I just watched this for the first time. Realizing that Isabel is blind in one eye at this point, her self-assurance and dexterity is even more amazing! She is my hero!
Selmar is so purposeful in everything he does. I love his tender touch and care with the beautiful Chateau de Lalande. And I thought the video of him making his mother's apple pie recipe was just the sweetest! Stephanie you and your mother are so precious too! Everything you do together has such a sparkle of elegance and whimsy. Dreamy!
@@tommy69693 I agree with you Tommy. Selmar is like a super hero, that arrived out of nowhere and saved the day! That Anni woman on the other hand, sounds like a lonely, bitter old woman.
@@zack36ooo, why thank you. You're so nice. Now I have three wonderful haters for no obvious reason. And I hope you don't mind if I don't feel offended by your description of me. Had a bit of a chuckle. Hope you don't consider yourself to be a good judge of character. 😁
This is going to be a spectacular Château when it’s finished and I am so thankful you are the person who has a vision for everything that is laying around. I know people who would just throw it in the burn pile and burn it. You can always donate some of those things like the birthdays that you don’t want to a historical Society group and let them help you figure out who might want them for their historical renovations so that you’re not terribly overwhelmed with trying to keep everything. There’s a balance between saving things that are useful and trying to keep everything because, you know, it all has a history!! The WOOD Especially has so much Cressman ship in it and I am like you I could never get rid of it. In time, you will find the right place for those pieces and you have plenty of rooms for them. I am so thankful you have a lot of support and God bless all of the volunteers to come and help you as well as the other craftsman that come in to make the Château everything it is….. and is going to be. There are certain areas I’m especially excited to see the renovation for. As an interior designer IA started my studies in architecture first and I truly love and appreciate history first and I’m so glad many of you are putting your work on TH-cam so that we can learn and enjoy your process but also see firsthand the history that’s involved in Realization of the shit toes. I love your Easter TH-cam that you did was fill up and Anna and I thought it was just about the most authentic video I have seen in a very long time. God bless you for your originality in that video but also the kindness and love you put in to your video.❣️❣️ it was just like something out of a story book and I’m never going to forget it. Thank you for these wonderful videos and sharing your life with us. I look forward to more videos😊♥️♥️🌈
First of all, let me get this off my chest, the deals you get at the charity shop are incredible, and I'm jealous! Secondly, you've inspired me to change my attitude on my little home and make it into the little cottage I've always wanted. This will be challenging on a pension, but doable.
I hope you are able to achieve your dream cottage ! You don't have to do it overnight . You can take your time and with all these lockdowns you can maybe concentrate on your cottage instead of the sadness COVID-19 has brought.
I don't know how you manage to stay so glamorous while climbing up & down and wandering in and out of outbuildings. If that was me, I would look like I had been dragged through a hedge backwards!
Please stop apologizing for the state of things. The Chateau is lovely, you're working your way through it beautifully, your visions are fun and clear!
Absolutely. We salute you having the courage to take on a project of that size and then do it so considerately and caringly combined with the 'hotel' side of it.
Another great tour! You know, I would love to see a video segment interviewing Selmar about who he is, why he decided to volunteer with Workaway, what made him choose Lalande, and what an average work day is like for him. (Not that any day at the Chateau is "average"! Lol)
I so adore seeing the nooks and crannies of your beautiful chateau Everything about it feels like home. I love that there are spaces unfinished because they allow for dreaming. Blessings to you and all at Lalande. Much thanks for sharing with us.
If she is like my mother she said she will learn when she breaks her neck...and that exasperated look! If God is good to us someday I will book a trip and get my mother to come to visit you!
Since we have all decided that Selmar needs to stay forever, I think he should help you should convert some space into a shop so visitors can stop by and buy all things french, including wines, baguettes, cheeses, garden items, Selmar's wooden creations, books, art, decor...it would be splendid and generate more income. You can create a map of a regional tour of activities and include your shop as one of the stops. Wine tastings, too. Your volunteers can operate it.
Stephenie, you and your Mum are such a hoot together, you're both amazing and, dare I say, two peas in a pod and oh-so adorable. Thank you for such positive energy, fun times and top quality videos. oxo
The carriage wheels, you can probably be restored, varnished and decorate one of the rooms with it or can become a chandelier lighting in chains. Would be a good conversation piece
I would love to see someone drop a ton a money on y’all and workers! My hats off to you for your perseverance and dreams,I can relate having had to restore my own home. If someone has not put their own blood,sweat and tears into restoring a home,they really can’t appreciate how your bringing life back. Of course y’all have life there every day as witnessed at your lovely cocktail afternoons.
Agreed, it helps Stephanie so I let the ads run. I turn the sound down and scroll through the comments section to keep myself occupied for the very long ads.
300books Je ne sais pas. I don’t think I’m directly related, but you never know. I’ve tried to trace my ancestry, but haven’t got very far since my paternal grandfather got the LaLande name from his mother. The trail ends there, but there is a chance I’m related to a certain LaLande clan from the Quebec area. If I’m related to them, I can trace that family back to a LaLande family in 1026 in Paris.
Fantastic as always, please don’t change how you vlog, I find those vlogs that have music and random shots of things a bit boring that’s partly why I love your vlogs cause you don’t do that, your vlogs are so full of information and fun things we love them. Looking farward to seeing everyone back at the chateau and the party you will have. Thanks for sharing best wishes from 🇦🇺
How great would it be to rent out the oven space to somebody a couple of days a week so they could make & sell pizzas and breads, and invite the public to come to the grounds to buy them, picnic, and enjoy the more "public" areas! So cool!!
You are so delightful!As an interior designer, I can see what wonderful accommodations could be made out of these spaces.... I think Selma had better stay on!
I love your idea of making the oven room larger for pizza parties or any unique dinner events cooked in the walled oven. I can really see your vision for this to be a special area for you & your guests.
The peek inside the Chateau's outbuildings was amazing. Much like a rabbit warren of room after room in various states of disrepair and stack upon stack of building materials to be repurposed in years to come. How I would have loved to have seen the chateau some centuries ago to gaze in wonder at the newly completed outbuildings. Glorious it must have been.
Your had me the whole way. But when you describe the pineapple and maple syrup cooking into a creamy dish I actually moaned. I could actually taste it. Yummy
These tours are one of my favourite parts. It's amazing to see the rooms as they were found, I feel it gives one more of a feel as to what they were and how they were used. X
I can well imagine that you will reach all of your goals, one by one, and that the community that becomes will be joyous, harmonious, and creative, as are you and your family and friends (including the wonderful Selmar and the other workaways). I love it all!
Stephanie, I love the excitement you always show for the dreams and plans you have for La Lande! It’s so refreshing to watch you and your family and friends continue to make it a beautiful place to live. The fun you have together is a joy to see! You’re all so inspiring!
A grand ballroom for Holiday Balls, New Years Eve Balls & Other Grand Parties for towns people & lovers of your goregeous chateau to VISIT & ATTEND in breathe-taking elegance🙌🏽Yassss I could certainly take a week long holiday @ Chateau LaLande 😍😍😍😍😍
I saved this video for my bedtime treat! This is exactly what I was so wanting to see. All the rooms in their natural state where the nitty gritty of running the chateau took place. I don't know why I find these places more fascinating than the finished rooms lived in by the wealthy people who built the chateau but I do. To be able to go back in time and see the working estate and speak to those who lived there and worked it would be magical. How many servants must it have taken?
I’m with you, Stephanie . Here is an idea! Open the bread oven room wall with a wide door and a barn door on rails to close as required. Loved the tour and the old treasures from around the estate. Also, perhaps all the treasures, architectural design bits should be stored all in one place so they can be photographed and catalogued for future use. Will help loads in your design process. Love. Love the grey and blue floor tiles.
With respect, such a bread oven is reliant on the ambient atmosphere ie. air flow, humidity, temperature etc.... I wouldn't touch that room with a barge pole, the folk of days past built such ovens with eons of experience. (PS. I am speaking as a Master Baker and Confectioner of 45 yrs experience +).
Love the idea of one place for the architectural design bits and being photographed and catalogued!! That would be so great, and it would almost be like museum storage.
Ah the Room of Doom. You seem to be making so much progress recently, in the garden, bedrooms, Nick’s apartment, chapel. I am glad that the patreon is working for you and looking forward to seeing the lake revived. 🇦🇺 I wonder if the room with the fountain was the dairy, for cheese making etc?
This was just really great. My mother, 97, was watching today. She wanted to see the Welsh dresser closer and what you have in it. Thank you for another wonderful vlog...e
that's one of my favourite videos so far.Thank you Stephanie and your intrepid videographers! You asked for suggestions. Well I would love to see an art studio and workshop space in there (being an artist) Perhaps the wood hanger or upstairs from? I would be an amazing multi-purpose arts space. Art studio, come theatre, come gallery! It could even host great rustic medieval feasts! Imagine that (more more important then storing wood! ;) ) I would love to see you retaining/creating some of the diverse functions the spaces towards more self-sufficancy too. Imagine a wonderful artist colony and community being around that courtyard! :) I have so many ideas... oh also I would love the little rose room near the pizza oven please! Xx
Stephanie, you remind me of my older sister. Along with my younger sister we talked endlessly about opening a little shop where my younger sister would offer her paintings, I would offer my sewing wares and my older sister would come up with the ideas. The shoppe name was to be "The Sisters Three." The dream died when my older sister pass away from a long illness. But I can visualize the dream every time I watch your vlog. Thank you.
You have an Alladin's cave. So many rooms to explore, so many secrets to uncover. And you have a treasure with you, Mommy Isabelle. Do fulfill your dreams for this apartment and share with us the progress. Meantime, be safe and well to all in Lalande.
Stephanie you are a vision in blue today! Your gorgeous enthusiasm, vivacity & positivity are an inspiration. I hope to see all your dreams, for your beautiful home, come true. Could you use your father's fountain in the Moon garden perhaps? Selmar is such a wonderful handyman! & Mummy you are adorable xx
I love getting to see closer looks at different parts of the chateau! I'm so glad you ladies didn't walk across those beams. It's absolutely better to be safe than finding yourself incredibly hurt. 😨 I'm so hooked on your videos... looking forward to watching more of your current garden projects 😁🌱
Could you do a video on what exactly you're working on now in the Chateau and what's the next project after that. It's nice to see a timeline of work that's going on, it brings everything together and makes me look forward to your videos.
Every time I watch your videos I am immediately inspired to view my little apartment differently! In fact I now consider my apartment complex (6 units) as a chateau, and my space as beautiful nook in the building. I hop up during, and after, watching and go about changing and beautifying and it's thanks to you
The amount of rooms in the chateau is astounding. I can't imagine the time, effort and man-power that would have gone into building it originally. Great to see all the nooks and crannies!
What a wonder LaLande is! Those outbuildings are wonderful spaces! You may want to keep in mind though as you move something out, say the roosters, it will need a new home! You'll need a new chicken coop and a woodshed, for example. You may want to keep some space for a garage and a workshop. And don't forget, imho every house needs a "junk room," whether an attic, basement, garage or somewhere to store *stuff* (seasonal decorations, odd bits for the house/chateau).
I love seeing these videos around Lalande! It's a TON of work but you seem to enjoy the journey-which is important, as it is a definite work in progress to restore and make use of all of Lalande. Your care and attention to detail in your renovations is very evident. And you show great artistry in your decor and fabric choices. You have a very good eye for design and Lalande can only benefit from your care. I only recently discovered your channel and I'm glad to be a part if your journey 😄
Stephanie, please open a gofundme for renovating the stable rooms. It has been successful for Michael. Then you would have funds to start getting those rooms set up. A lot of people can contribute to one time offerings rather than monthly. And a lot of us want to do both! Please consider it. Love to you and Mummy. You two are adorable!
The more videos I watch the more I want to live in a chateau (even one that is 'in progress', lol). Thank you for sharing your ideas, inspiration, and the fun that is had at the chateau
I could see a whole village of people living in a tent city with workers and craftsman loving every moment of it. Once that pond gets restored it would be a little working village. Sponsorship from a tent company wanting to use the experience and the chateau history to show glamping and their products. What an opportunity to be apart of a much bigger goal. Workers, cooks, grounds keepers, artists and Stephanie and Mummy hosting. That field across the road made into a whole little city.
Stephanie already lives like that in a way. With better heating of course. You may be on to something with that idea. I wonder if one of those society type trusts would sponsor it and organize it or just throw money at it to get it going. The only thing is making sure the work was getting done by qualified people and not turn into a homeless shelter and soup kitchen.
I love your vision. It is so inspiring to watch this renovation. I can't imagine anyone that watches this not wanting to visit. I would love to volunteer. I'm not much in the kitchen. But Laundry..that's my thing. I believe you really hit the jackpot with Selmar,he is such a kind man with a huge heart. Very lucky to have him there. And Diesel as well.
@Tammy Burchett ~ freshly laundered washing, blowing about and dancing on the washing line! One of life's pleasures ( well for me : ) a neighbour and I reckon that we must have been washerwomen ( or laundresses, if we feel more refined: )! in a previous, and obviously happy life, as we love our laundry, and is how we got chatting ... apart from running a home, with three children and a lovely husband she is also a whizz in high finance in the city, so is no slouch, me neither ... in fact whilst most of us have been in lockdown, she has been required to go into work ... There is something therapeutic though isn't there?! ... Let's trust that you get to LaLande at some point to help out! My fingers are crossed for you, Dee Dee ~
Just in case Selmar wants to visit South West of Scotland, he's welcome in our garden. I would love to learn so many skills from him. Always nice to see your videos, they are just so inspiring.
Loved the tour and you have such vision. Love your mum's facial expressions when you are talking about opening the wall to the bread over room. Priceless. Just love her. xoxo
What an incredible tour of the outbuildings Stephanie, and what exciting spaces to explore! I shall be watching this vlog many more times as there is so much to discover and take in. You have the most natural feel for volumes, space and design and how to make them function - just like an architect. It's exciting to hear your ideas about the potential for theses wonderful areas. Hope you are all keeping well at Lalande 💖
It's so hard to decide, but I think your series of Lalande tours are my favourite Stephanie! Your enthusiasm and vision are so beautiful and I love going on the journey with you :)
You are so adorable. Positive, bubbly and absolutely creative, my favorite kind of person. I love your beautiful idea of a bustling community in your lovely home. What a magical place.
I just watched this for the first time. Realizing that Isabel is blind in one eye at this point, her self-assurance and dexterity is even more amazing! She is my hero!
Selmar is so purposeful in everything he does. I love his tender touch and care with the beautiful Chateau de Lalande. And I thought the video of him making his mother's apple pie recipe was just the sweetest! Stephanie you and your mother are so precious too! Everything you do together has such a sparkle of elegance and whimsy. Dreamy!
@@tommy69693, no he isn't. Stop overreacting, please. It's a bit silly. 🤣
@@tommy69693 I agree with you Tommy. Selmar is like a super hero, that arrived out of nowhere and saved the day! That Anni woman on the other hand, sounds like a lonely, bitter old woman.
@@zack36ooo, why thank you. You're so nice. Now I have three wonderful haters for no obvious reason. And I hope you don't mind if I don't feel offended by your description of me. Had a bit of a chuckle. Hope you don't consider yourself to be a good judge of character. 😁
I so agree & *swoon over Selmar* 😊
This is going to be a spectacular Château when it’s finished and I am so thankful you are the person who has a vision for everything that is laying around. I know people who would just throw it in the burn pile and burn it. You can always donate some of those things like the birthdays that you don’t want to a historical Society group and let them help you figure out who might want them for their historical renovations so that you’re not terribly overwhelmed with trying to keep everything. There’s a balance between saving things that are useful and trying to keep everything because, you know, it all has a history!! The WOOD Especially has so much Cressman ship in it and I am like you I could never get rid of it. In time, you will find the right place for those pieces and you have plenty of rooms for them. I am so thankful you have a lot of support and God bless all of the volunteers to come and help you as well as the other craftsman that come in to make the Château everything it is….. and is going to be. There are certain areas I’m especially excited to see the renovation for. As an interior designer IA started my studies in architecture first and I truly love and appreciate history first and I’m so glad many of you are putting your work on TH-cam so that we can learn and enjoy your process but also see firsthand the history that’s involved in Realization of the shit toes.
I love your Easter TH-cam that you did was fill up and Anna and I thought it was just about the most authentic video I have seen in a very long time. God bless you for your originality in that video but also the kindness and love you put in to your video.❣️❣️ it was just like something out of a story book and I’m never going to forget it. Thank you for these wonderful videos and sharing your life with us. I look forward to more videos😊♥️♥️🌈
Mummy is very good at recording these videos!
First of all, let me get this off my chest, the deals you get at the charity shop are incredible, and I'm jealous! Secondly, you've inspired me to change my attitude on my little home and make it into the little cottage I've always wanted. This will be challenging on a pension, but doable.
I have been inspired too, been doing DIY and restorations listening to the Channel x
HappyGrandma They are all inspiring to make me cook, their food looks amazing. Then DIY’s on their ever-going on the Chateau. No excuse for mine.
they are inspiring me too, good luck with your home transformation ☺️
I hope you are able to achieve your dream cottage ! You don't have to do it overnight . You can take your time and with all these lockdowns you can maybe concentrate on your cottage instead of the sadness COVID-19 has brought.
I'm a senior and I'm making the room in a shared house my little cottage. You can create beauty on any scale
That old wooden rung ladder would be an amazing rack over the kitchen table. Great for drying herbs and pots!
Pretending I live in the chateau is literally the thing getting me through lock-down lol thank you for having this channel Stephanie!!!!
Yes, dito!
me too!!!!
I agree Leah 👍🏻
I'd like an apartment with a view of the garden please lol Maybe we could timeshare an apartment together lol
Me too!!
I love how brave you and your mother are. Strong women! 💕😊💕
Mummy's eye roll was classic ❤
I love how Mummy seems to find things she has been looking for so often in these videos
I don't know how you manage to stay so glamorous while climbing up & down and wandering in and out of outbuildings. If that was me, I would look like I had been dragged through a hedge backwards!
Isabelle is brilliant! I love her!
She certainly is! I adore her personality. Fiercely lovable🥰you see the beautiful human she is through her eyes.
Me too! Such a delightful woman...I want to be like her when I “grow up”.
I know she has such a sense of fun and adventure, it energizes me just watching her! ❤xx
@@janineduclos9774 Isabelle's fabulous daughter received many personality traits from Mummy.
Your mum has got real spunk I have never seen a senior woman be so courageous.
Would love to see Gerry in his own apartment At Lalande. Love watching your vlogs. Cant wait to see the roses out in bloom x
Oh!
Lovely roses, pansies, mums, and many more favourites
Please stop apologizing for the state of things. The Chateau is lovely, you're working your way through it beautifully, your visions are fun and clear!
Absolutely. We salute you having the courage to take on a project of that size and then do it so considerately and caringly combined with the 'hotel' side of it.
🐓I think Selmar may have to move in permanently? So many projects and he’s so talented!🦚
I think he has a vision and ability the Chateau needs
i think Selmar should move in too. He adds to the beauty and class of the chalet.
Yes he is certainly part of the family in my eyes 🧐
I was hoping he and Steph might "find" each other during lockdown, lol
Barbi Button I am glad someone else had that thought
Another great tour! You know, I would love to see a video segment interviewing Selmar about who he is, why he decided to volunteer with Workaway, what made him choose Lalande, and what an average work day is like for him. (Not that any day at the Chateau is "average"! Lol)
YES, PLEASE!!!
Please tell us Selmar's story!
Selmar needs to stay forever!
Selmar is the best!
Soo many dreams that will become reality once Stephanie & Mummy sprinkle there magical fairy dust onto these sleeping outbuildings.
I so adore seeing the nooks and crannies of your beautiful chateau Everything about it feels like home. I love that there are spaces unfinished because they allow for dreaming. Blessings to you and all at Lalande. Much thanks for sharing with us.
Tallulah P took the words right out of my mouth. This is one of my new favorite Lalande videos - I love your vision!
If she is like my mother she said she will learn when she breaks her neck...and that exasperated look!
If God is good to us someday I will book a trip and get my mother to come to visit you!
These vlogs literally pull me through each week
Know what u mean
Ronaldo Da Silva yes, me too!
Since we have all decided that Selmar needs to stay forever, I think he should help you should convert some space into a shop so visitors can stop by and buy all things french, including wines, baguettes, cheeses, garden items, Selmar's wooden creations, books, art, decor...it would be splendid and generate more income. You can create a map of a regional tour of activities and include your shop as one of the stops. Wine tastings, too. Your volunteers can operate it.
a small café would also be good and would bring in some revenue. afternoon tea and cakes at lalande
Love that idea!
Yes! Stephanie, you could sell little jars of the honey your bees make from the land. And brioche bread from the bread oven!
king henry that is a great idea, people would love it!
Stephenie, you and your Mum are such a hoot together, you're both amazing and, dare I say, two peas in a pod and oh-so adorable. Thank you for such positive energy, fun times and top quality videos. oxo
I've watched every single Chateau Diaries episode and I thought I knew all of La Lande, but Stephanie puts on her tours and i realise i know nothing
Stephanie you look like a superhero climbing that ladder, highheals and blue dress blowing in the breeze like a cape! 😊💙💗
@@sandraford4235 She's very brave too! Oh and mommy as well! That was a very tall climb! 😊
Congratulations on 60,000 followers Stephanie, you deserve many more!! Thank you for taking us all to paradise in every video. You are truely blessed!
PLEASE be sure to show us the rose in full bloom in a few weeks Stephanie!
The carriage wheels, you can probably be restored, varnished and decorate one of the rooms with it or can become a chandelier lighting in chains. Would be a good conversation piece
Since the wheels are in different sizes, those are perfect as a chandelier
My grandmother used one as a gate door to her garden. As children, we used to pretend to be at the helm of a great ship.
I would love to see someone drop a ton a money on y’all and workers! My hats off to you for your perseverance and dreams,I can relate having had to restore my own home. If someone has not put their own blood,sweat and tears into restoring a home,they really can’t appreciate how your bringing life back. Of course y’all have life there every day as witnessed at your lovely cocktail afternoons.
Don't forget to watch the ads!It creates funding !
@SMG Lol!
Oh yes I’ve been remembering to do this! Thanks for the reminder😉
Agreed, it helps Stephanie so I let the ads run. I turn the sound down and scroll through the comments section to keep myself occupied for the very long ads.
@@valgoodridge1810 Good idea!
I do xxxx
Watching this lovely grand house on beautiful grounds makes being quarantined in Harlem, NYC a little easier. Keep them coming!
Same, here in north London!
Same from East Village NY
Your name is David Lalande? You're not related to the Chateau Lalande aristocracy, are you? Or, maybe you are....
300books Je ne sais pas. I don’t think I’m directly related, but you never know. I’ve tried to trace my ancestry, but haven’t got very far since my paternal grandfather got the LaLande name from his mother. The trail ends there, but there is a chance I’m related to a certain LaLande clan from the Quebec area. If I’m related to them, I can trace that family back to a LaLande family in 1026 in Paris.
Love going back and watching old videos
Fantastic as always, please don’t change how you vlog, I find those vlogs that have music and random shots of things a bit boring that’s partly why I love your vlogs cause you don’t do that, your vlogs are so full of information and fun things we love them. Looking farward to seeing everyone back at the chateau and the party you will have. Thanks for sharing best wishes from 🇦🇺
Stephanie, your vlogs are the highlight of my days. Thank you for sending so much love and joy to the world 😍😍😍
Your vision for everything is delightful. I bet your dad was a dreamer, too, Stephanie .
How great would it be to rent out the oven space to somebody a couple of days a week so they could make & sell pizzas and breads, and invite the public to come to the grounds to buy them, picnic, and enjoy the more "public" areas! So cool!!
Never see hard work being done!!! Just a fun Time being had by owner and family surrounded by charitable Friends.
You are so delightful!As an interior designer, I can see what wonderful accommodations could be made out of these spaces.... I think Selma had better stay on!
Selmar. (Selma is an old woman's name. At least in my country it is. 🤣)
I love your idea of making the oven room larger for pizza parties or any unique dinner events cooked in the walled oven. I can really see your vision for this to be a special area for you & your guests.
Thank you for making the effort to put out these vlogs, we really appreciate them xx
Isabelle is so practical! Love her.
The peek inside the Chateau's outbuildings was amazing. Much like a rabbit warren of room after room in various states of disrepair and stack upon stack of building materials to be repurposed in years to come. How I would have loved to have seen the chateau some centuries ago to gaze in wonder at the newly completed outbuildings. Glorious it must have been.
Selmar is wonderful!!!!! Keep him for life!
Like lock him up or sth? 🤣
Stephanie, I am SO impressed by the expertise that you have amassed over the last 16 years! You are the perfect person to be doing this work.
Your had me the whole way. But when you describe the pineapple and maple syrup cooking into a creamy dish I actually moaned. I could actually taste it. Yummy
Get Jerry's room done for him! I adore him. He's such a character.
Gerald, Gerry.
These tours are one of my favourite parts. It's amazing to see the rooms as they were found, I feel it gives one more of a feel as to what they were and how they were used. X
I actually think this is one of my favourite tours....the excitement for the dreams and future for Lalande
I can well imagine that you will reach all of your goals, one by one, and that the community that becomes will be joyous, harmonious, and creative, as are you and your family and friends (including the wonderful Selmar and the other workaways). I love it all!
Dear Stephanie, Thank you and your loved ones for the smiles you bring to my heart as well as some out right chuckles!
Stephanie, I love the excitement you always show for the dreams and plans you have for La Lande! It’s so refreshing to watch you and your family and friends continue to make it a beautiful place to live. The fun you have together is a joy to see! You’re all so inspiring!
So much to do! But you certainly have the energy and the vision Stephanie. Looking forward to seeing how the gardens develop too.
And Mummy climbed up there, too!
And very quickly too!
A grand ballroom for Holiday Balls, New Years Eve Balls & Other Grand Parties for towns people & lovers of your goregeous chateau to VISIT & ATTEND in breathe-taking elegance🙌🏽Yassss
I could certainly take a week long holiday @ Chateau LaLande
😍😍😍😍😍
Those French pitchers in the window!
Ink
Sitting room would be beautiful, but this would also be a magnificent space for weddings/larger events
I saved this video for my bedtime treat! This is exactly what I was so wanting to see. All the rooms in their natural state where the nitty gritty of running the chateau took place. I don't know why I find these places more fascinating than the finished rooms lived in by the wealthy people who built the chateau but I do. To be able to go back in time and see the working estate and speak to those who lived there and worked it would be magical. How many servants must it have taken?
I’m with you, Stephanie . Here is an idea! Open the bread oven room wall with a wide door and a barn door on rails to close as required. Loved the tour and the old treasures from around the estate. Also, perhaps all the treasures, architectural design bits should be stored all in one place so they can be photographed and catalogued for future use. Will help loads in your design process. Love. Love the grey and blue floor tiles.
With respect, such a bread oven is reliant on the ambient atmosphere ie. air flow, humidity, temperature etc.... I wouldn't touch that room with a barge pole, the folk of days past built such ovens with eons of experience. (PS. I am speaking as a Master Baker and Confectioner of 45 yrs experience +).
Love the idea of one place for the architectural design bits and being photographed and catalogued!! That would be so great, and it would almost be like museum storage.
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I am dying for a bread oven to make pizzas and breads!
Ah the Room of Doom. You seem to be making so much progress recently, in the garden, bedrooms, Nick’s apartment, chapel. I am glad that the patreon is working for you and looking forward to seeing the lake revived. 🇦🇺 I wonder if the room with the fountain was the dairy, for cheese making etc?
Stephanie’s enthusiasm & visions are grande....especially with all those spider webs & bird poop on everything!😆 😳what an accomplished woman she is.
This was just really great. My mother, 97, was watching today. She wanted to see the Welsh dresser closer and what you have in it. Thank you for another wonderful vlog...e
that's one of my favourite videos so far.Thank you Stephanie and your intrepid videographers! You asked for suggestions. Well I would love to see an art studio and workshop space in there (being an artist) Perhaps the wood hanger or upstairs from? I would be an amazing multi-purpose arts space. Art studio, come theatre, come gallery! It could even host great rustic medieval feasts! Imagine that (more more important then storing wood! ;) ) I would love to see you retaining/creating some of the diverse functions the spaces towards more self-sufficancy too. Imagine a wonderful artist colony and community being around that courtyard! :) I have so many ideas... oh also I would love the little rose room near the pizza oven please! Xx
I just love waking up, making a coffee and watching the latest of these. Thank you Stephanie so much.
Stephanie, you remind me of my older sister. Along with my younger sister we talked endlessly about opening a little shop where my younger sister would offer her paintings, I would offer my sewing wares and my older sister would come up with the ideas. The shoppe name was to be "The Sisters Three." The dream died when my older sister pass away from a long illness. But I can visualize the dream every time I watch your vlog. Thank you.
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You have an Alladin's cave. So many rooms to explore, so many secrets to uncover. And you have a treasure with you, Mommy Isabelle. Do fulfill your dreams for this apartment and share with us the progress. Meantime, be safe and well to all in Lalande.
Very smart to save all your unused items until you.finish. You have such an appreciation for all those old architectural details
THANK YOU, ❗️ OH THE DREAMS❣️ OH THE HISTORY ❣️ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS, BUT IT IS OVERWHELMING AND THE BEST PART IS THAT YOU ARE STILL SMILING ❤️
Stephanie you are a vision in blue today! Your gorgeous enthusiasm, vivacity & positivity are an inspiration. I hope to see all your dreams, for your beautiful home, come true. Could you use your father's fountain in the Moon garden perhaps? Selmar is such a wonderful handyman! & Mummy you are adorable xx
What a treat. Thanks for being so generous with your time ⭐️🌸💙☀️🍷💕🌙👋
Love the blue dress! And I see a space for rental to use for special events among the gems!
J'adore, j'adore, j'adore!!! I think I love the outbuildings even more than the main chateau! The full height ceilings with open beams are superb!
I love getting to see closer looks at different parts of the chateau! I'm so glad you ladies didn't walk across those beams. It's absolutely better to be safe than finding yourself incredibly hurt. 😨 I'm so hooked on your videos... looking forward to watching more of your current garden projects 😁🌱
You and your Mummy are adorable. I particularly enjoy the faces she makes when you share a grand plan!
Keep the tours coming! Love getting to know Lalande's secrets!
Could you do a video on what exactly you're working on now in the Chateau and what's the next project after that. It's nice to see a timeline of work that's going on, it brings everything together and makes me look forward to your videos.
Who else thinks that a good job by Selmar deserves another from Stephanie, especially since it was his birthday ;-)
Every time I watch your videos I am immediately inspired to view my little apartment differently! In fact I now consider my apartment complex (6 units) as a chateau, and my space as beautiful nook in the building. I hop up during, and after, watching and go about changing and beautifying and it's thanks to you
The amount of rooms in the chateau is astounding. I can't imagine the time, effort and man-power that would have gone into building it originally. Great to see all the nooks and crannies!
Love, love, love it! May God bless you with everything you need and then some to restore this beautiful historic Chateau.
What a wonder LaLande is! Those outbuildings are wonderful spaces! You may want to keep in mind though as you move something out, say the roosters, it will need a new home! You'll need a new chicken coop and a woodshed, for example. You may want to keep some space for a garage and a workshop. And don't forget, imho every house needs a "junk room," whether an attic, basement, garage or somewhere to store *stuff* (seasonal decorations, odd bits for the house/chateau).
Thank you for showing these amazing rooms. Also Selma and your dear Mom for helping in this filming
I love seeing these videos around Lalande! It's a TON of work but you seem to enjoy the journey-which is important, as it is a definite work in progress to restore and make use of all of Lalande. Your care and attention to detail in your renovations is very evident. And you show great artistry in your decor and fabric choices. You have a very good eye for design and Lalande can only benefit from your care. I only recently discovered your channel and I'm glad to be a part if your journey 😄
Stephanie, please open a gofundme for renovating the stable rooms. It has been successful for Michael. Then you would have funds to start getting those rooms set up. A lot of people can contribute to one time offerings rather than monthly. And a lot of us want to do both! Please consider it. Love to you and Mummy. You two are adorable!
I absolutely love this vlog. Thank you Stephanie! Your vision for the chateau is just spectacular. Hugs😊
so many videos! i love it! i hope this channel blows up, eventhough i will miss the privacy and flair a smaller channel has.
It's so beautiful, I would love to live there
The pizza evening idea is super!!!
The more videos I watch the more I want to live in a chateau (even one that is 'in progress', lol). Thank you for sharing your ideas, inspiration, and the fun that is had at the chateau
I could see a whole village of people living in a tent city with workers and craftsman loving every moment of it. Once that pond gets restored it would be a little working village. Sponsorship from a tent company wanting to use the experience and the chateau history to show glamping and their products. What an opportunity to be apart of a much bigger goal. Workers, cooks, grounds keepers, artists and Stephanie and Mummy hosting. That field across the road made into a whole little city.
Stephanie already lives like that in a way. With better heating of course. You may be on to something with that idea. I wonder if one of those society type trusts would sponsor it and organize it or just throw money at it to get it going. The only thing is making sure the work was getting done by qualified people and not turn into a homeless shelter and soup kitchen.
I love your vision. It is so inspiring to watch this renovation. I can't imagine anyone that watches this not wanting to visit. I would love to volunteer. I'm not much in the kitchen. But Laundry..that's my thing. I believe you really hit the jackpot with Selmar,he is such a kind man with a huge heart. Very lucky to have him there. And Diesel as well.
@Tammy Burchett ~ freshly laundered washing, blowing about and dancing on the washing line! One of life's pleasures ( well for me : ) a neighbour and I reckon that we must have been washerwomen ( or laundresses, if we feel more refined: )! in a previous, and obviously happy life, as we love our laundry, and is how we got chatting ... apart from running a home, with three children and a lovely husband she is also a whizz in high finance in the city, so is no slouch, me neither ... in fact whilst most of us have been in lockdown, she has been required to go into work ... There is something therapeutic though isn't there?! ... Let's trust that you get to LaLande at some point to help out! My fingers are crossed for you, Dee Dee ~
Just in case Selmar wants to visit South West of Scotland, he's welcome in our garden. I would love to learn so many skills from him. Always nice to see your videos, they are just so inspiring.
So many amazing spaces to bring to life as rooms. Wow, what a glorious Chateau it will be! I vote for the candlelit pizza room! 😊
Loved the tour and you have such vision. Love your mum's facial expressions when you are talking about opening the wall to the bread over room. Priceless. Just love her. xoxo
It is not in a state at all! It is amazing and so interesting. I love seeing it all. Thank you for sharing.
What an incredible tour of the outbuildings Stephanie, and what exciting spaces to explore! I shall be watching this vlog many more times as there is so much to discover and take in. You have the most natural feel for volumes, space and design and how to make them function - just like an architect. It's exciting to hear your ideas about the potential for theses wonderful areas. Hope you are all keeping well at Lalande 💖
It's so hard to decide, but I think your series of Lalande tours are my favourite Stephanie! Your enthusiasm and vision are so beautiful and I love going on the journey with you :)
Adore these behind the scenes as watching transformation vlogs are heavenly. ✅✅✅✅✅
Wow you do have an amazing collection of buildings with plenty of scope for renovation. It's good you keep old items just waiting for a future use.
I love these vlogs. Such a wonderful escape while we all wait out the virus 🦠 across the world. Thank you Stephanie, Isabelle and Selmar. 💖
You are so adorable. Positive, bubbly and absolutely creative, my favorite kind of person. I love your beautiful idea of a bustling community in your lovely home. What a magical place.
Thank you for sharing the history and buildings on LaLande's property. Love this.