More CHATEAU rooms to restore! Our French Chateau: Episode 16
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2022
- This week we will show you the two salons and finally get started on the guest room, repair the drone and check in on the walled garden.
This is a longer video - please let us know if you prefer this longer format or our usual catch-up vlog...
If you're new to our channel - welcome. We're an American family of four (with several rescue animals) restoring a petite chateau on 40 acres in Brittany, France.
Follow along on Instagram: / chateaudelingourdy
The paneling in the Grand Salon is beautiful. To clean the paneling in a chateau I have been working on, I did a three-step process. First, I vacuumed the walls with a shop vac to remove as much dust as possible and cobwebs. That was followed by cleaning the wood with murphy's oil soap and water. After completely drying (at least two days), I used an un-tinted liquid wax that dries to a flat finish then buffed it. As an architect and historic preservationist I was very happy with the result. Cheers-
Thanks for the tips! I wasn't sure if we should use oil or wax, but the wax seems like a better choice. I usually use Liberon, do you have a brand you like?
@@OurFrenchChateau You’re welcome. Liberon is good. I have used it. I also like Howard Products Feed-n-Wax.
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I cleaned the wood paneling in my villa using Murphy's Oil soap and water. Then I applied a tinted Brie paste wax with a buffer attachment on a power drill. It looks glorious. Do NOT use oil. Dust will stick to it and it will quickly become a disaster to clean and remove.
Also, I would like to suggest you try using a paint sprayer to apply your primer and paint,,, ESPECIALLY on your shutters. You should sand down the areas and fill in any holes or uneven surfaces. I use the Kilz brand of primer.
The PREPARATION of the area is the key part of any project. It takes a little practice but you will get the hang of it.
Do your shutter project first,,, then you will have enough experience to do the interior ceilings, walls, and woodwork. Just tape off the woodwork walls, or floors with plastic sheeting and you will see how fantastic the end result is.
TRUST ME,,, You have so much restoration to do,,, a sprayer will save you hours and hours of backbreaking labor.
My tip is to buy GOOD QUALITY paint to cover the surfaces to last for a long time.
I look forward to seeing the progress on your chateau. I have a 22 room 18th century villa on the Isle of Capri that has taken over 6 years to restore.
You are fortunate to have access to all the antiques and brocantes. I have to import almost everything from France, Spain, or England.
Try attending estate auctions when you can. Before you go be sure to make a list of rug, chandelier, and furniture sizes so you can make wise decisions.
You both seem like lovely people and I hope to meet you some day. God bless you all!
@@dloadthis1617 Thanks for the tips :) I like Briwax - and it has a beautiful finish when it's buffed. Sounds like that would be great on our panelling. Your home sounds lovely!
Other Fench chateau owners seem to use OSMO
Recognize that this video is a year old but for my cedar trees, I got a long “drip” hose that was permanently placed along the fence where the trees were. It was easy just to turn it on and off and not have to move heavy hose. As well, there is expandable hose. When it fills up, it stretches out and when you turn off the water and when you close the nozzle, the hose shrinks down to nothing and is extremely light weight. How lucky to have peaches growing up a wall! Magic!
You two have found the very perfect chateau. Everything is so incredibly beautiful and the grounds! All,the detail that are still in place like inside shutters. You just hit the jackpot!
Congratulations, I’m so enjoying watching you bring her back to her Glory Days, minus 25 staff. ❤
If couples and family can stay together through the trials and tribulations of chateau renovations then their relationships are golden. 🤣 I can't even watch my hubby do chores because he does the opposite of what I would do. 😂 I really give chateau families so much respect because the hundreds of jobs cannot be easy even at the best of times. Kuddos to you! 🥰
Thanks Lisa - yes, it can be difficult sometimes 🤪
Carole from Chateau de la Ferte, a neighbour of Billy Petherick, has just restored another of the ceilings in their chateau and goes into a lot of detail on how she did it. I am sure, if contacted, would be able to help out with any restorations or questions about ceiling repair. I love how all of the different chateau owners help each other out with info, etc., All wonderful to watch. Thank you for your videos as they are great to watch!
It’s great to see a pair of Americans bringing this old home back to life again. A few years ago my husband and I sold everything we owned, and moved into a derelict stone schoolhouse in rural northwestern ireland. From a lifetime in NYC to a soggy field in the middle of nowhere - in one smooth step. (We were both in our 60’s - and bought the schoolhouse online without ever having seen it “in person”)
I think you guys are great and have a wonderful attitude to the work, and to the changes that come with moving to another country.
You were wondering about what the pattern on your salon ceiling is called.
Ribbon and Stave - as it is known in the picture frame industry. A form of ornament which has adorned carved and gilded frames since the mid 1700’s.
The Pethericks used the brand Osmo to beautifully restore the wood in their chateau.
I really hope they are connected to Stephanie and Billy. They have created such a strong network of châtelains. Stephanie just keeps renovating and improving Lalande and Billy is turning it into a real estate empire. To be able to reach out to châtelains in the area would be so helpful when they experience so many of the same issues.
Billy is brilliant at restoring.
@@rayn8740 Terry and Ash at Escape to the Dream just did an incredible restoration of all their wood on the 3rd floor of their chateau. It looks beautiful.
Isn't it terrific that we have all these wonderful vlogs? To heck w/cable.
Thanks - will check it out
I would relocate all Hydrangea's across the gravel, where the lawn starts, or at least 6 metres from the house. This enables you to look at them from the inside but also when you sit outside with your back to the chateau. They are easy to multiply so make the whole front a stunning blue hydrangea border
My neighbor did just what you’re talking about. She has different spigots!
around her yard with their own hoses. I watered for her while she was out of town. Enormous lot,so it worked really well !! GOOD LUCK 😊
I removed wallpaper from plaster in my 100 yr old home. Used a vintage steam machine ...it blew my old glass fuses. So l did it by hand...l now consider myself Dame Christina..lady of the home. I will never do it again 😅😂😊. It was rough. I send you
Strength and blessings from the SF area.
You are my soul sister watering with heavy hoses. We're on a well fed by a wonderful aquifer system supported by lakes and a 30 mile Creek that meanders the countryside. We're on part savannah and woodland, zone 5 USA) and have no irrigation system so I have to lug 150-200 feet of hose around the property to water veggie & berry gardens and newly planted trees. I finally got rid of the heavy plastic hoses and went to the fabric ones. They are so much easier to use! I can't believe I spent 3 years breaking my back with the heavy ones. I haven't been especially gentle as they get pulled & dragged over rocks, stumps and around bushes. Good luck. With climate change we will all be doing more watering. For new trees and plants I'm looking for drought tolerant everything at this point.
It's tough! We will put in irrigation, but for now it's at the bottom of our "to do" list. I've never seen the fabric hoses. It stinks that we have to prepare for climate change, but it's here :(
Lovelovelove the tall windows and their shutters, and the wood in the grand salon is fantastic! The fireplace in the petit salon is really different. So pretty! Glad you're able to keep your garden watered!
Thanks Cynthia!
All beautiful. It takes time. Pace yourselves. Appreciate the kitty cameos. The shutters are huge.
Wow!
You have an incredibly beautiful property. It will be one of the best when it is restored- slowly but surely. Good work on your beautiful garden.
Thanks so much!
My new favorite french chateau channel. You guys rock !
Your vlogs and the Chateau are stunningly beautiful. husband and the dogs are sweethearts, you snd the cats are hilarious!
The music is so good it can’t be from one of those services….
Did you ever think of taking in volunteers. Chateau La Land has dozens of rotating volunteers that stay. You can ask Stephanie Jarvis, the chatteaulan, where she gets them, There’s a company that provides them. They work 20 hours in exchange for room and board. 😮
The garden looks absolutely divine those tomatoes, the peaches, Swiss chard it’s just all too pretty and am sure will be delicious. Your hard work does come with great reward.
Thank you :)
Bats in the belfry ... 🦇 (🙃)!
Absolutely love French style design best ever
Gorgeous chateau I look forward to seeing all of the restoration projects to come! The garden is fantastic as well!
Many thanks!
Great rooms to be restoring - we’ve been restoring for 22 years seemed to just finish then rooms needed doing again a never ending treadmill but fun ! ❤
A simple rosette for the chandelier in the Grand Salon would be a perfect finish to the ceiling. 🥰
One chateau found the shutters were meant to be inside not out according to old picture found! easier to maintain.
Maybe one day in the future you can install a drip irrigation system, with each quadrant on a solar powered timer that turns on automatically at the desired time and duration, either daily or every other day, depending on weather. Then you would not have to try to move that heavy hose around your garden. Your chateau and property are beautiful & you are doing a wonderful job restoring it.
It’s so nice you have the original paneling in your grand salon and internal shutters.
Stunning rooms and outstanding ceilings! The wood paneling in the Grand Salon is amazing! I can see the future of these two rooms! No wonder you fell in love with this old gal! Cheers!
For the Screen openings, glued velcro on the opening of the frame, and glue or sew onto the plastic screen, if you do it right in future it makes screening easy to remove for winter storage and cleaning!!!
You can make an escape from the approaching English by disappearing into the hydrangeas! And I can not believe how dry Brittany is. We got our Brittany property to avoid the hot, dry Northern California wild-fire prone summers... but.
Haha! Yes, the draught is so awful right? Hoping for rain...
The Grand Salon is so light considering the wood all over the walls. Normally I don't like heavily paneled walls in wood, but I could see why that room really caught your eye. The light really makes the difference. Under any other circumstances, I would paint it all white, but I can see that it will look absolutely stunning oiled up! We have long hot summers down here in Australia and often long periods during both the summer and the year without rain. The most popular way to water our gardens here is to set up some kind of drip system. Where you bury the pipes under the surface of the dirt and allow the water to leach into the ground right at the roots of the plants, where they need it. If you also have wood chips etc on top, this also helps the drip system. This way you might only need one or two connection points to connect your hose to your tap, as the hose is going to snake its way all over the garden.
It's hard to appreciate how big the shutters are in situ!
And they’re heavy!
The cats looked like they were having a discussion with each other about the strange humans and the weird things they do
The chateau is stunning and I love the dynamics between you both.
So cool! I didn't know the shutters inset into the wall when not used.
E gads! Trim the Hydrangeas! It won’t hurt them and will promote new growth! That bush should be level with the window.
I love the dark wooden room and the windows with the shutters. They look awesome.
love you show ,chateau ,dokeys, thanks for sharing,...carol USA
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful Chateau! You have a lot of good features to work with. Looking forward to your progress. A lot of hard work but it will be a beauty when your finished!
Thank you Debbie :)
Your grand salon ceiling molding is called ribbon and reed. I love watching your vids. You two are just natural and laid back and I am totally enjoying the projects and your learning processes.
Thanks for the info, and glad you're enjoying :)
I have been an avid follower of the renovations of these magnificent French Chateaux. I just noticed your channel. I am a San Francisco native, now living in Cork City, Ireland. Coming from beautiful, refined San Francisco, I am interested to see how you both negotiate this renovation. So far you both seem to love that house, excited to care for it. How lovely. I will stay with you to observe your progress and offer any supportive comments I can. Glad I found some fellow San Francisans. ♥️♥️
Thanks for watching Charlotte :) If we didn't live in France, it would be Ireland. Do you miss SF?
I hope you guys numbered the shutters. It will be exciting to see them finished!
Yes we did label them :)
Your family’s taste is impeccable. What ever you choose for paint is always beautiful.
Here in the Forest of Dean we had bats overwintering in our roof and once a large bat flew in our lounge - it is upsetting as they panic a bit and it is hard to get them to fly out.
" Oh, good, now you have three more to do" 😆 the sassiness (in a good way) is what i love 😁😆
best wishes to you
Y’all are a hoot, it is fun to find people with the same sense of humor. I have been enjoying with quite a few laughs your peak at chateau life. TFS 😊
You have such a beautiful chateau. Can't wait to see it renovated. Carole from Chateau de la Ferte has been renovating their ceilings and decorative cornices. Have you seen her vlogs?
You are so lucky to have the original shutters and windows in working order, they are amazing!
I like the longer videos
Beautiful place! Petit salon was done in Louis XV style, boiserie, fireplace and ceiling is a complete match. I assume that at first the walls were decorated with fabric and later filled with plaster and covered with wallpaper.
That's interesting - it seems like some of the panels may have been filled in with plaster later on...
Ooh, love the ‘family’ room. Very comfy looking plus the moldings and ceiling pieces are exquisite. Great video-I’m a little behind in catching up. 👍
The Faux Bois finish is the Grand Salon is amazing, I bet it could be restored, so live with it for a few years... the garden is doing great, so all the effort watering is paying off
We're hoping to have the finish restored - thanks for watching :)
💜 the cats
In the US we have what we call drip hoses. They have small pin prick size holes all over the hose. The hose is very light weight and inexpensive. I lay them along the roots of all the plants through the the garden. I have a smaller garden about half the size of yours then I hook up the end to the water source and run it for a couple of hours each day when it is dry. You could set up multiple locations with multiple hoses from the well if that works better for you but you would not have to install water sources through the garden by digging trenches. The light weight drip hoses work well with the well pump as a water source.
In Australia it is called a soaker hose :)
In Pennsylvania we also call them soaker hoses. I layered mine underneath mulch and soaked the ground for about 4 hours once a week. For efficiency, you should not connect more than two hoses. I solved that problem by running several pair in parallel. It worked really well.
Hopefully you numbered the shutters per which window they were removed from as they may not fit other windows as perfectly. Your petite salon ceiling is Roccoco. It’s lovely
I hope you labeled the shutters to each window?! I loved the existing color of the shutters.☺️
Ah yes, we label everything!!
The door you are working on is just stunning as is the salon ceiling. The panelling in the grand salon is stunning....there is great advice from a conservationist in the comments about rejuvenating the wood. Enjoying seeing your chateau.
Thank you for sharing.Such a beautiful home.
Always entertaining! Garden is looking beautiful, peaches against the rock wall love this idea. After watching your video about cardboard and compost mulch, I did the in my vegi patch, no more fighting weeds. Yeah!
Thanks so much - so glad you tried the no dig method! It really works.
Stunning. Thank you so much for sharing the before/work-in-progress shots. You really have made a good choice. I have been shopping for chateau (from Australia) for about a year now and the desirable elements you have all in one property are: considerable zoned-off outbuildings, walled potage (with handy gardener's grotto) tree-lined alley, well-lit rooms, wood panelling, internal shutters, French doors (as well as the windows), the quad openings in the petite salon ( reduces diagonal traffic and problems with furniture placement). You get some of these things in some chateau, but not all. The video was well edited. The skit getting the shutters off in the hydrangea was a LOL moment -nicely done (the "Goodies" inspired?). Please keep going with the videos ... I think you are about to crack it and find a considerable audience. I wouldn't mind betting you do a great job with your chef skills with those veggies too. Lovely to see.
Thanks Wendy! Best of luck with your search - it's not easy but I'm sure you'll find the perfect chateau! Thanks for watching
You should think about power washing. That is beautiful masionary work. The granite would just pop.
So as an expat...I usually don't care to watch my
compatriots on the tube...so very much chit chat...but love the dry humour...and
good judgment on this lovely project....thanks for the invite.
Thanks for watching :)
One of the other you tube french chateau owners employed a garden designer, who developed a plan and that seems to have been working out nicely. Just a thought❤
I think the curtains are lovely!
Hydrangeas can be severely pruned, but most macrophylla bloom on the previous year's growth. So you need to consider that when determining how much to take off. If you take them way down, you won't have blooms next year.
I've had good luck transplanting Hydrangeas, so if the location isn't ideal, just move them. Fall is best for transplanting and pruning. They'll spring back to life next season... sans flower blossoms.
I've grown many different varieties in my Minneapolis yards. Yours are a pretty blue, perhaps Nikko. Your soil is must likely acidic. Rhododendrons love acid soil and they seem to grow wild everywhere in France.
The Endless Summer series of Hydrangea has several macrophylla that do bloom on new wood and are more diminutive in nature making annual pruning less necessary. They also have a longer blooming season. Check them out.
My home in TX was built in 1965 and doesn't seem to have ever had irrigation. I loathe dragging hoses all around the yard. Wouldn't it be lovely to set it and go?
I think those are acanthus leaves depicted in the ceiling plaster.
Internal shutters are wonderful. The wood paneled room will be lovely with a little work.
I'm sure many of your viewers have made reference to Stephanie from Chateau Diary and her work in progress (15+ yrs.). She would be great to network with. She just celebrated 200K subscribers. Her vlog rocks! Her story is fantastic and wonderful. It's the chateau vlog that's a must see. Binge watch and you'll understand why she's the best thing to happen to chateaux since the Bourbons.
Thanks for the hydrangea info Ray :) I will check out her vlog...
Always baffles me at the lack of screens too. You are so clever to at least put in stop gap measures to fight the bugs. We in the US are not used to bugs buzzing about .
My friend had a house, not Chateau and her husband managed to build screens for some of the windows. As you said, Brittany is usually so cool.
Velcro strips would work also
Oh, I see a lightbulb in the grand salon ceiling….maybe a gorgeous chandelier here. Yes,once the panelling is treated it will be a bright,airy space.
Love the window design and shutters and the fact that they are original, hand crafted. Your garden may be a pain to deal with at times but what lovely tasty rewards you are getting.
I love you guys, great to see your humour. The chateau is stunning and you have fabulous style.
I love the progress you’re making! When you get ready to remove the old wall paper, “Sadie in France” used a product you paint on, wait a short time, & in comes off in mostly whole sheets. Check her vlogs out!!!
Beautiful room and saloons.
JB Weld has been savior for repairs on my drone. Yes...eventually the parts do become available. However while waiting JB Weld does an amazing job keeping her in the air.
It's been a scorcher this year. Be sure to periodically check the replenish rate on your well to ensure you don't drain it. Depending on the construction, materials, and condition of the well, taking the water level too low could cause damage or collapse the well.
The walled garden is a thing of beauty. A seriously gorgeous garden meant to feed an army. Indeed the installation of pipes, spigots, shakers hoses and such is ideal and would save a lot of time and effort. Particularly when you set up automatic watering with the soaker hoses. All in good time.. For now enjoy the water. It's therapeutic by forcing you to slow down for the hour or so required to water.
As usual my comments and suggestions are meant for all readers based on the subject matter of the video; not necessarily directed at Amanda and Lincoln.
Cheers!
Choose the colors you love. It’s your house. You have excellent taste.
Thanks :)
Those doors are beautiful!!!!
Definitely prefer the longer videos ... Lincoln is going to have to step it up ... I'm down to watching re-runs lol ... thanks for sharing!!
Your chateau is so beautiful including the gardens, and walls. The two salons will be stunning when you renovate them. Good job Lincoln on the drone. xx
Thanks Stephanie :)
Thanks so much for sharing! I can see that it takes a lot of work just doing the filming. I love the walled garden. I finally insisted that we add chicken wire at the lower portion of the goat wire around our garden to keep out rabbits, turtles, and small pests. Until then I would go out to find practically all my green beans, tomatoes, just about anything would be eaten. Then I keep anything else like squirrels, etc taken care of with my rifle. Sounds horrible but when you work so hard and put money into making a garden you certainly don't want it destroyed. Your donkeys, dogs, and cats are adorable. Janice from Arkansas USA
The internal decorative features of your Chateau are absolutely gorgeous. You really have a gem. Your chard is looking good, love the square of sunflowers and I am so jealous of your peaches ! They look amazing. I have two young peach trees but I think they just have peach tree leaf curl ! No fruit. We are in a red zone and we have no grass left ( except in the veg beds !) just dry dusty earth. We water the veg garden by hand with cans. It takes about 20 cans of water ( being frugal) we have a lot of rainwater tanks that will soon run out again. Our well water is 15 m down and a long way from the veg garden but I think we will have to work something out. As you say, everythings a work in progress. Even with all your bits and bobs in the grand salon the room just looks so beautiful.
Thanks Jenni :) Gosh, this drought is so awful! My trees had leaf curl too. I sprayed with an anti fungal in the fall and seemed to do the trick. Best of luck with the watering!
It's beautiful! Just keep laughing and your marriage with grow even stronger 😊🤣🤗
Bats making that bat squeak above your head in the dark is the worst!!!!
Ugh - right?
The salon I can see a light blue and white would be so beautiful 😍
I LOVE IT! Oh wait, I need to see the shutter's new color before exclaiming that, but certain to as we seem to share a similar aesthetic. I have to say for a moment I thought the hydrangeas might win the battle and swallow you whole! Le Petit Salon - cannot wait to see this transformation, it has so many beautiful features. Glad to see the green of the guest room has gone (yes, I know some people liked it) and know that your new palette will be serene and elegant. As you say, all is a process and your irrigation system will come - in the meantime wheeling that gynormous hose about will entertain Waffles and Enzo (it was wonderful to see 3 of the furries). A bientot!
Thanks so much Ella!
Glad to see a change of mind on the green in the guest bedroom. It’s a lovely color but not restful .
It’s such a beautiful château! I love your style and what you are doing to restore it !
I love your chateau!!!!
Hi Mimi....hey gang. Mimi is in house lately?
It's the weather.
Great video. Love it.
Fun times... Lincoln you're a character.
I love the room you're painting Mrs looks great.
Oh that's Waffle in the house - Mimi and Waffle are both black and white :) Glad you enjoyed the vlog...
@@OurFrenchChateau it's hard to tell Mimi and Waffle apart on screen. Hope all well.it all looks so pretty. Wondered how Donkeys are in the heat. That husband of yours is something eyes. He does have a dry humor uhn.? I thought you did a beautiful job on your mother's room. Im excited to see small salon finished. Enjoy the process.
you guys are doing a great job.
Very nice 😊
I love the grand salon in a mess... it's a reminder to the rest of us how much work you have yet to do. And, it is indeed a beautiful room! Stay cool. Happy to see the screens to keep out the bats ... and bugs...and birds🙂 I'm now motivated to go and do some painting and cleaning of my own! Impressive drone fix too!
Thank you Roxanne - happy painting!
The ceilings! Are so beautiful! Your humor is awesome.
The Petit Salon is so beautiful! If the plaster is not too damaged, it would be so much prettier to repair it instead of hanging wallpaper IMO Cheers! Love your videos
Love your. Chateau… the Sid’s of your garden beds should be higher to keep moles out… grass clippings twigs chips etc can be used on the bottom. ( donkey poo) lol. Then add your soul .. and easier to weed …
I totally enjoyed your video, great filming. Looking forward to seeing more. 🌸
Your walled garden is very beautiful.
Put cuttings Of HYDRENGA IN BUCKETS OF WATER, THEY WILL FORM ROOTS....INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
Your gardens are beautiful.
Thank you :)
The panelling will be stunning . Love both salons.
Thanks!
Beautiful salons and fireplaces. Happy to see the drone is working again. The gardens are lovely. We are having another heat wave with moderate drought conditions in Connecticut, USA. Love all the dogs and cats Thanks for sharing 😍😘
Thanks for watching from Connecticut! (my home state)
I love your channel, and the longer videos!!
Great - thank you :)
The bats probably aren't flying in your open windows. They usually enter the house at the highest point (the roof) and then follow wind streams when they get confused. It's usually the young bats wandering around this way.
The little plaques on the ceiling in the grande salon look as though they may have had paintings originally. It would be interesting to see if they have been over painted. You are doing a great job.
I love your stair rails and that looking at the windows you seem to have original glass