036 This week we continue to make improvements to our little stonehouse. It’s not a complete remodel but, just some simple updates to make the kitchen a little more pretty.
We also drive an hour east and visit Stephanie and here gang of lovely humans at Chateau Lalande for their annual Patreon Days. This was a fantastic visit with such kind and a generous people. Thank you again to all the Lalanders for opening up their home and lives. We really enjoyed meeting you all!
Michael and April
You can find and subscribe to Chateau Lalande (Chateau Diaries) here:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheChateauDiaries
Description of Us:
We are a couple of American Francophiles who have come to truly appreciate so many things about French culture. We love the food, wine, art, and history of France, but especially the people we have met along the way. Join us as we make our dream of living in France a reality. Follow us as we explore the French living and a new life there with our beloved dog, Bernice. We enjoy learning about stone house renovation, wine, cooking, brocante shopping, and the French community we are now a part of.
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Why can’t you video…they do…everywhere.
I also love the Chateau Diaries. So glad they are just like they seem in the videos
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I just find your approach so relatable in that you are making a beautiful, smart, rustic maison without lavish means,, simply good taste. That morning mist was a joy to contemplate. Hope France keeps on treating you well🌹🌺🌼
This probably makes me the outlier, but I find the Chateau Diaries to be completely unwatchable. Everyone has their own taste, and I'm not going to bash Ms Jarvis as brutally like the thousands of detractors that despise her. But I'm sort of at a loss to understand how people send her cash, knowing just how much money she's raking in by making videos of herself sleeping until noon like a spoiled teenager. I'll just say that I'd watch your French Stonehouse channel over TCD any day of the week.
Loved this clip of your day @ Lalande.
Great Jog! I just subscribed! thanks for sharing your La Lande trip!
Love Chateau Diary as well 😊
So glad you had a fun Patreon day.
The kitchen looks lovely as did that atmospheric misty day. Your garden looks great, so green and verdant 😊
The YouTube algorithm brought up your video on my feed. I follow Chateau Diaries. Thank you for sharing your Patron Days experience. I love your little place and am now following your channel also ❤ from. Indianapolis IN, U.S . Great job on the kitchen!!
Bonjour bonsoir hello from New Zealand Such a pleasant surprise your video popped up I too am a patreon of Chateau Diaries you uplifted my day with your visit to Patreon day I long to be there someday I just adore Lalande 💖The new shelving in the kitchen looks amazing I showed my husband Look this is what I want off to the diy store😀👏I’m looking forward to catching up on your videos I’ve liked and subscribed your stone farmhouse is wonderful enchante💖💖😍😍👌I also shared your video to my fellow Lalande friends 🌟
It's lovely to see you're making progress with your home, the kitchen looks lovely, fresh and clean and the shelves are a great addition. I also watch Stephanie every day, Chateau LaLande is amazing and the people who inhabit it are very special, glad you had a great day at their Patreon day and got to meet so many of the 'stars' of LaLande too. xxx
Such a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to Chateau Diaries and Stephanie. Thank you for sharing. Good luck with all your endeavours …..you have a new subscriber.
I love the sink with built in drainage section. the wood is beautiful in the shelves. thanks for sharing your patron day.
your photos of LaLande are great. I will check in with your vlogs now. Thanks.
You done a nice job on the walls it looks very rustic in keeping with the house and with the art it looks gorgeous. Yes, I’ve followed Chateau diaries with Stephanie from the very beginning. Also follow the “ Pethericks” Billy Petherick and Michael Petherick on “Doing it Ourselves” and a few other You tubers in France.
Thanks for sharing your time at Lalande. I hope to go someday. New have yourself a new subscriber. 🦋
I also watch the Chateau Diaries and find it so beautifully kept..
How great is it that you only live an hour or so away from Lalande, making it possible to visit on Patron days!
I too am a fellow Patron of Lalande from ‘down under’ New Zealand and have had so much enjoyment from TCD from the beginning. At the moment I’m rewatching the older videos again whilst lazing around nursing a bad head cold – such a perfect excuse!!
IMO Stephanie must be one of THE most conscientious vloggers to her Patrons as well as her subscribers. I think the detractors don’t take into account that her editing and downloading seems to mostly be done at night and into the early and sometimes late hours of the morning.
I really like your new kitchen shelving and look forward to seeing more of your little stone house. I’m also very happy to like and subscribe to watch more of your videos.🙂
yes the Lalande project and lifestyle is so much f un, so creative, all the people so positive, love them
I have stayed as a volunteer at Lalande a couple of times and can add that Stephanie, Philip, Amaury, Nati and Kirsty and Dan, Marie and everyone are such lovely people. Stephanie is such a special welcoming and hospitable person. She is also so talented as a story teller and presenter. I don’t live very far away but have some family illness that meant I couldn’t attend patreon day. I would love to see how the garden has progressed. I’m glad you had such a special day.
I'm a huge fan too of TCD since the beginning. Loved your first video of your home as well. A new subsciber
It’s Chateau de Lalande. Don’t forget the de. Lovely kitchen/laundry area. ❤
STEPHANIE IS A FAKE.
Nice vlog…
My husband and I were there too on Thursday. We were in Barb's group with Stephen. Nice reportage!
Unfair they ask you to video yet they go to other chateaus and video all the time
Anyone who says Chateau de La Lande is beautiful clearly has not visited France and its many astounding chateaux. La Lalande is falling apart despite its owner receiving 40k a month in patreon funds. So many chateaux have been restored beautifully with far smaller funds. And yet people keep sending money. The saying 'a fool and his money' springs to mind.
Thank you for sharing your patreon day at La Lande. It looked truly special and a very memorable day. Your narration and kind words are very calming and soothing.
Good luck with all your plans !
I found U..what a delightful French Kitchen.🤍 The beams R spectacular!
I subbed. Will be fun following your project.
Your kitchen is looking lovely. What an amazing opportunity to visit Lalande and meet the incredible people living and working in the chateau & gardens. I have followed Stephanie since the awful lockdown. ❤