Ep.14: Friends, fun & gettin' stuff done! Chateau visits, DIY & a street party 

How great to have your friends visit…and what great helping hands they were ! ❤

Nothing better than to share your new home with old friends. Memories indeed❤️

The chateau de Chenonceau is built as a bridge on the Cher river. Between 1940 and 1942, the Cher river was a part of the demarcation line ("border") between Nazi occupied France and the Free zone. The Resistance used this "hidden bridge" to smuggle resistance fighters and allied bomber crews to the Free zone.

What a feast for the eyes! Between all your new antiques, chandeliers, weeded garden and the delicious-looking meals, why not party on your last night? Thank you for introducing us to your friends. Their guest bedroom was very inviting with the chocolates and flowers. I bet you hated to return home. 😢

Love the torn of Amboise. And DaVinci’s influence and home.

Beauty everywhere! Your auction finds are amazing, too. And the garden is coming alive again. Your friends are wonderful. Enjoy!😊

Can’t wait for you to meet with the previous owners to hear about all the history. Besides being very interesting, it may help you with your future renovations. Good luck for the future.

Love the Texas Rollergirls t-shirt.

Best week and Best vid ever!!!! Exciting week with friends giving you a hand with so many projects.....love your humor, keep them coming❤

Garden is coming right along. The roses are gorgeous. Lovely to have friends visit and help out.

How fun! First guests! The Guest room looks very cozy ❤ the garden is shaping up ! That was a lot of work well done ❤❤❤❤

What a charming town! No wonder you are moving there!

Great new furniture! Very nice to see the house becoming a home. And the chateau de Chenonceau is absolutely amazing, loved the visit too (years ago)

The buffet cabinet is absolutely gorgeous!

Loved the tours.

Enjoying the videos. Maybe a slap of marble or granite for the table center when you need the full extension. Something out of the ordinary.

I love your home and its history. Great to see your friends staying for a couple of days and lending a hand. The gardens in your yard are gorgeous after the tidying up and weeding. Also love your new furniture you have amazing taste. Thank you for the video

Absolutely lovely vlog, so chill and educational😘

Beautiful acquisitions. I can't wait to see how they look in their completed rooms. Garden will be spectacular. You have great friends! If the large chandelier body is becoming electified, the chandilier should be rewired.

Great episode guys! Beautiful haul of antiques, that hutch is gorgeous and what a deal for that lovely secretay! I cant wait until you guys can spend more time in france, i always look forward to your vlogs. 😊 thanks for sharing! ❤

I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I really loved the china hutch with the beautiful carving. The garden will be really nice as it gets saved from all the weeds and overgrowth.

I love the old art and furniture pieces you've found for your home! It's awesome because in US, we have nothing like it since our Nation is barely over 200 years old! I also love the music you've put with the video! It's so relaxing!

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I am wondering if you worry about squatters while you are away from your Amboise home. I hear that it is a real problem here in France. Enjoyed seeing all the work you got done. I am enjoying my last 4 days in France❤️

Thank you so much for sharing the chapel restore I was there last year and it was still closed to the public . It’s absolutely amazing

Ha ha! Loved your "killer at the window!" Your garden looked a lot better, so nice to have so many strawberries. Is that Baby's Breath I see in the garden? Love that. Wow! Your video just kept going and going with all sorts of lovely things to see. Love Da Vinci's final resting place and the celebration! Great friends! Glad you had some fun. (Remind me, how far away are you from Paris?). Thanks!!!!

It looks like the design in the simpler alcove is cut off. Maybe there’s more alcove behind that new looking back wall or maybe it was a doorway that was closed. What’s on the other side of that wall?

Looks like a fun town.

What a beautiful Chandelier! Can you share what auction sites you are finding your lovely things from?

I think the weird room is an altar to something or someone. Hus-Ben thoroughly enjoyed all wiring talk.

How wonderful to be able to share your new home and city with your very helpful friends. A visit to Chenonceau is always amazing. How much did you love the floral displays they have there? It’s so beautiful no matter what time of year you visit. I went in November on a misty day and it’s was breathtakingly beautiful. Just love following your channel. I think next time I’m in Amboise I’d love to knock on the door and say hello!

I havent watched the entire vlog yet, but the library looks like it was at one time meant to be a private chapel or devotional. Look at the draped wall pattern at the La Lande chapel, and what you have on your wall in pencil sketch is penciled in swag lines; is the same. The big alcove, or cupula as you called it, would hold a statue probably of Mary, and the pencil drawings of the mouldings show where pedestals were going to be placed. The three ( I think it was 3) circled pencil drawings with a vague head shape inside, I think would have been the sketch for where a religious painting was to be. It definately looks like each circle had a head in the center of each circle, with the circles themself being halo's. I wonder why this was not completed, as it certainly looks like it has been all worked out for placements? Maybe they ran out of money? I think this was original from time house was built. Maybe caught up in some religeous upheavals in the 1700's? I think Hugonauts were persecuted for religeous beliefs through the centuries and left the country. maybe at that point the house was sold or passed into other hands, or simply the owners thought maybe better not to have a chapel in thier home? Fascinating!! That salamander I think is a interior depiction of a gargoyle as seen on many churches. It looks like it has been gilded, but probably not originally gilded at all. probably plaster, but if you imagine it was in stone, it would not look out of place on an outer church wall near roof line. This is a beautiful house. You are so lucky to have found and bought it.

Just lovely❣️ I’m curious if you have work visas or how you will be able to stay in France. I followed Mr Bloke on RU-vid, they bought a house in France but could not get working visas and returned to the USA.

I believe the alcoves were used to display items of heritage or foreign provenance. There could have been a low display table in each alcove. This was a common practice among the well healed.

Thank you for your latest video, we really look forward to them. The iteams from the auction are amazing. We have a house in confolens and would love some of the things you bought. Could you please share the details of the auction site??? Please 😊. Take care.