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On this episode of Sweet Digs, we tour the London apartment of Pip Jolley. This space consists of two floors and is located in the Hoxton neighborhood of East London. Watch this week's Sweet Digs to explore her lively home!

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Transcript
00:00Hi guys, I'm Pip and welcome to my sweet digs.
00:04If you haven't already, subscribe below and come on in.
00:10I live in a maisonette in a 60s tower block in Hoxton, which is in East London.
00:16I live here with my boyfriend Dan, he's actually from the area and he owns the flat.
00:22So I pay £400 towards the mortgage, which is a bargain for an area and a flat like this.
00:29So over here we have my living room.
00:31It houses quite a lot of my plants, which you can see I've got a lot of them.
00:35I got most of them from Columbia Road Flower Market, which is just across the road.
00:39The flower market makes Hoxton unique.
00:41On a Sunday it's so buzzy, there's people from all parts of the world here.
00:45They're like really London, like flower traders and they shout all kinds of funny stuff.
00:49I have a lot of mid-century furniture, it's one thing that I really love, but we try and
00:53mix it in with industrial pieces.
00:55This piece of furniture is actually probably the only piece of furniture that my boyfriend
01:00had in this flat.
01:02And I saw this and I thought, okay, you know, he's quite cool, at least he has a piece of
01:07mid-century furniture.
01:08Inside it, it houses all of the DVDs and the TV stuff that's so ugly and you can just put
01:14it away and hide it.
01:16This is the main focal point of our living room.
01:20It's a bookcase that we actually built out of scaffolding planks and it houses all of
01:25my little pots and plants and trinkets.
01:32We have this awesome balcony and look, we've got Canary Wharf over there and the Olympic
01:39Stadium.
01:40The whole of East London, it's just perfect on a day like today.
01:48We have the kitchen over here with the big breakfast bar.
01:52It's quite small, but it's open plan, which is nice.
01:55You can all hang out in one big space.
01:57There's a lot of good prep area to do the cooking and lay everything out.
02:02Obviously, we do all the cooking over there on the stove.
02:04I said stove, that's so American.
02:06Why did I say that?
02:08I just cook whatever I fancy, whatever they have in the organic shop.
02:12The thing is, we like to do it together.
02:14I like to control what's happening and Dan will help me.
02:18We live in a flat that is across two floors, which I think is quite cool.
02:22I think it's probably quite typical of a 60s building.
02:27So, follow me upstairs and I'll give you a little tour of it there.
02:31Our bedroom, it's yet to be decorated.
02:34It's actually my next task is to do this room.
02:36Dan has given me the theme of Miami Vice.
02:40So, millennial pinks, velvet headboard, very boudoir-y, lots of plants.
02:46And we're going to do a naughty gallery wall.
02:49We have a great piece by the Notes to Strangers.
02:52We've got one that's like, you can be a feminist but enjoy spanking, which is quite fun.
02:57One of my favorite things in this room is the record player.
03:01It doesn't work and I think it's going to cost a lot of money to get it fixed.
03:05But it really goes with the mid-century like, cheap vibe that I've got downstairs in the flat.
03:12These are mine and Dan's childhood toys.
03:14Ben Bunny and Foxy.
03:16They have now become best friends.
03:18He's my little thing that makes me feel safe at all times.
03:22And over this side, we have our office.
03:28I can work from home here.
03:30Dan makes jungle music.
03:33So this is all of his equipment.
03:34This piece is something that I bought Dan for his birthday.
03:39This is a jungle song.
03:41I have no knowledge of jungle, so I don't know.
03:45But he loves it and it makes him really happy and yeah.
03:48I love orange.
03:49It's the happiest color.
03:50It just makes you feel so good.
03:53Orange shirts, orange bags.
03:55I love this orange cushion.
03:57We bought this couch specifically because it was orange.
04:01We have a toilet and then this is the bathroom.
04:06So they're separated.
04:07The bathroom is actually the only room in the house that I really don't like.
04:12It's really small.
04:14There's no bath.
04:15There's no natural light.
04:16Eventually, we'll probably do it up and knock the wall through.
04:20But right now, there's nothing going on.
04:22So let's not spend any more time in here.
04:24And let's go and check out one of the other rooms.
04:26We've got our walking wardrobe.
04:29The most expensive thing that we have in the house is the wardrobe.
04:32I have everything hung on velvet hangers because you get more clothes in that way.
04:37But it does manage to house everything.
04:39On this side, we have Dan's trainer collection.
04:42He has 200 pairs.
04:44He loves them.
04:45He wears a different pair every day.
04:46We take all the photos for his Instagram.
04:49His trainer collection definitely dictated how the room was going to be designed.
04:55So we decided to go for an Ikea bookcase so that everything could be stacked and quite neat.
05:01I've actually put Dan on a one-in, one-out basis on the shoes.
05:07Whether he will stick to that, we will find out.
05:09It's kind of the same with me in clothes.
05:11I collect dagger collar shirts.
05:13So they're a specific shirt from the 1970s and they have really big pointed collars.
05:20I don't even look at the design, the color, the size.
05:22I look specifically at the collar and then I'll see if it fits me.
05:26I have this one.
05:27I think this one really has a kind of like Gucci vibe to it.
05:31I think this is the biggest collar I have.
05:33This is actually a smaller one.
05:35Got a green one.
05:37I've lived in this flat for about a year.
05:41Me and my partner have been together for a year and a half.
05:44And quite quickly after we got together, I moved in.
05:47Hoxton's great.
05:48There is a overground train, very close.
05:51There's lots of really cool cafes and coffee shops.
05:54The people are really nice and friendly and there's lots of cool shops.
05:58We're right close to Shoreditch, so lots of bars and stuff for a night out.
06:01Hoxton is like one of those places where there's people that have lived here forever,
06:05like my boyfriend Dan, or there's people from all over the world.
06:09It's just great.
06:10I think it's really important to have a place where you can come and kind of switch off from your
06:18day job.
06:18But I'm always so busy, so it's really nice to come here and chill out and relax at the end
06:23of the day
06:23and just switch off from all of that.
06:29Thank you for watching my sweet digs.
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06:39Now, see you later.