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In this episode of Open Door, AD steps inside the beautifully curated London home of Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery. Designed in collaboration with Emma Ainscough, Michelle’s space blends English country charm with city living–from a dedicated boot room to a grange-style kitchen. With pops of red (Michelle’s favorite color) and numerous homages to her beloved lurcher, Alfie, the actress’s home is a deeply personal space full of character and life.

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00:00Hi A.D. I'm Michelle Dockery. Welcome to my home. Come in.

00:17So this is the boot room. Feels like quite a luxury to have a dedicated space just for throwing

00:23your coats and shoes on the floor. It looks much tidier today thanks to A.D. than it usually does.

00:28The previous owners actually put in this partition wall as this was part of the room next door and

00:34created this boot room. This is where we walk in when we've come in from muddy dog walks and actually

00:40Alfie, our five-year-old lurcher, has his own little dedicated hooks here from Rose Uniac.

00:48Very expensive dog hooks for his lead. And I'll take you through to the hallway.

00:58I always wanted a gallery hallway so over the years I've collected lots of different pieces

01:06of artwork. Some are from Etsy, some are from antique markets. You'll see lots of pictures

01:14of sight hounds around the house, just like our dog Alfie. Let's go down to the kitchen.

01:30So this is our kitchen and living space. This is where we spend most of our time.

01:35We worked with an incredible interior designer called Emma Ainsco on this house. When we first

01:41bought the house there were two walls separating this area. There was a very dark dining room and

01:48the kitchen was much smaller. So we added an extension to make it one big space. We wanted to

01:55keep as much of the kitchen as possible because it was beautiful. So this was all here when we bought

02:00the house. We just extended the island and added a dining area so that we could then have a more

02:07family room area. I love this island for having a cooker in the middle because it's just really

02:13lovely for when you're entertaining and cooking and friends can sit here and you don't turn your

02:18back to them while you're cooking. The pistachio green doors were a feature that I completely fell in

02:24love with when we saw this house and so I really wanted to keep them. So we added the extension and

02:30just put them on the end and then added the other windows and it's just made the space feel so much

02:34brighter and airier. This space is really lovely. This was also here when we bought the house. It's like

02:40our pantry area. We added this breakfast nook and this is where we make our coffee and our tea in the mornings.

02:54So this is the dining area which is the newer extension. Some really great meals in here,

03:03Christmas, birthdays, Easter. I love this dining table. It's from a brand called Konk. We wanted

03:10something that had sleeves so that you could make it a much bigger table for bigger dinner parties.

03:15We matched the crittal windows to match the crittal. We just kind of wanted to make the space feel

03:20really cohesive. This sideboard was designed by our interior designer, Emma Ainsko and it was made

03:28like a lot of the furniture in this house by two carpenters from Syria who we've worked with a lot

03:34on this house. They're brothers and they are so talented and as you can see it's the most beautiful

03:40piece and Emma found this incredible piece of marble to go on top. So when we're having dinners,

03:45this is where the food goes, the wine goes, if you're doing more of a buffet. And then above it

03:51is this photograph by Slim Aaron's, one of my favourite photographers and we absolutely love

03:57this photograph. It really kind of shows family and food and entertaining. We thought it would be

04:02perfect for this room. And then also when we're entertaining in the summer, when the weather's good,

04:07we also like to entertain outside. So this is more of like the family room. We spend quite a lot of

04:24time in here. I spend quite a lot of time in here on this sofa because it's really comfortable. It's

04:29from Restoration Hardware and this is where I watch a lot of TV. That is a chessboard

04:35and I'm learning how to play chess. I was inspired by The Queen's Gambit,

04:40Scott Frank Show, who I had the pleasure of working with many years ago, but I'm not very good.

04:45I need more practice. And then this I really want to show you, which is family heirloom. This is my

04:51grandmother's and it's been handed down to me and my sisters and I have it at the moment. And it is

04:56probably the most Downton Abbey thing that I own as it is filled with beautiful silverware, which we tend

05:07to use at Christmas and special occasions. So I am known to occasionally polish my silverware.

05:16There's lots of interior magazines here, lots of Architectural Digest. I'm a big fan. One of my

05:25favourites was Dakota Johnson's house. We've also got a record player down here. This was a wedding

05:30present from a friend and it actually has a little etching that my friend actually did for us of our dog.

05:37It's all about the dog really.

05:39So I got this from eBay. I like collecting weird things like this and it's a lady just sitting in

05:46a pool. But when you turn it over, I don't know if we can actually show it. It's so weird. It's just her

05:57bum with a sort of cat there. Look, this is so bizarre. But I thought I've got to have it.

06:04This is one of my favourite things in the house, the shelving unit. It's from the

06:08Comrand shop. I actually saw it in the store in their meeting room. So it wasn't actually for sale

06:16and fell in love with it and loved the colour. I just love the red. So Emma, our interior designer,

06:21asked them to make one for us. It's gorgeous. It's one of my favourite things. I love red,

06:26as you can see. Lots of pops of red everywhere. This is the loo, just so people know what's behind

06:34here and where to find the loo. This is just one of my favourite little rooms in the house. I love a

06:41downstairs loo. And this wallpaper is by Antoinette Poisson. And it's really cute. And that's such a

06:47tiny little sink. So this is our den TV room. This is where we tend to watch a lot of movies and chill

07:04out on these gorgeous sofas. We wanted to make it feel really cosy. So we put in these gorgeous curtains

07:12just to kind of make it really cosy at night. And these little Soho home lamps just make it kind of

07:17feel like a cinema when you're watching a film. There's a piece of art by David Austin, Smoketown.

07:23I've had that for many years. Something I want to show you here, which is a collection of books that

07:28were gifted to me from Maggie Smith. And Laura Carmichael has the other half. They're these amazing

07:35vintage playtorial books, which show costumes from many different periods. So that's something I

07:42really cherish. This poster is my favourite poster from the movie The Gentleman. That little gun in

07:49the glass of whisky is the one that I use in the film to shoot the two heavies. This picture is from

07:55the first series of Downton Abbey by Nick Briggs. It's probably about the only image I have in the house

08:00of me as Lady Mary in Downton. So it's sort of slightly hidden, sort of modest up there above

08:06the door. And then I really want to show you this, which is a SAG award for best ensemble for Downton.

08:15We got a few and this one has a miniature pair of pants on its head. I did a play a few years ago and

08:22it was a sort of an in joke, but my dresser gave me a little tiny pair of Barbie pants and that's now

08:28where they live. There's another homage to Alfie up there, another sighthound. That one's from TK Maxx.

08:48So this is the office. This is actually one of my favourite rooms in the house. It's one of the

08:52brightest rooms and we chose a really bright white colour to kind of make it as bright as possible.

08:59It's where we work, it's where we read, it's where we listen to music. I tend to read scripts in this

09:05chair because it's a really gorgeous recliner chair. I've also got memorabilia I like to keep

09:10in this room. And one thing, in fact, the only thing I got from Downton Abbey was this little dog,

09:17which some people will recognise from the train station scene when Mary gives this to Matthew

09:22before he goes off to war. And what's mad about this is this was a very long time ago and little

09:29did I know that in the future I would get a dog that looks just like this dog. So this is another

09:35homage to my dog. There seems to be loads of them around the house. This is also a gift that was given

09:40to us all at the end of the series of Downton. It's the season one first episode script and they

09:47bound it into this beautiful book. Something else I'm also really proud of that I want to show you

09:52is this photograph of myself, Laura Carmichael and Carl Richards. This was probably the most

10:00starstruck moment of my life. I'm a Housewives of Beverly Hills fan and we met her at this event

10:08and we insisted on going back onto the red carpet to have a photo with Carl Richards.

10:12So I'm very proud of that. The artwork is kind of like the central piece in this room. We had this

10:17piece commissioned by Aniko Mostert, a really talented young South African artist. And my brief

10:25to her was I wanted something that feels really calm and it's going to be in a room where we listen to

10:30music, where we read. And that's all I told her. And this is what she did. And it's so beautiful.

10:36And I just think really makes the room sing. This fireplace, when we moved into the house,

10:43it was really dark. We decided to kind of lighten the whole thing. And our interior designer,

10:48Emma Ainsko, told me about this amazing tile designer called Petro Palumbo, who does these

10:54gorgeous little paintings on tiles. And then they also do custom ones. And so we, of course,

11:00had to get a custom one made of our dog, Alfie. This artwork, you'll see there's a few pieces

11:07around the house. This is another piece by David Austin, who is actually a very close friend of

11:12mine's dad. And he is an incredible artist who I've known for a really long time. And it's really

11:19lovely having his artwork around the house.

11:29So this is the main bedroom. Emma, our designer, has made this into a really calming, beautiful space.

11:35I love the colours in here. And actually, it kind of all started with this Egon Scheele print. Love

11:41the colours in it. So she kind of brought out the colours from the picture. So you can see the green

11:45on the bed and this lovely colour of these wardrobes, which were also custom made by our

11:51really talented carpenters. And it also has really beautiful iron mongery that Emma found.

11:56The bedside tables, I really love. These are from Susie Atkinson. And also the lamps are from Susie

12:01Atkinson too. And this lamp is actually from Cezanne, a clothing brand that I really love.

12:06And now they're doing homeware, which is really exciting. I love a full poster bed. It was always

12:10a bit of a dream to have one. And we had these lovely shears made just to kind of elevate it a bit.

12:16The artwork, a selection of antiques from Battersea Arts Fair, somewhere that I love going every year.

12:23And then also the painting over there is also from Battersea Arts Fair, which is really gorgeous or

12:28calming painting for this room. I'll take you through to the ensuite.

12:38So the colours blend really beautifully in here from the bedroom into the bathroom. I love the marble

12:43in here, Verde Luana, which is just felt really kind of unusual. This vanity again was made by our

12:52carpenters. This print is by a photographer called Tom Allport that I've just discovered. We wanted

12:58something that have real kind of like holiday vibes.

13:05And through here is the dressing room. The colours are really beautiful in there. The walls are a

13:10farin ball colour called Enchira blue, which is one of my favourites. The dressing table is from

13:16Trove. My mum always had a dressing table growing up. It's always nice to be able to kind of sit

13:21somewhere and, you know, do your hair and makeup.

13:33It's been lovely having you, A.D. Thanks so much for coming. Bye.

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