Christmas DIY at the Chateau - How to renovate a Chateau (Without killing your parter)

[Music] it's finally a nice sunny day after days and days of rain i'm taking this opportunity to get out in the garden because i want to make some christmas wreaths [Music] just found some ivy i think that will look really nice to make my base of my christmas wreath i need to find some bendy kind of vines that i can sort of twist together to make a nice round circle and here there's actually a tree which has fallen over which is covered in ivy so this is absolutely perfect it's got plenty of vines left on it so i just need to find nice big long pieces [Music] like this and then i'm going to strip off all of the leaves so i'm left with something like something like this and this is perfect because it's really long [Music] i know [Music] all right and he's going to get my hat and scarf it's way too cold okay that's better it's getting a little chilly now i'm a bit scared we haven't got long before the sun's going down so let's see how far we can get i'm gonna try to at least make the base of my wreath i've got my nice long pieces of ivy seriously why didn't i just buy a ready-made wreath base it's not perfectly round but you can kind of bend it into shape so i'll try to wrap around a few more so i've got a bit more of a solid base and then i need to find some moss do [Music] so you see it's pretty even all the way around i've got a few little edges that are poking out but it's not too bad found some moss floristry wire seriously ah here we go here we go i'm just going to take my pieces of moss like this and cover it over the top of my base using my floristry wire just to kind of wrap around it and keep it in place so i can add some water and it will keep it nice and moisturized so it's not going to dry out as quickly i'm sure that there's some florists out there who would tell me like marie wick that i'm not doing this right but maybe you can leave some comments how i can improve my technique for next year i've just covered it with nice moss with my wire now i just need to cut my wire and tie it off and then i've got one of my bases and then i just need to make a second one because we obviously have two front doors and we need one for each side otherwise it would look strange to make my wreath i'm using some fir tree which i've taken from our massive christmas tree in front of the long houses and some yew which i didn't just cut off our brand new hedge i found it in our woodlands and i know that this is poisonous so you have to be quite careful with it i mix a little bit of this in with the fur mini posies like this and then i can wrap those onto my wreath and i'm going to wind my floristry wire around them to keep them in place [Music] this is how the wreath looks once i finish covering it now i just need to add a little bit of color so i've been foraging in the garden and i've found some ruskas which is really pretty and it's got some little red berries normally i sometimes use holly as well um because i love the little berries but for some reason the holly doesn't have any red berries on it this year and i don't know why maybe somebody out there knows is there a reason why some years they don't produce red berries or maybe it will produce it later i have no idea and where i've got my wire already here i can simply just poke it into the wire to sort of find a place where it will hold in place the berry fell off again seriously can i just super glue the berries on okay maybe we're gonna forget about the ruskas maybe we're just gonna go with this let's see that looks really pretty i am not a forest so this is all a little bit diy ah [Music] so [Music] here they are finished beautiful it did take me another whole evening to finish them inside after it got dark but now they're done but now they're done do we hang them from the little door handles like that no is it too low yeah it looks like somebody left them there okay yeah i've just got some pins from my pin board yeah how does it look very nice lovely so i didn't need my hammer in the end oh yeah i like it i think it looks really nice it's looking nice and festive now there's one little thing anna what can you take over the camera these are not straight you're kidding no much better look same here it's even wrong way all right yeah i can see that it's perfect now i just saved christmas what are you doing are you doing an influencer pose or something no i just i observe i look at the beauty of the reeds wreath wreath wreath yeah wreath wreath i can't hear is it wreath wreath with a th at the end wreath wreath yeah wreath yeah yeah the wreaths that was completely different as you said before one one wreath two wreaths one wreath two reeds no no not reeds wreaths wreaths yeah it's a bit of a mouthful one wreath two wreaths yeah yeah glad we got it [Music] are you ready yeah yeah oh well done we found it obviously we need babies to help us yeah but that's the thing we're going to do last the star is the last thing you've got to put on are you sure you don't want to help us i'm alright i'm holding the camera yeah why is it always so difficult to untangle them [Music] what's that that's my fairy i love spooky no it doesn't it does what is it it's her fairy she needs a haircut it's fairy no why would you put a fairy on a but christmas good it looks pretty i don't know [Music] so the christmas tree is finished i ended up pretty much doing most of it by myself but it's looking nice so we do not go for fancy decorations at the moment because we have two young girls who are not the best with taking care we try to keep it very personal and every year i give the girls two new decorations for the trees so we go out and we buy them it's a little bit of a mix of different styles but uh you can see there's some really cute ones i think this was from my mom a little reindeer down here and then i love these my friend gave these to the girls for christmas last year we got a little mr santa here and these cute little ones look i even have this this is super cute this is probably my favorite decoration that's my friend charlie gave me this it's a little bowden french press that's really cool that's still nice you don't like that one yeah because inside it's really broken i know you know that one's broken that's one of the actual only nice decorations we own was a glass one and this is what happens hence why the rest are made out of plastic what have you got on your foot well i i break my leg so you put a christmas stocking on yeah it actually fits you looks good i'm in a bit of a panic because i have so many presents to wrap and i run out of wrapping paper i made some before and the guys from chateau diy from channel 4 were here to film it but unfortunately i've run out so i am going to do some more so my plan is to use my wallpaper stamps this is the one from the chambray i've got some leftover paint some more of my brown craft paper and i'm hoping because it's a nice big stamp i should be able to cover quite a lot of the surface quickly it might seem a little bit crazy using my wallpaper print to make some wrapping paper for christmas but sometimes when you have no time and it's a bit of an emergency that's when you have to get creative and who knows maybe it will turn out really cool or maybe it will be a mess we'll have to see [Music] say here goes [Music] i'm not sure if i can jump up on this table it's not really stable it's like a temporary situation [Music] so i'm going to just do it with my hands frustrations oh it's not enough do you know what i think i might call philip in to give me a hand i'm going to put this now on the floor because i think that's the only way to do this you called me yeah i need you oh yeah of course you need me it's printing get over there please what i need you to help me i need to put this on the floor quick oh i thought you want me to renee yeah there we go okay oh see you in a bit why are you making a wallpaper just before christmas i'm not making wallpaper that's wrapping paper wrapping paper yeah you know the thing you wrap christmas presents with yeah i've heard about that not that you ever wrap any presents but i do no you i do you do man wrapping round rubbing that's so sexist dinner how much do you need hmm well i have quite a lot of presents eh nice to hear they're not all for either most of them for the girls huh how many exactly um i think i've got three things for you how many things have you got for me i'm not going to tell you it's a present it's a surprise yes such a surprise that even i don't know yet what it is [Music] so i'm going to wrap my mom's present [Music] i know what this is a new drone why are you laughing you win it's exactly the size of a new drone is it oh you should know it's not for you it's not for me no it's for my mum i'm happy with that it's really simple but pretty [Music] too dumb and i have the essentials ah good idea so you of me yes [Music] starting to feel so festive in here finally [Music] cheers my love and cheers to all of you cheers thank you for supporting us this year for watching for liking for commenting commenting yeah clicking on the bell and if you haven't done the bell here or here yeah helps with the algorithm absolutely no but we've really enjoyed having you guys come along with us and can't wait for the next year so merry christmas and have a great holiday merry christmas cheers cheers cheers one last thing i do not vouch for this christmas tree look at this i suggested something elegant and distinguished yet relaxed and unpretentious and then i came up with this it should not be in a chateau what do you think about this christmas tree well it's pretty is it pretty do you think a skiing rabbit belongs on a christmas tree in a chateau yes what's that if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and hit the like button for exclusive videos and behind the scenes updates have a look at our patreon page thank you so much for watching [Music]

Channel: How To Renovate A Chateau

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Id: 6fDF0PWkzVc

Length: 17min 8sec (1028 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 26 2021