Anyone been following this journey... hell of a reno Everything you need to know about Escape to the Chateau
It's been on for years and love it ... agree it's a hell of a job and probably not viable without the tv royalties
We've been watching for a few years (six series), and the follow up Escape to the Chateau DIY where they help other chateau owners as they renovate their own chateaux. It's a great show. If we were 30 years younger, we give it a go. Mind you, he is 61 and has little kids, so he must have heaps of energy. They both are amazing.
Nah, I started watching it but her creativity got on my nerves. I'm loving the current "Restoration Australia" on ABC, Sunday nights.
I need that moat. If I could put a moat filled with silver perch around "Villa No Mates" it'd be happy days. Talk about living in iso, this will help. No "trick or treaters" tonight, dunking chair out the back for anyone who braves the moat and tries to scale the wall.
I love it, have about 30 episodes of DIY saved on friends Foxtel from when I was locked up in quarantine recently, need a binge session!
The moat is one thing that is really beautiful, but I'd have to put a fence up with little kids around. You can't have eyes in the back of your head.
Is that what it's called. Preferred Lieutenant Colonel Strawbridge in his other presentations such as Scrapheap Challenge.
I love her and him - but the kids drive me nuts. I'm not a fan of their decorating style but love the energy, enthusiasm, her creativity and his willingness to go along with whatever hairbrained scheme she comes up with
I also find it annoying that they are pushed for time to get everything prepared for a wedding the next day, she decides that more important than ensuring they have food and drinks or bedrooms ready, is for her to glue butterflies up a wall. Sometimes I want to slap her, but it likely is all in the way it is edited and presented, like many reality shows. The single mother who almost single-handedly has done up her chateau for eight years, with her young son, is such a hard worker. I say to hubby that if I lived in a chateau I'd want to be able to live there without having to rent it out or put up with B&B guests and their ability to sink my business with a bad review. It's a fairytale, and just heating these places would be financially crippling, let alone trying to stop them crumbling.
It is a fairytale, that's what so enjoyable about it! It's something we would all like to do in our dreams. Instead we indulge ourselves in renovations on our own homes exactly the same thing only on a smaller scale [without the moat] ...
We are loving this show too. We were a bit gobsmacked at the terrace house near the harbour bridge, bought for about $4.5m and they spent something like $5m renovating it and chose to have two bedrooms. And the decoration and style...
love the show and the couple ****** that they show so little of the actual hands on renovating though that it's hard to get a grasp on how they actually did all the work and individual jobs in that place. Who actually did the work , how they fixed different things , costs . Read though they sold their unit in London and that paid for the renos. They said they only spent 280k on the reno but l found that a bit far fetched. But then again isn't it in France , their costs could be so low that that is all it costed, l know l watch UK reno shows and can't believe how cheap their costs and spend are. l caught the one where they fixed the roof , dunno if anyone remembers the roof but it was rs. Anyway they were threading this 50yr old really wonky wooden ladder out the manhole onto the roof. Then the roof guy placed it running up to the V , climbed out and on he got , climed up and down repairing the roof. Don't think the ladder was even hooked on over the roof top V , crikey. Could just imagine here . Brand spanking 400$ ladder from Bunnings label still on it , scaffold, harnesses , permits and God knows what. Was dying to see how they'd actually fix the roof but once again though few seconds of him on the ladder next minute perfect roof.
Dick and Angel seem to have done most of the work themselves. He's an engineer and unless he just stepped in for the cameras, he's done most of it and brought in experts (roofer) when needed. She's done most of the decorating. Amazing couple.
