When Plans Come to Life - Doing It Ourselves
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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My name is Michael Petherick and I live with my family at Chateau de la Basmaignee in north west France.
My brother and his fiancé bought this building with some inheritance money three years ago and we are slowly restoring it to live in, and run as a business.
It’s always a financial struggle to keep the place going and we have to work hard to keep our heads above water, but we love it and wouldn’t have It any other way.
When they knew that they were buying the château, my brother asked me if I would like to move over and take part in their new adventure... so I packed my bags, gave up my life in England and moved here to help bring this place back to life.
We do all the renovations ourselves including construction, decorating and collecting antique furniture that we buy cheaply to restore. Our goal is to fill the château with beauty and life as it once was.
I have a passion for history, art and all things old.
These videos are a series of stories about my life and experiences living in a French castle
I’ll be showing all aspects of life here, from renovation and DIY, to crafts and baking, art, daily life and a bit of fun thrown in for good measure. There’s much more to see and our journey is still just beginning.
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Hi, Michael! Thank you for creating another wonderful video. I can’t wait to watch it through. Also I hope the AGA is going well! - Maxximo Morabito
This is your fault, I’ve been obsessed for months because of you.....
Loved the plans so interesting - I have similar the original plans to my house from 1904 not so many as the chateau obviously but a great thing to have I’ve often thought of framing mine ! ...... as a fellow aga Rayburn fan your cottage will be roasting once it’s in full flight but a tip remember what you put in the warming oven lol ! One Xmas we had a horrid smell for weeks and couldn’t find out where it was coming from till next time we used the Rayburn warming oven and hubby had left a bowl of sprouts in there and forgotten phew !😅
"Doing it Ourselves" is the answer to one of the riddles. I feel like that isn't a coincidence.
K Simpson hmm. I not doing that thing looking for June. But ok.
Hints from experience. Have the plans digitized ASAP. Make sure when you touch the old paper you wear cotton museum gloves. I know you don’t se damage, but every tiny bit of oil, soap residue, lotion, hair products transfers to the paper every-time you touch the paper. Nothing will happen now, but in years to come, even a small amount can be catastrophic. If that’s not practical consider washing and drying your hands immediately before touching the paper. If you haven’t already (it looks is like you may already have) get slip sheets of acid free paper. Good luck, those are priceless. Thank you for the lovely show.
Exactly my thoughts!
Put them in acid free folders or boards and put them in a fire proof safe if available.
All hand drawn!
Those drawings are so precious! Please treat them with respect.
I learnt how to draw like that! Also drew details for heritage buildings (1860’s) in Sydney Australia.
I love the brass lamps for the cottage better than the copper ones! The big copper ones would be perfect in a large room like the basement kitchen, so make sure Billy DOES earmark them for that!
Anna Timm, I liked the brass lights with the globes too, it's keeping with the Cottage atmosphere. The copper ones definately belong in the kitchen.🥀🥀
Awe...your Dad is a tough ole Chap. Reminds me of my Dad. He would say, "you wanna see my resume?" Then he would show me his calloused hands. 😊
Perfect thing to say. Look at these hands. No resume needed!!
Thank God for Dad. He's always hard at work, no matter how strenuous the task is. Even tackling them by himself. A very hard worker indeed. No job to big or to small, super dad can do it all!
That’s why the son can do just about anything.Dad taught him well.
Preserve all those drawings! This are already priceless. They will become even more valuable with time.
I would get copies made to keep out to see and find a fire and water safe place for originals. ❤️
Yes thought so 2
Love those old architectural drawings! You should have those scanned and saved as a digital file, then work with a conservator on proper storage of the originals. They are truly a work of art and a treasure.
You should have them put in a frame that designed for old documents. The I seen this idea in a lot of the old scottish castles I visited. They also added old samples of wallpaper and things. I think this would be an amazing idea for your family
Dad doing he’s stuff..no matter his age.
That’s what keeps them fit doing the manual stuff.
Thanks ,😊 it is great to see a family, work so well together, and get along so well 😊 great to see you progress. You a all working so hard.
Thank you all😊
Seeing the renovation of the downstairs kitchen is probably going to be my favorite. I hope you guys do it soon
the sister in law is jaw dropping gorgeous and your dad is a sweetie
Wonderful rainbow at the end...thank you
such a treasure trove of original drawings of the chateau! as an architect, designer and draftsman with over 40 years of experience i can attest how raw those fragile documents can be. if you can you should get them digitized for future reference, then they could be cataloged, organized and reproduced as necessary. if you frame any of them make sure it's with acid free matting and uv protecting glass to help prevent further deterioration/fading.
Having been studying architecture for many years, what a treat to see all those plans!! 😊🥰
I love the expression gone missing it’s so much better than it’s lost
I think given the age of those plans you guys should get them properly archived and scanned. This will also help ensure their longevity, what a marvellous find.
Cheers to your Dad and his "old Magpie" ways, an eye for value and quality. Other people pay through the nose for reproductions and poor copies.
Dad and your brother are treasures!
Those plans were REALLY interesting and as you say, should be kept somewhere safe after copies have been taken - perhaps you could get a safety deposit box at the bank? Then if e.g. a fire occurred, a copy would be at another place and available for rebuilding works.
Good that at long last the cottage is progressing.
Your poor dad meantime, is trying to do their cottage up too!
They look like they had all been folded small enough that you could get a box that is made to look like a book and paint that box to look like an old book with "Chateau de la Basmaignee" printed on the "spine" then put all the drawings in it and keep it with the books. That'd keep it dry and in the dark and easily accessible if someone wanted or needed to look at them.
Enjoyed. Love the old plans.
That opening shot was amazing!!!
Those plans are amazing! What a wonderful piece piece of history.
Maybe you should consider keeping them in a fire and water proof safe?
Much Love, to all at the chateau, from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦... Keli 💖
Is Michael looking more and more handsome every time we see him? 🤗Or is that just me?☺️
FRAMEEEE THOSEEEEE!!!!!! FRAMMMMEEEEEEEEEEE THEMMMM!! They are so well preserved!!
I really hope you get the drawings scanned and store the originals in a safe place! The pencil marking will only get fainter with time so good to get copies now before they are too faint! Then someone with some photo shop skills can go over the scans and make the pencil lines sharper so it will be easier to read the plans :)
Those are fantastic. You should have them digitized. A great project for a Summer intern...or Ryan. :>
Love the old drawings!
Those architects drawings are treasure trove. Look after them very carefully . Great to see some progress on the cottage 👏
They should be handled very carefully without putting fingers all over them as these papers are heritage documents. Surely some should be framed and the rest filed professionally. I am cringing watching how they are being handled this time. All the best with your endeavours as I am enjoying watching all the progress, and admiring the work
It would be good to make copies of the architectural drawings, one for use and one for framing, and have the original ones preserved for posterity.
@@paranihiaanaru4414 Yes! A little cringe-worthy watching fingers touching beautiful archival plans. But then this is a family that loves and keeps alive the history. No doubt they will preserve.
DIO Drinking game: take a shot every time Michael says "actually"... it's literally his favourite word. Love you, Michael!
How exciting to find the plans! So happy to see the progress with the cottage Michael
Love to watch you, from South Africa
Wow!! Incredibly fun and fascinating! So excited to the Gardener’s cottage progress!!
Your dad is simply amazing Michael! What a tremendous help he is.
Greetings from Bangkok 🙏🏻🙋♂️
Keep doing what your doing find the cooker updates fine, used to watch Two Fat Ladies cook on Aga, I haven’t seen them here. My grandmother had a wood burning stove and was in middle school when she got electric and burned everything. Best wishes from Louisiana.
Michael -- I would consider using a less expensive, painted wood for the cottage panelling. Your theme for this gardener's cottage comes from Beatrix Potter's Lake District circa 1900, one of rural simplicity -- I would not use the mixed-parentage, Edwardian high style Chateau as a reference.
It seems the wood is overly thick for the kitchen walls. When insulated, vapor barrier, wood framing for the walls, it's going to lose quite a bit of space. I've done a place with cedar boards, smooth side exposed and painted. It held up beautifully.
@@taitweigel64 Red Cedar would be good too
Quality is great, but maybe you don't always need something that will last a hundred years, realistically. I agree that less expensive should be the route, considering you'll be able to invest that money elsewhere 😊 just a suggestion, though
Very interesting to see the parchment designs for the architectural architraves etc. As you said needs to be stored dry and flat probably invest in some acid free paper between the sheets?
I love your father...Wow - what a hard, hard worker....Very lucky...
You have a wonderful Dad Michael, please do take good care of him , he's a rare gem 🥰 great to se all that is going on , keep it up 😀
I love the terrace idea
Hello Michael: Terrific video as always. You have a very good eye for detail, but you may have missed an interesting piece of information on the chateau plans from 1904. Apparently the spelling of the chateau name is "Basmeignee" rather than "Basmaignee".
Your dad is amazing! Your family and the gentle who is helping are so very talented. Love all of your show
beautiful plans, please consider keeping them in archival boxes, they are not expensive and they will keep the plans in good shape. Gaylord Archival available on amazon is my go to. Also your dad is something to behold, what a treasure.
How exciting to have the origanal plans i like the idea of copies to hang on the wall it must be fun to live in a historical chateau.
Another interesting video. It's fantastic to have the original plans . Watching from the southern tier of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York USA
I am so looking forward to seeing the full English being served! And excited to see the Christmas dinner in the kitchen of the cottage all finished, or nearly!😁💃
It would be beautiful to have these frames and put together as a set somewhere. Maybe one day when the chateau becomes more than it is today and you get way more visitors, you can open a restaurant where it’s decorated all beautiful and moody with dim lighting, the framed plans can go there!
One open within the chateau that is. I remember staying in a beautiful boutique hotel where morning (breakfast) or night (dinner/bar) it was just so beautiful to congregate to discuss our schedule and hear the chatter of other guests and the clinking of glasses and cutlery. Beautiful lit up in the morning by huge windows and then moody and comforting at night with dim lights and candles 😍
I so excited to hear all of the fantastic progress!! Whoohooo Michael!!!
Imagine the skill it took to write and draw those by hand!
My dad still used to draw by hand when I was a child. It was amazing to wacht.
Wow the craftsmanship that went into those drawings, and ultimately the Chateau! Gorgeous!
Yes, you wouldn't see it done today, all CAD drawings now! Skills lost....
My grandfather used to make this type of drawings for the city buildings in the 1950s here.
I still hawe he's drawingbord.
What about the progress in the garden's cottage? Im looking foward to watching the update🙏😜😜😜. Next episode??
Your dad is a legend. He truly is amazing!
Michael, your Dad is the greatest!
An upload from both you and Stephanie in one day? What a treat😍
Thanks for sharing that was awesome
🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 67 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼....
thanks to Ryan, we know LaValle! Very neighborly of the gentleman who owned the wood working company to ‘gift’ Billy and Gwendolyn those drawings! Super guy! Big thanks to Papa Petherick too, lovely man!
I’m so excited for the progress of the cottage.💖
An old magpie lol!
4:25 you have a spirit! 👍😉 Came over your right shoulder towards the camera. NOT dust. They are curious! ☺️❤️ May not have one known in the chateau but definitely one in here. (I have studied them for about 20 years. Have never seen any in Stephanie or your place. I do not want negativity over this. Just giving you info. Maybe your psychic friend will check it out.)
Oh I hope you pass on the older AGA parts to another owner. I was happy you were going to refurbish as much of it as possible. I get why you chose not to, but I hope someone else can
Omg. Your dad is an amazing beast. ❤️
Do make copies and frame!!! Visitors would love to see them!!!
Only Dad is doing it himself Oh really the rest is being done by others?????? really interesting the old plans.Good job.
I think we will see Michael doing more when it comes to all the painting and detailing as this is where his area of expertise is as well as putting old agas back together😂🤣😂🤣
@@Jayrose59 you are his great helper I hope he does or he has to change the tittle perhaps but I hope we are going to see more of that he is good anyway and all around him are trying to use him I feel sorry for him.
Good on you for trying, Michael. It's so disenchanting that when people put things away, they don't organize them. Yet clearly, they didn't intend to trash them or they wouldn't still be on the property. We form "what if" and "just in case" piles, but when the time comes, things are such a mess, we hardly know what we have. That said, Michael you have done such a lovely job going through the salvaged bits. We can only expect you to endure so much sanding and polishing, when you just want to get the cottage completed and have a bit of grown up privacy and the charm of a Beatrix Potter rabbit hole. (I'm sure in due course, everything will find a proper home).
There are chandelier crystals, not any more.
Tony As I cringed, I was thinking the same thing ... .
Ouch. Let's hope they aren't needed.
I'm sure it sounded worse than it really was cuz the camera catches the sound.
Oh, my...
That was so interesting Micheal,lovely to see progress on the gardeners Cottage,and the Chateau Drawings are so special,please be careful with them,you should really be wearing cotton gloves so as not to put acid from your hands on them,they are so special.xx
THANK U...GOOD INFO
Just catching up after the premier, your hair and facial hair are looking lovely in this episode, can't beat a fresh cut, your cottage is coming along beautifully too, that oak sample looks stunning. x
Wow, that was great! Get some big archival boxes and supplies to keep them flat, not folded. Can't wait to see the basement kitchen done and maybe the old cupboard put back.
Well I guess I will be spending Christmas with you on UA-cam then Michael, because this f#@%!*& pandemic has us about to hole up again here in Toronto and we've been advised that visiting indoors with people outside of your own household is not a good idea. I live alone, so...*sigh*. I look forward to your turkey, but no stuffing/dressing for me please. I have celiac. ☺
What a wonderful treasure of those plans and drawings! They should be preserved for sure. The history is just so interesting.
Rebecca Weber that works...I don’t really care for turkey but love stuffing. Let’s eat together!
@@robinbirdj743 that works out well then ☺
One of my favorite episodes so far. Im just appreciating all the craftsmanship and all these wonderful handmade drawings. Its just incredible the beauty that is achievable with a lot of work.
Might I suggest, that when you store or stash an item away that you expect to use in the (sort of) near future - that you establish an icon on your computer desktop, or on your i-phone, and label it: FINDER or, something similar, and enter all the stuff you've gotten out of the way, "temporarily". I can't possibly remember where I put things, even though at the time I'm absolutely certain I'll remember! Saves an awful lot of time, searching from room to room, place to place, looking for that "misplaced" object!
And used different coloured duck tape to seal/label boxes, eg anything for the aga have blue tape, any lighting pink tape etc then you only have to go through the right coloured box rather than all the boxes!
Oh my goodness - Worksafe in NZ would have conniptions to see your Dad cutting concrete blocks with no safety gear, bar a hard hat!
:) I think I may have a bit of Dad Envy. Dad is awesome.
Can you please do an interview with Gwen and Billy that talk about when they bought the chateau and the mindsets they had ect. Were they scared or not ? Did they always have this dream or did they stumble upon the opportunity ?
Nothing beats shopping in the shed of a collector with a good eye. Those old pub lights are perfect. When you mentioned the interior architectural vandalism of old pubs it hit like a horrible blow. It's sacrilege and literally stupid as it devalues, nothing worse than going into a lovely old pub that's been "modernised".
I love to see the work on Farm Cottage. I like to see more work done on the Chateau too. Great video. I love history and I love to see things that are old repaired and fixed.
Get with a person who specializes in preserving and stabilizing paper. Then store in archival boxes.
Mostly get scans of the plans and work off of them.
Shot blast wood??? Why would you do that? Old wood is through the aging process no longer interesting to wood destroying insects, but if you take off 1 or 2cm this changes! You will have to chemically protect the wood again. Couldn't you just gentelly clean the beams?
When are you yourself going to fo the renovations?
You are so lucky to have your Dad's talents on hand.... How is their cottage coming? Perhaps an update soon?
What can't your Dad do?
My neighbor, who in now deceased, taught me a lot about oak. My electrician drilled through my hall floors several times. My neighbor who would be 108 if still alive, told me to cut a green branch about the same size off my live oak tree. Strip bark off, and hammer in like a peg, with glue. It will swell while drying. Then sand and seal. My electrician was so apologetic, and appreciative to know the repair was that easy. Honestly, I can't locate the repairs now. Watching videos of epoxy table, made from slabs of walnut with epoxy filling in major gaps, I bought West System epoxy resin 105 and hardener 206, mixed with Mohawk powder stain light walnut, which matches my flooring color. My floors are 1909. I have to buy historic wood at $2 per foot to get correct size long leaf pine. Instead of paying for the expensive replacement wood, which I have done, at great effort to find historic wood, then I find I am only to be disappointed with poor results. The historic wood was in poor shape, and worker not skilled enough to install properly. The epoxy solution dries over night, and blends in fairly well. It is visually pleasing. I plan on trying Rubio Monocoat seal, next floor I redo.
Not a comment! As the dreaded Christmas is on its way can I ask what recipe you used for your xmas cake last year I made it and it was delicious!
I wish we could see the drawings more clearly, they seem rather faint on camera.
(Understandably so, as they are quite old)
The cottage is going to look lovely and so warm in the winter - love the wood , brighten up the cottage, its going to be so cozy too - Can't wait for the finished look !!
catherine hegarty rr
Everybody will be piling into the cottage from the chateau during the winter, lol!
I am a trained draughts women and I was trained to do drawings like these by hand then computers came in shame not the same
I can sympathize with as I am an old school Architectural Engineer and prefer pencil/pen and paper to do my projects. Computers scare the heck out me for designing projects.
When the drawings are made by hand there is time to think while you work and that is nice.
But still I like to do it the mordern way...
Definitely not the same. But I guess we couldnt build stuff like this castle now anyway. It would be optimised down to a quarter of the materials and a tenth of the design life :( It's horses of courses. Now we build far more complex structures. CAD is very valuable. It makes inventory, quantity and allsorts so much easier. The 3D stuff we can do is in another league!
@@Curiosity-NZ any recommendations on technical pencils? I have some rotrings (old and new) but always looking for other quality instruments :)
@@browpetj : My best suggestion is to hunt out old established auction houses on-line, you can pick up some very good but well respected draughting equipment that way. Some of my pens and pencils plus drawing aids go back to the mid to late 1800's. I have a full set of ships curves and other items used in the days of laying the lines. I still use a full size draughting table from the early 1900's which was used in a shipyard. I still use these. I also have several different slide rules which I also use. By the way I'm in my 60's.
Personal opinion: that basement needs some shelving.
Today the advertisement was energy heating how ironic. Sometimes though the advertisements make me laugh, lots of times it is bra ads. I laugh wondering if you knew that? Lol lol Hi from Upstate NY. Love your videos
In old homes in the US the interior shutters fold back into the window recesses and mate up with the wall paneling. If you don't know they are there, then you would never notice them. Is it possible that is what you have in some of the rooms of the chateaux that are paneled
Michael, one of those Copper lights would look VERY nice hanging over your AGA! 🤔
Great video. Michael where did you get the beautiful music?
will you be uploading soon ? ty
Your Dad is amazing, heaving those blocks around like they are Lego!
Be extremely careful with those papers. Maybe should buy some “white” or conservator’s” gloves so oil will not damage them. 😉👍
Yes, and acid free interleaves and storage box. That vellum itself degrades rapidly so mitigating it as best as possible will prolong their lifespans.
No matter. The oils will eventually deteriorate the paper, so 200 years from now the inks may not show up, etc. The chateaus themselves deteriorate very quickly. Be sure the paper will deteriorate too. Just be careful with them.
I love your Dad.....! He reminds me of my own ❤️
Id really enjoy seeing more of the financial behind the scenes stuff. Like how much does each project cost, how much did you save by doing the work your self, ect?
If he did that, the know-it-alls who populate this chat would immediately start shooting off their mouths on how he could have done it cheaper. No thank you.
Alex B I agree. I don’t know why some people follow this vlog except to criticise. Some already criticising the Aga decisions. There’s no way I’d disclose any financial figures on here.
Thank you Michael for your appreciation of history and the way life was lived in another era,
Michael, as an architect I love the drawings you were given by the woodworker. You should mount and frame these and hang them in the chateau. They are stunning. I still do my drawings by hand as they have so much life and depth in them. Please check you Instagram for a message request.