Back to my simple life in the French countryside

[@suehaley2788]

Love your sweet and curious calico cat. Such a lovely presence in and around your home, freedom for her too.

[@sandram.9343]

I recognized the countryside of my childhood 😊, and even though i loved it, i had to move because i couldnt stand the cold weather during winters. Now i live in the West french indies... more degrees 🌞 and palm trees 🌴.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

What a coincidence! I love the changing of the seasons and although I prefer the summer, I also appreciate the crisp winter days (as long as they don’t last too long 😂)

[@snezanagavrilovic5908]

I enjoy the videos of your daily routine. You live in beautiful nature. I wish you all the best. 🌍

[@shelleyimmel8067]

Love the picture and metal Trivets. I would leave them as they are. The rust adds to the character.🌹

[@sarahlovesdonuts9601]

I feel as though “additions to the treasure collection “ is a phrase more befitting of your purchases than “haul.” The word “haul” feels like it describes purchases of single use items or fast fashion and wares. Your taste is beautiful and simple, which lends itself to a certain kind of elegance.💗

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you! I may adopt that and call it that from now on!

[@kristinedunkleman8767]

First. I must say I love your videos. So relaxing and enjoyable. I can't really say which one I liked best. I have small brown and cream crocks that were my grandmother's I use often in my kitchen and throughout the house. Make the area so comfy cozy. Can hardly wait to see your side of the wall done.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

thanks for being here!

[@davideborgna4918]

Sempre bellissimi i vostri video 👍😆👋👋

[@sdmsdm7926]

The framed print you found is very down to earth lovely!

[@anitabarker3125]

Once again enjoyed your French country life. Love the thrifting. Saw some great pieces. Be blessed.

[@palomahealing5073]

Loving these flowers..soooo gorgeous! I'm terrible with plants? But I love plants and flowers.🪻🌸

[@margaretroberts6258]

Ohhh,I absolutely love the picture!

[@maureenabray7660]

Great buys all around. I really like the painting and it goes very well with your decor. You show us such a soft and gentle side to your existence which really reminds me to slow down and enjoy the sights and sounds around me. That is my big take away of today's video. It perhaps is the most important and generous thing you gifted within your message. Thank you.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

💜

[@JulieNicholls-f8w]

Just found your vlogs and enjoying the mix of work on the house, visits to brocantes and the local area. We are building a house near Beaune which is taking forever and we don’t manage to get there very often, so watching your blogs is really helping. Thank you and I wish you well.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you! Yes, building and renovating can be a very looooong proces... all the best to you and you'll be so happy once your house is finished and you tell yourself it was worth the wait!

[@annjones345]

I have just discovered your videos…love the peacefulness

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you! Welcome to the channel!

[@maryjimdale7031]

Having just returned from a hectic trip away, your vlog proved to be the perfect ‘welcome home’ for me. Thank you

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Love to hear this, thanks for sharing!

[@sallystanley4526]

Please, don't paint your cast-iron trivets. Just clean them with lard and heat them in the oven until they are smoking.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes I have decided I won't paint them. My other ones are all the same color and I really like blue!

[@kathyeyesopen4078]

Thanks for info! I have several older rusty ones and will try your recommendation

[@monikamichaelis-iw3to]

Peaceful, that is what life should be.

[@jangriffiths8013]

Another beautiful vlog! Thank you!

[@elizabethmonsees3643]

Absolutely BeautifuL countryside where you live no noise, dirt or traffic very peaceful. I’m loving watching the work your doing to restoreyour placE.😉

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you so much!

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Heavenly bliss indeed fans

[@caroletownson1525]

Love all of your videos, and that’s one really really happy cat 😺

[@FrenchCountryLife]

We found her in the streets as a kitten where she had obviously been dumped by her owner. She was incredibly skinny, had a big scar on her tail and her ears were infested by parasites. She deserves all the love she can get after having such a difficult start in life. She gives so much love, and we’re happy to return it 💜

[@carolmartin4413]

Titled this...la vie a la maison? So comfortable and laid back...and seeing the yard with so many flowers blooming...we wait for and cherish these times. Even tho I am a dog person, your cat belongs exactly where he/she is 😊. Whatever that apple dish is..I'd love the ingredients...or I will rewind til I get it 😂. Think the tool Olav uses is a mud knife.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

It’s just butter, apples, almond flour, flaked almonds, cinnamon and honey! 20-30 minutes at 180 celsius

[@ibindermann]

Another great video. Always great to see beautiful Tigrette! Thank you!

[@jet7865]

Beautiful kitchen so simple , yet so chic

[@maryannrecht7605]

Loved the taste of spring opening, then shopping, especially the small gratin dish, I'm into making gratins for some reason; plus all your purchases were good deals. Was amazed at your careful painting job with no splashes. Wow. Thanks for taking me along.

[@carolyna.2527]

Love the trivets and the large bowl. The print is lovely too.

[@pandgb]

I love your videos

[@judygillespie3242]

Loved the little village you went to. Very beautiful. TY

[@FrenchCountryLife]

it is gorgeous!

[@margretwillems8824]

Such a beautiful place to live, lovely founds, thank you for sharing

[@helenstella2666]

Great idea Marloes .. why didn’t I think of that 👍😆

[@FrenchCountryLife]

🙈😂 I always think it is too ugly but I think I found a way that will be acceptable estheticly ☺️

[@cherrylwegner6292]

Good morning. Marloes..here in Canada we call the metal objects " trivets ".....thanks for dragging me along to the brocante , I needed to get out of the house . Tigre is a content kitty ! Have a beautiful weekend...mine will be out in the yard cleaning up etc. Starting to revamp all my gardens , both veg and flower to make them more accessible as I age. We needed another project ha ha ha ...sometimes I make me laugh .....au revoir les amis

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Can totally relate! But isn't it nice to be able to find projects and be active and simply LIVING THE LIFE? I think it keeps us healthy and happy! Best of luck with all the garden work!

[@cherrylwegner6292]

@@FrenchCountryLife I do believe they may be called " tre pied " en francais.....I had beautiful , bountiful gardens for years but we sold our house in 2012 due to my health and we just rebought it back last year ,,,but all the gardens went to ruin sooooooo I am not moping around and living in the past I look at it as if I have a new slate ,,,,,not a clean one because there is a lot to do in the prep department . My hubby is currently building me some raised beds to make planting , weeding and harvesting easier . Fun is in the planning , ordering , visiting the local nurseries , buying and then the planting . Nothing like a little dirt under your finger nails to truly have a sense of accomplishment . Keep well Cherryl from Canada

[@ayurshee9629]

I am so glad I found your channel today! Amazing vlog! 🥰 It has always been my dream to visit the French countryside and the French Riviera..This vlog shows how peaceful and beautiful life can be in the countryside and hopefully I'll live this life one day..🥰

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Welcome to the channel!

[@kdehaas32]

I loved the larger painting of the flowers! And your kitty is so sweet. Another beautiful video

[@hollykeller1545]

I prefer paintings of food- related items for the kitchen so love the new kitchen art❣️

[@frenchfarmhouseflair]

I loved the beautiful village! Great haul too!! Thanks for taking us along w/ you.☺️

[@FrenchCountryLife]

My pleasure!

[@paulinegoulding9839]

Totally love your French country life. So envious. Love from Ireland

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thanks for being here!

[@seasonliving6916]

When you were at the market you looked at a tray with coasters that had butterflies on them, I had a set just like that in the late 1970's. Love your videos.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I have one too!

[@kerrylisle3203]

Loved the calming colours of the print which will go so well with the rest of your rooms. I think Tigret has stolen the show again. Sending peaceful and loving thoughts ❤🐾🐾

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you!

[@jeanmariemclain2836]

Lovely. There were great pollarded trees along your route home from the beautiful village. I like the little pitcher from your haul. Mix and pour. Also the matching trivets. All four items for less than one Euro!

[@irenetovar7756]

It's such a beautiful video. I loved your haul, especially the print, that would go so well in my kitchen 🤭, but it's perfect for yours.

[@SamFournier]

Loved watching this vlog. It’s looking so beautiful in the countryside, loved seeing the rabbit crossing the road. Also love seeing all your finds from Emmaus! 🐇🤍

[@FrenchCountryLife]

That was a deer! 🦌

[@SamFournier]

@@FrenchCountryLife haha, oh my Gosh. I was also like that’s a big rabbit , that makes more sense😂

[@FrenchCountryLife]

@@SamFournier Haha! I think in French we call them "biche", I never know the correct names in Dutch or English

[@didierjacob250]

@@SamFournier c' était plutot un chevreuil, les cerfs sont plus grands, ne seraient pas passés sous la cloture

[@Countrysue]

Bonjour, I am writing you from austria. I lked all of your finds. I watch your videos since the beginning and they always make my day. Thank you for sharing all these beautiful videos with us. I have been to France for several times and I'm looking forward to travel to France again. I love the way you bring this old house to a new life. I wish you and your family all the best an look forward to your next videos. ❤sue

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you so much!

[@mariamcadams6282]

I really enjoyed your video , this place is so calm , beautiful & peaceful , it's always been a dream of mine to live in a countryside . Perhaps my dream will come true one day. But anyways JOB well done.❤

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you!

[@kathyeyesopen4078]

I love the picture of thr grapes & bread. I would keep it in that frame as well. Good eye!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

merci!

[@baydreamer01]

I relate to your love and appreciation for a simple lifestyle because I live the same way. I like seeing others like you reaping the benefits and joy from it too. I use the same tool for painting trim; it's much faster for me than taping off everything. How fortunate to find another white dish. When you picked up the one from the table at Muriel's shop, I immediately thought of all the wonderful things I could use it for. The trivets are fabulous!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you!

[@merveduru]

May you have many moments of health, peace and wisdom with your sweet cat and your beautiful family ❤ Thank you very much for sharing these beauties with us. Your house is really beautiful, I really like this simple clean village style ❤️ If I have the opportunity one day, I would like to live in a Turkish village house adapted to the present day ❤️ I wish there were more second-hand shops here, thanks to you, I started to look at such items more warmly 😊 The color you applied to the wall is wonderful. I love the other soothing tones you use at home. Love from Turkey ❤️

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you!

[@julcl8275]

Love your pods . Such a good look at the brocantes keep them coming

[@FrenchCountryLife]

👍

[@missterry2030]

I like the baking dish but I love your videos ❤

[@FrenchCountryLife]

merci!

[@Neroli-Daydreaming-of-France]

Lovely, all of it

[@davidmiller-br4bu]

Great finds at the brocante.. especially the trivets .. Tigret is very spoiled 😊

[@FrenchCountryLife]

she sure is!

[@Francis-kw9ui]

Beautiful cooker, range

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I love it!

[@Our_porch_house]

love the franco betti print . it’s perfect for your kitchen … another beautiful vlog 😊

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Merci!

[@beeryderwowsostylishlybe-kf3yl]

Very relaxing

[@denisecarter5117]

That is a happy cat. Don’t you live in the cooks cottage now? That village was so beautiful.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes we live there currently (all the interior footage you see is shot there) so we’re going to change some things around in the house. We mostly live outside during the summer months anyway!

[@Matcha4Me]

ur living the dream

[@colleenmartin9467]

I liked the big white soup tureen you showed unless it was cracked, of course.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

It was cracked and they glued it back together but that’s why I didn’t pick it up indeed!

[@joseeallyn9950]

That picture of Cowslips cheered me. The only place I have seen them in quantity is near my little French house. My parents remembered when they were common in our English countryside, but they were rare when I was a child. So sad. I wish more people would live in or near the French countryside when they uproot from America, instead of thinking that Paris is the only place to live. (the Kings thought that which is why there are no regional centres, which is fine by me..until I want to get an international flight !

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes a lot of original vegetation has gone rare because of agricultural ways of working the land. I have noticed that here in France there are so many more wildflowers and insects! I talked to one of the farmers the other day and he said they intentionally leave everything because it gives better food (grass and hay) for the cows. And with keeping so many flowers you keep or attract many varieties of insects. When we had professionals from Beaune come do some soil samples before installing the septic tank, they said they were so surprised to see so many more species of insects and vegetation here and Beaune is only 20 minutes away. But it is down the cliff (we live on a plateau) and I think it's because of the wine region being treated differently to get the best grapes, so the lands look very different from here. I am happy to have so many wildflowers and I pick them all the time. Only thing you simply shouldn't want to have here is a perfect lawn. Locals will say "You'll always have the farm field in it" (don't know if this translation makes sense) but meaning nature will take over and your lawn will look like the farm field next to it. Which I adore!

[@ginacrusco234]

Congrats on your cook's cottage rentals! The windows and door frame look great. Did you decide to put up treatments or leave them open to the outside?

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I have come up with a curtain solution I hadn’t thought of before. I’ll include all that in a video I’ll make about the finishes we’re doing here in the coming two months!

[@helenstella2666]

I know what you mean Marloes, it’s nice just to be home & ‘be’ 😊 Did you find a solution for your window/door ‘curtains’? Great haul .. perfect for you 💕

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes I realized there is a curtain solution I hadn’t thought of before, hanging them from the ceiling. I will share in a next vlog!

[@ylezAma-artes1919]

Hello. I found you today and watching this video, l was surprised by, when in 21:38 you say that you will use the nice white pie, bowl, cake, TORTILLA will you please show this in your next video so l know exactly what do you mean Tortilla. Thank you l love, love, l love France and the Brocante so full of very very very nice antique, vintage and some modern items. I always think if all those pieces will speakers of their tales l will be listening to them hours. Thank you and l love the cup has so much character and personality with its shape and those tones of mother earth.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Welcome to the channel!

[@cindiblazer8621]

I love them all

[@FrenchCountryLife]

🙃

[@chickletsweet3463]

Like you’re style and choice like same as me ❤️

[@cottageonironhill1630]

I love your haul! Sometimes I yell @ the tele and say”get that one!” Lol and then you don’t because it’s not you. Will you keep an eye for anything Sarrenguemines Geranium for me? Like I said I pay attention to everything in your videos hence the weed 😂 but I never see that line from sarrenguemines. I would love to get one of those Bowls in your haul, maybe next time pick an extra one for me 😊so glad that I found you as I live vicariously thru you! Have a good weekend

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thanks! Oh that must be so frustrating to watch then! What kind of bowl would you like? The beige one or one of the other Digoin ones? I have so many and different sizes. I have never seen any Sarreguemines Geranium but I’ll keep an eye for them on my coming visits and will let you know! Thank you for being here!

[@allisontison40]

Hi, I enjoyed your video. But I wondered if you could share your apple recipe?

[@FrenchCountryLife]

It’s just apples with almond flour, cinnamon and honey and you bake it until the apples have softened.

[@BettinaGalitz]

I enjoy watching your videos. They are so well done. I especially love your brocante shopping. Do you have any idea where I can get those Digoin bowls to a reasonable price without being in France? Prices are stunning at your local store.. All the best from Berlin!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Where are you? From what I know once you’re outside of Europe it gets more expensive. For example when I send something to the US or China, shipping is easily around 30€ for lighter weight parcels to 50 for heavier ones. And these bowls are heavy… that makes buying them online from Europe still quite expensive and in all honesty I understand why they are priced as they are overseas. It’s getting the items there that increases the price. Which is why I sell mine at more reasonable prices to compensate a bit for the shipping. You can also buy them new, they still make them! However, a new one at medium size will cost around 30€, but maybe if you find a reseller in your country it can work, not sure if they are everywhere though. Hope this helps!

[@BettinaGalitz]

I am in Germany! Thank you so much for your quick answer! Do you sell those bowls online? If yes, could you send me a link to your site? Much appreciated 😊

[@FrenchCountryLife]

@@BettinaGalitz oh yes Germany will be much more reasonable! I have an Instagram page but not all of them are listed there. If you email me on [e-mail] or message me on Instagram @frenchvintagestyle_com I can send pictures of what I have. You can also send me examples of the style and size you’re looking for!

[@BettinaGalitz]

Thanks so much! I will do so!

[@debbiebirnbaum2977]

If you rent out the space you’re currently living in, where will you and the family live? Do you expect the renovations to be completed by then?

[@FrenchCountryLife]

The renovations will definitely not be finished but the build of our future private space will be on hold, we’ll clean it and just put our furniture there. We live outside during summer and still have our old kitchen that we’ll use. And we have our upstairs bedrooms and ours is very big so plenty of space to have a seating area!

[@redchilies2425]

Nice ❤️❤️❤️❤️👍

[@FrenchCountryLife]

merci!

[@DizJakeOG]

Hi, I'm a new Subscriber from Loganville GA USA. Nice to meet you. My name is Jacob.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

welcome to the channel!

[@claremiller-mcfarland1336]

What did you decide to do with the window and door facing the street in Cook's Cottage?

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I have found a curtain solution I hadn’t thought of before. I’ll share all of our last finishing works in a next video (not the next, but somewhere in the coming two months)

[@hazel1960]

For me like everything nice neutral objects well done

[@FrenchCountryLife]

thanks!

[@josettedarphin1882]

💗💗💗💗

[@jussarabastosbastos2904]

😊😍🐾🐾🌷❤

[@ednarociodcrozcortes3092]

Hermoso video, pero más lindo sería si lo tradujeran en español 😊,un abracito desde Bogotá Colombia 🇨🇴😘🌷☀️🐝🦋

[@FrenchCountryLife]

You should be able to turn on Spanish subtitles? I believe KZbin offers that option as I did add English subtitles in which case I believe KZbin offers automatically translated subtitles in a number of languages.

[@ednarociodcrozcortes3092]

​Lastimosamente no tiene esa opción 😔. Gracias por responder a mi sugerencia. Igual me disfruto todos tus videos 😍

[@paivitiitta1884]

grespots digoin pitcher maybe ?

[@cristinacaterinici5958]

❤👍🌼

[@antoinettemarks694]

What dit you cook😊

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Apples with almond flour, cinnamon and honey. Super simple!

[@antoinettemarks694]

In the oven for… at…. ? Love it

[@FrenchCountryLife]

@@antoinettemarks694 In my experience my range cooks a bit different than previous ovens I've had. I'd say about 20 minutes on 180 Celsius, depending on how big your apple slices are.

[@mlomarechal6877]

Ils sont très jolis les dessous de plat Victor !! il n'y a plus qu'à les gratter pour ôter la rouille et les repeindre. Le chat sait parfaitement où trouver du réconfort : dans les bras de son maître ... évidemment. 🐈🐱

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Evidemment! Si on est tous les deux dans le canapé, elle va toujours vers lui!

[@raquellarachaplot9318]

CHANTILLY? THE STAMP.