Chateau in CHAOS: Our Epic Race Against Time to Impress our 1st B&B Guests!⏱️🏰
Today I'm taking you behind the scenes as we race against time to get the chateau ready for our first B&B guests of the season. Join us as we paint, clean, weed, and decorate the property - hopefully in time for our guests' arrival.
I'll take you on a tour of all of the guest bedrooms of the chateau to show you the (horrific) before and (hopefully lovely!) after shots of each room as we work to transform the chateau into a welcoming and beautiful space for our visitors. And whilst half of us are going crazy inside, the garden team faces a huge weed problem outside...
With the clock ticking, the pressure is on to finish everything in time. Will we make it? We'll share the moment of truth as our first guests arrive. Will they be impressed with all the hard work we've put in? Join us to find out!
If you love DIY, interior decorating, and hospitality, this video is for you. Follow along with us at The Chateau Diaries as we race against the clock to get the chateau ready for our guests and create an unforgettable experience.
The Chateau Diaries Episode 381 ✨🏰✨
Escape to the chateau with 'The Chateau Diaries' 🏰
This channel follows the adventures of chatelaine Stephanie in her French 16th century home, the Chateau de Lalande, in the heart of rural France ❤️
We share our life in this ancient chateau in the heart of the French countryside, and show you the diy, renovations, crafts, cooking and gardening that are needed to bring a home like this to life!
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Maria can cook, is pretty, has a lovely wit and senseofhumor AND play the piano!🎉❤
Yes she’s amazing!
She is the whole package!
One in a million. Such an array of talents!
For real! I feel like I'm close to her age and it reminds me to spend more time developing myself and my skills. You don't get there without work. She's awesome
She's is the whole package
It’s not until you see videos like this one that you completely realise just how much work is involved in running a chateau and preparing for guests. You normally make it look like a bit of a breeze and great fun, and yet you all still manage to keep upbeat, singing and smiling. Absolutely well done everyone and thank you for sharing your lives, loves and laughter 😊
Pavlina has blossomed into the loveliest sweetest, lady evermore, and l hope that she stays forever love to all from Blackpool x
Love Blackpool 😊
I'm in Lancaster ..such a small world! ..I agree she is an asset to the chateau! ..❤
So many talented helpers, skilled workers, gardeners, painters, chefs, floral designers and a pianist.Congratulations on making it just right for the new guest season.
Stephanie, brea down the cardboard boxes and rake back any mulch in your garden beds put the cardboard around the plants you want and then cover back with mulch. The cardboard will help reduce weeds and as it breaks down it will bring more earth worms. Win, win! My Grandma did this every year and she had a beautiful garden!
Just what I was thinking! Carboard keeps the weeds away so well.
Please be CAREFUL⚠️⚠️ WITH TOO MUCH CARDBOARD, YES it will Controll WEEDS but. MICE AND VOLE INFESTATION CAN COME ON VERY FAST.😮 THIS DID HAPPEN AT TO ME AT A COMMUNITY GARDEN THE MICE LOVE CARDBOARD TO MAKE WINTER NEST🪹..TOTALLY ATE MY VEGGIES IN MY GARDEN BOX AT THAT GARDEN⚠️ SOMEONE PUT OLD CHUNKS OF CARPET DOWN IN THE WALKWAYS. OH IT JUST ATTACTED MORE VOLES🦡 AND MICE🐀⚠️
Ms Kirsty is just absolutely lovely! That dimpled smile, cheerful eyes with a great sweet and humble spirit. A good fit for Lalande. Blessings.
I just love her💜!!
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Amaury's heart sweat is definitely care bear material. 😍
He’s a muscle Mary with a heart.😉😂❤️
in-croyablement adorable!
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Maria is a multi talented and lovely asset to La Lande!
I love these types of episodes! So much productivity, everyone pulling together. So much hard work! The chateau looks beautiful
Had a great time watching everyone chip in and do hard work. Now it's my turn to do my own😊❤
Pavlina just exudes joy for me. She is a very sweet girl, I feel as if the orchid was there simply for her to find. I just adore Phillips insight to plan ahead and have what works in the moment at his fingertips. I think that Amaurys "sweat heart" derives from the love of his parents and the kindness they instilled in him, which he exudes. Maria - bravo! Such talent! Stephanie with your guidance and ability to draw such wonderful people to you and your home, makes for a wonderful joyful, talented team of people around you. Job well done everyone.
Well said!!!
I love Pauvlina she is a truly lovely person so even toned, kind, sweet and polite. Your maintenance touches and design changes are beautiful. 😍
Stephanie you have so many wonderful, lovely people around you….as the saying goes….”it’s not what you know, it who you know”….your wonderful family and Friends are what makes you and LaLande so great
Hearing Chopin played live at this lovely chateau was magical. Musical performances in the Grand Salon upon it's completion, will be absolute heaven on earth.
I always anticipate the different seasons of LaLonde. Each one has a different energy, each one has its endearing qualities. I love watching the exciting spring B&B season before the summer groove hits.
Me too!
Amury puts his whole heart into everything he does
An intense build up to the guests arriving with dear Phillip working all night painting and his considerate touches, and your gorgeous girls prepping, cleaning, gardening and entertaining. I felt like a guest at the end, so happy to have a glimpse of the chateau looking her best. Love you all.
My goodness gracious, what a fleury of last minute preps to make sure all is as it should be for the B&B guests. Well worth the effort as the finished product is amazing. Maria’s piano recital was heavenly, she is so talented. Wishing you all a happy and successful season.🙏🏼❤️
maria is just a treasure in all she does - especially as a pianist - wonderful!
It was really nice to see all the rooms!! ❤❤❤
What an amazing team making things happen. You guys did it. Nathan was a life saver and helped tade the pressure off. The dinner table looked elegant and glimse of the food served made such a beautiful presentation. Stephanie is innately considerate and hospitable. It comes so easy and natural for her.
All looks clean, tidy and beautiful and Maria's playing a real treat. Thank you
Maria playing the piano at the end just made this wonderful vlog even better, all the best for the coming season. Everything looks wonderful and what a great team ❤
I am breathless, the beauty of all these rooms is truly enchanting!
What a change from your first videos with you doing everything and not much help ! So happy for you.
It is so exciting to see the guest already coming for the season and I just know you are ready. Also, it was great to see Kat helping Dan the other day!
Lalande is really beautiful! It makes so many people happy. The ones living and working there, the guests, and we the admirers from afar who are thinking how happy we are. 😍💐🧡
It gives me joy to see vlog content like this. So satisfying to see things shape up and all the “behind the scenes” work that goes into Lalonde. It’s very much appreciated to see that everyone works to hard but seems enjoyable to a certain extent. I wish I could join you! And then to include us in a bit of greeting of the first guests and a little music....priceless! ❤
Hi from Texas! I think you were paid a wonderful compliment by Phillip when he said, "You are becoming more like your mother everyday!" My mom passed in 2010 and I miss her every single day. Treasure your moments with "Mummy"!
My grandmother use to say “ many hands make light work”. The many hands at LaLande have made the beautiful chateau sparkle as Maria plays the piano .How I wish I was there. Bravo ! Well done!
Stephanie, I have panic days just cleaning the house for expected guests (or the cat sitter), and I don't even have to worry about installing new toilet seats. 😍
Honestly, Stephanie, you shouldn't worry as most guests will be fans and patrons. They might be disappointed if everything were slick and perfect...the hurley-burley of Laland's quirks and evolution is part of its charm. We all love it just as it is. Plus a stay is always more fun if one has a story to take away and share.
I does seem to be the most ready, the Chateau has ever been 😊 Everything looked lovely 😁
María what a women not only does she cook but she plays the piano magesticly ❤
No words!❤❤❤❤❤ what a group effort by all to get the chateau ready for guests. Beautiful rooms and garden cleanup! Maria playing on the grand piano was exquisite! Stephanie, you looked gorgeous! A sit in the gravel led to you weeding the fountain area! I have to commend you with such a beautiful job in the rooms. Philip is a talent. I love the golden tea spoons. Wonderful! I hope the Peacock struts around for the guests. Lots of hugs to all of you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Stephanie you are the soul of the chateau. You have such energy and enthusiasm and have surrounded yourself with such talented people. Who wouldn't enjoy staying at Lalande. Such a joy to watch. Thank you
I don't know how this one got past my radar! You all knocked this one out of the park - everything looks fantastic! The season has begun! 🥂
Everything in today’s video was spectacular but Mari’s playing was the iced roses on the cake!
Ooh, may I give you a great tip for dealing with weeds? I may? Oh good! If you spray good ol' white vinegar over the weeds, such as the ones coming up in the stones, after the sun has gone down, trying not to spray the plants you do want, then they'll die overnight and you can pull them out in the morning! Also, of course, there's your flame tool. What a stellar job you all did getting the chateau ready. I sooo wish I was there helping because I love doing that sort of thing! One day, perhaps! 😃🤞🏼 Philip, you're always bang on with things the chateau needs. It's only a mater of time before you get that puppy! 😁 (sorry Stephanie 😉) Love, Jacqueline from New Zealand 🌻
I spotted a table on the landing placed against a radiator - naughty! - if the heat is on the wood will warp
I was so sad for Amoury when I found out he was losing some of his shop he worked so hard to set up. So now it makes me so happy to hear he is getting the space in the chateau that he needs to be exquisitely excellent again!!!!
Wonderful Maria! First time I’ve properly heard her play. Great job everyone you’ve worked very hard ❤
Maria played The Nutcracker Sweet, I think The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (If my long term memory of schooling as an 11 year old is still there!), Around Christmas time...Check it out, it was truly AMAZING!💥🔥🏆🥇
Wow, what a difference it makes when Stephanie is around . When I visited Lalande was lifeless...
The Chateau is beautiful, but the music is even more beautiful. It touches the heart to see her playing. What these people, who live here, and work here, contribute is beyond measure. This is what a chateau should always be, a home for everyone.
As a hotelier for many years, I could have said much, however, I understand your MO. Please, please, remove the towels to the bathrooms. It is so wrong to have them on the bed, in the bedroom, and spoils the look of the bedding. Delighted your season has started.
Nathan is a gem for coming on his day off!
What an amazing family/team you are! Everything looked beautiful. ❤️
As usual the dream team strikes into action, well done everyone it’s looking beautiful.
I am so excited for the new season and all the guests. You would think I was there working along side you to get everything ready! I heaved a sigh of relief when the guests arrived and everything and everyone was in their place. Bravo!
Lalande has come together finally 🎉❤! It is looking like a Chateau, grand and glamorous! Well done guys.❤❤
The chateau looks stunning! Such a great team working together in harmony! How I’d love to be a part of it!
Lalande is filled with beautiful people inside and out....
"Prelude to Cheese" should be translated into French. As James Thurber said "I have all of my work translated into French because it loses something in the original". Une saison réussie!
The rooms are gorgeous! You all have done an amazing job for your guests.
I love to listen to Maria play the piano. She has such a beautiful tone and touch.
So magical! I vote for a wheelchair accessible room to be set up somewhere on the ground floor level, on the grounds. I'm such a stinker, being that i've said this comment before, but I would literally stay for weeks-at-a-time. All is needed, perhaps, is a movable, wooden ramp to get into the chateau
MARIA is too stinking talented! Pianist and chef ?! Not to mention her wit! Well done all pulling it together!
Maria is so multi talented. Just love her.❤❤
Maria plays with such sweet sensitivity. What a joy to hear her. Thank you.
Thank you so much for all the joy!! 💛💝💛 On Sunday, YAY!! 😁😘 I really love these vlogs that… take us with you in your reality. ❤️ Did you know that though dock leaf is poisonous for cattle, it’s perfectly fine for people to eat? Raw in salads, or cooked as a spinach alternative. 🌱 Also, you can use it to rub on your skin when you’re stung by a stinging nettle for example.
When weeding, spread a large tarp on ground to throw dug weeds into. Then pull the tarp to the area you are depositing. This way you only need pick up weeds once. Also spray weed-b-gone in the weed hole so remaining roots don’t regrow the plant. Otherwise, you will keep digging up the same plant. Gardens are looking lovely, good job gardeners!!!!
The chateau is looking lovely again due to all the hard work everywhere. How utterly delightful it all is. Well done everyone!
yes Army's swathe is like himself; full of hart Marias music is so delightful
Everything is beautiful, Maria’s piano playing is splendid! Thank you 🎉
Wow, I am impressed with all of you for pulling the Chateau Clean and Beautiful Act. Spectacular, job well done. Blessings. I love the new gold teaspoons. Kudos to Philip.
Wonderful. Phillip was spot on with the new spoons. Maria is so talented. Enjoy the season and all the guests.
Dear Stephanie and La Landers, I wish you best of luck in the new touristy season!!! I hope it will be a very good one!!!💖
Sweat a heart?! It is adorable Nati.
Stephanie, every video you make could be the inspiration for a chapter in an actual printed diary. Hmmmm... what an opportunity...
That was the most marvellous video. What a revelation to see how many people working together could work such a transformation. And the chateau looks fabulous.
You all worked so hard but got it done. Everything looked spectacular. You have managed to make every room look elegant, even opulent, right down to the last detail. I’m sure they truly feel that château experience. Glorious. And the heart sweat was epic.
Every room is an exquisite the environment that transports you back in time. Everything you do is with care and concern for the guest. I’m hoping that someday I’ll be part of the experience! meanwhile, thank you for these lovely little snippets, I look forward to them every day.
It literally brings me to tears how beautiful you all have made things. The design, artistry and general feeling of elegance is so above board. I think I would spend the whole first day speechless in utter bliss! Beyond all the finery, the community of friends and family you have brought together warms the heart as well as your hearth. I think I could forever lose myself at Lalande.
Amoury's heart of sweat is insanely cute!
Ahhhhhh Maria's playing is beautiful.......as is her cooking and character............
Impressive how a team of dedicated and talented people can get the chateaux looking beautiful and ready for first guests of the season. They must feel so welcomed and lucky to being treated to Maria's piano concert. In fond memories of our first stay at Lalande two years ago now, how time flies. You are a master planner Stephanie. Swan
Maria's playing is so beautiful. The chateau looks fabulous!
Kirstie is the most natural beauty.
Stephanie, I actually put white vinegar on weeds in certain areas. So I don’t use any kind of chemicals. My grandmother in Lebanon had a big garden at the mountain home, and she used vinegar to clean the house and get rid of weeds. I do the same by using a brand new three gallon sprayer and this way I don’t have to injure my back spraying. I mostly use it between gravel and cracks in the driveway. I use the vinegar to protect my cat from any chemicals.
Oh my stars, I was a nervous wreck for you all. Smashing job pulling things all together like you did. A fabulous start to a new season of guests. Well done to all.
Just love Pavlina, what a beautiful girl to join the La Landa fami!y xc
Somehow, I doubt the chateau is really in "chaos." Not with the way all of you come together to get what is needed done. Up against a deadline? Certainly, but I have infinite faith in all of you. Have no doubt you will persevere. And having watched the video, I was right. Lalande looks absolutely beautiful! Bravo! As usual, the amazing Lalande family pulled it off brilliantly. Congratulations! Best wishes to all and a very successful B&B season.
Looking forward to joining you all. ❤️✊
Kristie is always so pleasant & positive 💕
Amaury and Natalia are perfect together. It is such a blessing they found each other. From Argentina to California to France! What a journey. I am from Uruguay and now live in California, after living in New Jersey and Washington. Greetings from So Cal to all of you at Chateau Lalande! ❤
What a wonderful team you have...it makes me happy to see people simply helping one another for one common goal...it's so refreshing! I've missed a few episodes as I was travelling back to my home in Tuscany but now that I have internet connected, I can relax in bed with my laptop and catch up! Have a wonderful time with your guests 🥰😍😘🤗💖
So wonderful to see everyone working together. It’s all beautiful. Congrats everyone!!
I would never say anything about what Phillip buys. He has the eye and the gift of thrift. He was born to glamorize castles! ❤❤❤
Wow everything looks beautiful! Well done team! 🦋 Oh how I wish I was there! 😌🦋
Loved the video xx Lelande team working hard together xx you’re all amazing xx thank you for taking us along while you all spruce up the Chateau xx I think she is very happy with everything sparkling and clean xx 🥰🥂🍾🏰💐
Your home is so beautiful. Such a talented little village you have created.
Stephanie and Phillip you and all the Lalader resident new and old are all a delight to watch. You all manage to pull it all together for the B & B people to come. Now relax and have fun! Well.Done!
You should use a garden fork to loosen the soil deeper before pulling the dock because if you cut off the top of root, then you will multiply them rather than eradicate them
Prairie plants have very deep roots to help them survive drought.
What is dock
Dock leaves have a sharp lemony flavor and can be used raw in salads so I think we should feed them to the guests😂
Wow..what an enormous job to do..?? Wondering why you didnt do all this before the beggining of the season? Grear the Plumber guy could come.. and on his day off..what a nice guy..he's a keeper.
I was breathless watching all the preparations, painting, cleaning and final touches before your guests arrived. Phillip has such an eye for the details that make such a difference and gives a personal touch. Lovely to see Dan & Amaury together. Well done to your entire team.❤🎉👏
It is wonderful to see Stephanie dressed in jeans again and no heals it means she is ready to get down and dirty lol. You need a wood box by the fire to hold the logs you bring in 3 sided is basic with a base, we had a large one with lids that slide back to reach the logs but it would not work for you.
Dan and Amaury 💕on the Dumper is like Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen driving the amazing horse driven Hearse in the opening scene of The Magnificent Seven. I remember being really impressed as a Teenager discovering that men could just be interesting. I think our Lalande modern day heroes deliberately script all their photo ops with sexual glamour in mind. They are experts at “click bait”. I looked up the spelling of Amaury and discovered it means “work power”, what an appropriate name. I may change my name to “Cash”. 😂💰😂
I love these sort of behind the scenes vlogs. Getting to see all the rooms in their glory. The beginning of a wonderful season of guests 🥂
Plexiglass panels would unobtrusively protect the walls behind your woodpile. They could be permanently mounted or, if in a wooden frame, they could be freestanding and removed at the end of heating season. (Sorry Amaury!) The chateau looks wonderful. What a massive effort by everyone. Wishing you a successful season with plenty of laughter to lighten the work.
I adore your father's art. I would have a truly difficult time having them in the kitchen with oil or grease getting on them. I would get some from the bronte. Blessings to you all. Hugs❤
Could er tightly with cling film in off season