Our greatest Chateau Discovery so far!
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That outbuilding could be lovely as a wedding reception location. Could be lovely with country/flowers. Storage upstairs for tables, linens (possible catering supplies). Have water, electric hook ups. Put in nice restrooms. I wouldn't use the upstairs as accessable to guests
I wouldn't make it a building exclusively for weddings, but just a venue that people can rent for birthdays, business meetings, functions etc. So that one is not responsible for food and decorations.
Yeah splitting the upstairs for a grooms suite and a bridal suite. Building a bar and food storage downstairs. It would be beautiful
Everything is about weddings 💑
@@superyachtchef well there is a beautiful church across the road. 🤷♀️😅
Agree. There is a church. Get married there, your guests walk across the lane and voila....it is a celebration. Business meetings, reunions, training classes of all kinds. Wonderful venue.
I am addicted to the channel now. Such high production value, she’s lucky to have a filmmaker as her partner!
And he’s lucky to have such a creative and talented partner!
@@bavanitan9856 totally!
They are lucky to have each other. I tried to restore a 1740 with my 4 young sons. I had learn to get over my fear of electric tools. Now the skill saw is my favorite tool.
His partner is incredibly creative and gifted. Her work is phenomenal.
Ya mean...husband and wife?
I've got an idea. Since you have decided to divide into 3 apartments, you can name them based on the age of the building in which they are located. It would be a nice idea to decorate them according to their age of origin. The apartment which will be in the 17th century part, will be decorated in the style of the 17th century. The same in the 18th and 19th century parts of the building.
What do you think about that?
Love the idea!!
@@HowToRenovateAChateau Thank you, I'm glad I could help.
You could get Stephanie to help! A CZcams collaboration! I wonder how many of your followers are also followers of The Château Diaries? Stephanie's are a generous bunch... 😀😀😉😉
I thought the same thing. Each honoring the era in which us was built 👍
I love that!
i just discovered this channel and i can already tell it's gonna be one of my comfort channels
Welcome! :)
this building could be the bride&groom suites if the other outbuilding becomes a wedding venue …
That is a great idea! perhaps the Bride and party in the Chateau and the groom and his party in the out building.
Such a treat to see the old outbuildings! As heirs, cousins, we still keep the old family homestead from the early 18th century in the family. The barn is unsafe and locked but we are reroofing it now. We also have a collapsed building under a linden tree on the other side of the road, away from the main buildings. It was the old stone baking oven. I remember it so well! Once a month my grandmother and aunts would bake many big loafs of sourdough country bread at high temperatures, fueled with wood. Meanwhile several big sheet pans of yeast dough were covered with fresh fruits from the garden, cherries, plums, apples, butter crumble. These went in when the oven had cooled down a bit. In the root cellar under the house, wide planks were tied with rope to the ceiling as storage for the bread and cakes, so rodents couldn’t get to them.
The oven is now gone but the linden tree and memories are still there. Above all you do so carefully and lovingly, the greatest gift to yourself is a lovely family life and precious memories. Your girls are so lucky!
Thank you for sharing this lovely story ❤️
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Love the idea of living in that outbuilding and having the chateau as the business. Some separation when you might need it, as your family seasons change
Hello chantal, how are you doing?
I hope they've gotten to do some exploring around the grounds with a metal detector. I can't even begin to imagine what they'd find.
love the original ironwork, the old out building. Thank you for caring enough about the past (and the future) to care for these relics.
Can I just say I loved hearing the architect. He brought so much knowledge, not only functional but also historical. He seems excited about the work you guys are doing.
The hinge is a marvelous find! Perhaps it can simply be used on another door. I’m sure it is still usable considering how things were made. Then it can be enjoyed by all. 🥰 Hugs from the US!
A reliable blacksmith could duplicate that hinge for you exactly as it is.
@@ruthcarter8895 My Danish grandfather was that kind of blacksmith, working about 1875 to 1910. The fancy work, decorative pieces, and reproductions. It is almost impossible to find people who are able to do that today. If you could find someone competent, be sure to document and showcase their work and it's beauty and value.
What a surprise find , there’s a good chance the other hinge is in that pile too . That building will make charming gites .
Philipp, as much as I like your acting skills and the fun, I really appreciated your original self, enthusiastic about your finds. Thank you, Philipp and Anna for a special treat each Sunday evening.
Glad you enjoyed the vlog!
The best time to look for the building site in the weeds is after a hard frost.
Good idea!
All that underbrush hiding a potential trove of more treasures in the collapsed building...don't you need a donkey to clear it? Love that you're able to begin work on the outbuildings since they are so vulnerable. Chilling that only 10 years ago that lost building was still standing.
Brillant Idea, Elisabeth! :)
Looks like it’s time for Anna to get back into the jungle and use her hinge finding super powers! You just gotta know that matching hinge is within 1 meter of the one Anna found. Good luck guys! Congratulations on your lovely little patron!
Has anyone ever gone around with a metal detector? I imagine there are many buried treasures. Such a serene setting. Thank you for sharing?
theyd have to be very careful due to the possibility of old mines and grenades and stuff
I’m not joking. When the suspenseful music did like the jump scare noise, I got an ad and I jumped out of my skin
Should you find the second door hinge, I think you absolutely should put them both back on. It's where they belong. Who knows how long they have been on there and how long they have been missing. Maybe not right away. But at one point all the large projects on the Chateau grounds will be done and I think that would be a nice finishing touch for when that time comes.
We totally agree! now we need to find the second one!
Enjoying so much the tour of your estate! I especially think how lovely it is that Philip has acquired Anna’s English accent!
It might be a two-way exchange. "The Queen's English" evolved under the influence of the German-language-speaking British royals (the
Battenberg family).
We removed the concrete and made wood inserts for the rotted away wood. Lime mortar, wood oil, new inserts where needed, new beams too, carpenters for the mending that is really necessary and cleaning the beams with carbon dioxide, great tip, and so relatively fast and non harming to the wood. I wonder if you have reclaim yards for flooring, doors, windows. It is lovely and will be beautiful when rescued!!!! Good luck!!!
Thank you for the tip!
Stuck in bed with Covid and I've been working my way through each episode. It has been such a delight to watch your progress and you have raised many a smile throughout. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
You could make it a Artist in Residency place!
Lots of rooms & a shared Atelier!
Oh that's a good idea
Sorry i don‘t think real Artist like this Type of cozyness it‘s too brittypitty but not authentic
Dome pictures of before are muchmore
What i Wolldecke call real Style and Teilung something about living of real
Wow, the treasures you're finding...so exciting! Your humour never fails me!!!
😊 thank you
External timber on outbuildings painted with a protective mix of ox blood and lime. Never met an ox with green blood and would not fancy mixing ox bile with lime to give your Normandie green. Bon courage from somebody who travelled the same adventure 30 years ago with two young daughters in a Cistercien abbaye in the Limousin.
I hope you can save the timber in the lovely Normandy long barns.
My Father was in Deaville,at end of WW11.
He befriended a French,family.We remain
friends for many years.I remember visiting Thier lovely timbered house.
He had a lovely time thier.So I'm fond of the area.
Beautiful! I think if you make three apartments, you should have interior doors that connect them that can be locked (like in hotels that have two rooms with an ajoining door if there are families.) That way if a large family or a company does rent the whole building for reunions or retreats or whatever, they can choose to open the doors and connect the three units.
The architect did you a big favour telling you there are 3 distinct sections to the long house. You can now rent out the 17th, 18th or 19th century holiday homes 👍
Phillip is very funny. He has a light heart. Anna, your sense of color and design is fabulous. I wish I still had that energy and passion.
Monday morning here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Good entertainment with an early cup of tea. You never fail to deliver!
Kia ora! Same here, I always look forward to watching them during morning tea on Monday :)
You have such a vivid style telling your story. A pleasure to watch your adventure. All the best.
Another note, I do love listening to French being spoken. Such a lovely language.
Maybe 2/3 for your dwelling. I third for two bedroom guesthouse. Workers cottage. The chatue for guests. It would be like going to work every day. Important to seperate work from family with the girls growing up aswell. The rising and setting sun so important and so beautiful.
I love the aerial shots of the two outbuildings. With the drone you can see the vegetation growing out of their roofs. The buildings are amazing. X
I can't believe THIS SHOW actually yanked me off the scandalous poppycock I was following! Thank you for restoring my hope in humanity 🙏 ❤
Hope the outbuilding gets repaired! It is very interesting!
So excited for more renovation videos…. Who am I kidding.. I’m just excited for all of your videos!!
The long outbuilding has so many possibilities. And the flooring looks great.
What a great find with the hinge. I'm so happy to hear that your able to start restoration of the outbuildings... ❤🇦🇺
I thought Anna might get sucked into a portal and transported to the past when she was standing by the mirror in the outbuilding! Wouldn’t that be fun?!
Stop doing this to my time hahaha browsing your channel for an hour whilst I should be working ! Thanks a lot for the amazing content 🔥🤩
Glad you enjoy it!
💛💛😍 Anna & Phillipe! Your energy, charming wit and enthusiasm is tres inspiring cheries...
Just a couple of suggestions... please get some PEACOCKS to roam the lovely grounds, annnd... try an industrial METAL DETECTOR by all means. Who knows what treasures are hidden there from centuries past darlings... every chateau restoration should have one of these! 🍀✨🍀
Loved this episode! Enjoyed hearing the knowledge of the architect, and how wonderful that you found at least one of the missing hinges.
What a great find when you guys went exploring… Not only to find the walls of the outbuilding and then defined the building itself but also to find that piece of original ironwork to your door that matches what’s in the house. You should just slightly clean it up but not much so you don’t takeoff the original look and maybe shadowbox it if you don’t end up using it anywhere so you can have a historical comment somewhere in the house. I know I would appreciate seeing that and knowing the history in the age of it and the story behind it. Like they do in museums. It is so amazing. You could even hang it out in that lovely hallway.
Every time I watch your channel I am more and more excited about the Château and the surrounding buildings and even the yardwork.
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No my dream through your videos I didn’t joy the beautiful work you were doing on your château and outbuildings and the yard. Up until two years ago I had gotten well enough to do landscaping and I was doing architectural gardening and landscaping for a large complex with a three-year plan and then my heart got too sick… again back to watching your videos another’s and painting and writing and making cards whenever I have a chance. I am grateful for my life and I’m grateful for people like you who share your life and your videos for all of us to see. God bless you and thank you for the joy you bring my life❣️❣️❣️❣️
I always look forward to your videos on a Sunday and they never disappoint! :)
Just discovered your channel and I like it very much!
An interesting thing I wanted to note about the red paint on the beams. Historically, red paint was used often because the ferrous oxide used to get the red pigmentation actually has preservative properties and inhibits the growth of fungus, mold and moss that lead to rot. This is partially why you see so many red painted buildings in Sweden and Scandinavia or on barns. Obviously, I support you painting the beams whichever color you like, but I just thought it was interesting considering all of the ways, some successful and some not, it seems that people have tried to preserve the building.
"Are you wearing your best jeans again?" 😂 that is us as well haha
Love, love, love your chateau.
Fabulous projects, I look forward to seeing what you do!
The importance of history ! I Love the story and the find of the door hinge and your curiosity .
I love these outbuilding adventures! How exciting to find the hinge!
Lot's of very nice renovations are in store for us, it looks like, in the upcoming year! Keep moving forward, you have done an amazing job with the chateau, I know you will do no less with the kitchen and outbuildings. Was good to see the very cute, little, and no doubt youngest patron clip.
Thank you 😊
I can't wait to see what you do with the outbuildings, they're going to be amazing!
Thank you both for another wonderful vlog episode!! This one was a favorite as I have been so looking forward to seeing this second outbuilding and what a bonus to be there for the hinge find in the pile where the third outbuilding used to stand. I love being able to be a patreon to this effort!! It feels like a privilege to support this wonderful family.
Can't wait to see all the projects that are coming!
I just came across these videos and am totally addicted!!! You have done such an amazing job!!
What a fabulous building with so much potential!! Love it!
Wonderful, mysterious, life as adventure!!!
Fascinating !!! Thanks Anna & Philipp .
*Loving the way the vlogs are going and cant wait to see the new kitchen and what you both have planned for the out building, its all very exciting, im so happy for you both♥️👍🏼*
You are both very brave to go up that ladder and walk on that floor! The drone footage is beautiful. Love from Vermont
I love that you are looking to preserve the outbuildings. I remember watching a CZcams “Incredible Tiny Homes” and he put thatched roof on several homes to make them look like a Snow White House. The artificial thatch had been used in a Caribbean resort for many years, I believe, with great success and longevity. I don’t know if you want to check on this for those buildings or not but Randy Jones is the person who built those wonderful little homes and used the artificial thatch.
thatch is actualy one of the most iconic feature of normandy houses. It's pretty common down there.
I doubt that artificial thatch would be permitted on an historic building.
@@Mark-vj7zd thank goodness, everything Anna & Phillipe have done has been loving and meticulous. They’ve been authentic...why stop now?
What a lovely outbuildings you have! Will be fantastic to see them restored by you guys. We recently stayed at the Wishbone in Malvern Hills UK, and instantly this gave the same vibe!
BEAUTIFUL....GREAT JOB!!
Great find! Very intriguing! 👍🌷
Sooo, interesting, thank you for sharing! Nice and calming to watch you as a couple. These old places are always like jigsaw puzzles, keeps up the desire to keep going.
I love the way Anna says, "Phillip"
I am a new subscriber and I am really enjoying your delightful content 💕I binge watched your story from the beginning and I can’t wait to see what happens to the kitchen and those amazing out buildings xxx
So exciting to get started on the outbuildings and what an amazing discovery of the hinge. Great episode. Looking forward to whatever comes next. Have a great week.
This is an exciting project!
Exciting project! I am pleased these buildings are being brought back into use!
The out buildings are fabulous and can't wait to see what you do with them 🥰😘
That long house is amazing. Looking forward to seeing what you will do with it!
Thank you for showing the other outbuilding, it was very fascinating. It‘ll be exciting to see them all renovated in time. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Your heart and artisan passion are so very admirable. Stewardship, children, love.
Wow!! How fascinating!! Thank God you are restoring what’s left. And to find those hinges in the trees is wild!!
Bless you two. Beautiful couple.
Thank You again for a wonderful and informative show !!! the Outbuilding would be perfect Home for the Family and, you could have your own "creative" spaces
You're welcome! Thank you!
Really good photography Philip, and Ana, this showed the interior of the outbuilding so well, very interesting. I like that you don’t rush through things. And your quiet sometimes funny discussions are relaxing and also interesting. Also lovely shots of surrounding property that showed the views from this building.
So exciting!....so much potential!....you're so lucky!....I love it!
I love your senses of humor and your relationship! Another great video.
Your chateou looks so gorgeous..: congratulations for the great job Philip and Ana!
Please uncover the old building. Ruins are beautiful.
Yes, chop down the weeds- that would be fun!
You have so many options for use of those buildings! They're beautiful.
Love the outbuildings and your future plans for them.
Go back to where you found the hinge and look for the other one. I love watching you both, you remind me of my husband and my self. Hilarious and it will help throughout the years.
I can’t wait for the completion of the outbuildings so that I can rent for a week. ❤️❤️❤️
Those outbuildings are fabulous!!!
your chateau looks fantastic!
Treasures everywhere! 😊
Y’all are just so lovable.
What a great find for your histrionic finds of the chateau. The restoration of the out building is going to be great, after the kitchen of course, the heart of every home. 🇨🇦
That is a fun amount of progress already, from the photos of when you bought it and where you are now.
You have a great place! Can’t wait to see everything restored with Ana’s exquisite taste ! Go for it! 💖💖💖
Truly AMAZING to find that original hinge! I know it's a lot of work, but I would replace it on the original door. And for the last hinge that doesn't match, I would have a different blacksmith make a hinge that perfectly matches the old hinges.
I read, "discovery" and I jumped right in. I could not wait to see what you all found....😄
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Just found this channel and already binge watching all your videos! Thank you for preserving history ❤️
Your beautiful long house would make a wonderful events/wedding venue! Thanks for taking us exploring too😁
Ok, I jumped when you put in the music to scare me....lol What a lovely find, the door hinge. I'd hang it above the door as a piece of art work. Thanks for sharing.