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Hi guys, I'm Pip and welcome
to my Sweet Digs.
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I live in a maisonette in a
60s tower block
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in Hoxton, which is in East London.
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I live here with my boyfriend Dan.
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He's actually from the area,
and he owns the flat.
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So, I pay 400 pounds
towards the mortgage,
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which is a bargain for
an area and a flat like this.
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So, over here we have my living room.
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It houses quite a lot of my plants,
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which you can see
I've got a lot of them.
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I got most of them from
Columbia Road Flower Market
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which is just across the road.
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The flower market makes
Hoxton unique.
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On Sunday it's so buzzy.
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It's like people from
all parts of the world here,
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and like really London flower traders,
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and they shout all
kinds of funny stuff.
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I have a lot of mid-century furniture,
it's one thing that I really love,
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but we try to mix it in
with like industrial pieces.
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This piece of furniture is actually
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probably the only piece of
furniture that my boyfriend
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had in this flat.
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And I saw this and I thought,
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"Okay, you know,
he's quite cool."
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"He has at least he has a
piece of mid-century furniture."
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Inside it, it like, houses
all of the DVDs
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and the TV stuff that's so ugly,
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and you can just put
it away and hide it.
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This is the main focal point
of our living room.
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It's a book case that we actually
built out of scaffolding planks.
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And it houses all of my little
pots and plants and trinkets.
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We have this awesome balcony.
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And look we've got
Canary Wharf over there,
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the Olympic stadium,
the whole of East London.
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It's just perfect on a day like today.
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We have the kitchen over here
with the big breakfast bar.
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It's quite small but it's open plan
which is nice.
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We can all hang out in one big space.
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There's a lot of good prep area
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to do the cooking, and
like lay everything out.
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And obviously we do all the
cooking over there on the stove.
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I said stove that's so American,
why did I say that?
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[laughs]
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I just cook whatever I fancy, whatever
they have in the organic shop.
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The thing is, is that
we like to do it together.
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Or I like to control what's
happening, and Dan will help me.
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*click clock*
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We live in a flat that is across
two floors, which I think is quite cool.
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I think it's probably quite typical
of a 60s like building.
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So, follow me upstairs and I'll
give you a little tour of up there.
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Our bedroom.
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It's yet to be decorated, it's actually my
next task is to do this room.
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Dan has given me the
theme of Miami Vice.
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So, millennial pinks, velvet headboard,
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very boudoiry, lots of plants,
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and we're gonna do a
naughty gallery wall.
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We have a great piece by
the Notes To Strangers.
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We've got one that's like,
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"You can be a feminist
but enjoy a spanking,"
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which is quite fun.
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One of my favorite things in this
room is the record player.
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it doesn't work,
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and I think it's gonna cost
a lot of money to get it fixed,
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but it really goes with
the mid-century like
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teak vibe that
I've got downstairs in the flat.
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These are mine and Dan's
childhood toys.
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Ben Bunny and Foxy.
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They have now become best friends.
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He's my little thing that makes
me feel safe at all times.
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And over this side.
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We have our office.
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I can work from home here.
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Dan makes jungle music,
so this is all of his equipment.
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This piece is something that I
bought Dan for his birthday.
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This is a jungle song.
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I have no knowledge of jungle
so, I don't know.
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But he loves it and it makes
him really happy, and yeah.
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I love orange, it's the happiest color.
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It just makes you feel so good.
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Orange shirts, orange bags,
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I love this orange cushion.
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We bought this couch
specifically because it was orange.
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We have a toilet,
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and then this is the bathroom.
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So, they're separated.
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The bathroom is actually the only
room in the house that
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I really don't like.
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It's really small, there's no bath,
there's no natural light.
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Eventually we'll probably do it up
and knock the wall through,
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but right now there's
nothing going on
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so let's not spend any
more time in here
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and let's go and check out
one of the other rooms.
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We've got our walk-in wardrobe.
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The most expensive thing that we
have in the house is the wardrobe.
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I have everything hung
on velvet hangers.
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because you get more
clothes in that way.
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But it does manage to
house everything.
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On this side we have
Dan's trainer collection.
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He has 200 pairs.
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He loves them, he wears a different
pair every day.
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I take all the photos for
his Instagram.
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His trainer collection
definitely dictated
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how the room was
gonna be designed.
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So, we decided to go for
a Ikea bookcase
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so that everything could
be stacked and quite neat.
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I've actually put Dan on a
one-in-one-out basis on the shoes.
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Whether he will stick to that
we will find out.
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It's kinda the same with
me and clothes.
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I collect dagger collar shirts,
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so they're a specific shirt
from the 1970s
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and they have
really big pointed collars.
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I don't even look at the design
the color the size,
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I look specifically at the collar
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and then I'll see if it fits me.
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I have this one.
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I think this one has a like
Gucci vibe to it.
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I think this is the biggest
collar I have.
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This is actually a smaller one.
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I got a green one.
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Yeah.
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I've lived in this flat for about a year.
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Me and my partner have been
together for a year and a half,
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and quite quickly after we
got together I moved in.
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Hoxton's great, there is an overground
train very close.
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There's lots of really cool
cafe's and coffee shops.
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People are really nice and friendly,
and there's lots of cool shops.
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We're right close to Shoreditch, so
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lots of bars and
stuff for a night out.
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Hoxton is like one of those
places where there's
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people that have lived
here forever,
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like my boyfriend Dan,
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or there's people from
all over the world.
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It's just great.
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I think it's really important
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to have a place where you can
come and kinda
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switch off from your day job,
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but I'm always so busy so it's
really nice to come here
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and chill out and relax
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at the end of the day, and just switch
off from all of that.
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