RENOVATING a CHATEAU: We Answer YOUR Questions + It Snowed in BRITTANY! 

FROM ALL chateau channels you are my favorite. So grounded, kind, hardworking, unpretentious! Lovely people who also look after lovely animals! 🌹🐝🐱🐶🍀

Thank you so very much for doing this Q&A. You both come across as being genuine and empathetic people with a love for animals and creation of a lovely home for your daughters.(Proud that you choose not to include them in videos) Your dry sense of humor and gentle interaction with each other is much appreciated. Love your drone shots and the fact that you can admit mistakes ( the black bedroom) and correct them. I look forward to your videos.... you are doing a great job and I do hope your channel continues to grow!!!

I love your channel and hope it grows. Your dry humor combined with Lincoln’s easygoing demeanor is a pleasant combination. Add all of the sweet animals, a beautiful chateau on the most stunning grounds with spectacular views is the reason why I look forward to your videos every week. Thank you for this Q & A. I hope you can find an old dismantled greenhouse. I know you will love having one. Everything takes time so little by little all of your plans will come to fruition. What you have accomplished in the chateau is very beautiful. Have a good week. xx

I think you gave your children a wonderful gift. They’re learning a new language and have options to work and build lives in Europe or the USA. My kids were fortunate as well in this regard and it has been very beneficial for them. And I have to say you both are hilarious and so charming. I love watching your DIY. 😊 And I love your chateau ❤.

The snowy landscape is so beautiful. And no, you don’t need a British accent. I think you’re both wonderful people & I love your channel.❤️

Those drone shots of the chateau in the snow are absolutely beautiful 😍

“Lincoln has taken on an elaborate Ponzi scheme”!! 😂😂😂😂

Maybe you can also build a separate kitchen and offer 10 day cooking class a few times a year for extra income. Or once you are all set up, special gourmet weekend stays.

A lot of chatelains et chatelaines are connected to each other because of the UK Tv shows " Chateau DIY" and "Help! We Bought a Village" so that accounts for a lot of the support for The Brits. Most of those people seem super nice and also enjoy comparing notes (esp in the recent stormy weather) I am sure they'd like to hear from you. Even if you arent inclined to collaborate on video content there has to be a useful knowledge base there

It was lovely getting to know you better! Thank you for taking the time to do this sit-down with us.

I immediately knew that you are my kind of people by choosing rescue animals. I dream of a day when there will be very few homeless animals, because people like you will choose a rescue pet first.

You need to get to know the couple from the Beau Chateau, they are also from California. They do weddings at their Chateau.

Really enjoyed getting to know you both a little more, I love your outlook on things and your dry sense of humour ❤

Dear Amanda & Lincoln, Hello from Canada! I just found your channel 😊 and I love your videos. Just like you, I love animals specially CATS. Amanda I love your sense of humour and I admire that you respect your kids privacy. Wishing you all the best in 2024 ❤❤❤

I think the Brits might be overwhelmed with the American sarcasm. It makes me laugh, because as a person from the Midwest, I couldn't imagine living in San Francisco, but France makes sense. Your home is really Big, and the surrounding area is large with other buildings. The definition of a chateau was great, live the life and you learn the correct meanings. The best way to find out what you like is often done by checking off the things you don't like or want. If you both look at that way, then I believe you're a success at being a chateau owner in France.

Why would you think we are bored? You never disappoint. Cheers!

For the next Q&A, would be interested in how much you paid for the chateau, how long it took you to find it, how you found it, why Brittany..the usual questions. Also, how non-EU citizen Americans would expect to handle health insurance and residency. Thanks for showing what it's realistically like to renovate a chateau without lots of help, even if you don't have British accents :)

The best line of the night “so please don’t show up with a donkey because I’ll accept it!” 😂😂😂 seriously! You guys are hilarious. I have said that since day one. I also think that it is wise not to put your children on RU-vid unless they really want to do it. I always look forward to your videos.

omg the donkey on the doorstep cracked me up.

Get a lean to greenhouse of the walled garden

The Q&A was great, I was raised in the Bay Area and know exactly your need for privacy and peace and quiet, My husband and I are seriously thinking about becoming expats and I appreciate your candor.

I find your channel much more relatable than the other chateau shows. Don't get me wrong, I still watch them but I find your chateau more to my liking. What I like is that you don't have your hand out with a Patreon account (and trying to sell 110 euro candles). I find it a bit shameless for the others to ask for money when they are living in a castle. I also admire that you respect your daughters privacy....good on you. I left the SF area 16 years ago and I don't miss it one bit. I am in North Carolina with a large home and land.

With your sense of humor you will never need an elevator on your stairs 😄hopefully!

Loved this! I literally laughed out loud with the "HEY". As an American living in the south of France,-who binge-watches chateau renovations as a way to feed the temptation of purchasing something that will require more attention than my children- I too wondered if you had a British accent if your channel would grow faster!?! What gives, right? You have the secret sauce - the algorithm will catch up! ❤

VERY informative, and appreciated your As for our Qs. Your chateau is a PERFECT size - so there, as you would say. Brittany rocks! Bringing over a gift donkey...

Oh, I just loved this. You both seem so comfortable on camera and your sense of humor made this fun. Your château is lovely and you’re doing such a nice job. I agree, your place is just the right size and you’re so lucky to have so many wonderful outbuildings. I can’t wait to see what you do with them all. By the way, please don’t get a poly tunnel.😂

I want the “I’ve always been a DIYer” shirt.

No, I love you are from the US. It is your personalities that make it all so interesting.

Check out the RU-vid channel of “Kris Harbor Natural Building”. He lives complete of grid. Bought a property in Wales, lived in a tent and now has a little house, workshop, animals etc. he build a big Solar Panel stand, hydroelectric pump, a green house. You can get lots of ideas from him. Very nice and talented young man.

I don't envy you having a chateau. What I do envy is your relationship, that you're almost always together as to what to next, and most especially that your girls will grow up in FRANCE, great education if only 4 days a week (how do they do THAT ?), be civilised, polite, safe, well-behaved in restaurants, bi-or trilingual. How I wish we could have stayed the first time my ex-husband was transferred here from New York. The children and I would be completely different people--even if they decided to go to university in the US (California where we wound up/they still live. Californicated.). But they're still more or less fluent, and also in Spanish as the ex- was trransferred to Madrid for 4 years, and our children attended British and International schools with Spanish, French and LATIN every day. In my next life, I'll marry a man capable of love rather than a perverted narcissist psychopath. Ahhh. When can I DIE ? I'll also have land enough forr tons of our furry and hairy bébés, and DONKEYS with their sweet faces and long long eyelashies ! Check out an old movie, cartoon, called SMALL ONE. It's about the little donkey who carried Mary to the stable. Mouchoirs (hankies). You'll have to buy it somehow as it's not even on youtube.

Your Chateau may be smaller than others on RU-vid but it is more manageable than others. You need family time, too, so don't apologize for your place. Why have a place which takes most of your free time for a lifetime? I like your Chateau!

It was so funny watching the Q&A. I didn't know Lincoln to so funny. Keep doing it. You're great!

As someone who watches just about all the chateau vlogs and living in Oregon, I love hearing the American accent. You two and the lovely young couple at The Beau Chateau make me smile and are easily relatable to this Oregon girl. I enjoy your channel, humor and love of animals. Best in 2023!

You are so lucky to be where you are. I have always dreamed of living in France, looked into properties but it was a dream I couldn’t fulfill. I love watching your videos with landscapes, buying furniture, renovating your Chateau, loving care for animals and your ability to be down to earth. Your conversations and insight into your lives is great. Thank you for one of the BEST view into your world.

You are very busy working almost every day- your children, your large-scale renovations, your large-scale gardening, your animals. That is more than most of us have. With a busy work life, we are all limited in how much we have time to socialize. Therefore, in my opinion, that is why many of us don't have so many friends. It is better to find the time for the family members and few friends we have. It is awesome to see the life that your family has chosen- definitely my kind of life.

You are doing a great job with your channel. The Brits have an advantage because so many were introduced via their hit show Chateau DIY, which is quite annoying to watch. Getting to chat with other owners would be a big help. There's an American couple at The Beau Chateau who are lovely.

Lincoln's t-shirt should say "Fire Man" with him deep In a project.

The snow is beautiful it looks so magical where I live in Australia we don’t have snow. Love that you have so many rescue animals.

Hey Guys, Just saw ur latest episode" FAQs" and had to laugh out loud when U asked, If YOUR Channel would BE more succesfull if you presented your projects with a British accent? 😁I myself am German and can not follow the other channels in parts, because the spoken dialects are often cruel...with you, however, one understands every word! Your channel is my favorite because you don't talk for hours to generate any content. You do not howl around, that viewers please, please should become patreons, so that you can sit in the dry...because the larmoyance of some channel operators can be quite annoying. WHAT I would like to see: more frequent episodes and also information about how time-consuming some projects or work were/are! Again thanks, that you are Sharing YOUR experiences with us ( much better than any crime series or chainsaw massacre!😁).Stay tuned and keep up the good work!!

It is an extremely grand home. Chateau works for me!

I like your sense of humour!

Hands down my fav chateau vlog. I just get to relax and enjoy. I like the dry humour and there are no over produced storylines. With many more popular one i end feeling like i have been taken for a ride and everything has a hidden agenda even when they claim to be charitable.

As a fellow US citizen, I'm happy to find chateau owner's that are US citizens. One of the owners in the Journey to the Chateau vlog is a US citizen also but most I've found and subscribe to are Brits.

Счастливые люди. Боже, могут ездить спокойно по миру. Купить недвижимость, реализовывать себя в реновации. Испытывать новые ощущения, эмоции, впечатления. Завидую.

The snow looks beautiful! Enjoyed the Q&A.

What a great vlog! I LOVE the size of your chateau and the outbuildings are amazing! The walled garden, the tree lined alley and the meadows......just charming! You are doing your girls a great service by raising them in France. They will be citizens of the world and the French language will just enhance their lives and yours. Stick with the gites in the outbuildings as they are much easier than running a bnb. I love your banter as a couple and your dry sense of humor is just so refreshing! Keep doing what you are doing.....add more animals and keep chipping away at the projects. Cheers in 2023! Also, the snowy video at the beginning of this vlog......so beautiful!

Like the mix of not having a British accent and your sense of humour is great who knew americans had such a good one lol 🇦🇺🙏🏻

I could see you two becoming good friends with Abby Carter from "The Chateau Chronicles". She's gathered quite a following in a very short time, but she's very down to earth and funny like you two. Her chateau is about 7 hours south/southeast of you. Love your vlog. Thanks for sharing.

Great QandA. By the way I bet you’d love to meet Phillip and Anna from How to Renovate a Chateau (without killing your partner). They too have a fun and entertaining way as a couple in remodeling their Chateau.

I agree with Lincoln, we’re the same with our friend group. Picky. “So there,” love it, you tell ‘em!

So enjoy your musings about the chateau, best of luck in your endeavours….from Canada!

You're my favorite chateau channel. Best soundtrack as well. Thanks for sharing 🙂.

Your out buildings are so incredible! It’s like a small village with so much potential. I’m very envious of you both. Enjoy!

This was really interesting, thank you. Without being nosy, it's nice to know what brings people into their adventures. I love the size of your Château! When they are too big, it seems so overwhelming and impersonal. Yours is a home. My dream would be to have land and donkeys! This will never happen so I will share yours vicariously!! Children and animals enjoying freedom, doesn't get better than that. Well done 😊

Coming from another West Coaster, I appreciate your grounded humor. I keep dreaming of moving over there too someday. Until then I'll be binge-watching when I'm not doing my videos for my channel. As a professional Florist and Certified Master Gardener, I'm jealous of your garden space. Love it!

Thank you for a great video I have been watching since you first arrived .I love all your furbabies wow what a family its lovely to know you have children living with you also . I wish you both so much joy in your new lifes adventure in france lots of love Kay from Australia xxxx

You are the most enjoyable Chateau couple and I confess to being addicted. Thanks for the beautiful video of your snow covered Chateau and informative Q&A session this week.🤗🥰

You picked the perfect chateau. ♥️😀🇿🇦

So generous of you to answer all these questions. You give so much to so many by sharing your wonderful life in your beautiful château in France . It’s a true escape for us in these challenging times . Thank you so much (from a hot steamy climate ) 🌺🌴

My favorite music! LOL! Swingers! Do People know want swingers are? LOL Your Chateau is the fun! Creating a wonderful environment is fun for all you have listed. Enjoy!

Love your sense of humour

I just found your channel a few days back and I really enjoyed binge watching all of your videos up to this current one. My favorite thing about you and Lincoln is your honest banter back and forth and your 'sometimes' awkwardness in front of the camera - giggle - my second favorite thing is watching you transform and update your beautiful petite chateau. You may not believe it, but many of us find you very entertaining and knowledgeable about the work that you are doing - keep it coming, we love it because we know that we will never be able to travel to France, let alone own a chateau and we really love watching those who can in such an entertaining way. Thanks for all that you bring to us!!

Very informative and covered so many good questions. Lincoln is so soft spoken I can barely hear him. Can only wish you the best with your château. I love what you're doing and can't wait to see the garden come spring. Thanks for showing all the animals. You can tell they are loved. Forget other château vlogs. Most are trying too hard or too greedy for the patrons. You two are so refreshing and down to earth. Take care. Till next one.

Perhaps Amanda you could start a Chateau Owners Association? ...... anybody...... including the British!?🤣 Just love your quirky sense of humour! Rikki Biermann, Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦

So interesting, and nice to hear what you did before owning the Chateau. Binge watching 3rd day lol - loving every episode

I watch a few of the other YT Chateau channels and I really think if someone wants to purchase a Chateau they should be realistic and purchase one that they can manage with little or no staff. They should not count on making much if any income from owning their Chateau.Certainly the grand chateaus look great but unless you are filthy rich do you want to become a slave to your dream? I think you both are being realistic and are doing a good job with your property.

Thank you for this video. I second all the other comments: you two are lovely people. We love your sense of humour, your candor, your love of animals, your pragmatism and your drive. Continue to do what you’re doing. We’ll all happily follow along. And, hey, we got to know Lincoln a little bit more :) Plus, I had a few good chuckles listening to your banter (good for the soul). Cheers 🇨🇦

That was so enjoyable to watch. You’re both so funny.❤

You should get in touch with Billy and Gwendolyn Petherick at Chateau de la Basmaignee in Montenay, France.

It's very nice...no worries about others opinions.

I’m an expatriate from The UK the Brits tend to stay together I was really happy that I stayed in the French community you learn so much more

Enjoy your vlogs despite being British. Keep them coming nice people.

I love the look of your chateau with all the snow on it and the surrounding countryside. Im love your channel as you are both down to earth people who bringing a beautiful chateau back to it's former glory.

❤ You both are refreshingly honest and adorable! Not to mention BRAVE!

Funny. I like your last answer, about the donkey. Your animals are so cute and you have a good heart. Proud of you. Good luck.

...Lincoln Financial😂 But seriously, your channel is a "VIBE"... Newcomer to your show and I very much appreciate, admire and feel inspired by your d2d efforts. Your Vision, hardwork, dogged drive and determination is simply tremendous. The results are quite brilliant and superb! Best wishes in your life journey and maybe someday, I'll visit and rent out one of the cottages🌞 Cheers!🌞

Like other lovely comments, thank you for this very open and honest vlog. I have followed you from the start of this journey and its so refreshing to listen to you both, you are so grounded and private and it's good to be as Lincoln said , selected. Keep your own identity you don't need the 'Chateau' social circle as you both are so unique you will do well and attract the people you feel comfortable with around you. Stay safe and well.

Connect with Abby Carter frm The Chateau Chronicles, from US pretty much restoring on her own. Love your sense of humour, the videos & sound quality is so good. Snowy Chateau scenes are divine. 💕

Hi from Florida! I liked your honest review & comparison to the US, so it seems you have made a great choice for your family. I'm sure having a sense of humor helps in dealing with the inevitable snafus that will happen with an aging chateaux! I look forward to seeing your next completed project! Please keep your American accents🤣🤣

Enjoy watching your channel! I went to Trader Joe's and Target today, you really aren't missing anything. Your chateau and grounds are gorgeous. What a wonderful life you have created for your family. You have inspired me to get my second passport. All the best to you, your family and sweet animals. Your petit chateau is magnificent!

Love this! Thank you. I resonated with your personalities. I'm very much to myself, and lived in the city, and prefer not to hear neighbors, doing things you spoke of. I enjoy the country and looking for land and something of my own as well. Also researching different ways of off grid ideas. Kudos to you both! Love your property and how neat it would be to undertake such a property. When I was married we bought a 1900 turn of the century home, and renovated it all by ourselves. We loved doing it. Like yourselves it's amazing what you run into in an old home. 😄😄 Would be hard for me to do by myself though. 💕👏

You two are great! Offer for sale the t-shirt "I've always been a DIYer" - we'll help fund the new septic tank!

I like your videos so much 🔆💕🕊 Thank you 🙂💫

We love your channel, greetings from fellow château owners, and yes we are freezing also! 🥶

This was a great idea! One of your strengths is your urban, urbane patter (ha!), which for a transplanted New Yorker, lands familiarly in my ear.

So was that a "no" on Lincoln's OF account? Asking for a friend 😘

« Ah! Comme la neige a neigé! » Nelligan

The chateau looks beautiful in the snow. Love your channel. You should check out The Beau Chateau. They are a young couple that are also from California.

This was so fun! I loved it!

Thanks for sharing! I think your vlog is great! I like the methodical ways you go about doing repairs and your land is stunning! Thanks

Enjoyed your back story! Whether manor house or chateau it looks awesome and I love all the animals! You 2 seem to have such a great relationship and work so well together. And just the calm of your vlogs is nice. Well done!😊

You look so competent and skilled I thought you were house flippers or something. I love watching your videos. Thank you for your time.

Interesting, and those q and a’s pretty much covered what I had wondered about. The best thing for me about your Channel is that I know I will have a laugh. So, thank you. All the very best for your future endeavours

It is a perfect chateau. Thank you for answering questions.

I love my land !! Brittany for ever !!!

Your daughters are beautiful but they really need to eat more. 😂 Love your channel. Best wishes from Toronto 😊🇨🇦

I enjoyed this Q & A ...I feel like I know you both better - I had assumed that your children were perhaps older and perhaps the older girl away at college or ??? - now I know they would rather remain out of the videos and its all understood and as a mother of two, grandmother of three...with girls..I believe its SAFER for your children to remain out of the videos. Its tooo much information about "ladies/girls" ages, where they live, are they ever there alone,etc. This world is sooo scarey now, seems like more than ever - I'm 74 yrs. old and I'm very leary about my "girls". Sorry, I got carried away about "social medias" anyway, thank you for this video..carry on the good work shared with us to entertain us. Love you loving the animals !

I was so glad to see your video I had been flooded with Chateau channels I subscribe to and kept looking for yours. Very pleasant answering the questions I'm glad you are enjoying living in France it was always my dream to live in the French Countryside and have a huge garden. Best wishes 2023 to you and stay safe stay Blessed ❤️

What a beautiful entrance that winter landscape is just gorgeous, I'm sure its very cold for you guys not used to the European winters, although San Francisco can get quite cold as well.

You need to start up the Bay Area Chateau consortium!