keep the floors light because the darker the floors the more the dust and any unwelcome bits will show! Hoping to be a guest at Fairytale Cottage one day. Love your videos. All the best.

Can't wait to see the finished cottage. Love the colour scheme. Great video.

Love the white bath! The fabrics can bring in color. I have a tiny bathroom that was 30’s yellow and green. Now it is fresh white and I LOVE the bright and clean freshness!

So glad to see the progress and love all the color choices! Also I spent my 35th birthday at Le Sirenuse in Positano and it is still one of my top 5 favorite places!! That trip to Italy was the one where we reunited with the Italian women who rescued Grandpa Bud during WWII. The Amalfi is about an hour from where Grandpa Bud washed ashore.

@MappertonLive

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@bieuxyongson

Жыл бұрын

Wow! What a neat story!

One day I want to travel from Australia and stay at your fairytale cottage!

Everything looks wonderful! I call picture rails picture moldings.

Oh my goodness they have a baby grand piano. I would like to see that and no more about it I know every giant house has a piano in England but I just never thought of Mapperton as having one

Hi Niki. I love Niki. I’ve been watching her for several years. 2 of my best girls! 😊

Well done with the sander Julie😂😂

'Picture rails' in America we call 'picture rails' . My 1925 Craftsman style bungalow in Oakland, California where I lived by the Bay 37 years had 'picture rails'. I loved them for hanging pictures from (so that we didn't bess up the beautiful plaster walls), and other decorative pieces, even an ironing board behind a bedroom door. Very useful, 'picture rails'. I miss them.

There are several different U Tubers that do their blogs on abandoned Castles, houses, a lot of history left to decay. You would enjoy the videos. That's why I enjoy your videos and learning the history. One of the guys are Bros of decay. Are a beautiful bunch of videos. Thanks for sharing

You guys are so funny! I like the historical story about the chair, too! As for the cottage, love those greens! You're right, not on board for the dark floors... All dust & dirt will show. Maybe in the dining room, but, for me at least, wooden floors need to be natural looking. So, Just a thought on the slanted ceiling being the same color as the wall - as a tall person, this almost guarantees I'd hit my head! I need the reminder to duck! In the bathroom, what if you incorporate the grey tiles as accents, scattered within the white tiles, with no particular pattern? It'd break the monotony, while keeping the clean, fresh, look. This is a fun one! Now to go watch the swim. Brrrrr, from rainy SoCal!

Julie and Luke... absolutely loving your channels (also follow and subscribe to your adventures and progress in Italy as I have a similar passion for the country - hoping to land in either Venice or Ravello (Amalfi) area for a portion of the year as early retirement to do art history, decor and event design, tours, and maybe KZread)!!! Also a long time follower of Nicki and Carlo - their lives and adventures in and around Positano, So was thrilled to see them on your channel and you on theirs. Great great fun, and love seeing the KZread'r collaborations, commonalities, and friendships.

Love the cottage. Black floors with be fabulous!

at least you have a good professional decorators (rococo) behind you, it looks wonderful so far

Julie, the way you so very elegantly lowered yourself to sitting on the floor-amazing!👍👍If I would try the same thing, I would land immediately hard on my butt or worse😁😁

I do hope for pink and lavender floral fabrics inside and flowers outside!

Great show, Julie, you definitely want a wood burning stove with a glass window, in there. It’s a big draw for guests, especially on cooler days.

I would definitely use the white in the guest bathroom. Love the colours!

The Serpentine color reminds me of "Avocado" that was popular in the 70's all the colors very nice!😊

You two are just adorable! ❤

I agree with Malcolm. Bring the ceiling colour down on the wall to the picture rail.

Julie, after all that labor to send that floor clean I truly hope that you left the grain visible. Painting it so dark that is black you won't see the grain. Another thing is that every single speck of anything shows up against black. Doing some warm shade of wood tongue is a much better choice. I've redone floors over and over and over

My sander experience: 11 hours behind one in 12x14 bedroom. BUT once it was gone over w/the120 grit the 50 yr old wood smelled freshly cut and was smooth as butter. Plan B: Strip the gunk off, so it was only took 8 hrs in the living room. YAY?? The floors turned out beautifully. I'd never do it again. HAH!

Fun project! Loved seeing Nikki visit, her bathing in cold water is tempting to watch lol 🙊 I personally am a lover of green hues, but I feel your decorator is going a bit too modern with all white walls, green trim and woodwork and black glazed floors. Floors add alot of reflective light meaning the light bounces off them and the tone of color influences the shade of a room, especially a white room. If choosing these saturated greens I'd have gone for a warm laquer or better yet, oil on the wood to bring out a natural warm contrast to the cool coloscheme. Somethong more amber or honeyed would be beautiful against the green and not cast greyness to the walls. Personally I think the one thing BRITS are world famous for is their beautiful handprinted wallpapers, there's a veritable treasure trove of the most beautiful patterns made from finds in historic houses and all dated and available in so many colorways. I'd definately have gone for a small print wallpaper either in the upstairs rooms or downstairs as the effect in a smaller room can be so beautiful like a lovely giftbox and it's such a quintessential English cottage tradition. It is a bit more costly though, but it won't come off the walls if not heated, and the rooms are small so not very many rolls needed. In a room with lots of soft furnishings you can go with printed fabrics instead but smallish kitchen and dining rooms don't have alot of fabrics so it would add alot of charm and detail to look at. I'm not huge on art that's not really art, and I'm assuming that's not a splurge for a mainly rental space, and takes time to find, so that's what I'd have done instead. There are lovely small prints made for the Jane Austen Museum from fragments from her house, a classic small scale William Morris print like willows bough with some soft trailing movement, sooo many companies make patterns for this type of house that aren't busy or dominant. But I'd steer away from black floors, that's was a passing trend that only really worked for bright lofts without rugs that tend to look like islands on them. I'm certain it will be pretty any way you do it in the end though, and it will be fun to see you add the furnishings and personalize once the major reno is done! I'd add warm secondary colors somewhere on the spectrum of warm beige, honey, brandy, rusty orange or warmer pinks to achieve some coziness and pepp in the end. A tone that compliments the green. I'm curious to see what you do! An all white bathroom will be bright and very practical to clean which is important for rentals. A natural basket weave is a nice cottage touch for hampers and bins, gives some texture and doesn't collect dust. It's time you read something of William Somerset Maugham dear! 😉❤️ Is your bathing collab video posted yet?! I've got a horrible sinus thing so I'm so happy not to swim in icy waters right now but will definately hit the sauna and go for it once this is over! 🙌

@nutti2you380

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I love these ideas! Except the rusty orange, which took me back to the 1970s...😂

That's so good to know Julie.. My lower back hurts often and now I know that technique I will have to use it..

The keeper's cottage is going to be very beautiful, Positano is my favorite place in Italy, which I have been looking to buy. I will have to check out Nicki's channel. Love from N.Y.

We call them picture rails in Canada too but of course we have a British heritage. It's called that because pictures were often hung from the rails. Chair rails of course protect the walls (often plaster) from the backs of chairs put to rest against them or from the marks left by sideboards etc.

The brighter white will look better IMHO.

Love Julie getting on your lap. Its ok to show a little closeness😍why do you not go to Italy with her?Julie leave it to the pros.

Entail here just means 'involve'. Your cottage will be beautiful when it's finished!!!!! Great job everyone! Julie, my Mother's name was Myrtle!!!!

@sallyannc3176

Жыл бұрын

It means that here too - but it's also a very specific, historical term to do with male inheritance, as Luke explained. Read Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice to find out more about it! entail /ɪnˈteɪl/ verb 1. involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence: "a situation which entails considerable risks" 2. limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group: "her father's estate was entailed on a cousin" noun 1. a limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations: "the damage being done in England by entails"

@Julie ... Before I really get into the video, I Must comment on the exquisite fireplace!!! Also, the Chair that you are in is Outstanding!!!!! ... ... Okay. Back to the video!! ✨😁✨