Restoring Antique French Spiral Staircase | French Chateau Renovations #47

This week we hunted mushrooms with a couple of fun guys, renovated an old

staircase

, and visited the Normandy coast. We have some more friends from Normandy who help us with the roof work. I really want to put a balcony in front of the window. on the right side and we realized that the roof was basically going to be in the way so we had to trim the roof and then we realized that the Dormer was going to make the water fall directly down the right side. walls, so now we have to put some metal work on the sides to bring the water back to enter the drainage system from the roof, which is fine, but it just requires a little extra machinery and a little more of time now that the sweet bathroom is finished, the last step is to build a balcony and a ladder to avoid hitting our heads, we had to trim the roof as Anthony is part of the comp def France roofers guild, he has special experience on roofing that we really appreciate.

So our friends Jerome and Anthony just finished repairing the leak. Now we are going to go look for mushrooms because they are experts in the field and they are going to show me how to find mushrooms on our property, uh, water probably flows from In the moat that comes in here, going to the lake, we found some mushrooms. Hi, bright colors are generally not avoided if there is a lot of ivy ground cover. It's a good sign that the soil is too wet for mushrooms to grow, so it's not good news. So far you've basically said that our property is too quiet, so either it's just because we had a very wet year or it's because we have very wet soil around here and it's too wet for good mushrooms to grow, but unfortunately we didn't.

We didn't find anything edible in our forest, so it looks like we'll have to spread some spores. We've been looking for a ladder for months and finally found a vintage set within our budget that's not bad for half the price. I just have to find out. how it is combined initially we wanted to have a large

staircase

going up to the neutral suite and the architect from France rejected it and said we had to have a

spiral

staircase and it is very difficult to find a

spiral

staircase that is 4 and 1/2 M high and it's not very expensive and it's not very expensive the design is much more beautiful than all the others we saw it's much cooler so unfortunately there is no similar manual on this and I'm just going to give it the benefit of the I doubt that all the pieces are here, let's see if those many years of Star Wars Legos have been worth it.

I mean, Ian, we have a ladder. I'm not going to lie, I actually really like this green rust look, but it's probably a better idea. We cleaned it, what do you think? ARA, are you going to climb these stairs? She likes stairs, yeah, who keeps unplugging this thing? They are cleaning up really well and the funny thing is that this coat of primer is actually this grayish green color. dye and for a moment I thought maybe we should leave them this color, but no, we'll use black, we'll make it look like flawless iron work. My dear friend Chelsea has come to visit us and help us with our

renovations

. we've been like sisters since we met at UC Berkeley and I'm so excited to see her again my head got into yours it's it's sticking out it's sticking out do it oh my god I almost put paint in your hair mon you Bella is a princess Bella she's not a princess B she's a princess she's not a princess until she marries the beast but she's like you are if you Google Disney princesses Ian would you like to admire our work and give us some positive feedback?

I want to do that stabbing motion to make sure there's texture because our feet are going to step on this. Mhm, we don't want it to be too soft. You could use a rolling pin, but I think this is best. What are you doing? Can? put your hat on my head my face is sunburned please there you go thank you you have this is okay you can undo it wait your head is too big I can't see anything now it's okay now we'll make another pizza cut and then we'll add a piece of wood below that will come together nicely oh no, I'm putting more white paint on your faces, it's not like we shouldn't eat the paint you guys, no, yeah, Daphne, right?

I want to take the honors and take the first one like two and a half steps because that's all I feel. I don't know if I want to walk on that at all, not really, not until I'm like, oh my gosh, taking the first one. Oh my God, Metal. bending so we're going to get a new pole but we're going to have to make the soldering iron also fit the extension we need a soldering iron you guys I don't know how to do that you don't know how to solder hey so. We are looking for a welder.

It was a little less than 6,000 for the ladder. Mhm 800 00 for the paint. I mean, we definitely saved at least 5 grand. Yeah, I mean, we saved at least 5 grand compared to buying one of the newer options we found. but also this one has really beautiful artwork and it's vintage, okay, high five, what are you waiting for while Chelsea visits us. We want to share more of France with her, so we took a day trip to the Normandy coast. On the way we saw another beautiful one. Chateau and we had to stop to admire it everywhere we go, there are all these chats hidden along the way because there are like 48,000 chats in France and it's just that a lot of them are abandoned, a lot of them are very small, a lot of them.

They are totally hidden and off the map, but every now and then you can see some really beautiful ones. We arrived at the charming seaside town of Ed. The town is full of

antique

shops and local Normandy cider and butter cheese. There is a large church throughout the day. At the top it looks like it's under renovation right now. Wow, that's great. We saw photos on Instagram of a small cave in ETA and we want to go and try to have a small picnic there. We have no idea if we are going. find it, but we're going to do our best and hopefully enjoy a little picnic.

I feel like I'm walking on marbles, that's very nice, join us, we couldn't find the cave, but it was easy to find a nice place to have a picnic and enjoy the view. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing. If you would like to support us and get exclusive content, please join us on Patreon. I did it, oh I did it, so do it this way. You want a little bump, put your head here, maybe the watch will do it, everything will be fine.