We can't believe it's finally happening! | Barn restoration in rural France
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2023
- A big week for us! The barn restoration continues as the rotten beam got replaced with a new truss plus removal of the old ones was quite dramatic!
Plus Brook continues pointing the other side of the barn wall.
Recent storms have blown loads of greengages off the trees so we set about harvesting and preserving several batches. Rebecca makes jam, crumble and tries dehydrating some too.
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Welcome to Living in the Loire, we are a family in rural France, renovating previously poorly converted barns.
We aim to do most of the work ourselves, being as frugal and as eco as possible. We are learning on the job and we hope to share the skills we pick up along the way.
When possible we will take you on a tour of the region (the garden of France) sharing with you the numerous chateaux, towns and markets.
As well as the house we will be transforming the garden, bringing part of it back to its previous use as a potager. This is our dream and one of the main reasons of leaving the city to move to the countryside in France.
Join us on our journey!
Such a lovely video, not a lot of talking so much activity, the best video I have seen in a long while. Beautifully done.❤
Very beautiful video, almost movie like. Minimal talk, full of activity and superb editing. the background music and sounds are not distracting either. I enjoy watching you and your family grow so beautifully in this tranquil place. Thank you.
Thank you Sita
I like the little cut scenes of the barn build, so random but yet affective.
Thank you for the diversity on the Barn building and Food preserving/cooking, now it is a family video. The progress is amazing, I feel your happiness with your accomplishments. Best Wishes.
Thanks Sandra, glad you enjoyed it.
What an uplifting vlog. Charming in every way.
Rebecca, there is a smile of contentment on your face, every time you are in the garden the boys and Brooke. Keep being "alive in your life!"
Your hard work paid off congrats
Your video is always beautiful and soothing! Your channel needs more audiences around the globe!
Your vision has become a beautiful reality!
The barn looks so beautiful. Like it’s been given a new lease on life for many years to come. Brooke, the pointing makes the building look brand new. Great job as always. It’s always a uphill battle with fixing all the ways old buildings deteriorating when water finding its way into homes. It’s an uphill battle slow and steady wins the race. Thank you for your uplifting video.
The barn looks stunning guys. Everything is coming together. Such a joy to see xxx
My mother did the same as you ,picking up the fallen apples and making apple pies with them they were the sweetest she said . My brother and I loved them. Keep it Up and thanks for reminding me.
Howdy Brook!! GREAT to see you living an AMAZING life...!! 😃
Great to hear from you John! You only get one shot at this right? I don't go on my comic account very much anymore, so I'll sub to you on this one. Going to add your 10 Most-Played Albums to my watch list. I know you and I are on the same wavelength artistically and musically. Hope you're having a good summer. Cheers!
The barn is gorgeous! Your online store has the most beautiful crafts.
Thank you Gina 😊
Beautiful work very enjoyable to watch your videos
Good luck with all your endeavors ❤ from Brooklyn New York
What an amazing video ❤
Thank you
I loved your recipe sharing and the barn WOW! I bet that barn has so many stories to share.
Your shop looks amazing and I hope it’s been fruitful 🤗
Living to sustain life, Beautiful
Thanks Julie
Your sunflowers are looking wonderfully pretty and yummy too!
Thank you very much for taking us along your journey! Love it! ♥🧡💛💚💙
Very exciting to watch the barn being restored. The greengage jam and crumble look very yummy. Thanks for another wonderful video.
Wonderful video! So nice to see everyone again and the progress of your homestead. Lovely garden, barn restoration is exciting! Your creations are beautiful and sending wishes for prosperity in your endeavors. Your boys are adorable💙Thank you so much for sharing with us~!💚
Living the dream .🇦🇺🙋♀️❤️
Brilliant variety in your video. I love the barn renovation. Keep with the cooking and renovations together it’s great!
Barn looks fantastic. Taters look great. Boys beautiful. I do what Jamie Oliver does, freeze bags of fruit and freeze batch bags of crumble mix. It stays loose and crumbly, so easy to get out and make a quick crumble.
Great tip! 👍
Lovely video! Brook has done a good job on the pointing, it looks great, and the barn now looks like new. I liked the jam making and seeing you harvest the vegetables, very rewarding for all your hard work🙂
All that greengage stuff looked soo yummy 😍😍
The barn is looking great!
The pointing of the barn wall certainly makes a difference. It looks beautiful and cared for. Your boys are gorgeous. Good luck with your shop. Best wishes.
Great admiration for everyone and everything done. Wonderful to see beautful rain . All the best from the south of Italy.
Love the shop we're in discussions with local businesses in our village to see how we can help bring people back. Nice one. !! Barn looks great too and you have to love french health and safety lol..
Yeah it's a great initiative to get more (normally vacant) shops open for the summer period at least. The health and safety is something else isn't it 😂
@@LivingintheLoire I've seen so many roofs being done just with a digger and one guy. 😳 I'm a builder and I'd never get up there without scaffold..balls of steel!
We are trying to get our village to become a ''village etape'' as gradually more enterprises are starting to open up again but I believe there a check list we have to get to first. ( Exideuil - sur - vienne)
I am so happy for you getting this beautiful barn restored. You have done so much yourself and having these gentlemen into do the big job was a great decision. It should now last for many more years! The boys have grown so much and are wonderful little helpers. Thank you for your vlogs as they are so up lifting.
Thanks Jane. It's been quite a wait as they're busy chaps but so glad it is done now! Onto the next stage...
So pleased forbyou,Rebecca and Brook,what a great upheavel in every aspect of your life. The buolding, the cooking, the shop..everything in great progress. Your Kids are so lovely.❤❤❤
Your videos are always so beautiful and profressional. Great job!
That was nice, from the kids helping out, hands in the soil, to preserving the fruit , just nice, relaxing. Fantastic barn job, great watching the change.
Wow, that barn repair was fascinating. To install new timber inside the old frame - how unusual.
I think it's just the easiest way of doing it as the original beams were completely gone so past the point of being able to be saved. This allowed them to make sure the structure was sound and then remove the old. As there are no side walls it doesn't matter if we lose a little bit of length
Following your vlogs for many months now and find your lifestyle so inspiring, even as we are moving away from nature in my country India. Love and God bless your family 🙏🏼
Need a little cinnamon in that crumble😊😋
I love the diversity in this video….just what family life is! My best to you.
Stunning in every aspect of the vlog
Ganz liebe Grüße aus Österreich ihr macht etwas wunderschönes gutes bild für viele die das gute und gesundes leben vergessen haben Respekt ❤❤❤❤
Your handmade arts are beautiful!!
Because the was no audio when the structure cam down it gave me a real shock.
Yes it was a big thud. We gave them a big clap shortly after but we cut that bit out.
I wish you happiness and joy.
Thank you so much for sharing .
My dear friends, you have gone through a great deal and I appreciate your persistence, tenacity and creative spirit. Please would you let me know about the music you’ve used at the beginning of this video. Thanks.
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Wonderful video - so lovely to watch. Satisfying & inspiring. Thank you!
No need to cut and remove pits in plums, place in LG pasta pot with liner and cover with water, cook down for apx. 20 minutes, mash with potato masher, pits and peels stay in pasta pot, fruit and juice drains out! Just put the liner at an angle to drain into pot and use potato masher more if needed. Viola! And
Those greengages remind me of loquats (except they are yellow). When our tree was loaded we did the same and made jam. Actually in those same jars too lol
Your husband is fantastic working on the barn!! So glad he has help now!
The barn is looking amazing!! Loved the recipies!!😊❤
Thank you 😊
How wonderful. I just watched your first video. YOU TWO ARE AN INSPIRATION, Actually you four. I love watching all you are doing. I am headed to Portugal to do the same thing. So keep inspiring. I am so proud of you two. Are you happy you left UK for France even with all of the challenges? Cheers. Gina in Upstate New York Moving to Portugal
Wonderful video. Very well done! Thank you.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm- the "cake" looks so good!!
The barn is looking great.. good luck with the shop 😊
Bravissimi 💪💪👍👋
Thank you for your varied content on your video. We really loved it as it was interesting to watch. The barn restoration is going so well and it was great to see the roofers still working even in the rain. Your kids were so cute sitting in the garden just watching like two little darlings, bless them. Well done Rebecca and Brook. I have enjoyed watching your blog for some time now but have never commented and I just thought that it was time that I told you. Both that I appreciate you and the your content. Watching from Western Australia.
Thanks so much Dawn. Glad you're enjoying the channel. Hope all is well in WA.
The barn looks fantastic!
The new wood will stand up well for a long time!
Barn looks beautiful!!! Bit my favorite moment was the boys digging for potatoes ❤
Can’t wait to see the finished product. You’re making great progress! The plum jam looks incredibly delicious. Enjoy!
Well done, Rebecca and Brook. It's amazing what you have achieved in such a short time. And well done, boys, with picking potatoes. Love to you all. ❤❤❤❤
The barn is looking absolutely amazing, really enjoyed the vlog ❤
Youpi, I'm so happy for you that this project is well and done, good luck for the goutières, prenez soin de vous.
The music! What is it?! And you should celebrate your accomplishments! Woo Hoo!!!
Great potato harvest!
Beautiful!!!❤
Just came across your video!! Will be watching from now on.
Welcome!
Love the progress being made on all fronts! Keep up the good work 👍🏾
Looks idyllic if hard work! Hoping to move to France next year, can’t wait ❤😊
Best of luck with the move Louise!
so great guys! been following since the start and in the last month or so these videos have become hugely articulate in concept. You've tapped into a new level, honestly. Keep up all that you are doing...let it build into you as you do with it!
Enjoyed the update, liked the barn update and food bits. Nice to see late summer, given the white frosts on the ground here. There's a green gage tree here, as long as possum traps are put down it fruits quite well and the birds seem to have a harder time seeing the fruit than the redder plums. It tastes similar to the italian prune tree, which has a more intense flavour. My favourite way to have both of these non-fresh is to just bake or boil them down until they are an intense stodgy thick paste, and put them in ziplock bags in the freezer, which doesn't work as well for the redder plums which end up tasting medicinal IMO. I borrow an old dehydrator from the 80's, but prefer it for what remains from juiced apples or apricots rather than plums. Looking forward to future videos.
Thanks Mr Wibbles. Compote is next up on my 'to make' list!
shop is looking great, i had a friend that in the begining of her business also used tree trunks and pieces of wood to decorate, it looks beautiful.
Now those beams coming down, that was very nice to watch. Great work guys.
And of course that jam... hmmm looks tasty, i did one also yesterday.
Stay strong, love your family ;-)
Thanks Marisa
Félicitations à tous les quatre!
Merci Valerie
I saw on another program that they were using something like a Pastry Bag to put the mortar between the rocks. Might ask about it at your local local lumberyard and building supplies.
Beautiful!
Another lovely video , love the music and content
Oh wow! The barn's looking great! It's got another couple of hundred years in it now! Brook, you've done a really great job of pointing it. I did feel for the builders working in that rain though. Thankfully the worst of the rain seems to have gone here, we've had whole days without even a shower! The greengages look good Rebecca, I make my plum jam exactly the same way that you do! Plum jams of any variety are my all-time favourite. How did the dehydrator work? I'm thinking of investing in one for when I get a glut of fruit and veg. I'm so pleased for you that your shop in the town is going well, it's quite a different vibe working away from the peace of your home! The boys are growing so fast! I do love seeing them helping in the garden, very special. Much love and big hugs from a slowly drying New Zealand xxx
The dehydrator worked well. They weren't the ripest so are a bit sharp but it's a nice snack. I ordered two liners for the shelves (which arrived today, both cracked 😏) so that I can use the dehydrator to make fruit leathers from the greengage puree. Can't wait to try it! I'd also like to dehydrate some tomatoes although whether they will ever decide to ripen is another matter...
@@LivingintheLoiredo you know about the banana trick ?Put green tomatoes in a drawer with a banana and they will ripen in a week.
Thanks
As my husband recently discovered an allergy to dairy we thought to use solidified coconut oil in place of butter in an individual crumble for him and it was so good that we made the next full sized one with it (if yr ever low on butter or want to try something different). Just go by feel for quantities as it behaves a bit different to butter.
Thanks for the tip Jenni
Thanks!
Thanks John
Proper job, barn and jam both. And the shop looked good too. Well done guys.
Thanks Chazzy
Brook quite a professional job on your stone pointing. Im assuming you have done masonry in the past? Great job.
I take it that the 'front' aspect of the barn took the brunt of the weather.
The Barn is much happier from all the rebuilding and pointing and now with a fixed roof and done restructure. The garden providing food for the family is wonderful.
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Love you videos! Please try to have closed captions.
Thanks Martha. Sorry it was taking longer to process the subtitles than normal this week for some reason. All done now.
The barn is coming along lovely. What were the walls on the side of the barn in sections used for? Thank you.
Hi great restoration can we get a full tour or everything thank you.
Coming up very soon!
Great to see the progress but oh my goodness, French “health & safety” has not improved!! Brilliant work all round 😊
I knew people would love the health and safety 😂. You should have seen him on the day it was really windy... I couldn't actually watch.
@@LivingintheLoire Hahaha!!
Great video! I sent a link to a certain Dr we know. 😉
Yes yes ma' man! Thanks for sharing Patrick.
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A lot to do on your small farm!
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🎉🎉🎉 Chào gia đình bé nhỏ của bạn nhé ❤❤❤❤❤
I can see that the wood was not all strong.
Well done. Now you have some wood to put in the oven, in the coming winter. Did you treat the new wood? I treated the wood on my barn on the same spot on the side of the barn, with carbolineum. In September, i will do a stone wall too. But not that big. I will use tras cement. Regards from the Belgium Ardennes.
The big beams are not treated, on list of jobs to do. But, yes you're right once it stops raining again I'll cut it all up and maybe reuse some that aren't rotten. Cheers
What fruit are you cutting?
The greengages do not grow in the USA.
What's the name of the online store???? How do I reach it?
I didn't hear what kind of fruit that was?
Greengages
@@LivingintheLoire oh I've never heard of them what do they taste like what are they comprable to
They're similar to plums but a bit tarter. Although when fully ripe they are pretty sweet.
The barn renovation video is great , but the cooking section is off putting. Maybe upload cooking videos seperate.
You seem to be on your own on this one mate.
Mixture content is good some of the other channels add a recipe in
The video is great. (Barn and kitchen.).
@@kevinmountford4541 nah not really