In this episode we take you up to the attic and deuxieme etage to see where things are at. It's fun to see how they built these old roofs without modern construction materials.
Loved your comment regarding those pigeons in the turret off the last bedroom. Upon exposing the two pigeons flying in the turret you stated, "yeah we have to learn how to cook those." I enjoyed the humor in the statement. I am also enjoying all your videos. I discovered you chateau videos just two days ago and I have all 15 in that amount of time.
Hello! I'm a Canadian living in Germany. :-) lovely listening to you and seeing your beautiful Chateau. I got into watching Stephanie Jarvis' fabulous Chateau Diaries, over a year ago just as lockdown was happening, then found many other Chateau owners' Vlogs, and just now have discovered your channel. For your roof you may want to connect with @The Pethericks and @Doing it Ourselves at Chateau de la Baismagnee - who I believe repaired their roof on their own with a 'cherry picker'. There's also @Chateau Life in the same area of France who also use a cherry picker for many jobs. Good luck!!
Oh wow... So many treasures! The black lattice wallpaper is fabulous. That little sink is for filling the basin jugs for washing up I believe. And YES! I would absolutely open up that roof and even put in glass if possible at some point. I'm all about keeping original features but if you could put in a skylight facing into the interior roof structure the inside of that room as a double height ceiling would be glorious! Someday...
What a great tour and what positive attitudes. Most people would be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the remodel projects but most people don't have the magnitude of your faith to move to France to buy a chateau.It just takes faith the size of a mustard seed to grow a dream and you two are living the dream and walking out God's plan for your life. Have a very blessed 2021 and all the best with the projects.
oh my goodness I love it ! Wouldn't it be awesome if there were old trunks hidden up there in the attic that no one found until you two moved in! I live in Alabama I have some remodeling / restoration experience I would love to volunteer to help make that upper floor beautiful! But sadly I can't afford the travel right now ! Great video!
Love your passion and the chateau! We live north of you in Oregon in a 1905 officer’s quarters, that we are lovingly restoring, and the next project we hope will be a modest manor house in france. If you ever are up here, we would love to meet you and show you our silly place
My daughter Stephanie likes to play the music you choose for this video. She wants to come and be your flute professor at your Chateau when you add a historical music school
I just found your channel. I really enjoy both of you, and your chateau is very lovely. I hope you can replicate the wall papers. So unique and lovely.
I really love the music you’ve chosen for your videos! What potential there is in this Chateau. It takes very special people to take a project on like this but I’m so glad you did!
Just wanted to say how much I love your videos. Your chateau restoration has a special spirit about it, partly because of the down-to-earth Canadian-ness of the two of you, but mostly because your chateau is dedicated to educating young people in both secular and spiritual topics.
Hello Guys, i love the tour.. thank you. The quote of " yes its just really cosmetic" Then the camera pans to a massive hole in the roof!! Dont lose you enthusiasm and beautiful energy! Be well and be safe xx
have you noticed any of the lightening rods? Copper wires from roof peaks to ground stake? Leslie's fav phrases.. "here's where we have a leak", " this is one of my favorite rooms" so sweet, so positive, press on..
Just stumbled across your videos, you have a great place. I’m a fellow Canadian in the midst of restoring a Chateau in the southwest of France - have thoroughly enjoyed the experience so far. Best of luck with yours!
@@chateaudelagrifferaie953 yep all built over the last few years. Have also tried to buy back some of the original garden from neighbors. It’s been great fun! If you are ever over in this area would be pleased to show you and am sure we can exchange stories. Your place looks fascinating and I look forward to following your progress
It would be great to get some of the wallpapers reproduced. The blue and yellow one is beautiful. If you don't end up doing that you could get a large piece of the papers framed and then hang them in the rooms they used to be in. would be a lovely way to show off the history. Hope you can repair all the tile floors. They are wonderful. Also I'm on the side of make a ceiling.
When we gutted the old bathroom in the cottage that we inherited from my mother-in-law, we saved a tile and shadow framed it as a nod to the original. Love all the old tiles!!
You should try & salvage the old wall paper & get a company to make new copies of it. It would be great to put back in the same looking wall paper that was there years ago when the chateau was built
Was great to see more of the chateau. So much potential, you could almost imagine several apartments up there for people to stay for longer periods of time then the students. Even having a missionary family living there or another instructor bringing a spouse along. You could even have a pastor that is taking a sabbatical for a year, or what about some one wanting to write a book. So many options.
Greetings from Vancouver. Thanks for the tour. What a project...but what fun! Love the wallpapers as well. Would be great if you can find similar reproductions or at least the essence of the design. Enjoy the journey!
Hopefully people that come and stay plus the christian programs (maybe weddings?) can help fund all the repairs. I love history and classic homes, but would go there just to meet you two. Lovely people. Jesus is Risen!
There are so many beautiful huge cathedrals in the cities for beautiful weddings. A wedding is not an option here in the country. Maybe just for the honeymoon afterwards in the French countryside..
The attic room with the wardrobes or armoires may have been linen storage for the household and there may have originally been a children's nursery in that attic area.
I watch other channels where they are restoring old Chateaux. And they have found a couple of companies in the US & UK that have started reprinting some of the more unique and popular much older wallpapers. You could always check into that.
Thank you for the plans and the tour. Because I’m a worrywart at heart I’m concerned about roof repairs and the birds. Both are so damaging to any building. Roof first, then cover the bird entries. Wire mesh, hardware cloth, move the birds toward an out!!! Then seal. Not permanent so real repair / restoration can continue. Sorry for the rant but don’t want to see further damage to such a beautiful building you are restoring.
you are right on track. the elements have many many ways into the chateau sadly. the first month we arrived I replaced 47 panes of glass that were missing, broken, or had significant holes. so we're making progress sealing things in, but much work to do. sadly the roof will cost quite a bit more than we have. so it won't be done quickly.
@@chateaudelagrifferaie953 In any case, the missing roof shales and the open holes in the roof deserve immediate attention, otherwise the rest of the restoration has no sense either... amazing videos by the way!!
Great job. How can I find the history of this magnificent chateau. I love history and am just curious as to when it was built and who owners where. BTW great vision you have for the use of this Chateau to learn more about Christ.
It is a beautiful house but it fills me with horror at the amount of restoration it needs . You seem so calm about it. I suppose you need a very good architect to mastermind it all
💕I think you would find that is a servants area those wardrobes (sorry forgotten French spelling) would of been where all the linens were kept the room before would be the ironing room💕NO they would NEVER put guests up with servants💕
@@chateaudelagrifferaie953 hope you’ll restore them and could maybe rent them out to some horse owners , I, sure they’d love the location and you’d be able to make a lot in rent due to the location etc
Estate staff in those days did include some higher demanding members such as steward and sometimes teachers and mentors for the children and young adults. Some others workers like musicians and other entertainers were not servants but not distinguished enough to be 'guests'. They may have used the rooms next to the servants.
Absolutely love your show. Have you ever spoken in any of the episodes about health insurance. If you break your leg while at the chateau, does your American insurance kick in?
Stephanie Jarvis of Chateau de Lalande (YT Chateau Diaries) may be able to put you intouch with a company that could reproduce your 19th century wallpaper. Ive really enjoyed touring your Chateau. Its so wonderfully ornate. Id love an attic room so I could dream over the roof line.🙃😁
Ask Stephanie Jarvis at Chateau Diaries. She's already researched wallpapers and fabrics for her Chateau and she has a great Vlog as well as Michael Petherick.
Don’t these two ever get depressed or disheartened by all the time and work and expense necessary to get the Chateau into shape. Every other U Tube clip or TV programme about Ex Pat Chateau owners has them spending half the programme moaning about the cost, running out of money and the impossibility of the French bureaucracy . These two Canadians are a breadth of fresh air. Are they real.
aahhh... thanks:) yes, very real, and actually pretty depressed this week, but glad the videos have been cheerful. Leslie almost always has a good attitude. I (Rob) can be a bit moody:)
Have you thought of fire alarms and means of escape? The top floor would be a death trap in the event of a fire. With lots of students in the chateau the possibility if a fire caused by smoking, cooking etc is real. French regulations are very slack- nothing like UK legislation. Sprinklers would be best but probably beyond your budget. Have a serios think about this. It would be a pity to see your deansvgo up in smoke!
