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Dreaming of A Chateau
Italy
Registrace 29. 04. 2021
*My name is Alla and together with my husband Sergi we are on a big journey #renovating a historical house on the #Lakecomo.*
Villa D'Oro is a beautiful building in traditional style with a fabulous view on the lake Como and mountains. Like a time capsule it contains marvellous objects and original features such as cotto Lombardo, stone and marbel fireplaces, exposed beam ceilings, wrought iron decor on windows, authentic wooden shutters, beautiful cantina with vaulted ceilings and many more. All these are precious elements of Lombard architecture and Italian rural home. With all my heart I want to bring it back to life, carefully renovating all the unique details using local materials.
It’s not just a home it is a project focused on preserving and recreation traditions and culture and sharing it with guests that will be able to stay in this home.
Villa D'Oro
Frazione Oro 30,
Bellano LC
23822
Villa D'Oro is a beautiful building in traditional style with a fabulous view on the lake Como and mountains. Like a time capsule it contains marvellous objects and original features such as cotto Lombardo, stone and marbel fireplaces, exposed beam ceilings, wrought iron decor on windows, authentic wooden shutters, beautiful cantina with vaulted ceilings and many more. All these are precious elements of Lombard architecture and Italian rural home. With all my heart I want to bring it back to life, carefully renovating all the unique details using local materials.
It’s not just a home it is a project focused on preserving and recreation traditions and culture and sharing it with guests that will be able to stay in this home.
Villa D'Oro
Frazione Oro 30,
Bellano LC
23822
Installing a stone floor in our Italian kitchen/ Kitchen renovation
Installing a stone floor in our Italian kitchen/ Kitchen renovation
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Video
Renovating our “CHATEAU” KITCHEN/ laying down flagstone floor
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 7 hodinami
Renovating our “CHATEAU” KITCHEN/ laying down flagstone floor
BEST ROSES in my garden/ Davin Austin, Kordes, Meiland roses
zhlédnutí 4,9KPřed 9 hodinami
BEST ROSES in my garden/ Davin Austin, Kordes, Meiland roses
My friend’s rose garden/ Playing in the garden
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 14 hodinami
My friend’s rose garden/ Playing in the garden
Just enjoying the house / Dolce fare niente
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 16 hodinami
Just enjoying the house / Dolce fare niente
Renovating a cozy bedroom in our Italian villa
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 21 hodinou
Renovating a cozy bedroom in our Italian villa
Wine festival on lake Como / our Italian restoration
zhlédnutí 6KPřed dnem
Wine festival on lake Como / our Italian restoration
Painting the mural in guest bedroom / our Italian Villa renovation
zhlédnutí 8KPřed dnem
Painting the mural in guest bedroom / our Italian Villa renovation
Painting a MURAL in guest bedroom/ renovating our Italian villa
zhlédnutí 8KPřed 14 dny
Painting a MURAL in guest bedroom/ renovating our Italian villa
Slowly getting back to life / gardening at lake Como
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 14 dny
Slowly getting back to life / gardening at lake Como
Fixing water damage in summer kitchen/ Renovating on lake Como
zhlédnutí 8KPřed 14 dny
Fixing water damage in summer kitchen/ Renovating on lake Como
Welding supports for my roses / rose pillars
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 14 dny
Welding supports for my roses / rose pillars
Q&A with my mom / Renovating an old Italian villa
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 21 dnem
Q&A with my mom / Renovating an old Italian villa
Restoring an old bench / mom’s cooking show
zhlédnutí 8KPřed 21 dnem
Restoring an old bench / mom’s cooking show
Lake Como Adventures: Garden Breakfast, Varenna Stroll, & Menaggio Visit!
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 21 dnem
Join me for a delightful morning breakfast in the garden, followed by a scenic walk through the charming streets of Varenna. Our day wraps up with a visit to friends in the picturesque town of Menaggio. Enjoy the beauty of Lake Como with us!
Vintage lanterns for our Italian villa
zhlédnutí 8KPřed 21 dnem
Vintage lanterns for our Italian villa
Restoring our La Cornue stove / Renovating our Italian home
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Restoring our La Cornue stove / Renovating our Italian home
It’s a NEW PROJECT! Renovating on lake Como
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It’s a NEW PROJECT! Renovating on lake Como
Exploring lake Como and renovating a guest bedroom
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Exploring lake Como and renovating a guest bedroom
Sewing canapé for new bedroom/ Renovating on lake Como
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Sewing canapé for new bedroom/ Renovating on lake Como
Garden tour/ Plastering the wall in new bedroom
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Garden tour/ Plastering the wall in new bedroom
AZALEAS in bloom at VILLA CARLOTTA lake Como
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AZALEAS in bloom at VILLA CARLOTTA lake Como
Clearing UNDERGROUND CANTINAS in our old Italian villa/ charity shopping
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Clearing UNDERGROUND CANTINAS in our old Italian villa/ charity shopping
Visiting VILLA CIPRESSI Lake Como / wisteria in full bloom
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Visiting VILLA CIPRESSI Lake Como / wisteria in full bloom
If the water is seeping thru, doesn't it need somewhere to go or be exposed to dry out?
Yummy Rasberries & Strawberries ❤❤❤
It looks Amazing Alla!!!! ❤❤❤❤
Love Love your garden!!!!❤❤❤❤
It is so perfect! Some days you *must* just sit and enjoy the beauty you brought out as you restored your mini-chateau. The agapanthus were such a fantastic choice. I hope they survive the winter in your climate. 💖
Those raspberries are the size of my THUMB! Sergei is a keeper - but you know that. Your garden ❣ I remember when you moved into an overgrown mudslide with little to save. Now, it's a treasure. And I always admire you, Alla, when you work. You have such skill, talent, and imagination. And you do it always looking lovely! If I even wash a paintbrush I look like I've been digging ditches in the rain. Respect to you, Lady!😘
I love your new bedroom ! The mural is amazing.The celling is beatiful. And you are very lucky to have so realy calm and kind husband! Well done!
I was just reading that ducks love eating slugs. Maybe you need a pet duck!
We definitely need a duck! 🦆😍
a Hunting Duck! 🤠
Yes the garden is a pleasure 🪴🪴
Gorgeousness 😅
Sergei your welding cart is Amazing very clever 😊
The fire looks beautiful ❤❤❤
Sergie has done the most amazing job to the oven ❤❤❤
Hot plates!! On the stove top!😊
Looks Amazing 🎉❤
Oh Alla wonderful video again ❤❤❤
Beautiful video ❤❤❤
Omg!!!! They look Amazing clever girl!! And your mum reading to you so beautiful ❤❤
Catching up again. Your videos never fail to brighten my day and inspire me!
I'm sorry, but cutting the slugs with shears is a step too far. I can't get the image out of my head. In these times, filled with more horror than I can bear, I expected you to be delicate and sensitive. I was wrong.
And this is after following you from the moment that you published your first vlog 😪
If you crush eggshells and through it around your plants or as a border around your beds, slugs will not get to your plants.
You could make a bench or seating area around to cover the drainage area. It would still allow it to breathe and drain.
I absolutely hate slugs and snails in my garden.
Sergi is such a great cook. The floor is looking amazing.
A cup with beer in it will draw the slugs to it and they'll drown.
A scrub brush on a pole would be so helpful to get the stones clean and not so back breaking!! Love Sergi’s cooking skills! OMG! So much joy to see a 🐸 toad! I think he will stay there forever!
Have you thought about making a trolley, for the stove to go on? That way it will always be easy to move, especially if water does come up under it.
I love your garden!!
Salt kiil slugs and snails pit it around the edge of your garden when they crawl through the salt it desolves them. I used it when I lived in California usa..it works, but you do have to reapply after rains..
Hola amigos, para las hormigas yo espolvoreo tierra de diatomeas entre las plantas, cuando pasan por encima se les queda pegada y se deshidratan, es un buen abono para las plantas y las hormigas desaparecen. Un abrazo ❤❤❤
Yummy raspberries yay! 🙌 The Summer Kitchen floor is coming together nicely. Love it. The potted agapanthus look amazing. The slugs are having such a great meal naughty things. I have them in my garden too along with snails. They drive me mad. 😱
Dear Alla the floor looks fantastic! Well done! And Sergei the pasta looks delicious!! I'll have to wait to see your floor done. I'll be in Italy ( no where near you ☹) but I so look forward to every video!! Thank you!!❣❣
Looks like paradise❣️🩷👏🏻👏🏻
Your video made me laugh out loud especially at the end when you showed Cherie, I swear she had Sergis mannerisms. 😂 beautiful lunch and your doing a great job with the outdoor kitchens new flooring, take care 😘
the slugs are a real pest, there are just sooo many this year because of all the rain.
You'll find placing the cookeragainst the wall enabling you more central room?
If you want to get rid of slugs naturally use the ashes from your fireplace. Sprinkle on the soil around the plants. It works!
Great progress Alla, the floor is looking great. Just think of how many rooms you and Sergei have renovated, it is amazing.
Floor looking great! I love that you tackle anything without fear of failure, such a great life lesson...toads are not my favourite! Traumatised😅as a child we woke up to a giant one inside our tent whilst camping!😱🐸
Hi Joanne. What an awful experience. Toads are not exactly snuggly cute pets!
The floor in the summer kitchen looks great, it’s nice that you take breaks and sit in your garden , remember what the garden use to look like ? And now with the hard work you and Sergi have done how beautiful it is ! It’s a whole world filled with beautiful flowers, fruit, vegetables,birds and now one fat little frog! Good job Sergi on making lunch it looked delicious! I love the last shot of supervisor Cheri at the end of your video ,her eyes have so much expression. Adorable. Am I spelling her name correctly? We have a neighbor who has a King Charles Cavalier and when ever I see them walking I think oh there’s Cheri 🐶
Unfortunately the toads can’t eat those massive Spanish slugs, pick them up and take them somewhere else is the only way !
the stone floor is amazing alla. wow. your tallents are amazing.
Alla, could the toad be from one of the tadpoles you let loose in your little bucket pond a long time ago?
My garden is chemical free…except when snails and sludges eat all my veggie and flowers. All my hard work and my families need for food means I use snail bait and the beer method. It’s them or us Alla.
Hi put beer in a mug they will fall in it (slugs)
I can’t see nothing, he’s hidden. Stop to call the sluggers as him it is a “it”.
I love chilis, but they don't love me. Not spicy would suit me best. You lunch looked delicious. You have a very nice husband! The kitchen floor is coming along. You've done very well, so far. I imagine with the high humidity it takes the glue longer to dry.
Alla, the summer kitchen floor is coming along beautifully! The garden is so lovely and inviting. ❤
I love ❤️ the picture of the ripe raspberries and strawberries 🍓. Life ripening and thriving!