The Chateau Work Has To Stop But There Is Good News!!
2023 ж. 18 Нау.
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What a great floor! Well done, Adrian. What a beautiful room! Well done, Carole.
Thanks so much!
Adrian, that floor is a work of art, as is all the intricate moulding and gold leafing etc that Carole has done in the grand salon. You can both enjoy the well deserved praise from viewers on a fantastic achievement which I’m sure will be the first of many as you work your way around the Chateau. Loved seeing the Mary Rose too! 👏👌❤️
Yes the Mary Rose was impressive!
My mind boggles at the thought of what went into the floors and how amazing they look!
...like a veritable jig saw puzzle!
What a beautiful job on the floor Adrian and the room decoration Carole. You two are a magic team!
Thank you so much!
I LOVE that floor ... I think the reason I love it so much is simply knowing the blood, sweat, tears, skill and ingenuity that has gone into its reconstruction. You'll have to go some to top that as an achievement anywhere else in the chateau. Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you Hugh!
I’ve never been to Portsmouth. Thanks for taking us along! The floor in the chateau is totally in keeping with the restoration of the walls and ceiling. Perfection! ❤❤❤
Thank you Ann
That is a beautiful room, a masterpiece!!!! Hugs to you both from Italy ❤❤
I completely agree!!
Adrian, you've done a brilliant job on that floor. It was a massive undertaking, having to make so much of it yourself. You should be so proud of the job you've done. And Carole, all the work you've done is amazing. Very tedious for you, with all the filling, making all the missing mouldings, painting, gilding etc. Your marble effect is just so good, it looks real. You've both done an exceptional job. 👏
Thank you Janeen!
Adrian, the wives of your viewers and subscribers notice how diligent you are in working to make your home improved, you work with your wife on projects using the gifts you have and have a good sense of humor. We are your fans and friends forever! Carole, you are a very fortunate woman.😘
Thanks for that. The Cheque is in the post 😂
...and visa versa! They make a great team!
Adrian, you should be extremely proud of all the hard work you put into that floor! First, the puzzle aspect then the missing pieces! Well done! Carole, your dressing room is coming along nicely! Great clean up in Adrian's workshop!
It's very beautiful😀, CAROLE deserves A BEAUTIFUL LIL DRESSING. MAKEUP ROOM!!👍
You two are exactly the needed owners for this lovely chateau. The floor seemed a daunting project and it is a masterpiece! You did such a lovely job with all of the gilding and the marbled baseboards look like real marble!
The floor is a triumph, Adrian. You are an amazing craftsperson, as is Carole. Congratulations!!! 🥂
Thanks so much!
You deserve a medal both of you for all your hard work!
That room renovation is absolutely spectacular. You both did a fantastic job bringing back to it’s former glory. Just Brilliant 🥳🎊🎉😍😘
Thanks so much!
Remembering when you first showed this room and looking at today..wow..you two are really making a beautiful chateau…it reminds me of my own project with my Victorian home…love your vision..👏🏻👏🏻❤️
We will show a full reno of this room soon
That floor is beautiful! I admire your stamina and ability to figure out that massive puzzle!!! Thank you for taking your time and sharing with us. 🇺🇸
My pleasure!
Oh my word you must be so proud of the way your hard work has turned out! Love all your hard work congratulations 🎊 🎉😊😊
Diane, wecant wait to sit and relax in there
And it is SO WELL DESERVED! You both have done so much to the room
So excited to see the floor complete! What a Herculean task, well done 🎉
I love Carole's plan for her boudoir/vanity/dressing room, and the shelf works beautifully on that wall. Looking at Adrian's completed puzzle was really awe inspiring. When the room is finished it will really be deserving of the title Grand Salon. Oh, seeing the Mary Rose was such a treat. Thank you for taking us on a little tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes! For us Americans too. I don't think the Mary Rose was on display when I visited as a teenager in '76-'77. The constant piped-in wave sound would drive me crazy if I worked there ...but it gives it that authentic at-sea feeling. The cold of the English Channel and I guess the salt water helped preserve that oak. That was one of Henry VIII's favourite 'girls' & perhaps most beloved. I wonder if he'd be impressed.
Congratulations Adrian, the floor is just spectacular. It is a work of art. It elevates all the beautiful plasterwork and painting that Carole did on the walls and ceilings. Together you have created a beautiful, beautiful salon. Congratulations to you both. Thank you for sharing this journey with us. It is a real pleasure.
Thank you Brenda!
Everything looks incredible! That parquet floor is just brilliant! Well done!
Thank you so much
Adrian, check the drip edge on the outside of your salon doors and make sure they are tight against the body of the door and slightly tipped down to keep water out. Also, depending on how far the threshold goes beyond the door, the drip edge may have to be wider/thicker so when the water does come off the trim, it drips to the ground and not backward onto the threshold. Beautiful job with all of the floors!!!
Gosh! I could cry that the floor is in place! Bravo! 👏🏼 Carole, the vanity dresser is absolutely, perfectly lovely! ❤️
Adrian you have done an amazing job on the salon floor. Hard work and perseverance have won the day for you.
Thank you Jayne!
Kudos to you Adrian on figuring out that maze of lumber once stacked in the hall... Into that stunning art! Hats off to you and your determined, yet patient humor during that l9ng process. 🎉
Yes, I think most men ....even other skilled carpenters would have taken one look at that ridiculously complicated stack & said 'to heck with it' & put in totally new/different flooring. That is so impressive ...much respect!
You two have such beautiful dreams for what this Chateaux needs and the skills and patience to bring it to fruition. Keep the dreams coming true!!!
Thank you! Will do!
I love watching diy but ..man! that floor is something else!!! So looking forward to seeing the grain of the wood come up when it's polished. I have just finished my lounge (with a 1/3rd sander) and it looks brand-new. So happy for us both!!!
Thank you Mary. Sanding the floor today!
Beautiful. You two are just delightful, we watch you every Wed & Sun. My fiancé is a woodworker and I’m an artist and we love watching this journey, the problem solving, and your good humour 😻
Wow, thank you!
Beautiful! You two are to be lauded for your patient determination to excellence! What a pleasure to see you restore this gorgeous chateau! Bravo!
Adrian, that Salon floor is a masterpiece! So impressed with your tenacity and perseverance. Carol, can’t to see the finished decorated taste. You have quite the eye for interior design.
Thanks so much!
I am so excited to see the finished salon. It's gonna be a long 2 hours 😅
FABULOUS!!!! Adrian! The Grand Salon IS GRAND!!!⭐🌟⭐ I close my eyes and envision everything in its place. It will be a shining star! You both are wonderful together...I don't tire in saying this because it must be acknowledged. The loving support you give each other, the encouragement, that you can laugh, even when this are challenging. You both are a great example to being in a loving relationship. Thank you for giving many of us hope.🧡💛💜
Love it!!🥰
You are doing such a good job with all your projects. The Grand Salon will be the showcase of the chateau. Nice job!!
That floor is absolutely stunning! I can only admire Adrian's patience and perseverance with it. The marble effect Carole's done looks fantastic! Not to mention all the wonderful work with the gold leaf and repairing the missing pieces of the mouldings. I'm just so excited for you both to see it looking so good and so near completion! The Mary Rose was beautiful - thank you for bringing us along!
Your welcome!
AMAZING! The floor, the faux skirt boards (looks like real marble slabs), everything looks amazing, the both of you are ROCKSTARS!
Thanks so much!!
Flooring is absolutely beautiful! Love it all.
You really have done an amazing job on that floor. You are right to be proud of that work of art!
All that work on the floor paid off. Adrian, you have done an amazing job. Carole, your vanity room is looking great as well. The MaryRose is incredible.
Oh my goodness! It is so beautiful!!
Absolutely beautiful floor. Have been watching since you tore out the floor and brought it outdoors to give it a good spray. You did an amazing job remaking all the missing pieces. What a craftsman. Love you two ❤
Thank you 😊
Congratulations on the amazing floor! Great find Carole - the missing piece of the puzzle. 🙂 Fabulous design progress on the lovely little room too. ♥️ Thanks for the Mary Rose tour. If you ever get to Stockholm, check out the Vasa. The king demanded another floor and another layer of canon… and it didn’t even make it out of the harbor. The poor captain knew it was doomed, and only put up a few sails after the launch. A light breeze was all it took for the extra weight to send her to the bottom. 🤦♀️ She sank so early and so deeply in the mud with all the added weight, that an amazing percentage of the ship survived. (My family is of 1/4 Swedish decent, so I try not to laugh too hard at the vanity of their king, who wanted the most fearsome ship in the world.)
The floor looks amazing, all that hard work really paid off. Neil and Fee xx
Party soon 😜
OK. THAT FLOOOOOORRRRRRR!!!! Thanks for the bonus reel showing the Mary Rose. Very interesting to see the old beams and skeleton of the ship.
Carole, your painted marble trim is so much better than that sample.. Great job!!. Adrian, the floor is breathtaking....
Thank you so much!
Congrats on finishing the second floor. It has been an amazing journey. Thanks for the detailed voyage.
Floor and salon looks amazing🏆
WOW, Adrian, the floor looks wonderful!!!
Many years ago I visited a museum in Fremantle, Australia. They had part of a wreck on display and I believe the replaced the water in the wood with resin as otherwise when it dried out it, having been underwater for a good hundred years, it would just fall apart. The floor looks fantastic Adrian. So glad Carole that you have been able to make a decision on going forward with your powder room. You look much happier now that you have a plan.
👍👍👍👍👍 - I am so tickled to see the Salon floor Jigsaw finished. One word - GORGEOUS. Loved the aerial perspective.
Glad you enjoyed it!
WONDERFUL! Flooring is complete & it's finished beauty nearly there. I love Carol's gorgeous room too. Congratulations !
Thank you so much!
Job well done! What patience you both have! Beautiful work. The belle of the ball!
Glad you are back and the floor is looking so well put together. Fixing the doors to prevent damage to the floor is so smart. Carole's room is coming along. Having clean white walls sure brighten it up.
That floor!!! It’s absolutely stunning!!!! Imagine if you had used glue. What an amazing accomplishment. Bravo!
Thank you! Cheers!
Adrian, it is an absolute joy to watch you work, and your finished products are always so well done! I know you tease your perfectionist wife about being a perfectionist, but I suspect she’s married to one as well! Thank you both for a lot of inspiration and and many many laughs :-) And thanks to your talented daughter for her editing skills and abilities!
Thank you 😊
This room is the crown jewel. Beautiful work guys
Thanks so much!
Your floor is beautiful! Talented artist!
He done good!
Wow faux marble skirting boards, you both are so clever….I love that idea ✨
The floor looks absolutely stunning.
Какие у вас золотые руки !Вы делаете невозможное практически без помощников .Уважение вам !
Hi Carole & Adrian, the floor is a masterpiece...love the view from above thank you for that! Carole's marbling is so much nicer than the original marbling. You both are so talented and I love the continuous attention to detail. Have a wonderful week! Thank you for sharing, take really good care, stay well! Lots of love Kathy x 💖
Thank you Kathy 😀
Great job on the floor! Incredibly beautiful.
Your floor looks beautiful and your Ariel view did give a fantastic view of it and you can see the artisan work that went into the floor. Loved even that little bit of the old ship you went to see that was a museum. The bow 🏹 pulling exhibit is something I've never seen here in the U.S.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Get up on Sunday. Thank God for a wonderful day and enjoy Chateau.
The Floor looks amazing! Wonderful work.
Thank you!
Great Find of the missing piece!!! Good job. And your marbling is a million times better. So impressed with you both all the time.
That was interesting seeing the Mary Rose. The floor in the salon is magnificent not to mention all the gold leafing and the salon its self. Can not wait to see all the furniture and curtains in and then the salon will be complete.
Looking so good! I bet u can’t wait to decorate. You two have accomplished so much! Carol you are an expert in molding and gold leaf. Could be aside hustle to teach other chateaus how to replicate missing parts on moldings, mirrors, trim. And your faux marble skirting boards are excellent. I have earned a living for the past 35 years as an artist/craftsperson. I know what I see. And Adrian, the floor! Wow!
Thank you so much!
Hi Carole and Adrian, The ariel view of the floor is amazing and shows the painstaking care you did to restore it. I can't wait to see the end result. Mark
Next episode!
Fabulous floors! Now for a beautiful colourful carpet to cover it up.🤗. Thanks for the tour and of your signage. Again fabulous.🇨🇦
The salon room flooring is finished??!! You did it! Beautiful!! Well done, Adrian!!! I find myself watching this again and again just to look at them😂. The room is an absolute work of art. Stunning!! Well done, Carol and Adrian!! - an artist and a craftsman. ❤
Wow, thank you!
I am so excited about the floor. Beautiful already. Can't wait to see it finished.
Me too!!
Floor is stunning and shout to my home town of Hayling Island. Happy memories.
My windsurfing town. Hayling is also twinned with the town up the road from us called Gorron.
I so enjoy your videos & how each piece you restore is finished just beautifully. I for one, don't need talking through out a video, silence is golden.
Thank you so much!
Beautiful work on the floors and painted marble! The Mary rose museum was intense. It would be so cool to see it in person
Adrian you have done an amazing job on that parquet floor. You will smile for years to come now.
Какой замечательный пол ! От ваших видео невозможно оторваться .Я не знаю языка , только отдельные слова .А всё смотрю и смотрю .Удачи !
The floor is amazing so are both of you. You complement each other. Michele.
Adrian has wrestled with the jigsaw puzzle floor for a while. OUTCOME IS BEAUTIFUL.💕 ADRIAN IS A MASTER RESTORATION BUILDER.😍 AMAZING AND CAROL 😍SUCH AN ANAZING DESIGNER AND HARD WORKER TOO!! FANTASTIC JOB FOLKS 👏 👍
Thank you 🤗
Fabulous work on the parquet floor, Adrian! Amazing. One thought for the bottom of each of the doors. In the states, we often put a strip of brass/bronze, called a Kickplate, it would protect the bottom of the doors from water damage, and pick up on the gold trim on the walls, it’s probably not historically accurate, but it’s a thought.
Flooring looks brilliant. Sanding will finish it off, before the last step of waxing. You guys have done a fantastic job.
Adrian, the floor is spectacular, in fact it’s a work of art, truly! It pains me to think of a carpet covering any of it, but I think you should take an arial photo of it and blow it up, frame it and hang the geometric photo somewhere in the chateau. I remember in 1976 the bicentennial celebration in the United States I was 21 years old and grew up on Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Part of the celebration were the old tall ships from around the world came in through Long Island Sound on their way to The Statue of Liberty but along the way they paraded into our harbor. They were absolutely majestic. They were huge and beautiful! It was an experience I will never forget. I will definitely visit the Mary Rose. They were built like fortresses. Thank you for sharing!!! 💕
Your welcome and Carole is still undecided on the rug!
The versaille parquet looks superb and I can't wait to see it with its final finish.. Reflecting the elegant gilded furniture .. its not in any way a quibble as I envy this room enormously . But your lovely restrained , elegant marbleing upon the skirting could be very effective if repeated upon the plain cheval panels of the lower wainscoting. A lot of work ... your vanity room is coming along gorgeously love the aim to have what you really Can have than making do with the mundane XX
The parquet flooring is gorgeous! Well done!
I lived very close to Portsmouth for many years before retiring to Spain. I remember the Mary Rose being raised from the seabed in 1982, 11 years after it was located. I remember visiting it in the early days, it had to be constantly misted with water to stop the wood from drying out too quickly! The Salon floor looks magnificent, you’ve done a fantastic job! 🎉
Thank you 😀
Thank you for showing the ship o this vlog. Stuff I might not see otherwise. 💕
You’re welcome 😊
I saw the hovercraft about 5yrs ago. I was down on the south coast often due to work, but decided to stop and take in the view one day. It was lovely to see as I thought they had stopped it years ago. Remember using the cafe on the corner to use the loo, £1.25 they charged for a can of coke and didn't have a toilet!!!! The public loos opposite violated my poor old nose. The Thatched Cottage pub has great views out to sea. Used to go to Portsmouth/Southsea/Hayling often as a kid, ah the memories. The floor looks amazing, well done. You have the patience of a saint
Thank you Tracy
the floor looks AMAZING! surprised we didn't see the cat lounging on it! Thanks for showing the port. I had no idea what it looked like. Savannah, my town, is a major shipping port but nothing like that one.
Our pleasure!
i am a chateau addict and watch many videos but that is truly the most beautiful room renovation I have seen. congratulations to you both. thank you for the view of the Mary Rose
Thank you and your welcome!
I don’t think I can write anything different than has already been said here. The salon is breathtaking. The floor is exquisite and the gold leaf is beyond words. The drapes accent it all magnificently. However, I did want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your experience with such eloquence.
Thank you so much!
It’s beautiful. So much workmanship.
The salon floor looks amazing! Also, loved the field trip to see the Mary Rose. I've never seen a museum display quite like that.
The floor is finally done! Congratulations Aiden, this has to be the most challenging puzzle you've ever done. The floor is beautiful!❤
The floor is stunning! Really compliments all the beautiful work on the walls.
Carole I love your beautiful makeup room. I have an idea about the curtains, instead of making a new set of long drapes, make a second set of short ones and hang them from a second rod that is attached under the window sill. This way you can open the top curtains and the second set will remain closed and protect against any drafts.
Adrian, the floor looks fabulous! Happy Mother’s Day, Carole.
Thanks so much
The floor looks fabulous. Well done Adrian! Carol i don't think the video does you justice for the amazing job you did on the faux marble painting. You did a close up and considering all of the steps that go in, it is quite impressive.
Thank you so much!
Floor is looking awesome ! You both are sneaking up on finishing the salon. History is neat when you can be right there on the ship. Great video.
Great Job!!😀
I love seeing the HMS Victory and the Mary Rose!! I remember when the Mary Rose was being raised from beneath the water. Thank you so much for sharing your video with us! Love from Vermont
You are so welcome!
Adrian, the floor is fantastic! I did not know you have a master craftsman's degree in flooring! WOW! Carole's dressing room is about to be lovely with new long draperies! Fun tour of Mary Rose!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well done on the salon floor Adrian! And Carole, your dressing room will be stunning when completed- I can’t believe how fast you have come in that room! Great job you two!
Thanks so much! 😊