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This is so very well done. We live in Northwest Philadelphia which includes the Germantown area. A rich area in the 18th and 19th centuries it has many large Victorian homes. Just wonderful to walk around, especially during spooky season. Thank you for this in road to one of my favorite movies!!

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Practical Magic is honestly one of my favorite rereads for this time of year (and I did NOT know there were three more books! Thank you so much for mentioning that!), along with a lot of Joanne Harris' books, in particular her Chocolat series (which. The book is very different from the movie lol). It's been a while since I watched it, but clearly I'm due for a rewatch. If they do manage to make a sequel to the movie, I'm here for it - I don't think I'll ever get tired of visiting that mental space where the Owens women reside :) Thank you so much for posting this!

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This was so lovely, thank you!

Hello! New subscriber here when your video popped up on my YT feed. I saw "Practical Magic" when it was released 1998. I loved it! I read the book after that and frankly, the film is way better. My favorite characters were the aunts, Francis and Jet (Stockard and Dianne are gems). I live in Washington and have been to Coupeville (the town that was used in the film) many times. It's a lovely town. I've also been to Friday Harbor a couple of times where the house was built just out of town. It's a fun ferry ride. I grew up in Seattle where there are several Victorian and Craftsman homes on both Queen Anne Hill (where I grew up, but not in one of those homes, darn it!) and Capitol Hill. Then there is Pt. Townsend, the epicenter of Victorian homes. I watch a lot of British shows and follow some British channels on YT. I understand that stand alone homes in the UK are more in the suburbs and that terrace houses are more popular in the larger cities. From what I've seen, it's like what we would call a duplex here in the US. I know that it's a design that's been around for long, long time. Homeworthy channel has featured several designs who live in terrace houses. They appear not to waste and inch of space and cozy.

The black mansion, 5:40, with the burgundy colored roof, and the golden (white?) accents is one of the most stunningly romantic example of the style !

Great explanation! Really well communicated. Thank you for your hard work on this (and in your practice :D )

Where did you buy your scale?

It was a beautiful home

THANKS for this fabulously inspiring video! ❤ Also love Mystic Pizza, it's a wonderful film.

Love this video! As a matter of fact, to decorate for this time of year, I have my Practical Magic book set displayed along with some colored apothecary bottles. Thank you so much for this very thorough tour of the home.

I'm a Mystical 🎉Pizza fan😮 I loved seeing Victoriana.😅

Absolutely love this film and very glad to see you releasing a video on its style ! I'm wondering whether you could also do one on the Locke and Key house ❤ ( which also doesn't exist )

I live in a house built in 1847. The new part of the house was added on to accommodate interior plumbing in 1897. While the huge windows and natural lighting are important to a Victorian house, the light fixture in the kitchen ( basement kitchen, note the high windows) is iconic. My fixture is almost identical except for the flowers painted on mine and mine was retrofitted long before I bought the house to accommodate electricity. While you say that the faux plaster was a thing of the 1990s, it was also sometimes a means of smoothing out the original lathe and plaster walls, ie real plaster. Old homes evolve in decorating styles. The eclectic nature of the Owens home shows generational connection to the home.

I have just found your channel, and i LOVE it. Full bine here. I live in Norway and the scandi style is no myth. So, as have lived in England years ago, Im so nostalgic about these cottages. The dream is to retire to one, and wonder around in your nature without worrying about bears and wolves😀 You are such an inspiration for my cottage dreams. Thank you :)

Loved this

Can you pls recommend those books

I love Practical Magic and this was a beautifully created video. Auralee Wallace books are great!

Practical Magic is one of my favourite movies of all time. I have watched it so many times I know every word of the script.

Love this movie!! Would love to learn more about the love witch movie house too

I confess, I didn't watched this movie. However this video, as usualm is very interesting if you want to pick nice ideas for your home style. I like how you always stress how much light can do to set the mood in a room. It is an element often very underestimated when in fact it should be the opposite. Very well done indeed.

Love your accent. ♥️

Lovely analysis of this magical home! ✨️

You are mixing my favorite themes! Architecture and Witchery! I could smooch you through the internet! New follower! 🩷🩷🩷💫💫

loved this video

Don't kill me. I've never seen this movie. After watching your video, I'm ordering it now. I ADORE Victorian architecture. Your video Was fascinating, as they all are. Thank you. Have a lovely evening. Blessings - Judith 🎭🎤

@dantierandbalogh the alice hoffman series is on audio. Loved this video

I have yet to see anyone point out that this house is meant to look like it was one that was updated & added to over 2 centuries as it passed from generation to generation. That’s why there are multiple styles inside & out.

I learned so much about the movie house and different design styles. Love the book and movie recommendations.

The reason they probably didn’t stick with complete. Victorian decor on the inside is because the majority of Americans are obsessed with redoing things, and they probably assumed that somebody would’ve redone the house during the craftsman era and Sally would’ve had her room redone for the time it was filmed. Wonderful job going over one of my favorite movies ❤

Loved this video! Thank you so much!

Wonderful Video, Loved Watching! ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

This is such a fun video! I love Practical Magic.

This made me realize exactly how much that movie backdrop inspired me and continues to now. I don’t live near the sea but I have set out to make my garden as magical as I can on a budget. One of the influences would be the beautiful garden beds and seating areas. I have been working on that for a few years. Planting not only food but medicinal herbs with which to make salves, tinctures, teas etc. I have two large jars of botanicals steeping over low heat right now in olive oil in order to make a comfrey healing salve for someone’s hurt shoulder. And having a beautiful greenhouse became a dream for “someday” when we could get to building one ourselves. That someday finally arrived now that we have the time. Husband brought home the biggest heaviest plate glass window for the front the other day that I have ever seen locally. It has the beautiful grid trim across the front and it took four men to unload it. I’m so excited! Finally after all these years. I’m going to make it every bit as beautiful as the one in that movie, but we’ll be custom building it ourselves. We have extensive renovation experience so it won’t turn out badly. Anyway as I sort of followed the direction of making the garden something special, we get a lot of people who slow down and go by here looking at everything. Some even turn around and drive back by. We’re on the corner of a cross section of two streets and every once in awhile I see someone stop on that corner across from our house with a straight view of it-and they just sit there for awhile looking if no cars are behind them. It makes me feel proud that they like it enough to do that. If I can do this on a budget, I think a lot of people could. It takes resourcefulness and hard work but it’s doable. An example would be my pond and waterfalls area. I decided I wanted a little pond to catch an overhead rain curtain waterfall feature that rains down from above into the pond, so I got on Facebook marketplace and found pond liners and equipment for $45 usd. They were secondhand but worked just fine. I dug it mostly myself while my husband was at work and hauled more dirt to create a hill for the waterfalls in a wheelbarrow. He helped me install the components and built an overhead archway out of 4x4 timbers that I then stained a natural color. He ran copper pipe up the side and over the top of the pond on the underside of the archway and mounted it with holders. Then drilled small holes in a line on the underside of the pipe and installed a shut off valve on the pipe bottom part from which to turn it on or off or change the speed at which the water rains down from above. It’s very very beautiful now and people freak out over it now that it’s all planted with a weeping cherry tree, bushes, weeping blue spruce tree, asiatic lilies, rose bushes, hostas, tall banana trees in the very back, fountain grasses, hardy hibiscus bush, and various low growing perennial flowers. The front of the pond is planted with low ground cover wooly thyme to keep the grass out and back away from the stepping stones in front. All of that beauty from a $45 set of second hand pond liners and a lot of hard work. People wouldn’t even need to pay for plants if they couldn’t because so many people put up free “you dig” plants and bushes from their yards on marketplace. If you go dig them up they just give them to you. Same for pavers or landscaping blocks.

San Francisco is not the only area in California that is famous for Victorian homes. Check out Ferndale, the Victorian village in Humboldt County. There are many Victorian homes throughout Eureka and Arcata in Humboldt County as well.

LOVED the film. Have seen it numerous times. And had fallen in love with the kitchen and the location of the home.❤❤❤ Your video is quite unique - fantastic information. Shame the house wasn't real. Good job❤

The white pom Pom flower in the conservatory is a Narcissus, also called paperwhites in America. The bulbs are readily available at garden centers in autumn and easy to force inside in a glass with pebbles and some water. If you start them in about 2-3 weeks, you’ll have blooms indoors for Christmas.

I always watch Practical Magic, Sleepy Hollow, Hocus Pocus, The little vampire (the one from 2000), The Mummy 1&2, Trick r Treat, Halloweentown, Casper, The Addams Family 1&2 and The Craft.

Oh yay!! What a perfect episode for this time of year. It's Spring in Australia but that just means I can enjoy this episode twice xx

Recently found your site really interesting . Love this film we have a tradition of watching it so this was just great to see! Thank you

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Great vid D&B, the craftsmanship of yesteryear is hard to come by today. 👏👏

I love the thatched roof and Cotswold styles best. Thank you for this very interesting program.

My daughter, granddaughters and I watch Practical Magic whenever we get together. It’s now tradition. Besides this movie, in Fall I like to watch Chocolat, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and on October 23rd or 24th, Something Wicked This Way Comes.

I had no idea English and American Victorian houses were so different! Your videos are not just delightful and creative, they're also educational 😊

Antiques and homey cupboards. My favorite room was the apothecary (greenhouse).

It was perfect timing when I noticed your video - I was just sitting down to put the finishing touches on an Autumn themed cushion cover I just made. And now I want to watch Practical Magic 🕷️🍁🍂!