Every so often, we talk about painting the living room. As there are approximately 10,000 things in the home-improvement area alone that are higher priority than this, it hasn’t happened. But when we do, the plan is to make it a shade called (in my household) “As Time Goes By” pink.
Watching old shows while falling asleep does not just plant sartorial ideas into one’s subconscious. There is also the sudden need to redo your own home so as to resemble what is, I suppose, a 3-wall set at the BBC circa several decades ago. Maybe you’ve heard of English country aesthetic? This is English sitcom.
Of all the Britcom rerun houses, the one Judi Dench shares with the doctor from “Fawlty Towers” who wants his sausages is by far the most covetable. Why they even have the thing in the kitchen where the plates are in something like bookshelves!
There’s also the living room. This screenshot does not do it justice:
Then there’s the bed frame!
For bedroom decor though you also need standby Hyacinth, appropriately floral.
Cozy murder shows are sitcoms the way tomatoes are vegetables, so I must include the house in Chipping Cleghorn where his handsomeness John Castle plays Inspector Craddock. I know from Twitter that I am not alone in admiring this house!
Do I have the IKEA version of that armchair? Well spotted.
And then there’s Poirot. The decor chez Hercule is inseparable from the architecture of the building itself:
Did you know that if you don’t use your entryway to store a megastroller you can instead put a beautiful table, a vase, and a mirror in that spot? Hastings knows all about it.
Who needs midcentury modern when there’s let’s-pretend-WWII-won’t-ever-happen early 1930s modern?
Finally, there’s the surreal coziness of “One Foot in the Grave.” It’s kind of horrible but also floral and wonderful and I do envy them their kitchen and dining room tables, as well as their downstairs toilet.
Good couch, good windows.