Lydia Millen Buys Charming 200-Year-Old Cottage!

She's built a brand around her chic and rustic lifestyle, and Lydia Millen has now added to her property portfolio with a picturesque new purchase.

The British lifestyle star, 37, has revealed she's splashed out on a 200-year-old fisherman's cottage in Norfolk, with plans to transform the cosy property into her dream holiday home.

Celebrating that she and Ali Gordon had finally received the keys to their new property, Lydia shared their plans to renovate every inch of the three-bedroom home in a video on .

Noting the home had been built as a practical place for fisherman, she said the kitchen wood burners were one of the prime reasons they purchased the home.

Showing off the kitchen, Lydia shared that she and Ali would be completely 'ripping it out', but the wood burner would be staying as is.

She also shared with her followers that the placement of the sink in front of the window proved to be one of the reasons why they bought the home.

'I've got my sink which is situated in front of the window, I'm going to have to decide whether I want sash windows,' Lydia said.

'Obviously the entire kitchen is going to be ripped out, brand new kitchen, Ideally, I would love a double arc in here. 

'And I think this room will really benefit, I think the house will really benefit from it in terms of warmth. We'll see what we can do.'

Sharing their plans to add a 'pantry unit' or a bar in the kitchen, Lydia said much of the house would need rewiring, with new heating added.

She continued: 'I love everything about this wood burner, I have no intention of changing this whatsoever. 

'I want to have a more plastered feel, which it does already have. I just feel like they've added a little bit of detail to it, which I'm not so sure of. You could even get some nice little armchairs that sit here so that you can be nice.'

The home features two guest bedrooms, one master bedroom and two bathrooms, with Lydia sharing their plans to reorganise the bathrooms to utilise the space, while they hoped to add a wood burner on one of the bedrooms.

Sharing news of the purchase on Instagram, Lydia captioned her post: 'We've just picked up the keys to our 200 year old coastal fisherman's cottage and I've shared a full tour over on YouTube. 

'I feel so grateful to begin bringing this little kitchen to life, from the sink by the window to the Aga I've always dreamed of. From being told I wouldn't amount to much, to this… I don't take a second of it for granted.'

Tweed-loving Millen, originally from Watford, has indeed built up an impressive four-million-strong following on social media by sharing pristine content from her picture-perfect £2million Cotswolds home.

In recent years she has collaborated with underwear brand Intimissi, Sky TV, Creed Fragrances and Land Rover, to name just a few.

And in 2023 she released a book, Evergreen, billed as the essential guide for anyone who is looking to 'unearth their inner strength and bring more joy and contentment into their everyday'. In it, she admits that what 'people see on the outside is different to what is in the inside'.

Thanks to these lucrative deals - as well as the money she makes through posting videos on her YouTube channel, Lydia's business account currently has £1.7million sitting in it.

And with Ali's 900,000 subscribers, the couple are thought to have a net worth of around £10million.