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Good morning from La landw okay it’s not a carpet of snow but it definitely most excitingly does count as a little bit of snow having settled in the night I’m a bit jealous because Dan’s Shadow is covered in snow but then this one has a roof so it swings and roundabouts but

There is something even more exciting than the snow and that’s that the chapel restorers are back at work so I’m going to go and see what they’re starting with this year hello how are you both very good this is the other way around to you what’s happening has been ordering some

Things in Amazon one bath mixer two sh mixers a fancy electric radiator well you know a tail rail Elric and a shower screen not from m m know there isn’t and we’ve had many things from but I think when it comes to the Taps I like them being to go and get

Some mixers from there then let me just have a little look online first exactly yeah should we share it how to be fabulous oh it’s all about sort of vintage style on a Sho string and just general fabulousness that’s cool that is already fabulous I knew you were going

To say I was literally waiting three two one yep a gotot more fabulous with that ring now as well frankly moving on from the fabulousness of fashion I’m Going to the Chapel fabulousness of the chapel restoration going to see how they’re getting on you know what uh our mothers

Would say to you what wrap up oh you’re so right and I love the fact that both of you do it without them being hit every single time I move towards an external door either natti or Amry goes wrap up warm put your coat on scarf actually Philip’s downstairs he does it

Too I think they’ve been paid by my aunt and my mother even one single snowflake makes me incredibly happy so this is a great great day it’s felt like a long break since they left for Christmas and New Year gosh I’ve forgotten just how perfectly clean the exterior of the chapel is for

Well there goes all of the boxing in that was holding the vault in place presumably so far so good maybe I should climb a ladder and film at the same time actually it’s so exciting I can’t wait to show you all of the boxing in is off the wooden form that was

Holding it all in place has now been removed because the plas has had the entire Christmas and New Year’s holidays to dry it is now dry and you can see they really nailed the shape it’s just exactly right now obviously it’s very rough and that’s what they’re going to

Be working on for the next few days they’re going to be Plastering it and making the plaster shape so that the vault is exactly the same plaster shape as it is here well ladies and gentlemen I think we can clearly say that there is no longer a missing vault in the chapel

Of St Joseph at lant fic what a day no missing Vault anymore and for those of you who are watching my Advent Vlogs and who saw the Vlog on Christmas Eve on Christmas Eve itself in the morning we hit the target of the €200,000 that we needed to restore all

Of the paintwork in the chapel as you know we’d already put aside the money to restore all of the structural work so that’s it all of the structural work and all of the paint work of the chapel will definitely be done this year they’re just going to carry on with the

Restorations it’s just been a miracle so many of you adopted stars in the chapel there are still a few left for adoption not that many left now and I think that because of those last Stars if more people adopt those we’ll also be able to restore the floor of the chapel so a

Huge thank you to all of you who did that because the restorers are just going to be staying and they’re just going to be carrying on and of course I’ll be vlogging every step of the process for you they’ve taken down all of the woodwork at the vault is in place

That’s it that’s amazing done yeah you should go and have a look it’s actually really uplifting so great great day today it’s going to be the first time in the five years I have been around this and the 18 years that I’ve been here amazing I’m just grinning

It’s all happening in the bedroom today am’s just arrived and this is it the mirror is being fixed to the wall and we’ll finally be able to take the blue tape off I am so last night I was just staring at it in bed thinking oh please

Want to see it without that so you come up with quite a clever plan Amory we’ll see if it works yeah it will work I have every Faith then you can say if it’s a cleever plan or not yeah it will be uh I see you’ve got an apprentice right so

What is the cunning plan it’s just really to uh to put a bracket against the wall with a nut and screw to stop it from bending over but obviously I’ll cut it uh so it doesn’t come out too to much and then just spray paint it gold so

Okay so that will go oh I see on the very top of it yeah so we need to cut into so we won’t really see much of it at all hopefully not but unfortunately go cut into the coing a little bit all right and cut a bit of the silk well I

Mean we love it in here so we won’t be taking it out and if we do we can fix the Coen can’t we yeah it’s not I’m not taking the whole thing out just just literally the top B so we just need to fill in The Notches yeah if you decide

To change yeah okay no that seems doable I will cut through the silk there is that all right uh yeah because that’ll be behind It okay can go back Okay oh this is painful to see the coing being touched it’s for a good cause it’s definitely a good cause I love how tied you are Amory always using this underneath your work you want me to hold the Lea no it’s fine just still got Christmas Legs could buy a little bit of coing oh no I’m sure Philip can uh oh keep it keep it yeah can’t be hadn’t thought of that keep that then yeah then it’s an easier fill EAS F yeah Sparks were literally flying in the bedroom you have thought of everything

You’re spray painting gold the bit that’s going to show on the sides yeah this is why you’re in charge of this sort of thing oh that’s actually really dis great see yeah you can’t I’m actually loving winter cuz it’s so nice to have time to get around to doing things like

This in the house cuz actually you think of it as a little thing putting up a mirror but it just makes an enormous difference to the room oh it looks good and that’s it it’s safe is it but it’s given me the honors I love the fact that it’s old mirror

Mhm it’s got the foxing on it and of course it has this R because in the 18th century they couldn’t make mirror bigger than this you’ll notice if you go to the Hall of Mirrors in veril for example the mirrors are are always split because they had to make them in separate

Sections this is very satisfying room starting to appear behind it we need to line the bed up with the mirror It’s Funny how whenever you do something in a chatow in fact I think in any house you do one thing and it makes you realize you need to do something

Else like the tray that renovated cocktail Corner cocktail Corner absolutely so here we just put a mirror up you’d have thought that would be it but no now we need to move the entire bed and both of the wall lights over so they’re in line we did know that to be

Fair I’ve known that since I moved in but it was all set up there because of the two Knuckles and I could live with it I didn’t want to have extra cost just to line up with a fireplace but now now that I can see it reflected and now it

Feels like a shadow inside we’re going to wake up in a shadow every three days you think that’s going to be like the tag clan for 2024 making it feel like a shadow making the shadow a shatter oh my gosh I love the mirror beautiful absolutely

Beautiful I’ll move this out of the way the full reveal there we Go well bed in completely the wrong place you can’t tell from where I’m standing so I think from now I’m just the room from here oh yeah looks lovely from over here okay now Amry is going to put Daddy’s painting back up uh yeah over the dressing table I think uh much

Higher okay let’s go for there and then we’ll just have to if you put that in the middle of the beam we’ll move the dressing table across afterwards we’ve moved the dressing table forward and somebody is wondering what on Earth is going on today a little bit anxious because we’re on the Move

P’s on the move oh it’s good to see it back up on the wall uh yeah I think that’s good yeah yeah thank you so much Amory that’s pleasure see you soon as soon as Amro finished putting up the painting philli started a huge search of the entire chadow looking

For the blinds which I was starting to believe just had never existed and we never brought them back from Venice but he was convinced that we had and he’s found them I can’t believe they were so close to this room all along that’s Bon mama where I’m tearing my hair out not

Knowing where the blinds are this is the cupboard where the blinds were yes okay remember the AC yeah but can I just exactly can we just focus on who put them in that cupboard we carried them through there and we was it we Fair yes I carried them through there cuz you

Want to see them there and then after I let’s not bring you up to the attic cuz all the other boards of fabric are here anyway so but I haven’t found the bed Crown yet no well look at least one let’s go let’s go one open I really want to see them I

Didn’t realize that it came with all the hardware I told you philli I don’t listen to you I know one Andra it means that life is an eternal surprise but look here we have one of the blinds laid out completely M and where literally

Just had this top bed what did I do with the curtain here hey look they’re very pretty this one only has one final I think it must have been in a corner somewhere yes must have been against a wall in a corner the others have the finals in fact I think

We don’t need to use the finals I don’t think we need to use these curtain rods in here uh at all because I think they’re a bit too small for the big window they’ll be completely hidden exactly why use something so pretty I would love to use them elsewhere though

And I think for example a room like our bedroom which has uh got one beam in the Middle where you couldn’t have a final anyway have to have that that would work I’m not sure they’re big enough for our bedroom C I’m not saying we have to use

It there I’m just saying like a room like that we should look around if there’s nowhere else that’s narrow enough in the shutter then we may as well just use them because they fit the blinds but if not we can use them somewhere else would be better to maybe

Like just get something very plain because it’ be hidden anyway yeah my concern is that the blinds I’m presuming are all the same size but I will double check that they are however clearly all the same width yeah and that means that they’re fine for this window will be

Fine for that window get the permission to open it but are a little narrow for this window yes I think this is the first time you can actually see how tall this room is by the way abely or how small you are I’m Majestic this room is only six feet

Tall um but the blind is just to hide the fact in the other windows that they start down than this one so in fact the blind can be just showing a tin tiny bit at the top near where the curtains are in the middle so you won’t notice that

It doesn’t go through to the edge and you won’t actually be using this we’ll use the curtains to draw and here the blind will be pulled down just enough to hide the top the window the wall so it looks as though the window is the same

Height and we’ll do the same thing there and they are done and I do not need to make them it is like a miracle all we need are the bed curtains because I’ve been to I have the pelmet I know we could the bed curtain I know we did cuz

I remember that the green fabric on the inside and Al I kept them all together but then we moved everything in here this is specifically to go I’ll show everybody I am a bed curtain now please bed curtain little semic is that your New Year’s resolution a little semicircular um

Helmet actually up at the top with the the curtains falling from does it look good uh it looks like you’re wearing a very short skirt focus on the FED curtains do you think it will look pretty I think it’ll look very nice actually with with a with

A current wall covering I love it well cracking if we can find them so I’ve been everywhere when I was looking for these to look for those as well but I I remember specifically keeping that bit with the rest where did you find that

Bit it was here it was here on the chair with the spare fabric these were the only things were already in the room we had people stay in here yeah I think wait yeah do you think someone would have put them you are joking so there I was complaining that I

Would lost the blinds and they were just next door and they were in the room right this makes a huge difference to me because it means that all of the spare fabric that I have here here can be used to make quite elaborate swags and Tails

And I couldn’t start on them until I knew we had enough fabric for the bed curtain so but I can’t believe huge I’ve just been through the attic we’ve been everywhere depart Jerry’s future we have looked in all storage places of the entire sh didn’t look in the coverboard it’s a

Classic getting wildly excited but there so heavy I can’t show you so there you go are you okay it’s my workout for the year actually the 2024 workouts I’m going to be a bed curtain again oh my gosh okay imagine the pmet at the front this plain bit obviously goes to the

Wall at the back so you see this hanging down behind the bed and then this it hooks onto the interior hooks onto the interior and then the other thing covers it the other helmet covers the top I can actually show that too being quite an advanced level bed curtain go

Elaborate be your own elaborate B I just have to stand here for the rest of I think we need that on the tile what do you think it will look a bit like that but with the other side turned in as well H um it looks very nice H the sa I will

Show you how it looked in the bower in the Royal Suite there which will give you a better idea of what we’re going for though I think you can pretty much get the same impression from this it’s very l urious for me because usually I have to make these curtains from scrap

This is fabulous which means I have a lot more than I thought there’s one more uh chair currently being in storage in Katra in my study well a pair of chairs you see they have the same fabric as well yeah but that one we might need to

Re upulse them I think it’s okay oh I think that’s good it’s clean it’s nice um so there’s another chair exactly like it and there’s also another bed spread I’m not sure it’s the same size as those might be slightly smaller yeah and the the actual headboard the headboard

That’s the main thing and we’ll move the beds to here as well so probably start taking this bed apart quite soon definitely but before we move any more furniture in I want to get someone in to finish the walls yes absolutely well you and I’m we were hanging the mirror in

The painting I’ve been very happily sitting here going through all of the different types of braid a little bit of pink in it but actually it’s not I would like a little bit of pink added in because it will drop the eye through to the bathroom if we could bring some of

The bathroom colors in would be actually Steph why don’t we just go for something gold like that that’s the one that’s already in here no I think it needs more I quite like that too we could maybe order a couple of samples um that’s the wrong sort of

Braiding for those of you who didn’t see the Vlog actually last year when Philip and I went to Venice because we bought all of this Fabric and the matching headboard and the matching chairs from the auction of the contents of the B Palazo hotel in Venice from their royal

Suite and the fabric is all Ian and it’s made by a company called bevel Aqua who produced the most Sumptuous fabrics and I think maybe we should go back to bille Aqua back to Venice and see what we can find there sure also here you can really

Clearly see why the Wass need to be refinished it turns out I’m not a war up holster I’m going to be honest no but I think you did a really nice job you were on a very tight budget and you did a good job and and it was 15 years ago I

The Fabrics continued to droop in that time because it’s a silk mix and I don’t know if that’s really ideal for wall up holstery and the wires have moved you see that it’s come forward so it’s very frustrating but we need to have the walls let’s let’s talk

To a specialist and I don’t want to replace and this is another problem it was flat back like this you see much tighter but the actual wood which I up someone else put the wood up and the wood has moved away so all of these problems need to be repaired yeah but I

Like the fabric and it’s in very good good condition it goes very well with the curtains so I’d like to put the same fabric back on which will obviously save a small fortune absolutely if the fabric does prove to be the problem of why it’s showing through that’s what we’ll find

Out when maybe still use it as curtain somewhere cuz it’s beautiful fabric keep it it’s a beautiful fabric it’s very simple it’s actually only when you get close to it that you notice the intricate design the weave and you had some spare Fabric and Marie had a dress

Made out of it the Regency one for Easter if you remember the beautiful dress that Marie had we had a wonderful Regency Easter all dress Easter yeah Bridget and Easter and we all had dresses made for it and Marie chose this fabric for her dress cuz we had some

Spare and she looked gorgeous I just thought let’s go wild let’s turn the heater on just for a little bit even though we’re not in here for that long 6° in here it’s weird though I’m not feeling that cold how much is that in fair I haven’t got a clue darling not a

Clue Clues to freezing ah my hero arriving as if for a joust just missing the horse I couldn’t well I’m allerg to horses and couldn’t fit this through the door speaking of Venice I found some fenel biscuits trelli they’re still good food to the way to my heart Philip’s got the second

Curtain up here and actually we’ll be able to remove this entire board that they’re attached to at the moment completely because of my problem making the curtains before is I never had quite enough Fabric and I had to find inventive ways of hiding that and that’s

Why I didn’t hang them from the pelmet board I didn’t have enough fabric to do that extra bit of curtain here we have a lot of length a lot of length which is marvelous I can just hem them once we’ve got them in the right place so they’ll

Actually be hanging from right up here and although it’s great that we have a lot of length what we don’t have is a lot of width and I can’t really take any fewer gathers out because as it is there aren’t that many gathers in them they’re fairly flat curtains and they do not

Meet in the middle okay uh could you put the next ones up yes Phillip they are stunning I know from up there you can’t really see but it’s transforming the room and my glamorous assistant is effortlessly going to show us what it will look like with the blinds in place

Okay we can’t put it back any further than that so I I don’t think anyone can get an idea but you’ll just have to take our word for it that it’s going to look super pretty I love the fact that it’s two different scales of print one on the

Blind one on the curtain this is the same as on the bed spread and on the headboard yeah it’s beautiful I’m so impressed by the change it makes to this room it’s strange I wasn’t expecting it to I thought it would be nice cuz it would match the headboard but it makes

The room feel so much warmer and richer and I have a solution for the curtains we’ve put aside one extra curtain drop for each window and that will be attached to the current curtains split in half and half on each side means that we will have enough for the curtains the

Trelli biscuits have made me hungry should we go e yes this is so naughty of me but it’s halfast 1 in the morning and I’ve suddenly realized that I am desperate for a cheese and ham toasted sandwich so I’ve covered a bit of French baguette with some ham some grated Iman

And little bits of mature Dutch cheese I’m just going to pop it under the grill the terali biscuits are for philli and we’re going full on midnight snack and having wine as well we can’t sleep I think it’s because we’re too excited about the mirror we just keep staring at

It it’s pathetic really but we’re so happy so instead we’re watching TV and making the most of the evening we are living our best life tonight Phillip bit of Agatha Christie and the mirror in the background I am so excited I hate to admit it Phillip but you are right but

Lucky it was filmed cheers Oh