TACKLING THE ANTIQUE TILES!
It's time for Philip and I to roll up our sleeves and get grubby as we tackle the antique tiles for the chateau's china pantry...
The Chateau Diaries Episode 212 ✨🏰✨
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Someone should go to the market to buy asparagus, stick them in the greenhouse as if they've just sprouted to fool Stephanie!!!!! LMAO!!!
Don’t give Dan any ideas. I could see him doing that! Lol
Or Phillip, yes, lol
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Guys!!! Goggles when you use a pressure washer!!! We don't want you guys in the hospital! My friend washed her windows with a pressure washer and ended up with a very teeny piece of metal in her eye! She never knew....thought it was allergies because her eye was red and itchy! That little metal had started rusting by the time she saw her eye doctor!!!! OMG! Sorry for being a nagging mom....but I am a mom!!! Hugs from Montreal!
OMG!! That's scary. Good advice.
Yes, I saw a show where a man sprayed his own leg at close range on high power and it actually messed him up...cut deeply in his skin, got infected, it was awful. They can be quite dangerous. I was cringing watching the sprayer being pointed all around...
@@beckybaur7064 luckily this pressure washer seems to be rather weak, I don’t think it’s got enough power to be super dangerous
Love Selmars sense of humour. "Have you tested the tank for leaks?" 🤣
I was cracking up when he mentioned that... lol
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I’ve worn many hats in my lifetime and once upon a time I built ponds and water gardens. If you’re having a difficult time keeping your fountain sparkling clean water, put copper in it. You could probably find some old pieces and just place them in the bottom of the pond. It would be a large expense but you could also have a liner made that would cover the bottom and go up the sides too. Copper is naturally antimicrobial, and won’t grow lichens either. If you decide to put fish in it, the copper won’t hurt them either. Clean sparkly water without chemicals. I once placed an old copper water heater from a wood stove in one and that did the trick. That pond was deeper (4ft) than yours so you couldn’t see it as it sat on the bottom.
Love that idea!
Finally I understand the practical reasoning for throwing copper pennies into the wishing wells. Thank you, really!
Great idea; I had copper in my pond and it truly helped. I did it after one of my fish (algae-eater) actually choked on the algae piece he tried to eat. (Yes, we did bury him in a little fish grave behind the pond under the honeysuckle shrub)
I've only gotten about 25 comments down, and already have learned several useful ideas for my own garden, yard, etc. ty
Wow Rhonda, what a great suggestion. I am wondering what other hats you have worn 😉
Ruby and Diesel are the cutest. Just lounging on their blanket and looking at Stephanie,kind of mesmerised.😍😂
I could cry witnessing their budding friendship and companionship. To find love, no matter what type so late I n life (Diesel) is just heavenly
‘Someone has put compost in the bin without having a party!’. I can see Cat cherishing that one for future use...
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If this channel ever ceases to be, my heart will truly break. That being said, I’m not sure what I enjoyed more - all of the hard work or the glimpses into the junk/treasure storage rooms. And yes, the wine and cheese break. I adore you all! ❤️
It was a great vlog
✨I agree! You all have become good friends from afar!!✨😊❤️✨
Agreed I want this to go on for YEARS! Love Lalande!
Only Stephanie and Phillip could make the job of cleaning tiles seem exciting and fun.
Love your hair, Steph! GORGEOUS!!!
You should put all of that bird poo in the compost bin. It is an excellent additive for composting. Love love love your videos, especially today's! Please keep doing what you're . we love you
Bird poo? I didn't know. ty. I get excited when finding out new things to add to mine. Everytime I do it, I envision my soil being dark and nutrient rich. I guess it's a gardeners thing 😀
Yes, don't waste it. You can even dilute it with water and pour it on the compost too.
Those tiles are so beautiful! I love that Ruby and Diesel are friends. They are both so cute.
In the last vlog, with the tile design from Stephanies father, I thought, he really saw the future! 🙂 All the little different figures, dotted around the whole Chateau. Gardeners, musicians, dancing people... People all over, things happening and the Chateau in all its newfound glory. I do think, he and Stephanie shared the dream, of what could be - and it came true! Gardeners in the gardens, people dancing, music - and projects galore. Imagine this place, just 5 years from now!! 😂
Stephanie I had a idea for your beautiful old gutters. They would make awesome birdhouse posts. At different heights around the garden. Maybe Selma could see my vision. 😎
Brilliant idea!!
Love that idea. It would use just a couple too.
I too am concerned watching this with all the bird droppings being stirred up and no mask. Histoplasmosis is real. My grandmother became ill from this and was hospitalized for Histoplasmosis. Please be careful! Love 💘 from Colorado USA 🇺🇸
My son and husband became very sick after cleaning out an old chicken house years ago. Luckily it wasn’t serious but no one wants to be sick.
I agree with you about the histoplasmosis; it's a nasty disease.
Yes and with Stephs recent illness and Covid...better safe than sorry. I could be wrong but I believe Stephs illness was either related to or involved breathing issues.
It worries me too
My little sheltie passed away from Histoplasmosis.
Oh gosh, commenting on tile cleaning after it's been done for 2 years is quite a bit of angst. So glad to see them on their journey to their new life!
OMG! Ruby & Diesel together on the rug in the sun is THE CUTEST!!! 🥰🤩💖
yes let’s steal the gloves no one tell mommy then proceeds to film the whole crime 😂 I love you guys.
lol !
Omg ruby just adopt selmar and diesel, this is too cute 🥰
Yes, cats are smart. They go where they feel safe and sense animal lovers. I hope if Delmar ever leaves, he will take Ruby.
Remember, many of the tiled areas will eventually be UNDER the temporary wardrobes and the eventual cabinets holding the china. If you are short on tiles, you can get something modern for the underneath areas. And sign and date a couple, in case they are ever discovered under the cabinets. :)
Stephanie could also search for similar plain tiles - to use as a border if it turns out there isn't enough of the old. Great idea to add a signature and date.
Toilets on the lawn, Tiles in a tub, Irrigation being laid, To ease foundation slub.
OH good one! You can join the Philip and Ian club.
I recommend using baking soda and diluted vinegar on bird poo. I have parrots and removing all their poo in their cage can be quite the challenge.
OKAY - I'M SHOUTING...THIS IS LITERALLY the 5th useful comment I've read (not for Stephanie but for ME lol). Suggestions that I can utilize right now at my home. TY
@@barbibutton9619 you're welcome! Just remember that you might have to use the baking soda and vinegar several times for very stubborn spots. And using an old toothbrush ;)
I just love that Ruby and Diesel are sunbathing/ chilling together where the action is happening of course!
Glad to see you so energetic and back to your old self. You definitely earned a glass of wine at lunch!
I hope soaking the tiles don’t weaken the structure of the tiles. Would hate to see them start to crumble.
Does that happen with cement?
@@ichaconf yes it can. All depends on how it was mixed.
I hope your sleeve rolling- up will not be fuTILE. ha ha ha ha
Yes Philip’s punning propensity is taking hold through KZhead!!
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The first five florists I called today knew absolutely nothing about laying carpet or tile. And suddenly I’m the idiot....
Ruby and Diesel need postcards we can buy please! Lovely tile!
YES!!!! It would have been great for the artist to have drawn them for postcards before she left
Stephanie never ceases to amaze me! As feminine and chic as she is...putting on her coveralls and mud boots to wash the tiles and grabbing a radish and eating it right fresh from the garden! Quite the Renaissance woman she is!
*chic
Stephanie would look glamorous in a bin bag!
So cute in her yellow rubbers
Yes, truly a renaissance woman! Also a trained opera singer, and an Oxford graduate.
She is all of the above but she is just a women like all of us. She has to work for a living.
I agree please wear a mask...also you may find a brush attachment to cordless drill that you can use to clean the tiles. Please dont soak the tiles for too long as they could break...
I love how curious Ruby and Diesel are about the goings on! They are both so cute and make things seem more homey! Really hoping the tiles clean up beautifully as they are going to look great back in the chateau in proper use again! Don’t know how much longer the rest of the terrace can go without attention though. It kind of seems like an emergency!
The builders had a banger of a playlist going on outside!
I thought that too😀💜💜💜
You look well Stephanie xx🥰🏰
I love how you still manage to look stylish even in coveralls!😃👍🏻🌱💫🦋💖💫
There isn’t anything that you don’t look beautiful in Stephanie! I look forward to seeing the tiles cleaned and put back inside!!!
The light really is amazing in your new room! What a difference!
Ruby and Diesel watching the show 🐶🐱🤣
After all that hard work you must all be 'thor' all over !! That's for Philip !!
Wow! Philip’s pun-demic is really catchy! First Nati (last episode), and now... the subscribers! 😳😁
Hahahaha...😂😂😂
@@christinevr7698 Philip is being pun-ished for his sense of humour ! xo
I can’t get enough of all the wonderful work going on 😊 Lalande & eveyone there lights up my day ☺️🌷🐾
Happy Thursday... it’s Lalande ☺️🌷
Hahahaha....Selmar: You sure that’s not leaking, eh? 😂 😂 😂
Even after watching this channel for almost 2 years I’m still captivated and get butterflies in my tummy when I watch with anticipation as more and more of Stephanies dreams and visions come to fruition. So happy ♥️💙😊
Can't wait to see the floor tiles in place! Great Job, well done so far!
love this community ❤️
In the summer, after the soaking of tiles, on a hot day, you can use the big tub as a swimming pool. Pool issue solved!
Lol! I could see it - a round thingey pool party. Ha ha!
Stephanie, you look so well today. Very beautiful! 🌻
Wow those tiles are gorgeous they will look amazing. Love Ian’s sense of humour you have such a lovely team around you Stephanie it’s such a pleasure to watch xx I feel Isabelle’s pain she misses you so much I can’t wait till you are reunited with everyone it will be wonderful xx🇨🇦😘💗
Hi Stephanie I don’t know whether you would have seen my message in live chat as it goes so quick.But there is another channel on you tube called Mapperton live. I think you are your followers would like it.It’s about the Earl and Countess of Sandwich who live in a country House in Mapperton which is in Dorset in the Uk. Their son also lives there with his American wife and children.They talk about the upkeep of the house and gardens etc, etc.Quite fascinating I am sure you would like it Stephanie.
I was just watching that channel this morning!
@@avanzarconladislexiaavanza2789 I started watching it about two weeks ago and I am hooked. Just thought Stephanie and followers would like it too.
I watch that too! I love how so many members of the whole family are involved.
Stephanie & Phillips Wear A mask Bird 🦢Poo” 💕
Stephanie, your hair looks especially beautiful in this vlog! I'd love a hair tutorial 😂
You can put frosted glass in the bathroom door for Nati
I realized, I smile while I watch you and your adorable Dutchman.
lately i hear myself exclaiming "WHAT A DAY!!", & have to laugh, because i know i've stolen it from you, Stephanie!! thank you for sharing this wonderful, creative, & challenging adventure, & for sharing your joie de vivre!! love to all chateau folk from new york's hudson valley.
Just a note: You can eat the leaves of the radish. Saute leaves, slice the radish in olive oil and garlic. Salt and pepper to taste. I am a Georgia Master Gardener. I have worked with the local elementary school. Most of the students did not like raw radishes but they loved the cooked ones.
You could put an area rug over the tiles to help prevent the tiles and dishes from meeting. I would cover the tiles, but look beautiful
Impressive effort and the tiles will look lovely in the pantry. So glad they are being pressed back into service.
That tile is soooo nice!!
the tile they cleaned. ;)
What a wonderful and fun morning .... thanks everyone for sharing. Can't wait to see the outcome !
I love woodland watch. The digging of the pipes from the hill to the garden by Matt would be fun to watch.
Even after watching this channel for almost 2 years I’m still captivated and get butterflies in my tummy when I watch with anticipation as more and more of Stephanies dreams and visions come to fruition. So happy ♥️
Funny - I thought I had read this comment before and I had!
Exciting times Guys, Thank you for sharing your lives at the Chateau
Can not wait to see the tile down. Looked like a beautiful day 🌻❤
It will be beautiful.
If your chateau was alive (think animated) it would be smiling from all the renovations and repairs. 😄😀😃😊
💕JUST A THOUGHT💕Those little square tiles should be stacked in colour order if they come out differently maybe they were originally laid in a pattern the darker ones around a middle section doing out in shades💕
Those tiles are made first with a mold the leaves an impression design and after it hardens a bit, one adds another color to the center and scrapes off the excess - sometimes it’s smooth and sometimes not depending on the person making them
When the subtitles call him"silvia" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Selmar Im in a backpackers hostel in London I broke my earphones so subtitles are on 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hi Stefanie and everyone in the Chateau!!! I really enjoy watching all your blogs and it's so awesome to see everyone with the great help. I'm glad to see that everyone isn't afraid to get their fingers dirty, keep up the good work!
Wow. That office is gorgeous. I didn't realize you'd made such progress. Stephanie. Angels sent you to Lalande. It was meant to be just this way.🧚♀️
Your mangold plants are beautiful and enormous already! Oh, and that door frame is going to be lovely as an internal door :)
Philip there is a bakery called The Famous Hedgehog Bakery in Dorset Eng
Will be interesting to see if the tiles have a multiple colour pattern once they've been cleaned. Ruby and Diesel and quite the buddies!
Ian now making puns (he was advised to work in the shade) as he wears a lampshade on his head (at least I "think" that's what it was as I'm on small screen today.
The most powerful extension to the pressure cleaner usually doesn't work within an extension lead. It needs to be plugged in in the wall directly.
Those tiles....so beautiful...cant wait to see the end result....
Princess Stephanie, watching your blog, noticed the pane of glass above the doorway, where the ties were stored. It needs to go or it could be return of madam guillotine.
As fun as it could be to put the radish green in the compost bin, you can make a ¨Potage aux feuilles de radis¨. My grandmother use to do this with ¨2 bottes de feuilles de radis, 2 cuil. à soupe de beurre, 4 pommes de terre coupées finement et 4 tasses de bouillons de volaille. Fondre le beurre, ajouter les feuilles, pommes de terres et bouillon et mijoter 45 min. Blend all with a hand blender and add 1 cup of cream or whole milk, salt and pepper and serve with garlic croûtons as a garnish. Delicieux!!! Now, the tiles are beautiful and the floor will be stunning!!!
I am so excited to see Nati’s cottage completed! That floor will be amazing!
What? fresh reddish leaves are delicious!
Love your videos, i am subscriber long time ago when u had 4k subscribers and i am still exiting to watch ur videos i i will continue doing it... 🍀🎈🎉🙌 i cannot wait one day to come and be a guest at your place...
Stephanie I have a set of 146 year old Copeland plates, would you like two of them as they are such a beautiful piece of Spode history and the chateau, I do believe needs them 🥰🥰🥰 they are blue and white and the pattern is the two temples they are stunning x
Please wrap them very very SECURELY if you were to send them.. it would be heartbreaking if they do not survive the shipment.
@@arifrosli3305 I would indeed, it’s horrible watching things get broken on cadeaux such a shame 😞 but Phillip does the most incredible job fixing them up 😊😊
Now people, whatever you do is so so marvelous and exiting ;)) Thank you thank you all! Love from Portugal
If you soak the tiles too long they will suck up the water and break easier? I wish you were wearing masks while dealing with cement dust and bird poo. 😳
Yes, a wetting with the power wash & steel wire & a rinse might work better
Also eye protection. You can get scars on your eyes. For being around bird poop. I have scars on my eyes and that's what caused it. My eye doctor said.
I was wondering the same thing about soaking cement tiles😬🤞🏻
steel brush and water would do fine
@@raynonabohrer5624 it's called Ocular Histoplasmosis
A great productive day guys, look forward to seeing the end result with the tiles, I absolutely love the humour between you all, its so nice. Terrace is coming along nicely, the guys are doing such a wonderful job of it too, its always so nice to bring something back to its former glory isn't it. Keep up the good work 🙂
My goodness, those stonemasons are so good. That wall was as straight as a die. And well done with the tile-soaking, all of you - you deserved a glass of wine at lunchtime. And as for those those cheeses... .yum!
I would love love to see an updated tour of the chateau to see all of your hand work put all in one place. I want to see all the new beautiful renovations that you have done!
Love that the tiles have been salvaged. Great work.
(Moira Ashton) Another fun vlog!! But lots of good things happening! Loved it!!! 🏰😍🥰💗💗
Ian made me think of what my elder sisters used to yell across from our house to their friend's house (4 houses north): "400! House of Nuts!" and the response was always: "520! House of Cards!" Great memories and there is nothing wrong with living in a house of fun-loving people......on the contrary, it helps morale, especially during this crazy pandemic times!
Always look forward to these videos.🥰
Omg that's a load of tiles to clean but I'm sure it will be worth it in the end 😀looking forward to seeing part 2😄see you Sunday 🤗🐝🦋🌻
Ruby and Diesel sitting together in the garden is simply adorable 🥰
I feel so in tune when you are doing your blogs. Thank you for this past year of fun and laughter!
Sauteed radish leaves are heaven!
It’s so nice to see Ruby connecting with everyone he certainly has become friends with diesel. It’s nice to see him so relaxed and fitting in with everyone thanks to Marie. 🌈💕🇨🇦 Stephanie your hair is looking amazing. It’s nice to see you get in there and get dirty, ha ha.😁
Those tiles are going to look amazing. Can’t wait to see them down.
Is it possible that the tiles were on the patio, at one time? I couldn’t tell how many are there.
We live for this Farrah Fawcett look girl!
Really good work day there outside. The cuteness of the day was to see Ruby and Diesel laying on the little carpet in front of Selmar's "home". They are like two best friends, Selmar has a dog but now, he has another member of his family in Ruby who adopted Selmar for the good food and care and love and from Diesel in which he found a friend.
Wow Stephanie, you seem extra happy and incredibly energetic. You’re obviously feeling so much better. The china room tiles are gorgeous! It’s going to be such a pretty room.
Wow cannot wait to see the tiles come clean how exciting. So much going on . Will defiantly be there for live chat . You looked stunning in your overalls Stephanie mind you what ever you wear you always look so chic. Loved Phiilps coat
These tiles are very beautiful and I love the terra cotta ones also! It’s so lovely that many projects are in the works. And you definitely deserve a bit of wine with your lunch after all that work!
I think those tiles are going to look just the right thing!