We found a BARREL and WINE in our Cellar!

[@patriciahawkes386]

Lay cardboard down to kill of weeds add compost on top and plant into that. It's called a no dig system with rarely any weeds.

[@katj-d6885]

I was going to suggest that too!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Great advice, thank you!

[@JP-bv7bf]

Your chateau is going to so beautiful as you renovate. Showing the plumbing shows just how much work it takes to get bathrooms put in a really old building. Most people don’t understand how much work it is and the cost. Lots of wonderful fire wood? Love your creation of the table and stumps for seats. Well done and have fun in your new adventures. 🇨🇦

[@denisemastromina7821]

Wow the plumbing is a big job and drilling through granite is no easy task I love the outbuildings very regal.... I look forward to more videos. Can I just mention if you could slow down a bit on the filming as it can make us quite dizzy watching the video. I am sure once you get into filming more frequently it'll become easier for you. 👍👍👍👍

[@kellyheidel4337]

The exterior of your chateau is just beautiful! I look forward to watching your progress.

[@angelatorlop4319]

The park looks great. I love the little picnic benches, although they look a little low. In Tasmania, we rely on wood heating a lot and you see "walls" of wood surrounding the fencing of most rural properties. It often looks like a competition! Who can get the most walls of wood! There is just so much to do in a chateau, but you will keep chipping away and in time, look back and be totally amazed at how far you have come.

[@denisemarle4141]

I can't believe how much you've achieved, you must work non stop! The coach house is beautiful... ❤️🦘

[@TheasChristmasVillages]

That forest area looks so cool! Something out of midsummer night's dream. I can visualize an enchanted evening of wraiths in white dresses dancing in a circle!! Love the little picnic area. You really need a gardener like Dan (Escape to Rural France) to come for a day or two a week. If only I were 50 years younger.....

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you very much!! Yes we definitely need a gardener, there is so much to keep on top of! 😂 if only we could afford one!

[@richhoward596]

I just found your channel and will be watching it until I have caught up. The process and passion behind what you are doing as a family is amazing and I look forward to seeing how this journey unfolds.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Welcome aboard!

[@northerngirl4666]

This is a fantastic video because it shows wannabe chateau owners the actual nitty gritty of buying an old building. Unless you are an exceptional DIYer, you better have very, very deep pockets to hit out all the trades required to get modern amenities built.!! Love the tours to the old wine cellar, old corridors and all that. Such a delight for an architecture geek! Thanks so much!

[@MariaSanchez-zf9cs]

Create your compost bins (three) in the back corner where the garden meets the farm house. It would be nicely tucked in there. Get yourself a tree shredder and create mulch with the limbs. That would do well for your raised beds.

[@TheSecretChateau]

"A good man". I think we all need someone like Adrian in our lives. Oh, and a château!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

He is the best husband ever

[@TheSecretChateau]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté- Actually, mine is the best husband ever; but he's crap at DIY. 😄

[@oosterhuisd]

You should consider starting some compost piles..

[@janeblandford852]

You have done so much and am impressed with the clean out in the "cave" area. Doing the water and electrics is a big task in these chateaus as seen in many other videos of other chateau owners. Well done! The coach house is beautiful and has so much potential. I really enjoy watching your progress.....you guys are a real team and have so much knowledge of how to do things. Thank you for sharing!!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you very much for watching! It's definitely a huge task but it keeps my parents busy now they're retired! The cave will eventually *hopefully* be a spa area, but that's years into the future!

[@suehall3298]

Sue Hall Woods look great place to chill out.The plumbing looked very challenging.Well done one and all Love Sue ❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤

[@susanbriggs2946]

Thanks for show us around it looks like a lot to do but I’m sure will be a fabulous place when you get all done Good luck with rest of renovations. 🍀🍀👍lots of love from Louisiana ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you very much!! Lots of hard work indeed but positive comments give us the strength to push on!!!

[@germaineholmes2247]

Not only are you working hard indoors but are making huge changes outside too. Keep up the good work

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

The weather here fluctuates like crazy, so we do our jobs depending on the weather 😂😂 gotta get the sun while it's around!!

[@Harpiegirl123]

Lovely vlog

[@brentonjoseph]

What a magical spot!

[@lidial1042]

You could use the next batch of wood chips to mulch your garden beds, it will keep the weeds down and eventually break down like compost adding nutrition to the soil. Keep up the good work guys! 🙂

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you for the tip!

[@judyford9726]

Really enjoying watching your Chanel looking forward to to future episodes.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you very much 😊

[@jerridavis6462]

Enjoyed from Texas!

[@aimeelawrence-bespokefurni575]

I love all what your doing. It is going to be stunning. I had an idea for if you get anymore log leftovers. If you can drill a plant pot size hole in the centre of the logs. You could make a plant feature wity nice perennial flowers. Ie flowers that come back each year. Keep up the great work x

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

That is such a great idea!! Never would have thought of this but I love it, I will send this over over my mum!! Thank you 😊

[@brendapinckney538]

Loving hard work certainly pays off in the end.👏👍

[@teedee3834]

The forest park area turned out so cute,I love the cute little log table and stools very cleaver!!!

[@sharinfrance5995]

What a beautiful chateau you have, a lot of work but really looking forward to following you all on your journey. 😊

[@rayn8740]

Bravo! You're proceeding so quickly. Crack on!

[@DianaSwi]

New follower and I like to watch from the start!!!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Welcome aboard 😊

[@suefrantom6355]

The wood will be great if it’s left to season and dry out long enough preferably 12mths minimum, you have room to store it all which is half the battle. Good luck.

[@lorrainechircop4411]

You have all been most productive. Well done guys. Looking forward to seeing you all again soon... ❤🇦🇺

[@liampoole238]

What a beautiful place, you appear to have done a lot indoors and outdoors already. Looking forward to seeing your future vlogs. Keep up the good work. Stay safe and well 👍🍀

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you very much 😊 we just wish things outdoors wouldn't grow so quickly!! Too much land to keep on top of 😂

[@hatshepsut8329]

The orchard and little forest area are lovely and have lots of potential. All of the piping in the chateau is dizzying! I don’t envy you all of the work that goes just into that project! Very much looking forward to the next video. 👍🙂

[@chantaln6843]

All those branche should be mulched for usage in your compost. Meanwhile, I love your channel. So much improvement is being accomplished.

[@pamkullman8839]

so cool! I love seeing all the progress on your Chateau! thanks for sharing!

[@jennyguilford1061]

Heaps of progress , great to have the catch-up. All the best from NZ

[@alisonp5472]

Looking forward to seeing more! Beautiful grounds & outbuildings, will be a wonderful restoration 😊

[@normamurray4450]

I am so glad I found you, thanks to Michael Petherick! I love what you're doing...love your picnic area...very creative! Love your Chateau!

[@agapeascension1489]

Beautiful chateau! Recently found your channel after finding Chateau Lalacelle. Enjoying your videos very much. Nice park area in the woods! Very inviting!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Welcome aboard!

[@MishiMcCoy]

The amount of work you have completed is astonishing and lovely. I look forward to your videos and following your journey. I know you are probably crunched for time, but sometimes the camera zips by the footage so quickly that it's a bit hard to really take it all in. Thank you for sharing your progress and aspirations. It is most inspiring. 🙌

[@KrisanthiaMum]

Wow what a lot of work!!! Love the little park area y’all created ❤️

[@jane5934]

Lovely to see how much progress has been made in the time you have been there. :)

[@raynonabohrer5624]

Great video and God bless you all

[@judispackman3616]

The dungeon, 'er cellar is amazing! Clean. No spiders, no dirt. Shocking. That is the best rooms in your Chateau. HOW?... Ahhh finally in the boiler is dirt. Hummm

[@kimberly_helps_5847]

I discovered your chateau on Michael Petherick's vlog and am sat on the sofa today with my coffee catching up on all of your vlogs.The work on the Chateau is coming on nicely and your positive "get on with it" attitudes make the vlogs easy to watch. The cleared out forest "park" area with picnic tables and log wall is idyllic! I'd love to have my morning coffee in that space!! 💕

[@barbarablanchfield225]

Love your vlogs! Mother-in-law's bedroom indeed!

[@Rebekahlow]

Love your dress! The plans for the garden sound terrific. I love the picnic table set!!! It's fun seeing the property. Love from Vermont

[@teresagreco9794]

Did you know the stinging nettle are edible if you boil or stir fry. Also you can make nice cups of nettel tea. They are full of vitamins. Search it on KZbin and see about them then you can harvest and eat and drink and get rid of them as well.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Did not know that, that you for the info!

[@tigramaster2007]

We make soup or pesto from ours. I always thought it should be fresh growth in spring but another KZbinr suggested it’s just as tasty all year round and all of the plant and it’s true!

[@teresagreco9794]

@@tigramaster2007 yes and I love the taste. I just wish I had the other plant growing near it so when I get stung , I think it's called a dock plant? I could be wrong

[@shinypixie4400]

Presumably that field down towards the roundabout is managed by a farmer? He might have a log splitter and/or big table saw. The one across from us in lower Normandy carts them around to his various neighbours to help out preparing logs for firewood. Perhaps in exchange for a few logs and a small coffee and Calvados? Good luck with the chateau. Looks like fun!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Unfortunately the farmer who used to look after it, started putting demands on us! So we are looking for another one to maintain it, before we apply for planning to put in a long drive.

[@jackiebartholomew2607]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté oh no don’t fall out with the neighbours!! Good luck.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

@@jackiebartholomew2607 our neighbours are great. But the farmer was telling us what to do with our land, even though we were offering it for free use.

[@lisamarutz9772]

The more I see, the better it gets😊

[@mattwaterhouse2833]

Use the nettles to make a natural fertiliser, they can be particularly good for all kinds of plants, get one of the 120ltr food grade blue barrels, smash the nettles into it, fill with water and put the lid on, in a few months you'll have a really stinky, but fab general purpose liquid feed, the older this swamp water gets, and more concentrated the better.

[@shelbycooper7504]

So glad to have found you

[@varinaxoxo4213]

Love the picnic table...xo

[@christinecox8073]

Lovely vlog nice to see the progress of the chateau thank you for sharing

[@tigramaster2007]

Great video, it’s lovely to see what hard work can achieve. If you get plagued by moles at any point then that soil is fabulous as topsoil for your veg beds, that’s what we did this year and it’s been a great harvest.

[@suzieq2958]

Another great job by Dad!! You've all created a beautiful clearing which will be lovely for guests when you get to that stage!!! 😉 the walled garden is coming on! 💜💜💜

[@sth.777]

Stinging nettles are very nutritious! You can make a lovely soup out of them, among other things. Since they're freshly grown again, you know they're "clean", with no chemical sprays on them...

[@sandijack6724]

🌳🦘🌺🦘🌳Your chateau will be stunning when it’s finished but while it’s a work in progress, I look forward to joining you each week …with hugs from Australia …Sandi 🌺

[@katiemcdonald3562]

Very enjoyable!

[@jhbrown1010]

I am exhausted just watching all the work you have done. LOL. I think you may want to consider buying your own wood chipper ( if you can afford it). It would be well used from what I see.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Hahaha we are exhausted too!! Would be great but unfortunately don't have the funds for one, have to get the heating sorted which is putting us wayyyyyy back!

[@jhbrown1010]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté Oh I understand. Priorities are important and not freezing in winter would be at the top of my list. I live in central Florida and air conditioning is at the top of my list. I can always put on more clothes to stay warm for our week of winter, but I can't take off any more skin to stay cool. LOL.

[@jhbrown1010]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté by the way I subscribed on your very first video. I think you are insane, but I admire your gumption and I am rooting for you. Honestly I am.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

@@jhbrown1010 thank you very much!! We appreciate the support! We definitely are insane but what's life if you don't have a bit of craziness! We won't be bored for a very long time, thats for sure 😂

[@dorothyc.draper6293]

Lovely vlog. You all are incredible with all you are doing! I wish my husband were so handy, I dream of doing this. Beautiful place all around! Cheers! 🥂🐇🪜🪚🌲🗝🌻🐈🤹🏼🏰🥐🪗

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you for your kind words!! 😊

[@katfog]

I love watching your videos! God bless you and I pray you make it through this winter! Please keep us updated on the heating issues

[@michaelw.8614]

Fantastic progress. You all inspire me to work a bit harder on my own house.

[@Dave_1966]

I didn’t realise the size of the property, is the farmhouse part of your estate as well? It’s looking great 👍😊🦤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦖😻

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Yes it is! We have 3 outbuildings on our 10 acres, we will give a tour of them in an upcoming video 😊

[@janetplanet8746]

After having a huge old catalpa tree taken down, I had large log pieces like you show in this video. At one point, the workout "event" was log-rolling, to get them in place to line the entrance part of a hiking trail on the property. Better than a gym membership!!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Totally agree. Found muscles we didn’t know we had. Haha

[@monteschiavo]

It is unbelievable the quantity of work you are doing! You are great and very brave🙂

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you Sandra

[@patdowney4984]

Enjoying your vlogs x

[@seasideallotment28b22]

This is really well done, Looks like a really nice place has fallen in to capable hands. Im gonna stick with this one as it will be good to watch it develop !!

[@janeboyce3353]

Really enjoy seeing your progress x

[@aatikahcarmenhappy3494]

You can make your own wood pellets from wood sawdust and paper mulch that's all that they are to cut cost down even more. I wouldn't go thermal as it needs to much maintenance.

[@tgcrafts2536]

What a beautiful Chateau look forward to seeing the progress 😃

[@safrew1]

Coming along nicely.

[@leighevans1394]

What a lovely area the forest is :)

[@ruthnoronha8206]

I love your videos, you explain things so well. gosh theres so much to do but I am glad renos are your thing because im sure it would be scary for someone who had no reno skills.

[@wendyhelm9055]

Beautiful Chateau looking forward to following your progress.

[@susancollado5290]

💕MALT VINEGAR is a great weed killer if your not planning to grow anything in that patch💕Or a FLAME BURNER which also would kill weeds but you’d have to remove your wood chippings due to fire risk💕You could make stinging nettle tea which is very good for you & the pulp is very good on wounds & skin rashes leave on for few hours if possible then remove💕

[@juliatownsend2324]

Lovely amount of space in the garden/ wood area. Hard grafting though I suppose you are torn between working inside or out. I often wonder why people dont have a fire hole to burn the waste. Are you not allowed to?? Would save going to the tip.... could you call out for some volunteers to help with the garden, must be loads who would like to help. Anyways thanks muchly for sharing it's great to watch the progress. Xxx

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Hi Julia. We are not allowed to have bonfires.

[@FemaleVillageElder]

I didn’t catch what part of France you are in, but I hope you are not in the south where the termites are so bad. They will be coming for you! Absolutely love the look of your chateau, and I can’t wait to enjoy your journey with you! Much happiness and much success!

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

We are Pays de Loire, so North West 😊 thank you for the support!

[@joanalden8767]

Hiya. Try "no dig" for yr veg patch. Its easier and quicker. Lovely area !!

[@cynthiabroockman1752]

Chipper! Save lots work haul8ng cut brush n makes great mulch

[@Daihatsu_Hijet]

Nice video it’s an amazing place

[@jadejohns3107]

You have to take the stinging nettles out at the roots, otherwise they will just come back.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

We did this, they will die off eventually but they still come back even if pulled at the roots. Just takes time

[@annec9859]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté buy a flame thrower, make it easy and over time you will beat it.

[@AnnMaryJoseph]

Excellent work

[@LuisReyes-sx3px]

Have y’all thought about maybe getting a couple goats? They help with the grass cutting and eat pretty much any grass or bush.

[@michelleb6409]

You've done a lot in a short time, it's starting to look great. Will you restore the coach house and make it into Gites?

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thanks Michelle, that is the plan for the coach house. We are hoping our son, Matthew, will come back from Australia, see its potential and get stuck into it.

[@rosebyrne308]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté I live in South Australia. Better to live in France than living here at the moment.

[@francineclave2207]

Goats! They will keep all the bad plants at bay!

[@boessheila50]

Oh my. That yard us fantastic now!!! Ur hubbs is a very great husband and he's HANDY TO HAVE AROUND🤫👍🤣😆

[@maureenabray7660]

Garlic, onions, potatos, etc. things that don't take a lot of babysitting. Plant and harvest at least for your very busy renovations.

[@paulbombardier8722]

Whenever I see someone with an overgrown area like this I think, “Goats...they need goats. Maybe some sheep as well.”

[@suefrantom6355]

Are you using lime for filling in the walls/plaster etc.. as I would like to see it being done as I have an old house that was plastered in pink plaster and not lime to enable the walls to breath hence it’s giving us a damp issue and the paint is falling off. 😳 I’m not looking forward to tackling it either but needs must.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

For small holes and gaps we use a French filler. This is similar to polyfilla. When we plaster the walls we will use lime as to let the chateau breathe.

[@boessheila50]

Wow. These vines and brambles have thorns in them. Must be careful u need armour to avoid skin damage@

[@IPC0101]

Looks a lovely chateau, but so much work, are you doing it all yourselves ?

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Yes we are doing the work on our own

[@johannabeck4543]

use vinegar, dawn dish soap, espon salt will kill everything now

[@sandranokes7443]

I just started watching. It is a lovely old place. I was wondering, are you going to try to retain any of the original ceilings, walls, floors, lighting, etc.? Sometimes it's so bad you can't do anything about it, then if that's the case, are you trying to re-create what it was before?

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

We will try to keep as many if the original features as possible!! Like you said, some unfortunate are not able to be kept, but whatever we can save, we will 😊

[@garyc5483]

Great progress on the Chateaux and grounds. You really have put in some hard work. BUT please please please no more vertical phone footage. Phones take great video in the correct orientation. Looking forward to the next episode. regards

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Please watch other videos and the comments I've posted as they already explain, the videos were taken before we decided to do KZbin and are valuable videos that show progress. The videos were originally taken for tiktok which is a portrait format

[@garyc5483]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté Thanks for the explanation. Keep up the great work. regards

[@shirleygraham6229]

Would it be a viable idea to hire a skip occassionally at the times you are pulling out beams, floors, chimneys, whatever? It costs for hire, but having a huge bin on site would save you the 'rushed for time' tip trips. I bet it wouldn't take long to fill one at the rate you are working. You have done so much and it looks lovely so far. Best wishes from Australia.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thankfully we are extremely close to the tip so when it opens, we have most of our bags ready to just be taken down (about a 3 minute drive)! So even though its a rush, it's not too bad 😊

[@tigramaster2007]

Skips aren’t really a thing in France. It’s no trouble to go to the déchèterie in our region in SW France, though it differs!

[@suzannevega2289]

Well what a bummer, empty wine bottles! There are folks that collect old bottles, I found an old medicine bottle buried when I was making a garden bed, I ended up selling it for $225. 00 US dollars in 1989 or 90.

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

One day we will try and find out what they are worth!

[@suzannevega2289]

@@LifeAfterLaFerté Good luck!

[@seanmcguire7974]

Are you allowed to burn all the brush?

[@johngaul8929]

To get rid of the weeds water and dish soap in a sprayer will kill them.

[@seanmcguire7974]

Don't forget the vent pipe.

[@carlossmith3316]

a lot of work to be done,but pick a room and finish it,and move on,lovely place

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Thank you. It's easy to say that, but working on the same room all day every day can get you down. We have no time element, so we can pick and chose our jobs each day, depending on mood and weather.

[@karenmarshall7056]

I bought weed killer it kills the weeds but not the grass saves a lot of work

[@derrihanson9876]

Was there parts of a greenhouse to the left of the area you are cleaning out behind the farmhouse just before you get to the raised bed area?

[@LifeAfterLaFerté]

Not sure, will have to have an investigate! But definitely a good place go put a new one in!