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Life in a French Manor
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Registrace 8. 02. 2022
Follow Christine, as she navigates life in a historic manor in Normandy, alongside her French husband Christophe.
I Need an Extra Three Inches!
Size matters! Bathroom renovations have begun, the garden needs attention and we have a night out in Paris.
#manoir #livinginfrance #renovatinginfrance #normandy #bathroomrenovation #sizematters #willitfit #springinfrance
#manoir #livinginfrance #renovatinginfrance #normandy #bathroomrenovation #sizematters #willitfit #springinfrance
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We Climb Montségur! (Don't think i'll do THAT again!)
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We head back to the Pyrenees and explore Esperaza Market, Quillan AND hike up Montsegur! #Montsegur #Esperaza #Quillan #EsperazaMarket #LesArcadiensLimoux #LimouxCarnaval #livinginfrance #manoir #CatharsinFrance #TravellinginFrance #HippiesinFrance #BabaCoolEsperaza #HippiesenAriege
Flatpack Fun, and The Christmas Muse Returns... Take a Sneaky Peak Into My Art Studio!
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Flatpack Fun, and The Christmas Muse Returns... Take a Sneaky Peak Into My Art Studio!
Visit to Paris and the Museum of Modern Art!
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Visit to Paris and the Museum of Modern Art!
Storm Ciaran Devastation! The Manoir Garden is Completely Wrecked.
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Storm Ciaran Devastation! The Manoir Garden is Completely Wrecked.
Upcycling Old Garden Furniture (And Christophe Buys More Porcelain!)
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Upcycling Old Garden Furniture (And Christophe Buys More Porcelain!)
WINE!!! We Attend The Foire aux Vins in Bayeux!
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WINE!!! We Attend The Foire aux Vins in Bayeux!
We Discover a New BROCANTE! Antiques Hunting in France! (And a Stuffed Badger) 😆
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We Discover a New BROCANTE! Antiques Hunting in France! (And a Stuffed Badger) 😆
Exploring an Old Templar Commandery in Normandy with John!
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Exploring an Old Templar Commandery in Normandy with John!
Chandeliers, Eighteenth Century Chairs and a Trip to Brittany!
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Chandeliers, Eighteenth Century Chairs and a Trip to Brittany!
I shovel three tonnes of gravel, on my own, in one afternoon!
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I shovel three tonnes of gravel, on my own, in one afternoon!
Revealing the Hidden Window Behind the Brambles!
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Revealing the Hidden Window Behind the Brambles!
Manoir 17th Century Dining Room Makeover! #chateaurenovation
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Manoir 17th Century Dining Room Makeover! #chateaurenovation
Visiting the brocante in Creully. You can buy ANYTHING in here!
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Visiting the brocante in Creully. You can buy ANYTHING in here!
A beautifully restored 1944 Jeep at the Manoir for D-Day!
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A beautifully restored 1944 Jeep at the Manoir for D-Day!
A Morning to Myself in the Manoir Garden...
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A Morning to Myself in the Manoir Garden...
My Brother Visits and Puts Together the Garden Furniture!
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My Brother Visits and Puts Together the Garden Furniture!
Outdoor Brocante in Bayeux - The Monthly Antiques Fair!
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Outdoor Brocante in Bayeux - The Monthly Antiques Fair!
I Unbox an American EE-8 WW2 military field phone, used during WW2!!
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I Unbox an American EE-8 WW2 military field phone, used during WW2!!
We Have Our Very Own D-Day Museum On-Site! Our guests LOVE this!
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We Have Our Very Own D-Day Museum On-Site! Our guests LOVE this!
Van stuck in the mud for HOURS after our Dechetterie run.
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Van stuck in the mud for HOURS after our Dechetterie run.
The Wedding is Looming... Dirty Jobs at the Manoir Commence!
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The Wedding is Looming... Dirty Jobs at the Manoir Commence!
Our Chapel is Disgusting! It's Time for a Clean-Up!
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Our Chapel is Disgusting! It's Time for a Clean-Up!
The Boys Make Beer in the Barn... It Didn't Work Out as Planned!
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The Boys Make Beer in the Barn... It Didn't Work Out as Planned!
Is there room for one more, it looks nice there. Do I get breakfast in bed?
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lovely Manoir guys thanks for sharing all the best Budo
Cheers, Budo! Hope you guys are keeping well. 💪
Bravo ! Keep it up. Never give in. 🇬🇧
Happy Birthday 👋🫶🇨🇦
Aww, thank you so much!
Wow its like a chanty town so scruffy we have never liked that part of France Normandie were we are is probably best place to live in France today it has it all 🍺🤠👍🏻
I agree, it really has gone downhill. The countryside is stunning, but not a fan of boarded up shops; it just screams neglect. Virtually no employment there which doesn’t help.
Welkom
Batteries dead, back to bed! Love the colour of bench
Merci! I hope you’ll help me in digging up the garden! 🪴
Take me there
You’ll need an umbrella!
Nice!
Are those midday bells
Absolutely!
Great find well done on persevering with the cobbles all the best Budo
Thanks, Budo! Wish it went all the way along the building. Lovely to connect; just subscribed to your channel - looks ace! 💪💪💪
That Gum is very good firewood , has a lot of heat .
That’s good to hear! We need as much warmth as we can get in an old place like this!
How distressing this is to you and rightfully so!😢 It's never easy to come home and find this level of damage.😮 So sorry for the loss you are enduring, your trees, plants and material goods like your BBQ. But fortunately you have a good attitude and are handling it better than most, but that doesn't make it easy. I feel for you and others who are affected by these UN-natural disasters.😥 Please continue to Stay safe👍.
Grateful for your kind words, thank you; it wasn’t the best welcome home, that’s for sure! The insurance assessor is visiting next week, although they can’t replace our lovely trees; i think that’s what upsets me the most. There’s still a lot of flooding and severe damage over much of France; we got off lightly in comparison.
How very sad that you lost a big portion of your old tree, as well as part of the Chateau structure!😢😮 I hope everyone fared well and did not get hurt!❤
Thank you, kind of you. 🥰 Luckily we sustained minor damage compared to others in the region. Some people i know are still completely without power too.
@@LifeinaFrenchManor Ty for the update! I hope others get their power restored soon.
Your outdoor room is looking better each time you video it! The plants seem to anchor the look. Exciting to find the cobblestone 😊whilst doing the most unfavorable task of weeding!😢 It really looks nice, glad you uncovered it.😊 What else might be hiding around the French Manor??🤔
Thank you, glad you like it! I’d like to add some nice books on gardens and uplifting topics so that people can read when using the Archway, but i will have to wait until the damp, winter weather is over. The weeding never stops! 🌿🌿🌿
Ohhh I see. LAKO... makes you WAKO. I feel for you. I did the very same thing while assembling IKEA.
Quite possibly the fiddliest thing i’ve ever bought from Ikea! 😆
The 'patio-set' turned out quite nice that robins egg blue! Nice job! 😊👍
Thank you! It’s certainly a cheerful colour, brightens the space up a bit. 😊
I quite like your charming videos. I love the tranquil nature of France. I've never been to the countryside, only Paris. Once. Many, many years ago before I married my British husband and whisked him away to Memphis, Tennessee. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Thank you, i’m happy you like them! We visited Tennessee a few years ago, it’s a fabulous state; we stayed in Pigeon Forge and Nashville.
Your packing peanuts are green, which means they are likely biodegradable. Running water over packing peanuts is the easiest way to determine if they are. So you can simply dissolve them or reuse them.
I had no idea! I’ll try that, thank you. 💪
Well done on bringing back the garden furniture, it looks lovely.
Kind of you, thank you. New cushions are on the way!
She could of help push and put the camera on a trip pod and it would of got out faster
Me??? I was on tea and moral support duty! 😃
Check out the vlog, Escape to Rural France. He bought a chateau that was just a ruin, no roof, and he's redoing it. A fantastic vlog. Chateau de la ferte is for sale and has had some lovely work done. Brit owners Carole and Adrian are selling.It's not an extremely large chateau so may not have enough guest rooms for you but the restorations they have done so far are gorgeous.
Great Vlogs. I dont think Christophe would be up for such large scale renovation work though. 😉 Sorry to hear they’re selling; but they’ve done brilliantly with the château. Talented couple.
Yes, he still owns a large business in the UK and the commute is killing him (and extremely expensive). All their viewers will miss them terribly. @@LifeinaFrenchManor
@@lindamounts2193 Sounds similar to us in the beginning. We commuted every weekend for around seven years; in the end we bought the Manoir so we wouldn’t have to. It _is_ draining and expensive. I wish them well. It’s not easy.
Neat ceramics and unique things at the new brocante! In that first brocante, I really ❤ that wide mirror with the gold frame! Nice set of beige chairs. The badger in the next shop was hallarious😂. Love the old orange hair dryer! May I suggest putting subtitles on your video so your viewers can read what is said? You are both very soft-spoken😊 and some of the content cannot be heard.
The badger could make the perfect Christmas gift for that special person! 😆
Spooky and Abandoned my Favorite!
It must be very spooky at night!
Real experts ;-o
You are one hard working lady 👏👏👏
Thank you! ❤ Still the rest to do!!
New subscriber. I THINK YOU DID PRETTY GOOD FILMING . I’ve watched a lot of ones that were so bad it made me dizzy. Not this one. I went back to your first video and am watching in order 👍👍
Thank you. Please accept my apologies for the late response, i’ve only just seen this. 😊
Beautiful ❤️
You can get lovely bed sheets all designs and colours
Chamber pots …. maybe not called bidet’s …. But the shape is like a bidet….??? Yes… not high end items … a few might be !
They make great planters!
I think you need to rent a digger a dig those bramble roots out for once and for all.
You've managed to brighten up that dark room with a bit of cream colour paint. I love your idea for the gold trim! It will look elegant when finished. 👍
Burn the weeds. Get a blow torch and burn them to the ground.
Good afternoon, glad you realised bedsheets is just not grand enough for a daily dressing of such a nice table. If you have grand dinners, no problem, but for daily look, you can't go better than having a beautiful table runner and for daily informal meals your glorious idea of placemats. It is such a beautiful table. Please show it off. The runner should stop between 50cm to 1 meter from the edge of each end I think so? Not sure with such a long table? But that will be interesting to see what will look correct on such a long table? If you use the runner to bring all the colours together in the room? It will look stunning. You have such beautiful carpets, curtains, chairs, if the colours in the runner can bring all together? Also your accent colours in the room? Jade or turquoise? The reds in the carpets? Wish I stayed nearer I would've design and weave for you a master piece. Maybe you can find a production hand weaver there in France to create a master piece for you. You should be prepared to spend a bit of money on such a center piece to enhance such a grand room. Haha!! Love your place. Just my penny for a pound. Hope your brocante has just the right master piece to put a stamp on that glorious room.
I like the idea of table runners, particularly in pale pinks and greens.
Tablecloths and placemats should always be ironed out smooth. It degrades the look of the table and room. It gives off lazy vibes. If you can spend on antiques you can afford quality table linen and placemats. 🤥
Your channel was suggested to me by Google. Your property looks lovely. I would love to see more of it in more detail. Getting to know your story would be nice also. You seem to be running a BnB.
I will be doing some more videos on the Manoir, time permitting with the B&B; i’ll share our story one day! 🥰
Love those chairs♥️♥️♥️♥️
I’m glad you like them, we’re delighted we found them!
Why not buy the end of a roll of fabric? The end of rolls are much cheaper than the fabric by meter and they can have up to 10 meters of fabric You can get brocades, velvets and all kinds of fabric. Visit the fabric stores and have a damage there
Adore brocade and damask! I think i will have a search for fabric on the roll, see what’s out there.
Amazing!!!! My ancestors came from Brittany, Lambale , not very sure of the spelling, the Desmarais 😊 I would love to visit the place one day before I die 😀
We drove through the Lamballe on our way to pick up the chairs! Brittany is a stunning department, full of mystery.
Just started watching your channel. Enjoy it! Have a few decorating suggestions...you need a large arrangement in the middle of your dining room table and matching candles stick on each side Also you have too many small item on your side tables, always use 3 different size items on your tables not counting a lamp. Think of balance when arranging items on your furniture. Also you can look in the brocante for large table cloths. The sheet looks very cheap looking. Another idea is to get another nice table cloth and even though it may be smaller it will look nice over the sheets. Another thing that makes your table look and feel nicer is to go to a fabric store and purchase padded plastic to place under the table cloths It will also protect your table from water or wine stains. Hope you don't mind my suggestions. I am a decorator.♥️♥️♥️♥️😘
All advice appreciated! 🥰 I’m in two minds about the sheets myself. I was thinking about either a smaller, more ornate one in the middle, or beautiful table runners. I serve breakfast here so whatever i do end up using needs to be quickly washable. It never ends here! 😂
It sure looks lovely now
Thank you, still more to do though… my back wont thank me! 😆
You need someone to fill the buckets and you pour them half the time
Next time it may be better to do it over a weekend, that way i’ll have some help.
@@LifeinaFrenchManor at least just imagine the vascular exercise so good for you I used to be so fit but I retired at seventy since then I have developed Gout in my toes and there are days I can’t even walk but I am now taking cucumber juice let’s hope it works
Sounds painful, i’m sorry to hear that. I’m not a medic, but I’ve heard cherries can help; maybe there’s a supplement if fresh cherries aren’t available.
j'aime beaucoup le bougeoir cathédrale ,il existe également en pendule
C'est beau, n'est-ce pas ? J'ai vu des brûleurs d'encens suspendus dans des églises, mais pas de chandeliers suspendus.
It would be better to move your camera slower as it can be a bit dizzying watching it.
Oui. I’ve already been made aware by other viewers.
You definitely earned a rest! THAT was a lot of work. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! And you know what? I want to do the back garden now!
Do it the American way, tie rope around base, tie to bumper of your truck and yank it out by roots! Lol.
Ha!!! If only i could! 😂
@dianayanda1411- I totally agree with you, that bramble has to be yanked out with brute force. If any roots are left behind, it will just grow back.
@@graciemaca6996And it did grow back! With gusto! I’m keeping on top of it though. 💪
@@LifeinaFrenchManor YAAAY!!!! I 💜Butterfly bushes!
The chairs look very beautiful with your paint scheme.
Aw, thank you! I must admit i’m happier with these chairs. The dining room is looking more like i envisioned it!