The Ins & Outs - Dressing Tables, Artificial Grass & Sofa Tips

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

In this episode, we cover more of your questions and one "stupid question", or was it?!Jojo gives some great Innie advice on design paralysis, dressing tables and her top tips on picking a sofa.Polly answers some Outie questions on replacing box parterres and pruning. Plus, you won't want to miss her opinion on artificial grass!This episode is brought to you by Ca'pietra. Home of the most beautiful tiles, from marble to stone to ceramic and of course the most gorgeous terracotta, that you would have seen in so many of our projects at House Nine Design. Click the link below to check out them out!Sponsorshttps://capietra.com/InstagramPodcast - @the_insandouts_Jojo - @houseninedesignPolly - @pollyanna_wilkinsonProducer Andy - @andy_rowe_WebsitesJojo - https://www.housenine.co.uk/Polly - https://www.pollyannawilkinson.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello Inns and Outs and thank you so much for joining this episode of the Inns and Outs sponsored by our Wiltshire based friends Capietra who sell the most fine array of modern luxury stone and tiles for both your indoor and outdoor from classic limestone marble zellig tiles. You can buy their tiles online at capietra.com or from a network of Capietra retailers around the UK. On today's episode we are going to be talking morning routines, some advice from me on design fatigue, what you need to be doing out in the garden, picking sofas and a stupid question or was it a stupid question and of course what's in and out this week from myself and Polly.

what's in and out this week from myself and Polly. Good morning, mate. Morning, mate. Indeed, it's morning. Tell me, what's the normal morning routine for you? Morning routine? Well, at the moment, hitting the snooze button about three times, dragging my sorry ass out of bed, and then madly, frantically running around trying to get the kids ready for school and get myself ready.

It's impossible to drag yourself out of bed at the moment, isn't it? When it's so dark. But invariably, whatever happens, if I'm taking the kids to school, it doesn't matter how early I get up. It's always a mad rush. They're always eating their toast in the car. You never know what you're going to get with kids, do you? You never know what mood they're going to be in. I find my littlest, if I have to wake Rocky up, then she is the devil child. Whereas if she just gets up in her own time she's a total joy my kind of woman much the same yeah so i will get into that routine of of getting up in the morning hitting the mat doing my pilates doing a bit of meditation it's so important i feel so much better for it when i do yeah actually do you know what speaking of our resolutions from last week

and exercise the treadmill has arrived oh your tread your treadmill arrived it's a peloton treadmill which is very fancy but I I used to have the bike and I loved it but I got a bit bored of cycling and then uh I've been thinking of you every evening as I wash my face oh gosh thank you how nice no I'm obsessed I've got um I love Liz Earle and I've always when I have got around to washing my face use um the cleanse and polish not an ad just a fan um I love it and you know with the nice have you ever used it you get the um you get like a nice cloth with it yes I think it's the most important way to take your makeup off actually. I use an oil cleanser every night with warm water

and I think it's just, oh yeah, nothing beats it. I don't think to get all your makeup off. And how's that paper diary working out for you, pal? Oh, I left it at the bloody office yesterday, didn't I? I bloody left it in the office.

It was going, I have to say. So it's not really going well. It's not, that's the only thing about these things. You've got to remember to take them with you, haven't you? It's just another thing to remember to carry with me. But I have to say so it's not really going well it's not let's see anything about these things you've got to remember to take them with you haven't you it's just another thing to remember to carry with me but i have to say it has been going really well and i really like it i love that um the habit of putting pen to paper and writing in the diary it's i'm sticking to it it's good it's really good apart from when i don't have it but i'm going to keep it with you

i want to give it with me it's great i have to say that has been a bit of a game changer for me that I fully appreciate that well I think we'll probably know more about our habits a couple weeks in whether we're really going to feel the difference so let's stick at them anyway look January it's a very busy time we've got well we've got to address what we need to be doing in the house and garden but we also have many questions to answer so first of all what's been going on in the house what have you been up to it's all about work for me January it's I'm fully immersed in our projects and work and as you know we have a home renovation of our own to do at some point yes in some time when my money tree just will hurry up and grow um but it's it's not even just so much the money it's the thought of it's the thought of it because it's such a big

uptaking i do this for a living i know um is you know it's a huge amount of planning and getting it right and i also have design paralysis where i sort of there's so many options available to me that I can't really I'm almost putting it off because it once I've done it I've done it which is quite daunting it's actually interesting we've had a question come in which we will get to the questions later but one of the questions was what to do when you get sort of decision fatigue decision paralysis where do you go what do you do on a project when you can't make your mind up um that would i mean it would be wouldn't so much be my professional advice because that would be get yourself an interior designer but if you can't do that and you're doing it yourself and if i take myself as a case study i would say go back to go back to your concept so hopefully

you've built that concept that I always go on about and you have in your mind's eye a very clear picture of what you wanted to look like and therefore you you want you don't want to keep deviating away from that you want to sort of stick to your original plan so if you have a really good concept plan together a presentation that you've made for yourself you should just be able to sort of hone back in on it because if you don't have that that's when you go like total scatterbrain and you start wanting a bit of this and a bit of that and oh my god I could have that and oh god I like that too and I like that too and I think you have to just keep honing it in because you can't have it all. I think you get a feeling, don't you get a feeling about something, you know, when you look at something and you just love it and it sits

right. It's a bit like when you're out shopping, I guess, same thing when you buy something new. And if you really love it, the likelihood is you're going to love it forever. So stick with that. If you're questioning it or you're just not sure or it's oh I just don't know then I would say it's probably not going to be the thing that you're going to you're not going to you know you're not going to like it so give yourself time I suppose as well I mean it depends if you're working to to you know to a time frame to a program I guess as well if you're really up against it that can actually put more pressure on you and you can actually feel like you need to make design decisions quicker and that actually sort of sometimes makes you panic and therefore you might rush into a decision that you don't

want to but I think just build that picture really get it down on a mood board do you know what pal something which I think is really interesting that you said that about if you love it and you think you should get it and it's true with shopping as well the items that I am probably least excited about buying are the most timeless as in white t-shirts but I wear a white t-shirt almost every day um and I love them but I wouldn't say it was an exciting purchase and it's sort of true with the interiors as well it's um I'm looking around my room right now and the things which have stood the test of time and the things which I'm arguably slightly less excited about but have been really solid investments so it's an interesting one when you're doing the design isn't it between as we said last week something like a really bold striped sofa right now if you

ask me do you want a green striped sofa I'd be like yes I do but would I guarantee I want that in five or ten years time I don't know whereas you know if you go with a plain oatmeal you're probably not gonna have such a violent excitement well it also it look it totally depends it depends on your taste as well doesn't it and it fully depends on your taste and what you're into and what you love and if you're a bright bold color person or you're not so it is very taste dependent but exactly like we said last week I think if you are making a really big decision and you're unsure about it the likely it is if you're buying that sofa and you think god I've seen this really cool and you sent me a really cool chair the other day oh my god it was sexual but and you love it love it love it and

then you actually think god right I'm gonna buy it I'm gonna buy it and then you go to buy it and you think do i really want that and then you start questioning yourself so if that starts happening on a big purchase then i would say it's not really the right thing what should we be doing in the garden in january because it's freaking freezing out there blimey no one really wants to be out there right now do they it's cold but you got to get out there you got to do stuff it's not a time it's I mean yeah it's freezing isn't it particularly this week with all these um cold nights but it is a really busy time in the garden and I feel like I've said this before but it's the irony of gardening that it's actually these cold months that there's quite a lot to be done and in the summer there's a bit less to be done. So it's always a bit of a quieter time in terms of people thinking about their garden.

But it's the time to do some stuff. So it's a really big pruning month, January and February. So if you have wisteria, which a lot of people do, now is when you'd prune it. So with wisteria, you prune it twice a year, January, February, and then again, July, August. And if you don't't you're going to get something out of like day of the triffids you know how crazy wisteria go in the summer where it's like getting into your gutters and your windows so you you trim it in summer to tame it and then you trim it now you bring it back from five buds which you will have done in July I hope

back to two or three buds now and what that's going to do is keep it in check but also encourage flowering rather than a proliferation of leaves I've got to get up on the side of my house and do that yes you do like so how much from the wall should be sort of sticking out at this time of year when you pruned it are we talking like a little so every single one of those whippy shoots that's like waggling around if you've been waggling great words and you waggling whippy and waggling follow it all the way back until you get to where it kind of meets the junction you'll see on the stem there are these little brown buds you can't miss them they're like a little little brown pointy thing and so work all the way back till

it hits the stem and then count one two or three if you're scared and cut after the bud that's all you're doing so you're kind of working across the whole thing taking it all back to three buds um in fact one of the questions i think it was from christy actually was whether you can prune older wisteria quite hard um and you absolutely can you can do a more severe prune um so as with all pruning you're going to take off all dead, diseased and damaged growth. You're going to do that with everything, not just wisterias. But you can cut back whole sections of the wisteria to a strong branch or shoots lower down. Or, I mean, you can even take some of the branches down to ground level if you want to be really drastic.

But the key really is just to make sure that you plan which branches and shoots you wish to keep. And you're aiming to make just a really healthy, open framework with spaced out branches. So now is the time to be doing that with your wisteria. But it's also time to prune lots of other things. You've got roses need pruning in January and February, deciduous trees and shrubs as well. So trees that lose their leaves, now's the time to do it. Apple and pear trees as well.

So there is much pruning to be done. So it's worth investing in a good pruning saw and getting outside on a preferably not soaking wet day. Just because you'll get wet and cold, not because there's anything wrong with pruning in the rain let's dive into some questions from our innies and outies and i'm going to kick off with an any question from sophie how do you make a living room feel together when there isn't a fireplace as a center point oh that's a good one so much like in the garden uh that i've learned from you you need focal points presumably let's

just let's just say you've got a room that's full walls it's about the placement of your furniture so you would want where your chimney breath would have been if you would have a fireplace replace it with something like a sideboard or indeed a big media unit with a with a tv in you want to create a focal point that's around your sort of seating area so you've got your sofa you've got your chairs you've got your central coffee table you've got your lovely rug that it sits on and then really on the wall where if there was to be a fireplace you have your media unit tv that wants to just feel that that sort of replaces it i don't think i don't think a living room necessarily needs a

fireplace to feel cozy I think it's what you put in it that makes it feel warm and inviting but I think just consider what it is on that wall um I do think sometimes when you walk into a living room that doesn't have a fireplace and it doesn't have any built-in joinery it could almost be it could almost be anything it could be a bedroom so I think you want something that's quite solid so whether it be a big sideboard with your tv mounted above it or it be a bookcase that you have your sort of your tv or you know in but I think it needs to be something fairly large on that wall to make it feel substantial enough to make it feel like a sort of nice living room. For me, that's quite important. I wouldn't just have a room with loose furniture in.

It sort of feels like it needs something a bit more structured, needs something solid, a bit more weighty. But for me, that would be my number one thing. There was something on social media over christmas some very famous designer whom i forget the name of saying my number one goal is to make sure there isn't a television in a living room or a visible television um which is a bit shaming i think most people have televisions in their living room not all but most i'm a very realistic person when it comes to design i don't know i've never had a client come to me and say well to be unless it's a house big enough that they've got a snug and a playroom and a living room sure and then we absolutely have a

living room that doesn't have a tv because that's then not a problem but you can then design living rooms and drawing rooms and snugs and playrooms very differently and some have tvs and some don't that's a very different thing. But in most cases, people want to watch televisions in their living room. And therefore, I'm not snobby about it. I'm not snobby about TVs. I'm not snobby about them being over mantelpieces.

I think as long as they are designed well and they don't just look like a giant black box stuck on a wall, then I'm I have no qualms about putting TVs in living rooms and I do you try and hide them do you box them in or no of anything I would I would I would recommend people go down the route of using like art TVs I'm not one for boxing in TVs only because I just think it's a faff to have to sort of open it up and close it I do think put them on an arm wherever you can put them on the wall and put them on an

arm I don't like TVs on stands sitting on furniture um i never think that looks great i think get it on the wall and then it's you can put things around it you put your books around it and you put you know your ornaments and you dress it nicely um then therefore you don't really see the tv because it's everything else in the room that is speaking instead of it but yeah at the end of the day a living room is for living in and it's for relaxing in and it's for coming home after a long day and if you want to sit and watch tv then put a tv on the wall i'm not i'm not no i'm not not fussy about that i will always try and work it into a design for clients i've got another any question for you okay and this is from emily what is the best light to have over my dressing table? Thank you, Emily, for asking this,

because I've inherited this sort of slightly unusual, but actually very useful dressing table in my room, which is sort of part of a built-in cupboard, and it's got spotlights at the top, and I look like I'm dying every time I do my makeup, so I can't wait to hear the answer for this one. Well, I am, as you know know i think i've made this very clear i really don't like down lights in most cases almost anywhere overhead lights have a place

they just are not needed over bathroom cabinets bathroom mirrors anywhere where you're looking at your reflection you do not want an overhead light above your head the reason being is that it casts a shadow down your nose you'll see if you put a light above your head you get this sort of like ghouly look where you get this sort of black shadows under your eyes and then cast the shadow down between your nose and your mouth it is so so unattractive impossible to do makeup. You're constantly sort of tilting your head up to the light. So what you always want in a dressing room or indeed in a bathroom is that you want front facing lights. They always have lights on either side of the mirror and that will light your face from the front.

It's fine if there's a central light in the room. And indeed, if you want extra light in the room for when you come to clean the room a lot of people like down lights in rooms so that they can see when they're cleaning I get that so just make sure you put things on separate you know or indeed if it looks nice like if you've got a lovely little pendant light that looks really pretty over a dressing table then great but put it on a separate circuit so that you can turn it off and you can just have your front facing lights on when you're doing your makeup. Another consideration, of course, when you're doing a dressing in front of a dressing table,

you want really to have your dressing table in front of a window because the natural light is the best light to be able to see your face and have it lit up naturally. So if that's possible, try and put your dressing table in front of in front of a window and during the day that will give you the best possible light um natural light but otherwise try and get something on on the wall and if you can't do that then get something that's on the dressing table like a light that has you know is able to really light your face up um from all angles but overhead lights over dressing tables are just a no big fat no excellent tip thank you from all angles. But overhead lights, overdressing tables are just a no, big fat no. Excellent tip. Thank you. Hey, it's Mitch from SideNote Podcast, and I'm here to tell you about the new Google Pixel 9 powered by Gemini. Anyone who knows me knows the Pixel has always been my favorite out of

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Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. visit peloton at onepeloton.ca polly i've got a question here for you from an outie magpie girl is asking oh i like that magpie girl what should i replace a box parter with a box parter what's a parter a parterre what's a parterre a parterre what should i replace a box parterre with box parterre is um a sort of low level uh box hedge you'll see them in if you go to somewhere like hampton court or stately homes or it's it's that low level hedge which is usually quite ornamental usually quite symmetrical it sort of essentially acts as a as a boundary around a flower bed I know exactly what it is now yeah so yes as as we well know box is tricky for two reasons blight but also caterpillar and it's rare that we come across a garden where one or t'other hasn't impacted them now as I've said before we

don't use box anymore although there are some more resilient box in the works so it all is not lost in the future and if you're willing to spray with a non-chemical solution then you can keep your box going but if you're looking to replace it my preferred favorite would be euonymus it looks very similar and the leaves tend to be slightly larger than box but not a lot so something like euonymus green spire is a nice choice it's um it will do the same job brilliant thank you very much got another one for you here um this is from the 31 home uh this out he wants to know is artificial grass ever okay so as a studio we won't anymore we we used to way back when um put in the odd artificial lawn but now we categorically won't do it and much of the industry won't either i hate it it's essentially putting a plastic carpet

in your garden it's terrible for wildlife it's terrible for your soil it's it's definitely not adding anything back into the environment. I do understand there are occasions where people want it where they have a very very small space and want a little bit of artificial turf because lawn wouldn't thrive. I always try and encourage instead that then you don't have a lawn have more planting instead. There is this sort of obsession with having a lawn that sometimes if your garden is so small it can't fit a lawn in. I would say don't have a lawn, have more planting instead if you can. And I know people get very cross with me and say they need space for their child to play.

But there are different ways of having a having a play space for your kids without an artificial lawn. The one thing I would say here is if you have one already, if you inherit an an artificial lawn it's a difficult question to ask whether you remove it because it's already there and I don't want to see that going to landfill it's ruinous for biodiversity it's um essentially made of plastic the shelf life is about 10 to 20 years and it's not like it can be reused sometimes it can be recycled um it's actually also incredibly annoying in terms of cleaning i mean if you've got animals it is not a sanitary option um because you're essentially putting a carpet outside and so trying to clean that in any way can you tell i really hate artificial yes um so my answer is wherever wherever possible, I would really, really, really, really avoid it.

Okay, Jojo, this question is actually making me cringe. But Nick wants to know, what is your opinion on faux olive trees indoors? Well, interestingly, the answer might surprise you. I know you don't like an olive tree at the best of times. Or you do, but in sort of certain in Mediterranean climates but um there is a place there is a place for faux olive trees inside um you can now pretty remarkable faux olive trees I am not one for promoting something that is obviously plastic I would always say go for the real deal but equally i think if you can't keep something alive and the conditions inside are not right for a real tree

then of course like in a basement i mean it's never going to survive is it then to get that look of green inside a house i would say go for it because there are so many good faux olive trees around you have to spend the money though my god we we recently did a um a house with a an indoor pool and we put two faux olive trees in there and they were these beautiful gnarly olive trees and they were faux and they were about 850 pounds each so you might be like oh my god that's extortionate but the look of them they they looked incredible so I think I don't think you can pop down your local garden center and pick up a fake olive tree for 25 quid and expect it to look good because it won't so in general

overarching answer is no I don't like them but I think there's a place if it's a basement or indeed you have a pool or an area where it's got no natural light and they're never going to survive and no tree or plant is going to survive then i would say yes go for another tree because i do think they look lovely in the right pots in the right um setting but you're going to have to spend the money on getting it to look good i've got one here for you paul it's a stupid question there is no such thing as a stupid question my friend gabby there is no such thing as a stupid question, my friend, Gabby. There is no such thing as a stupid question. Her stupid question, she says, is when you say north-facing,

are you standing with your back to the house and a compass facing away? Yeah. Do you know what? My brain still boggles. It's funny, isn't it? Because you think, so it's not a stupid question. Should we do the segment? It's not at all. I think we should at all every every week should we do like a a stupid question that's not stupid yes what should we call it let's call it let's do something like that yes except none of

your questions are stupid as jojo says yeah bring it bring the most basic the most yeah we want them we want them all this one still boggles my mind for some reason my brain just doesn't work um in a way i always always every new garden i have i have to get my phone out stand with my back to the house get my compass out to figure out which way it faces because you know someone will go oh the sun's over there i'm like cool i still need my compass it's just so yes you are completely correct if you want to find out which way your garden faces, go outside of it with your back to the wall, back to the house. Get your compass out or your iPhone with your compass out. And what is it's not what's behind you.

It's what's in front of you. So as I'm holding mine right now and I'm pointing mine to my garden, the what I'm looking at is S south. So I know that my garden is south facing. So it's the letter that you're looking at, which tells you what you are facing. I mean, the clue is in the facing, isn't it? The clue is in the word facing. I know, but I think that's quite, yeah, but it still boggles my mind. So if there's an N at the end of your compass, at the end of your phone, you're north facing east west so not a stupid question at all I still have to do it every time because my brain just will not calibrate in

that way interestingly if you're buying a sofa and it has a chaise and it's either a right hand chaise or a left hand chaise now if you're looking at the sofa and you're buying a right hand chaise which way would you say that that was coming off from? Do you mean a chaise? Do you mean like the leg resty bit? Like an L shape sofa? Yeah the L shape. So the bit that sticks out.

If you said right hand chaise I'd expect it to be the right hand side which had the long bit that you could put your legs on. No but so you have a right you can choose the sofa and it can have a right one that comes out the right side or one that comes out the left side. Yeah.

Would you say it's going to be if you're looking at the sofa or if you're sitting on the sofa the left i'd imagine as if you were sitting on it that's got that's that's got us stuck a few times in the past it's not it's if you're looking at the sofa it's a left hand no yeah yeah so that that can i bet the amount of designers out there that have had a sofa or somebody that's had a sofa turn up and they're like, oh, shit. So it's as you're looking at it. Oh, good tip. Well, speaking of sofas, my friend, speaking of sofas, I've got an any question for you from Caroline.

What are your top tips for picking a sofa? I'm talking size, style, colour and fabric. I'm talking size, style, colour and fabric. Number one thing I would always say maximize the size of your sofa where possible I think it's so easy to think to go a bit mean with a sofa but actually plan it out first of all first off really sort of think about the space you want a sofa that's really if you're going to be sitting on it and it's a chilling sofa and it's a tv watching sofa it wants to be about a meter deep a lot of sofas come at about 90 centimeters deep and that's just not enough really to sort of sit and sort of really slouch and curl up in so it wants to be sort of a meter 110 in depth if it's the it's the tv viewing and snuggling up on and then the size of the sofa just try and maximize

the size because sometimes you go into rooms and the sofa just always looks a bit diddly it looks a bit mean um just go that extra 10 20 centimeters as for the color again it depends on how you live it depends on who lives in the house with you if you've got dogs have you got cats have you got little ones that are going to claw it you know pound little paws all over it that will determine what color you want it to be um i tend to say that i mean for me number one go-to sofa color for us is obviously going to be oatmeal uh never gray um because like i've spoken about it before it's a it's a fun sponge um oatmeal sofa because then you can bring color in so if you don't want to go if you don't want to sort of you know go all out on a color sofa then you can bring all that color and you know pattern and um character in on cushions um so oatmeal is always a go-to but otherwise I

would say olive green is always one of my favorite color sofas hard to find off the shelf though really good olive green that sort of color it's getting that really right and then style it really depends what what you're after I mean style that's a little bit like it it depends what your what your vibe is what the living room looks like the other bits of furniture that you've got that's very dependent I wouldn't be able to answer that one but it's such a big purchase such an important purchase one thing i would always say like with beds like with mattresses it's the one place i always encourage people to please spend money don't go cheap know what it's made of know where it's come from you know you want something that's sort of ideally uk made um and it's got

sort of a mix of feather and um and foam in the cushions that doesn't sort of slip off the front that we've seen in so many high street sofas um and it will remain and it'll keep its shape you know a lesson i learned the hard way pal was armrests that you want one i once bought a sofa and the armrests were so low that it meant it was a very kind of you had to sort of sit up it was a very it ended up being a very formal sofa you couldn't lounge on it because the armrests weren't such that you could kind of slouch you would you would sort of yeah i think arms are important and i don't want an erect sofa no um some things need to be valuable then we like them being erect other things not so much kate uh and out he is asking when should i mulch when should i mulch i love this so mulching is

any kind of well rotted organic material so something we use a lot is mushroom compost which isn't made of mushrooms it's compost that mushrooms have been grown in any sort of garden compost or bark chips or it could be leaf mold which is when it's very well rotted leaves and why you do it is to enrich your soil so that mulch not only is going to improve your soil but it's also going to suppress annual weeds and it's going to help with water retention as well in the summer. So most people say to mulch in spring, but I personally like to do it a bit earlier. I like to do it January, February. And the reason I like to do it then is because I find it much easier to do. The bulbs will go through it. And also so will your perennials. If you wait until March, April, which loads of people do, and you

absolutely can, it just makes it more fiddly because you can't dump mulch over growing plants you have to have them you have to sort of go around it so obviously January February your borders are emptier and don't worry plants will grow through but you cannot dump it on top of growing leaves that's they're not going to love that so anytime from now through to sort of March April really great thanks Paul final question for you, Jojo. And this one is a doozy. I'm excited to hear the answer to this one. What window treatment do you use with a window

which has a radiator under it? Which is a lot of windows, right? Because I know how you feel about floating curtains. It's just one of my favourite questions. And that's from Alex. Yes. I love this question because there is such this really funny misconception about having, there's a really funny misconception about needing to keep your radiator under a window exposed at all times.

So I'm going to just say, in general, general you tend to turn do you not turn your heating off at night did i'd say 95 of people turn the heating off at night would you not agree yeah i think so okay so say you've got your radiator on and it's positioned underneath your window you can have a full length pair of curtains hanging down to the floor if there's a radiator under your window you're closing your radiator you tend to close your wind your curtains at night so it doesn't matter that they're closing over the front of a radiator i think too many people worry about the heat coming out from a radiator if also it depends on the age of your house if it's a very very old house and you have radiators under all your and you have radiators under

all your windows you have radiators on your on your windows because obviously all that cold air is coming through the window and from the wall and the heat the radiator has to heat it so naturally that's where it needs to be at night you want to close your you close your curtains and therefore it's closing on top of your radiator and a lot of people then worry that the heat can't come out of the radiator and it's not going to warm the room fully understand that but that's not an excuse to then go and rush out and get short curtains just think about when you're using that radiator for me i just i i just can't bear the look of short curtains i just think they look like they've had a fight with the floor and they've just run out of fabric and i think they are just unnecessary

if you really don't want to go with long curtains because you think, do you know what, actually, Jojo, you're wrong. I have my radiators on all night and I close my curtains on top of them and therefore it's a huge waste of heat. Then get a Roman blind. Have a Roman blind above the window outside the recess to let all that lovely light in and let the radiator do its magic and do its work. Also, just a quick tip.

If you are thinking of getting underfloor heating, before you go pulling all your radiators out from underneath your windows, consider whether you need to keep them, because a lot of houses don't have insulated walls. The cavities aren't insulated. And if they're not, and you suddenly remove that radiator from under the window, even with underfloor heating, you're going to have a cold patch around your window,

or your walls are going to feel cold. Oh, interesting. The radiator is serving a purpose. So just make sure you've got well-intudated walls before you dash out and think oh underfloor heating and in an old property if you're doing a renovation good tip so i think we've come to the end of our questions my friends so all that remains is to ask you what's in and what's out well i'm going to go with um leather stretchy trousers by all saints they're bloody brilliant they're really comfy and they've got like a padded lining that's delicious can I tell you my in go on give me your which is related to that mini eggs they're back in the supermarket mini eggs are my

crack I'm so excited they are I mean it's not very conducive to the old uh project twig exercise is it but my god I love mini try putting mini eggs in the fridge as well they're so delicious and better they go crunchier mini cold mini eggs no do you think no I quite like I like them warm so that's my in but I guess I could wear them whilst wearing stretcher stretchy leather leggings so my out is a good portion of my wardrobe I've had a really big clear out after talking to you last week I've got rid of a lot of yeah capsuling is exactly it the classics have stayed and some of the sort of trendier pieces I guess like things with very frilly collars and stuff have have gone I just think I want it to be a cleaner silhouette it's all gone to the charity shop and I feel so much

freer good um what's out for me gosh I can't I haven't really thought about my out this week my long hair I'm about to go and get a haircut so I'm actually going to get a real snip so what's out is lost what's out is my really long scraggly homeless hair well that's another that's a wrap on another episode of the ins and outs please don't forget to like subscribe write a lovely review, keep your not lovely reviews to yourself, and share it with your friends and your mum and your work colleagues and frankly anyone that you meet on the street. Now our working day starts.

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