DISCOVER THE SECRET ATTICS OF THE CHATEAU!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Discover the secret attics in this Renaissance chateau, which for hundreds of years was lived in by French counts and marquis!
I'm delighted to welcome you into my home, and to take you on a personal tour. There's so much to see that I've had to split the tour into several parts. This week I'll show you the hidden attics, which aren't usually seen. Discover the old servants rooms that haven't been touched in over a hundred years, see the dust-covered antique furniture left by previous generations, and travel back in time as we step into the chateau's original defensive ring, and see the openings from which boiling oil could have been poured onto attackers. Follow me to the attics!!!
It's the moment we've all been waiting for - a full tour of the Chateau de Lalande! I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to do this, but I never felt that the chateau was fully ready! But I've realised that I'll always feel that way, and part of the beauty of a historic home like this is that it's always a work in progress. Restoring Lalande is the creative passion of my life ❤️🏰❤️
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This weekly vlog follows the adventures of chatelaine Stephanie in her French 16th century home, the Chateau de Lalande, in the heart of rural France ❤️
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Those rooms are so fascinating. Would love to see a cleaning timelapse. That would be bloody satisfying.
I don’t typically comment on RUclips videos, but I would just like to say that this vlog has made this quarantine so joyful for me. You truly are brightening this dark time, so thank you very, very much! 💕
These vlogs do take you AWAY....for hours im happily transported to France....awwwwh yes☺
I wholeheartedly agree! I live for the video’s!
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Wait... A servant room full of spiders and a dictionary printed for Peter Parker? This sounds like a Spiderverse kind of situation!
@@sandraford4235 spider Man? I think lol. Been a few years since I followed those characters
@@sandraford4235 Come on guys.. Peter Parker is Spiderman! lol
Might we get a search of the hidden basements at some point, might need some special kit to find an entrance, but imagine what might be hidden history wise? Xx
The chapel tile you mention at 13:12 that's blocking a hole in the attic; I suspect that to be the altar stone for the chapel altar? It would have slotted into the middle-front of the altar as a separate piece, that would have been consecrated by the bishop at the time. The 5 crosses on the stone resemble the 5 wounds of Christ, they usually have a relic inside of them but not always. They are made with marble so it maybe quite a weight! Absolutely love your videos, I aspire to own a chateau like yours one day! :) This is my favourite video so far!
Wow! Stephanie will be excited to read your reply! That’s wonderful!
Jacob that is interesting about the stone!
For sure!
Well done Jacob!
thats so fascinating cant believe you figured all that out just from a dusty tile with a cross in her attic!
I'm watching this in 2023 January. So interesting to see how much progress Stephanie and the LaLanders have made restoring the Chateau. Stephanie's bed crown with canopy was all hung. Her room is a beautiful shade of rosy pink with gold trim. Her bedding is that gorgeous pink toille. And the creche of the Nativity is not only been restored but has grown into the most gorgeous nativity scene with pieces acquired and added from Italy and Germany. I'm new to the channel. Only discovering it December of 2022 during their daily advent series. So it's fun to go back in time and watch the beginnings of the LaLand internet adventure.
I stumbled accross your channel a few weeks ago and have been binge watching ever since😃 thank you , you have made lockdown almost enjoyable . You have such a fascinating home, so much to explore !
Coral Webb enjoy 😉
Same here
same!! im just so fascinated
Same! Better than Netflix!😀😀😀
Coral Webb Me too! Boston, Ma
I'm so glad Phillip found his way to the chateau. He is a perfect complement to you, and it.
I have a bit of concern about the beautiful 19th century green wallpaper, since arsenic was widely used to produce green color in wallpaper, during that period. You probably know more than I do about this, with your extensive and ever growing body of knowledge about history, but I thought I’d mention it, just in case.
What a wonderful idea of Michaels, to reproduce the missing portions of the wallpaper! The room will be stunning!
How hauntingly beautiful the attics are, Stephanie! I look forward to seeing how these rooms will look, once you have worked your magic on them! 💕
The bed in the green attic room is so very beautiful!
I loooove the attic bath room! And the Rapunzel in the tower moment! How adorable!
Yes, more tours, please! That will be such fun!
The roofs of these chateaus were made to last centuries!
I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into building these roofs!
Your passion about this place speaks volumes!
The child's bed with the ship's wheel on it at 16:13 would be great restored as a gift for Michael's nephew Ernest when he gets a little bit bigger :)
That was fascinating! Oh I just love the history of your Chateau. The attic tour was so much fun and to see the layers of beautiful old wallpaper and all the antique treasures you have up there. That English dictionary is so special. Thank you so much Stephanie. I just love your enthusiasm. I will watch this again 😊
I love the tours, there is so much to explore. In a previous vid there was a floorplan in a frame on a wall, would be great to point out the different rooms on that floorplan. also, I love the interactions and skits with Michael, they are so fun to watch.
These servants rooms are possibly my favourite rooms at the chateau. I hope that when you do restore them that you decide to keep them as close to the original as you can - maybe these could be the true museum parts of the chateau!
The history in all of this is fascinating. All wooden pegs, the chisel marks, the boiling oil holes... it's marvellous!
Stephanie: i don't have any children
Me: that's because the Chateau is your baby lol :)
Girl, you are so fun and funny! Watching your videos is like being in another space/time dimension. My dad was a serious antique collector and I grew up in a house full of beautiful antiques, so I really can appreciate how much you are doing to preserve as much as possible, while bringing very old things back to life. Thank you for all these videos - you are a class act!
Your videos help me to escape madness of what is happening today. So thank you for that ❤️
Those wallpapers give me a sudden need to repaper my home. So beautiful to see all the old wallpapers. X
This chateau is full of suprises! I enjoyed this tour so much, thank you 🙂❤️ I loved seeing the different types of old wall paper.
Thank you so much for making my day...I love the history...finally got my husband to watch...his last name is Lalonde and the difference between the name and the crest to him is cranes to peacocks...his name hails from Normandy...he does love your chateau though...thank you again for your tour🍁
Thank for another wonderful vlog Stephanie..ive been unwell for last 5 weeks and your vlogs are really keeping me going!! When i recover, i fully intend to come and visit you and your stunning chateau and lovely mummy too! Love history and hearing your passion and stories about the chateau and seeing the treasures is just fascinating.
Take care and keep well x
Love the tours, this one was so interesting, I feel like I received a history lesson ,it was fascinating. Thank you so much..Looking forward to more tours. 🌷🌷🌷
Just watched “murder at the chateau “ great fun you make a great team.
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@@iam1ina1000000 How rude! Stephanie has enchanting energy and got subscribers because of her uniqueness! They make a great team, but they are different and both equally great!
@@iam1ina1000000 gypsie?!?!? you forreal mate??
@@iam1ina1000000 yet, you are here. On her video. Scrolling through comments.
@@iam1ina1000000 wait wtf is wrong with you i didnt intend to correct your spell of gypsy, i did a spelling error. i was suprised about you calling her a gypsy when she's clearly a white english woman???? do you even know what or who gypsies are?
The counting on the wall is a bit spooky. Thank you for another tour, can't wait to visit the chateau in the future. I may be able to make it in September 💕
Yes. How many servants did they throw from the attic....???? Was the number 35 ???? ....YIPES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September sounds prrrrfect ......im shooting for May 2021
Njoy!
It's very nice to see how much do you care for preserving and highlighting the historical features of the chateau. How nice it is to watch that!
Brilliant exposition of the attics and their current usage. Please, if you have stables, I would love to see every detail of them. Maybe a tour of the original kitchens and various pantries. Thank you fora lovely tour.
What a magnificient house it is. That defence part of your castle is stunning. Thanks for the tour.
What an amazing contribution to the château would be if Amoury were to source the wood from Lalande’s own forests and hand craft some wooden shelving and create a Library for Lalande!!
Imagine a woodworking workshop for a couple volunteers interested in wood and the need for storage of Stephanie’s ever growing library and book collections
Also some bespoke display cabinets for all of the treasures from Cadeaux!!😊❤️
The panneling with the flowers is gorgeous 😻
The double attic room and single one are sooo beautiful! The bathroom in the tower is GORGEOUS!
Stephanie you and your family and friends have restored it so lovingly back to its glory.
Gosh and I love your moms giggles during the filming!
She is adorable. Cute as a bug's ear. Mummy snickering behind the camera a few times!
Dear Stephanie, Thank you for your tour. I particularly loved that beautiful bed with the lion and the flag with the cross. I wonder if that lion is The Lion of Lucern, and the flag of the Swiss with the cross on it. The Swiss Guard protected the French Royal Family during the French Revolution. Or is it the British lion? I love your love of history. Thank you again. 😘😊💕
After we have watched your show, we usually click to watch again RIGHT AWAY👍
Stephanie is just so charming. I've recently discovered these videos and she's the reason I keep coming back, even more so than the chateau renovation!
I’m loving your blogs, truly helping me escape during this time in isolation 🤗
Your chateau keeps giving up the most amazing surprises!
I loved it so much I'm watching again! I am loving you in Michael's vlogs too. You are both so talented. I call dibbs on one of the old servants rooms.
Have only been watching for a couple of weeks now, but I have to say this is my favorite episode so far. Thank you for showing your home.I especially like rbe parts that havent been completely redone and still retain a lot of the original decorations.
You are a sweet and gracious host, love your proper English accent and dignified choice of words.
You have such a lovable spirit. I can definitely tell you're a child at heart. ❤
Fabulous tour! I love imagining the lives of the servants and their secret dalliances... I wonder how many of them found their true love at the chateau. :)
Utterly mind blowing The vast size of the attics are amazing! Such history and wonderful furniture Thankyou for sharing 👌
I am so glad youtube recommended your videos to me. You’re my new favorite!
I can imagine the attic to be a grand ballroom one day... the ceiling is beautiful!! It does look like an upside down ship! amazing 💕
What a treasure to have found your videos on RUclips Stephanie. The visits to your château on Chateau DIY were the high lights of the programme for me. Especially the parts with you & your Mother, she’s so funny. A real tonic in these uncertain times. Keep up the good work X
so many rooms to discovers! It truly feels like stepping back in time. I loved every minute of it! I love all your videos and your channel!
Absolutey looooooove your vids. Youve inspired me and my Hubby to look into buying a Chateau in the future. Sending love from South Africa.
Hi Stephanie. I'm a new subscriber. I just love your videos. I finally watched all of them. I'm all caught up. Looking forward to the new ones. Thank you so much for sharing your home, it is beautiful. Have a lovely weekend.
Thank you again Stephanie, a much needed fantasy from the world at the moment. Please keep the videos coming!
So very entertaining and educating. I could sit and watch your vlogs all day long. The Chateau holds lots of secrets methinks. There is a lot of work to be done but I can understand you wanting to keep some rooms as they are, oh the history 🏰 I can’t wait for more, I am sorry you have to spend so long in your car uploading, but the food looks good and you have your book and the weather is kind at the moment. Oh and by the way Stephanie, or should I say Madame Mystery 🧕toddle pips. Amazing you and Michael, thank you for the entertainment. Et bientot ❤️💕🙏😍👋🍾🥂👨🏼🦳
Each one I watch I say is my favorite, but this truly one was 🏰. The floor plan is a bit confusing. Could you one day show a map tracing your steps?🏰
Yes a floor plan would make things more understandable.
Those old wallpapers are amazing, they could be another income if you re-printed them and also made them in linen fabric, I can not believe the amount of stuff left in the attic and boy what an attic, I had to stop my binge watching of your old vlogs when I saw a new vlog, love the history lesson
I would love to volunteer at Lalande, as a creative person it's a dream! I'd love to create the Ciel de Lit, as I make them as a hobby. They make such a difference in a room!
It's a gorgeous place on earth!
Dear Stephanie, I so enjoyed the tour of the tower, extremely large attics and the mysterious rooms upstairs. I truly believe that in time you will restore each room in your exquisite chateau. Husband and I must come for a visit. ~Joanna♡
Found you yesterday thanks to Michael. Binged until 1:30 this morning.
I loved this so much. Seeing the old attics was amazing. The history that is up there is absolutely amazing. Thank you for the tour. I just love all of your videos and seeing your beautiful home.
Both you and Michael are so brilliant and immensely capable people! Not to mention your father’s amazing paintings! I’m becoming such a massing fan of this group! 💕
Since I came late to the party I’m just seeing these tours. I love this and totally related to your statement about touching a wall someone else touched a few hundred walls ago!
LOVELY. Every time I see the tower I will think of Mummy trapped inside WAVING THE TOWEL like a DAMSEL IN DISTRESS !!!!!!!!
It's really cool to see still-functional machiolations up there as leftovers of the castle defenses. These days they may be useful for deploying emergency bottles of wine on little parachutes to chateau residents on the ground below.
Thanks I enjoyed that! Also love how you and Michael implement each other into your shows. Your such hams.Ive been enjoying watching you all become more comfortable and showing the characters you are🥰
I swear I have dreamt about something like this before! Like going through corridors with many doors and rooms that don't exist in my house finding new rooms when opening a door. I mean I do live in a big house by myself and some rooms don't get used. But in the dreams it showed many antiques and stuff that I don't have in my house, maybe I might have dreamt about your channel even before watching it. I find it quite interesting.
OMG I've had a very similar dream many times during my lifetime. Wow.
Me too!
I knew it - I’m an Oxford alum myself and thiught you reminded me of some of my chums there - Oriel 😁👍🏼
So glad I found this channel! Love these tours! Love seeing the completed rooms because they are so beautiful, but it’s so interesting to see the rooms as they were or the “before.” Thank you for sharing. Definitely looking forward to seeing updates and watching more of your older videos.
There’s so much history there! So amazing to see it. Thank you so much for sharing it all with us!
Absolutely loved it all❤️❤️...Thank you.👍🏼👍🏼 I have so many videos to catch up on...yeah... Tracy🇨🇦
I love to look around your attics .i could listen to you all day x
Amazing and delightful rooms and so many. Enjoyed! Many years ago I owned a mansion that had 16 bedrooms on the second floor but I delighted in spending time in the 9 room 3rd floor staff quarters with a rooftop terrace, This staff level with all its smaller rooms and quirky built ins was so charming. Just as yours is.
Its incredible how the rooms just go on and on. think you have a great eye for décor. So much warmth.Have been wanting to make a toile de jouy skirt for so long. This is a bit of inspiration. Like the pattern mixing, which is what I had in mind. Thanks again.
Thank God for Miss Stephanie!! I know that you work so very hard on these videos and they are appreciated. At the present time we all need some joy and a certain longing for the future. So from The South in America thank you.
What about doing a weekly open day to visitors ( after lockdown ) to enjoy a tour of the defenses & the history of the chapel & a gardens for a donation & a cup of tea or sconnes, as a way of extra revenue ?
I'd love to attend something like that!
OMG, I wish I was there walking the Chateau with you! I also love the feelings of going into an old building and wonder the the things that happen there and what the people that lived there though, talked and did!!! Thank you for all the videos!!!!💞💞
Thank you for your tours! I love how you show us the real life way of your chateau! You and the chateau are both amazing and meeting you and visiting your chateau are definitely on my bucket list! 🥰
I’ve been reflecting on what makes me happy, exactly what you are doing!! I have spent the last week watching your videos of your amazing home, adventures and friends and it has become the happy moments of my day!!! Thank you for sharing your extraordinary adventure through life!! You are an amazing person and inspiration!!
Thanks Stephanie. Just watched Michael's latest one. Then I saw your one had been posted. So I have had a most enjoyable saturday morning here in New Zealand. I see you found a use for the beautiful black lace shawl/mantilla you bought at Rene's cottage as Madame Mystery.
What fantastic spaces to look forward to decorating! It's gloriously old and rich in history.. I love it. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Stephanie I love it when show your old Chatau. I live in an 116 yr old estate in Ohio USA . When I bought my house 38 years ago I too could see the beauty. It has taken years to restore it. But I still get excited every day when I enjoy my house . It is still referred to by the community as the Beckman House. They owned a furniture store in town, I am only the 2nd owner as We bought it from the family before the mother died. I promised her I would bring it back to its glory.
One of the rooms should be named after you or after your family
Maybe an all tartan room named after Gerald!
Rosanna Torrisi hahaha
eastcoastartist what a lovely idea 😀
Yes of course...great idea
A book from 1685. Thats awesome.
Just finished this one. So interesting. You do a great job Stephanie. Loved the attic the most and that defensive area...fantastic. You were born for this.
I spent my whole afternoon watching your videos. It is Pretty interesting how you put details in renovating most of the rooms. I was in France last December and I’m looking forward to seeing Chateau Lalande someday.
I like you and I like your channel. You are very entertaining and you have some real characters surrounding you. If there is a good way to be absolutely preposterous, you check off all the boxes. Eclectic is an understatement for your taste in virtually everything. From the way you dress to the things you collect and parade around you like you have a sense of fashion and décor, which you absolutely do not. lol You are so far over the top that I find it amazing that I truly like you. You are generally so bright and cheery that I always get a boost from your energy and come away feeling better about myself for having watched you. Please continue on with your pomposity. I find it most amusing. :)
Hello Stephanie! I have been watching every single vlog of yours on my days off work. You are a source of absolute positive energy in these difficult times. I have been travelling around Europe (at least before the lockdown) and have fallen in love with France. Seeing your beautiful home has further got me captivated. I love castles and chateaus ans I am so glad to find somebody who shares the same love for fairytale-in-reality 😁
I started watching your vlogs around 2 weeks ago, and I am binge watching them since then😍 U have a spectacular personality, and each member of your family/friends have a great character too💞. Sending u my love from Normandie, France❤️
I LOVED this vlog...my favorite kind of exploration and adventure...in the attic!
Wow this is marvelous !! I loved this chateau very much and decided to subscribe. Please leave the old attic in the same state as it is as a museum from the smells of the past. Thank You !
Everyone needs a home to protect their friends & family, no matter how big or small.
Stephanie, your documentaries about your castle La Lande are - in my opinion- simply the best of your vlogs.
They are informative and show your knowledge of history of art, your affection and respect for the European culture, which for us Europeans is the most relevant one, logically
I admire your stamina, because it is really a big project to renovate a castle.
Everyone who is sighing under the burden of a renovation in his/her house should watch your reports and feel relieved at the comparably ridiculous size of their own house and therefore just small amount of work...
I hope you are proceeding well in the course of time and do not lose your good humour and strength.
Looking forward to many episodes to come.. :--)) and... Thank you.
I'm not upset at all to wait another week to see your apartment. I'm in fact glad that the tour has not ended! Lalande is so beautiful.
How delightful! The tour was lovely, the chateau is lovely, and you are a charming hostess.
This might be one of my favourite tours! I love old, unfinished, secret areas!!
Your little chest of drawers might be a cutlery canteen :) It would be lovely refinished, also.
My absolute favorite of all your videos so far! I love all the nooks and crannies of this attic!
Perhaps the ship's wheel on the child's bed was for setting a course to Dream Land. 😴
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That whole area is my favourite part of the chateau so far. I could totally live there.
Ok....the "defensive walkway" with the musket holes is incredible to see !!! Thank you sooo much Stephanie for showing us this. xo
Your videos are one of the best things I've discovered this year. Thank you for your joy and light. Whenever I'm down, one of your videos brings back inner peace. I really can't thank you enough.
That wallpaper border is really nice, unique. My favorite of all things to see are the defensive parts of the chateau! When do we ever get to see something like that?!!! Fun tour❣️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a treat another video, merci ❤️🇨🇦
Maybe ask Angel to help you with the wall paper. She as you know is a genius, shown on escape to the chateau
Did you know that Michael Petherick designed some of those wallpapers and fabrics Angel lays claim to? I was quite shocked as ‘escape to the chateau’ programme misled in this way.
This was such a fantastic and informative tour. I love the way you think in keeping some areas as original as possible. Thank you Stephanie. BTW you and Michael make a great team, I've enjoyed how you have appeared in his videos. Such fun.
Wish I could be at the Chateau to help you fix it up to it’s past glory. Some day I will be there.
it woul be a dream come true to visit you and spend a few days there.