Step inside the CHATEAU COTTAGES! Plus we tackle the massive hedge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Watch as we trim the MASSIVE hedge and reveal the interiors of just some of the buildings on the property.
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I love your videos. I have my morning coffee while watching. I love getting lost in your world
Love that!
You should take in volunteers like the other Chateau owners do, you acn get a lot done for food and lodging, and the volunteers really seem to enjoy rebuilding history.
Brambles ! No one loves them but at the end of the summer, they gift us with blackberries. I remember, as a kid, when brambles were more common along the small roads around my grand parents house in Brittany, we went to pick up the blackberries and we often came back with buckets full of them. My grand mother used them to make confitures. Lots and lots and lots of confitures pots. It usually took her a few afternoon to cook it. A few dishcloths and rags became purple black during the operation but they were exclusively used for it so… we were allowed to take a few pots (jars?) back home to retain a taste of Brittany during the winter. Be mad at the brambles but do not forget the potential confitures!
About your cottage, I find interesting to see these paneled walls: I remember that our « maison bretonne » had one, back in the days of my great grand parents. I don’t know if they were used anywhere else in France but wood panel walls were a bit common in Brittany. Back at home, they also had this deep dark wood color which gave the house a rather « strict » look. My grand parents tore them down when they moved in and refurbished the house a few years later. Anyway, you have two very « breton » cottages. :-)
One last thing: we tend to build things to last: don’t expect the bar to accept to go down without a fight!
Thanks, as usual for the taste of Brittany in your vlog. It means a lot to me as I am far away. Cheers from Brussels ! M.
Ah yes! We do take advantage of the blackberries :) We have SO many at the end of summer.
Very interesting regarding the paneling - I must admit I do like the black color! Thanks for your comments, it's nice to have a real Breton chiming in :)
@@OurFrenchChateau Dark wood panels could be absolutely awesome with the proper interior design, I agree. Besides that, wood treated properly can create an olfactory signature that would really make such places uniques.
I'll follow with great interest your future work on this part, on top of the great pleasure to see a breton chateau resurrected!
Have a nice sunday, best, M
Of all the paint colors in the world. I would never have chosen what you did. However, I admire it every episode. It's serene and classy. 😊
Really cool cottages! They'll be so nice and useful when restored! A couple of other chateaux channels I watch have a bed and breakfast during spring and summer months and rent out rooms. If you wanted you could make some decent money by renting the cottages out. If they had kitchens you wouldn't really have to cook for them. They could just rent the cottages for a beautiful place to stay while visiting the area. The two channels I watch the most are Chateau Diaries and How to Renovate a Chateau (without killing your spouse). You might wanna check them out! Can we see a tour of the chateau with any history you know about it? I would love that!
We're hoping to renovate the cottages and rent them out :)
@@OurFrenchChateau That will be amazing!
A walled garden is so special and absolutely needed in order to become more self-sufficient. Do you have a green house of lean-to cold frame? Needed. I hope your kids will take this over one day and end up with a chateau they grew up in and remembered Mom, Dad, animals and Grandma and the cool car-as well as make friends and enjoy school there. Do you all speak French? It's beautiful there. Such a great thing to do when you ar young an energetic enough, have the moola to do it right and encourage each other. A lovely thing. Best, TS, USA
Love the fireplace in the two bedroom cottage.
So much potential in these cottages! They’re work I know but they could look as charming inside as outside.😊
Even the state that the cottage's are in they are still magnificent!!
Love, love all the outbuildings! And the colors your painting them i love too. Lincoln trimming laurel is a heck of a job and 160 feet.?phew!.
Oh, that cottage will make a wonderful Gite. It will make you $$$$$$. Without having people in your house. My friend in Brittany rented hers for the entire summer, every summer to people from the UK, because she allowed their dogs. Then she did weekly rentals when they weren’t there.. Awesome location!! People will fall in love with your property ❤️
What a BEAUTIFUL job painting the entryway & staircase ceiling! ❤️🙏
The rustic charm of outbuildings are a nice counterpoint to an elegant chateau. It's nice that you have so many. Keep a gardeners cottage open for me please,
Thank you - will do ;)
Loved the cottages and dividing wall panelling. The beams and A frame details will look lovely once ceiling and walls done.
The solid roofs on the buildings saved most of the structures. Although renovation will be extensive, at least your foundations are sound. That is a godsend!
Love watching your journey a lot of hard work in front of you thanks for sharing with us .Love from Australia❤️
Thank you so much!
I am amazed at all the outbuildings you have there. You are so fortunate to have them. The detail of the fireplace is incredible. Would these outbuildings serve as sleeping and living arrangements for hired help?
Oh that was fun! Thanks for the tour. What a treasure trove of lovely old furniture - you'll have fun reassembling it - some of the beds look beautiful!
Thank you for watching :)
Lovely cottage. I see it's potential and it will look fabulous.
I love Lincoln's answer, "Any day now". Should be the new standard response.
Enjoying your adventure very much. Thank you for sharing.
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Haha - that's his "standard" answer! Thanks for watching :)
That curved stairway in the first cottage is pretty! What a hedge! Your blogs are nice. The cottages will be adorable when you get them renovated.
Thanks for watching - I can't wait to start the process :)
Love the way you were imagining the cottages as lovely habitable spaces. Me - I’m thinking total gut job and $$$$$$ x 5! For the gutting, I’m confident you could find volunteers, although that could be a really good thing. Or not! I’d stay in one o those cottages any time!
You could bolt steel bars on each side of the beam and into the wall then box them in or paint them with the beam if you want to keep an open space. The most important area is where the beam enters the wall. We took several tons of earth and bricks from the upper floor of our home and the whole floor raised up 10 cms so it no longer rested on the main beam. We then had the whole room sandblasted, it was messy but worth it. We painted the beams to give the room more visual hight and cover the repairs.
The history and the little mysteries are the best part about a chateau and it seems you can continually find something new to enjoy for a very long time. The hedge looks great!
Thank you Lisa! The whole place is shrouded in mystery :)
The cottages could be like fairytales. Just love you property, views, hedge, walls, chateau and outbuildings. A lot to do but every step has to be very rewarding.
Thank you - yes, SO much to do!
The sink can stay…. That’s it. Everything else must go 😂
I love y’all’s sense of humor and optimistic whit.
Just started binge watching from the beginning, loving the channel so far!
The outbuildings of your property are stunning ! I hope you will have the money for the restoration, because they truly deserve it. They will bring a huge value to the entire property 🙂
💕You should get yourselves an extended pole petrol 4 in 1 multi tool it has a Hedge cutter Chainsaw Strimmer & Metal strimming disk or another combination but the first two are a must💕Also a garden shredder💕That beam needs replacing before it comes down on someone💕The Floorboards in the cottages look to be in good condition which is a win win💕Love that porcelain sink💕
There was a time in France that you got taxed for the amount of windows you had on your house/ chateau...hence windows bricked and boarded up.
If we owned the chateau we would renovate the two cottages first to get income in to then cover the costs of the renovation on the chateau, also agree with other comments of getting in volunteers many hands make light work
I just found your channel and am thoroughly enjoying your humor and wit. I had to laugh out loud at the painting of the shutters. Totally something I would do. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Glad you're enjoying the vlog!
Enjoy your chateau....is beautiful. Life is enjoying our surrounding....and count your blessings..Amen
Thank you for the lovely tour. Cottage no. 2 has alot of potential. Good bones as they say. Your Mom will someday enjoy it. The history of all these château is awesome. Have a good week. Love the donkeys too. 😘
Thank you Diana :)
If only there was a small army to uncover all that potential. But bit by bit it will happen. I look forward to watching your progress. Thanks for taking us along.
Yes - we certainly do need an army!
Love outbuildings just as much as the chateau. The cottages are so charming. The hedge ....I'd rather clean the toilet 🤣
Thanks Luisa! Ah, toilets....
Lovely tour.I personally loved those stairs😃 looking forward to a chateau tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
Me too 💖
I had a sudden epiphany watching Lincoln climb up and down the ladder to trim the hedges! If you have some sort of small motorized vehicle, your lawn mower, maybe he could use that if, of course, it's tall enough?!
That looks like a gardeners cottage and those peaces that match the fire place mantle look like wall panels 🥰
I think so too!
You crack me up. When I'm looking over my brother's shoulders they call me the stupervisor!!! Lol Love both the cottages, ur mom will be comfy. Thanks for sharing ur beautiful Chateau.
Loved the tour. You have great potential in those outbuildings.
Thanks for visiting
Charming cottages......lots of work but I can see them coming back to life! Cheers!
Thanks - yes, lots do do...
LOVE LOVE LOVE THE OUTBUILDINGS!
Thank you!
Holy cow is right!
Those are wonderful outbuildings! The hedges look great!
Thank you very much!
Fellow Californian and chateau lover here, living vicariously through you! Excited to find your channel and follow along! What an amazing place you’ve found!
Thank you Amber :) Glad you're watching!
They are so beautiful left untouched for many years it’s a shame and yes lots of work to do but also enjoyable love it painting recycling old things just just love it . The old chest did you open it off camera fine something old inside I hope you did 🤫
Nothing inside :(
I love this place and especially the cottage , needs some work but it'll be amazing !Beautiful place !
Thank you!
I wonder if the farmer who cuts hay, can put an arm on his mower and cut the hedge. I've seen council in Arras Citadel cut steep batters this way. Love your videos.
So much potential I love it
Thank you :)
Guys, started to binge watch your vlogs today. Great achievement so far. You definitely need a woodchipper for all those branches you've cut off. If the boned wall is south facing. It could have been for vines or raspberries. Or fruit treas lead against that wall.
Like the way both of you are and the style of presenting this vlog. Love the work on the hedge and the drone footage and the paint colours are nice anyway. Interesting. Funny about the bar area... I remember dismantling something similiar...a few years back. We ( in New Zealand), call it being built like a brick outhouse but with more colourful language for the outhouse description!! Owl poo too. Nice! Yes... wisteria is very invasive and glad you clocked how much damage it can do to buildings. Thank you for sharing your delightful chateau journey.
Thank you so much for watching. Funny, I had the "brick s***house" term on the tip of my tongue but couldn't remember it at the time!
I could only imagine a beautiful Chritsmas tree in your foyer area.
Love both shades of color on the shutters!
You should check out Justin Rhodes channel. He rotates his stock using movable electric fencing. I think it's called Perma Fence (?). Anyway, why mow when you could have the donkeys eat and fertilize your lawn? The hedge looks great. FYI wisteria will tear a structure down. Cut out all the oldest branches by 1/3 or 1/4 every year. Trust me, you can't hurt it. The worst you treat wisteria, the more it comes back.
Great cottages but wow a lot of work indeed no rest for the wicked 😂
most chateau's need to have steel beams installed now because rotting wood is a hazard and beams that long and big are not available or good support system for spans in most grand homes.
I have to say it was nice getting the measurement of hedge in feet and not centermeter or what ever they use in France that I can't guage. I'm in the Peninsula, San Mateo you coming from San Francisco is why I subscribed. Don't know if I could of made that move figured if I watch your channel it almost like I moved to France to lol
The metric system takes some time to learn ;) Thanks for watching from San Mateo!
Great tour of the out buildings. Maybe consider taking the barrel outside to collect rainwater for use in the garden, potted plants around the chateau or water for the donkeys?
Love your chateau, the donkeys and your channel! Keep doing video please! Thank you for giving us the opportunity of leaving the chateau life trough you! Bye bye! A la prochaine vidéo!
Thank you! Will do!
😁just a bit of work in the cottages. But how satisfying it will be to accomplish renos bit by bit and look back at all you will have learned in the process. Are you considering bringing in volunteers to do work, trade muscle for room and board?
Alot of the château owners do this.
We would love to have volunteers - something we're looking into :)
Can’t wait to see the renovations start.
Me too - haha!
The nook in the wall was probably where they put their candles or lanterns to protect from fire.
Lots of potential after great work effort
The cottages will be adorable - after restorations
Yes, so much to do!
What a lovely place you have. Much works to to on it. Loved watching
Thanks. Yes, SO much to do!
Thanks for the tour. Very interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it
The donkeys are adorable ☺️
What a beautiful place!
Thanks !
Awesome! What potential!!!
Thanks Steve :)
Try to get the marble top off the sideboard in the cottage, it will be lighter for you to carry into your château x
The cottage is a great area to fix it and rent a good income .
wauw looks like a lot of work is needed and money just for the cottages. It would be gorgeous but it will take a lot!
So love your walled garden. I always dreamt about having one, but unfortunately there are none to be had in mid-town Toronto!
Thanks - having lived in the city for over 20 years it's finally nice to have space. Toronto is great though!
Some of those bags look like they had Roman numeral numbers on the sides in orange tape maybe he was numbering them for you so you would know what goes where
We'll find out!
You need a milking goat. LOL as if you have time for one!
Wauw, that second cottage, those paneled walls... They look very nicely made. Could it be, that they have reused more than just the stone from the old chateau? And all that furniture, packed away... I was thinking, it might be easier to assemble, than you think. On most of the items, wrapped in black plastic, it looked like they had made letters on them, with the tape, so that might be helpful? 🙂 When are you doing a tour of the main building?
I wish we knew more regarding the history of the buildings! So much mystery :)
i think the room in this cottage was not a children's room, but rather for the le gestionnaire du domaine or maid/servant house
I don't know what paint you use but if you have a 'Leroy Merlin' near you, they have all the Farrow and Ball paint recipes in their computer and you can have the same colours made up at a much cheaper price and for me the coverage is so much better. I just bought F&B for my kitchen and after FOUR coats I'm still not happy, it was yellow over white so not that hard to do. I keep telling myself NOT to buy their paint. Little Greene seems a better quality and also Edward Bulmer, harder to get here. Looking forward to following your adventure, you can never have enough 'new' chateau owners in France ! I live in Dordogne where there are over 1000 registered Chateau ! xo
This is great to know! We're at Leroy almost everyday ;) I do like the Little Green paint as well as Liberon. Thanks for watching.
You are right : F&B is very good at marketing, but not so much at quality. The colours seem always very beautiful when you look at them, but they are not high quality, and they don't last. I used to work with scenographers, and they all buy their products at Tollens… which is an industrial brand ! 🙂 They can make the coulour you want. Cheaper, and super resistant.
Absolutely charming place. Love your vision for the cottages. Was it the wind? 😉
Thanks! I certainly hope it was the wind ;)
We just stumbled on your excellent video having just watched one of our videos that we had just completed for a client. We wish you well and will look out for future episodes. Out of interest, where in Brittany are you? We have a holiday home near Landudec close to the Bay of Audierne. Best wishes, Simon
Thank you so much! Ah, you're west of us. We're a bit south of Saint Brieuc :)
Make sure you treat the beams for woodworms.
Brambles do give you delicious black berries!!!
Goats eat everything! They love to eat what pompous horses and spoiled cows will not eat. You need a couple hundred goats....and a few hungry weedy giraffe. :-/
When onlookers ask,..just tell them that the giraffe are large dogs...that produce many lively babies...that kind of look just like goats. :-/
And as long as you don't teach the giraffe or goats any French, they cannot be questioned about any of it.
What are those other bushes by the brambles. I know that rhododendrons were posoiness to goats. Maybe it’s privet. Just can’t tell.
It's a Laurel...
Yes it is a laurel. I should have googled it first. Only a false laurel is poisoness and it is native to North America. It grows like a bush. Has flowers.
The buildings look like they would be a great income for you at some time in the future , have you consider having volunteers to help with the work ?
I just commented the same thing about making an income from the cottages. I didn't think to mention having volunteers. Do you watch Chateau Diaries or How to Renovate a Chateau? They are my favorite channels!
I think we need volunteers - so much to do! Thinking of renting the cottages out when they're done :)
Next year I want to see the hedges trimmed properly 😉. Properly you asked? Why yes....with crenellation to transport your visitors and guests back to 19th century romanticism of the midevil period. Where visitors could imagine men shooting arrows then retreating back to the protection of the merlin to reload and muster the courage to fire again while being fully exposed to the enemy. Oaky...okay I concede. The hedge looks perfectly beautiful as it is. I wonder if the industrial mowers used on the side of the roads by maintenance crews could easily be converted to fit your tractor....or if there is one such trimmer for designed for small tractors. Once the is for certain, all of these "little" jobs in the garden require a week or two of work at the start of the season followed by two days each week throughout the season. Investing in modern tools goes a long way to free up your valuable time. Perhaps you could find a local landscaper to barter and trade with. Do you have extensive woods to harvest timber or firewood? Possibly offer growing space or fruit, veg, and flowers from your "organic" walled garden to trade for services or equipment rental. Offer a room for them and/or their guests during the off season. One of the advantages of having such a property is the endless opportunities to barter and trade goods and services with friendly locals and those looking for a working holiday on a budget (trading their muscles or skills for room and board). The downside to having such a property is all of the chores are on a super-sized scale. Nevertheless you two make it all look so effortless and beautiful.
Yes... the two bedroom cottage only requires a lick of paint, spit and polish. The soot adds that layer of homey many find impossible to replicate. Lucky you. Cut a dowel or plant of wood to fit across the window to rest on the batten following the angle of the roof on either side. A board propped against the window could be worked lose if there is enough of a breeze rattling through. The upper area with the fireplace makes for a great winter salon. All of the heat from cooking rises to heat the second floor. The fireplace will keep the second floor toasty all night, provided you're able to install a good amount of insulation. Please kept in mind the wood and lime need to breathe. Don't follow the methods of other château DIYers by sealing everything up tightly. I fear those intrepid owners may find themselves spending millions down the road on repairs because due to their use of modern techniques and materials for insulating modern structures caused extensive damage to the wood and lime. A few of your fellow château owners seem to be collecting and trapping moisture in the form of condensation in their walls thanks to the materials and methods employed to insulate and finish off attic spaces. Expert advice is key to ensuring you are not unintentionally harming the structure. Im sorry to say advice from the lad at Brico Dépôt does not suffice. Haha. Those cottages will be so charming and popular amongst self-catering guests when finished and available for let. You will need to break it gently to your mother. If necessary she may need to give up her cottage from time to time when guests book it despite being on offer for triple the market rate. If someone is willing or naive enough to pay triple the market rate, mama will be forced to camp out in the attic guest room during their stay. Everyone (aka a select few) must sacrifice for the good of the châteaus finances....at least until the château can pay her way in this modern world.
Cheers!
Surprised there is no greenhouse or Orangerie.
That blue wallpaper looked nice, repurpose, reproduce?
WOW what a lovely long hedge row! What type of hedge was your hubby trimming? Love your channel! A 🇨🇦 fan of your channel.💕
Thanks for watching! It's a Laurel hedge.
I think it’s a laurel hedge x
having a post placed in the middle of the sagging beam is not going to fix it. Does it have woodworms in it? why is it sagging?
Do you have a local library, or historical association around there?
I learned so much about the properties where I've lived researching those sources ❤
Someone, who loves history, about thirty or more years ago, made all these xeroxed 'books' with old photos, and filled with local lore from around here (SW Colorado)...
Maybe someone did something similar around your land?
Brambles? Ugh! Can you borrow some goats?? Enjoying your videos.
Thank you! Good idea about the goats...
Back in the day you were charged tax by the amount of windows you had. Many properties had their windows closed off.
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Are you going to rent out the cottage or and guestbedrooms to make an income or what are your plans except for living there with your family?
Yes, we will probably rent them out :)
Cool. Call a contractor !!!!
Would those panels in the second bedroom cottage have been over the mantle
That's what I was thinking...
Si vous prévoyez de conserver la haie, il faut vraiment vous équiper de matériel plus sérieux, un équipement filaire est trop pénible et pas assez puissant.
If you plan to keep the hedge, you should buy a more serious, powerful and uncorded tool. This type of hedge (laurel) grow fast !
Goats eat brambles!
Do you have or need a scale set of Autocad blueprints for your chateau? If you're interested I would love to help you with this at no cost to you. ❤️🙏
Wow - very cool! Perhaps email us? Our email link in is our bio :)