In the heart of the French countryside,
a magnificent chateau has been lovingly brought back to life
by an intrepid British couple.
Come on, missus!
Engineer Dick Straw bridge,
and his wife, designer Angel.
This is the magic.
Over the past eight years,
over 50 beautiful spaces have been rebuilt, restored, or reimagined.
Smile for mummy! Smile!
The enormous leaking roof...
That's a bad sign.
The sunlight coming through the holes is not good.
...now safe for another 100 years.
The chateau's towering walls...
...almost restored to their former glory.
Honestly, I can't... it's exactly right!
Service!
Their hard work not only helping create a successful
wedding and events business...
People are smiling and they're crying, and they're hugging
and they're drinking bubbly - and you know what?
This house was meant to do that.
...but also, an extraordinary family home,
bursting with love...
Up. Oh, oh!
...joy and laughter.
THEY LAUGH
Now it's time for the final chapter in this French fairy tale.
One that is packed with new adventures...
What happens in workshop stays in the workshop.
...mysteries.
THEY CHEER
...plans...
High ceiling makes me want to have a swing.
...and problems.
Oh, no! Argh! THEY LAUGH
But best of all, a happy ending.
Yes! Woohoo!
The Chateau de la Motte Husson was built 150 years ago.
But, as it was constructed on top of a 12th-century fortress,
the prospect of finding treasure is a possibility.
Where are you, dog?
And one which Dick and Angel are rather keen to check out.
Right, Arthur. OK, this is, if it's iron.
Yeah. This is if it's...
Money? Ancl that's a bit, sort of, other precious metals, OK?
We're off.
Are you ready to dig? Ready to dig.
Oh.
Sounded like a treasure chest.
HE LAUGHS
Oh...oh!
Hold on, hold on.
Hold on. We don't know what it is.
It's a chisel! It's a chisel.
It could be very old, couldn't it?
It could be.
First bit of treasure.
Oh... Oh. What do you think, Arthur?
It could be a diamond!
Oh, my gosh. Look! What have you found? Metal!
It's a piece of zinc. BOTH: What's zinc?
It's what they used to run the gutters in the house and things.
Interesting.
I've got to say, this isn't a bad pastime.
I'm having a ball. SHE LAUGHS
It's not about just finding treasure.
Although that would be absolutely lovely, you know,
it, kind of, reminds us that there was people here before us.
Ancl we're just the custodians, and we know that.
Dick, I found treasure, baby. Well clone!
Do I retire? SHE LAUGHS
Today's expedition may not have been the most lucrative, but...
...eight years ago, when Dick and Angel first unlocked
the door to their new chateau...
We are in!
...it was like opening an enormous treasure chest.
The family were just going to clear it out and just bin everything.
We said, "No, just leave it. It's OK, we'll do it."
Couldn't believe our luck.
Where do we start here?
Oh-ho-ho!
Memorabilia of the chateau's original owners,
the Baglioni family...
That has somebody's initial on.
...who lived here from 1870s.
It's their running costs, what they ate,
what they spent their money on.
This is how they lived!
Stories from a bygone era...
These are beautiful. Get something to play these.
...that Dick and Angel have always been very keen to maintain.
Even creating in one of the turrets, a Tower of Curiosities,
and filling it with the ephemera of their finds.
Tootle-doo, follow me.
Including their most recent -
the folly's battered but beautiful weather vane.
Right, thank you.
Now...put this little loop in that end there.
This is really... like keyhole surgery.
Ancl there you go. That looks amazing.
It actually looks like it's levitating there.
I don't come in here often enough and look around, and just think,
"Oh! That was from the roof."
We found the sword, we found in the barn with Arthur.
Do you remember dancing to the records,
across in the Orangery? I do.
It was more like wrestling, because you kept wanting to lead.
SHE LAUGHS OK, it's up.
It's up, and it looks great. Thank you, baby.
Good.
And, even after eight years,
there's still the possibility of finding more treasures from
the past inside their enormous 200-square-metre attic.
This is representative of the floor space in the attic.
The stairs continue up for another floor,
which is now the Observatoire de Chateau.
Ancl on this side of the building, we have a huge, big room,
with a lot of cathedral - it's like all the way up to the apex.
That's big old space.
On that floor, we've got Angela's tresorie,
and that's looking lovely.
The corridor in the middle is where we have all of the heat storage,
all the pumps, and all the mechanism for heating the house is there.
Ancl that room at the back, that's what we're using as our attic
to keep things, as is this end.
But if we look at this area,
the key thing is, this is huge.
Ancl we have a little chimney breast in the middle of it,
and there's an area here - and the area, as you go up the steps
and look around to the left, is dark. It's horrible.
This whole area there, nobody has played with at all.
OK? That's unlooked at.
The rest of this is one huge,
big space available... to be played with.
"Play" being the operative word -
because with Arthur and Dorothy growing up fast,
Dick and Angel are keen for them to have their own space in the chateau.
A games room they can call their own.
Oooh!
First, though, there's a bit of clearing to do.
This is a massive job, isn't it?
And, amongst the mishmash of Straw bridge stuff
and Baglioni bits and pieces...
...there is one very dark and dusty corner...
Right come on, come with me, come with me.
...that, even eight years after moving in,
still needs to be investigated.
It's time to explore the scary bit.
Oh, I don't really want to, I've got my brave gloves on.
Right, here we go, you ready?
SHE GASPS
Oh, my goodness.
That is really grim, innit?
Oh, look!
That pigeon carcass is probably 20 years old.
Great...lovely. It's a horrible thing.
But because I left it there, no-one's gone into that hole.
It's very true.
Right, we're going in. Ooh!
What is that? I was just looking at that.
Oh! Brush it off.
That's for putting balls on. It looks like a little table.
Do you know what?
Ancl it's only because of the... across the far side, where
we found the billiard table bits. Oh, the billiard table,
I think that's for putting balls on. Oh, yeah!
I don't know, but that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Aha! That's just what I said more likely.
Oh, look, right.
A billiard cue.
Right, oh, look. What's this, a shelf?
There's something written on top of it, Dick.
"Cheese." It's for measuring.
It's the Fromagerie de Cherchons...
Something of October '39.
That's just after the start of the Second World War.
The world had changed big-time when this was sent out.
Wow. That's lovely. We're keeping that.
Needs a clean, but it's worth keeping. Absolutely.
Want to put it between those two? Yeah. That's interesting.
It's like little glimmers of how the Baglionis lived.
It's interesting because treasure isn't all about monetary value.
We're just collecting bits of history and things
that just can't be replaced.
That's... It's incredible.
We're collecting the story, kid.
But, as well as collecting memories from the past...
Found the lid of a potty. Nice.
...Angel's thoughts are also focusing on the future.
I'm looking around, even just now, and I think I see this
being a hobbying area.
This is where you have your train set, or your racetrack,
or something - as opposed to a play room,
it's a, sort of, hobbying-type place.
And as Dick and Angel continue to chip away at the enormous
pile of paraphernalia...
There is a massive amount of stuff to be taken out of here.
...even more trinkets and treasures
left behind by the Baglioni family begin to emerge
That's gotta be cleaned up, hasn't it, that side saddle?
You know the way you get a cross for sawing wood on -
if you put it on that, it could be sat on.
It could be sat on.
Look, look! Old letters, Dick.
More? Yeah, more. Look at this.
"The Village Main Reef Gold Mining Company Limited, 1921
Well clone, let's have a look at that.
So, it's eight shares in a gold-mining company
that's gone into liquidation. It's in liquidation.
Does that mean we own eight shares in that?
Cos we have that bit of paper?
We could be gold-mining...
That's like treasure! SHE LAUGSH
We'll keep that, that's worth a little bit of research.
Of course it is.
This is a bit of an interesting corner.
It's Angel's next find, though,
that's not only worth more than gold...
Ooh, look at that!
...but rubber-stamps their plans to turn the attic into a games room.
I have never seen a train set like it - hold that.
How lovely is that? That is just adorable.
I do see it as a bit of a sign, because you have said about
a train set in here, or something of the equivalent...
You're talking about getting more for the children? Yeah, absolutely.
I think there is room for a train set. I think there is.
Oh... And, by the way...
The train set inspired by the original Baglioni one!
SHE LAUGHS
At the top of the chateau, a new games room is being created.
And now it's been cleared,
the five-and-a-half-metre-high ceiling can be insulated,
and the turret space in the corner
emptied of 150 years' worth of pigeon poo.
This is...pretty grim.
As well as the occasional interesting find.
Here we go, a classic!
"Guillaume Tell" - not William, Guillaume Tell.
Oh, yeah.
Next door, in her attic workshop,
Angel's trying to work out how to hold on to the past -
but at the same time, create new memories.
The star piece.
Honestly, I can only imagine the joy that this train set
brought the Baglionis.
Ancl it feels really lovely, bringing the old
and the new together.
Ancl I think this space is going to be a mixture of that.
I'm expecting there to be magnets and winches,
and glue guns and little saws, and benches.
Ancl I joked to Dick about having a workbench like my dad's.
But I want this to be a place for them to learn new things.
Angel also knows that now Arthur and Dorothy are getting older,
it's time, whether she likes it or not,
to give them some space.
The kids need a little bit of independence,
they need to be able to go off and not be in their bedroom,
and not be in the room next door, so I can keep an eye on them.
They need their space to go and do things,
and potentially just hang out with friends.
They're going to grow into it, aren't they? And I think...
I think that's the exciting thing.
Plans for the games room are still evolving.
But outside, a new grown-up toy has just arrived.
Oh-ho, yes! Oh, look at the wheels.
67 years old and the engine may not run that well,
but Dick and Angel couldn't resist it.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da! Look at this. Oh, wow! Look at it now!
Woo-woo!
Ta-da! Oh, he's in it already.
It's tiddly wee, isn't it? Oh, it's tiddly wee!
Hello, hello, hello. Oh, my gosh, do we fit in it?
Right, what do you think? I love it!
That's... "I love it" - that's the right answer, Dorothy.
This was the first mass-produced car in France.
It looks a bit like a Morris Minor for me.
That's an amazing car.
What we're going to do, because it's not running yet,
so we're going to push it off and have a little play.
Ancl you'll be in it, reversing.
Trust me. You trust me, don't you?
As soon as they've taken the wheel straps off...
Put them on the side, Dorothy.
Put up one on the floor for Arthur.
...it's time for Angel's ride on the chateau's new
Renault roller-coaster.
I'm actually not looking forward to this.
I've not driven a manual car for...
just put your foot in the brake.
Then, to roll it, what I need for you to do is
to just let it roll. OK?
Now, we're going to ease back a little bit more.
Don't move the steering wheel at all. I'm not. just relax.
I'm just holding on to something. You're tipping slightly now.
Oh, OK, I'm putting my foot on the brake!
Keep your foot on the brake. Oh, my gosh! I do not like this!
Keep your foot on the brake hard! It's OK.
And we're...
Now keep going, off you go, off you go, off you go.
Keep going, keep going. Keep going!
Ladies and gentlemen,
my wife, the car driver. SHE LAUGHS
Unfortunately, there's still a bit of tinkering to do
before any fun can be had.
And here we go, two, three - and up, and we're over'.!
Yay! Woo! Well clone.
Keep pushing!
And stop. Stop.
HE EXHALES
But work comes before play -
and Dick has some technical tidying-up to do at
the top of the chateau.
That bloody basement's a long way away. Woo!
Steve and Rob are finishing off the insulating,
they're getting the plasterboards up.
Steve Beachel, Beachy's up there skimming off on top.
Ancl I get to play with electrickery.
Fortunately, my background is electricity,
so it doesn't scare me.
And it's a job that he knew he'd have to do one day.
We're above the tower, in the Potagerie.
There's sockets, sockets, light.
Ancl five years ago, it seemed like a good idea to put the cables
on the floor and just leave enough slack to play with it later.
This is now later.
Which makes it a pain in the bobo.
Well, you don't make omelettes without breaking eggs.
There's a lot of soft bits.
It's all been wood-wormed,
and we'll put some new boards in here.
But for that we need to make cables disappear.
There's still work to do on the floor, walls and ceiling
before Angel can add her decorative touch.
But outside, two trainees have requested
a masterclass in mechanics.
Daddy's rules, Daddy's workshop. OK?
We don't have to tell Mummy anything.
So, if you bleed, I've got a first aid kit.
So, what happens in the workshop stays in the workshop.
Come down, are you ready? We're going in.
So, first things first. What sort of car, is it? It's a...?
It's a Renault, Renault?
We're looking at CV.
CV is horsepower. Chevaux.
Four horsepower. You see there's four tubes here.
Look at this one - one, two, three, four.
In there, there's something that goes up and down...like a syringe,
and what's going to suck in is a mixture of petrol and air.
Because you need air to burn things, don't you?
So, it's sucking in, then we squeeze it up.
So, it's a squeeze.
Then we have to put a spark on it.
Yes. Boom!
The bang makes this go down force big and strong.
Ancl then, it goes...
...and it blows out the bits, out the exhaust.
So, suck, squeeze...
Bang, blow. ..bang, blow.
ALL: Suck, squeeze, bang, blow.
Now we have to do it all one after each other,
because if we all do it the same time, there'll be one big bang!
Suck. Suck. Suck.
Squeeze. Squeeze. Squeeze.
Bang. BOTH: Bang.
Not your turn!
We've got to make our engine do this, by the way.
I think we need to just double check and see if we've got a spark.
So, see that little gap, a little spark should jump across that.
So, you two watch that for a spark.
Move away Arthur, come away.
Dorothy is in charge of health and safety.
Now, I'm going to hold this and hope I don't get electrocuted.
All ready? Yeah.
OK, Arthur, turn it on.
ENGINE IGNITES
See it? Saw it. OK, we saw the spark.
Can I do it again? No!
Right, so, I think we have to see if we can get this started.
You start it for me. Here we go. Watch.
So, tell me if you see a red light on the dashboard.
What's a dashboard? This... HE LAUGHS
When you're ready, go.
ENGINE IGNITES
Oh! OK.
Ancl again, Dorothy.
ENGINE TURNS OVER Let go!
Stop!
It worked! But the carburettor is a problem.
Quite pleased with that.
Why are you happy that there's a problem?
At the start, I didn't know what the problem was.
I knew I had a problem, but I didn't know what it was.
Now I know what it was, I can fix it.
In the attic workshop,
Angel's now busy coming up with some creative camouflage.
Our attic is looking like a different attic, honestly.
It really is. However,
now we've moved on a little bit with everything...
...there's a doorway into Dick's thermo-store,
and it's a bit unfinished, let's say.
So, I thought, "I need to block that off."
I didn't want a door.
So, I had loads of this macrame cord and the bamboo,
obviously, we've got a lot of bamboo.
And, you know, I'm always doing things that only take
a few knots, because I like things to be, you know,
look quite good, but minimum effort.
So, this is all lark head knots,
and that is easiest knot in the world.
But to keep it in place - and this is quite important -
you need to do the knot that I'm doing now,
because otherwise, they can sort of move a little bit, which is fine
if you weren't going to do the kids' initials.
So, Angel's using a horizontal clove hitch knot to keep
the cords in line,
and a vertical one to create Arthur and Dorothy's initials.
It's really quite simple, as long as you can remember
to go over and under.
So, on this one, I'm always having my green under,
and I'm literally just doing a knot.
Just taking it to the back, kind of, where I want it to be.
Then I'm doing another knot.
I think that's always the beauty of macrame,
because it always looks quite fun and impressive.
When you break it down, anyone can do it.
Right, stand clear!
Outside, Dick and his fellow mechanics have finished
theirjiggery-pokery, and Bordeaux Rose -
as she's now known - is ready to run.
Hold on, better stop it.
Stop me, not you, not you! Me, me, me, me.
There we go.
That moved quite quickly, then, doesn't it?
Oh, it's very dusty.
Everything needs a good wipe-down, it's been really dusty and horrible.
Well clone, it is, it has been terribly dusty.
Oh, yeah, well clone, family.
Right.
I think Bordeaux Rose is ready for an outing.
Might be a little bit premature if we haven't started yet.
We're on.
ENGINE IGNITES
Let's hear it for Bordeaux Rose. Yes. Woohoo!
Right, we're off! See you, chateau!
Wave goodbye! Woo! THEY CHEER
Shall we go to the village and get an ice cream?
That's a good idea. Yes!
A special delivery has arrived at the chateau.
Right, there we go. Put it here, put it here.
The perfect thank you gift from good friends who not only
stayed recently, but also heard all about
Dick and Angel's attic ideas.
I'm quite excited by this. I am, too.
See what Will's put on it. "DWR."
"Dick's Wonderful Railway!"
Is this train set for the kids, or for you?
It's for you. No, no, it's not.
Let's have a look and see what we've got.
Right, oh! The boxes look so cute.
You know they're going to have such fun!
OK, I know Hornby. Oh, my gosh, this is all...
Look, look, look, look. Double-oh, Dublo. Look.
Oh, it's a little platform.
Hornby's model trains have been around since
the beginning of the 20th century.
But when they launched the smaller and more affordable
Dublo range in 1938...
A footbridge.
...by the 1950s, owning a model railway had become rather
a lot of boys' - and daddies' - favourite hobby.
A turntable! I always wanted a turntable.
Sorry. Oh, my gosh.
It's actually like Christmas for you. Sh, sh.
I didn't know any of this.
You can have different lines coming in.
Ancl you can...and it locks.
Is this your first train set?
Yes, it is.
Ohh, look at that little bad boy, silver king.
Ancl are they actually proper, like, sort of, ratio-down models?
Yeah, double-oh. Right.
Similar to like the doll's houses, I guess. Exactly.
There's so much to be played with.
So do you think the table will be big enough for that, Dick?
Or do you need to have a play? You want a cup of tea?
Yes, please, a cup of tea would be lovely.
This is just...look at this.
Up at the top of the chateau,
it's time for Angel to start turning the gargantuan games room
into a cosy den.
Up here, with the high apex of the house,
this space is huge, and it has been such a team effort.
Because everything needed to be brought up 100 stairs,
and it needed that manpower.
But honestly, within a couple of weeks,
everything was plaster-boarded.
It has very quickly come from somewhere that was full of
so much old junk to something that has so much potential now
for the children.
Ancl the finish is just lined, and I love it.
You don't need to paint that. It's just that beautiful,
natural stone colour.
This, however, is not.
This was beastly.
You know, the wood is softwood - there's nothing nice about it
except for it's big. It's fantastic.
The kids can have a side each.
I mean, this cupboard has been here for, like, 150 years.
Ancl it absolutely needed painting.
Now this leaves me and Dick to agree on what'll happen to the floor.
Because I don't want to paint it this blue, which we did upstairs.
I think I want carpet.
Ancl we haven't got carpet anywhere in the house.
I just feel like it feels right.
Because it's going to add a real softness up here.
Ancl the potential for this room...
Oh, it's just going to be so fantastic.
In his workshop,
Dick has not only decided that the new model railway needs setting up
to see if it works, but also that he's the man for the job.
We've got a lot of lovely toys to play with here.
HE LAUGHS
So, I'm doing a very simple track to begin with.
Yeah. And this - whoever believed I'm going to have a turning circle.
That's wonderful.
Really good, electrical connection at every one.
There we go.
My clad loved Christmas.
What he loved most was Christmas Eve,
because he got to set everything up and play with everything
in advance of the children.
They had to make sure things were assembled, put together and working.
You know what? That is a very simple train track.
It's time to choose.
Who's going to be the first to have a little go.
Guess what?
Silver King.
What's the old saying? "Youth is wasted on the young."
I'm only doing this because I have to test it for my children.
Doesn't even sound convincing.
Come on.
Now, that may not have seemed much,
but it made me very happy.
And backwards.
HE GIGGLES
Choc-choc'.!
Dick may be the chateau's chief engineer...
Choc-choc'.!
...but Angel has the creativity,
and can currently be found in the kitchen,
cooking up miniature landscapes.
The train set for the children is going to be,
it's going to be joyous.
I'm not sure if more for Dick or Arthur, or Dorothy yet.
Really, I don't. But the little packets of official train set stuff,
they're really expensive.
Ancl the landscape is a big part of the train set.
So, first of all, I'm going to dry out some dirt
and put it through a sieve - if I feel like it'll be really fine.
I do feel a little bit guilty,
because I bought this dehydrator for Dick, for his birthday.
But I use it more than him.
But I've never put the dirt in it from the garden.
OK. Now we're going to make some extra...
...because it's all about height and texture,
and different colours.
I mean, you know, you go out even in our garden.
There's a trillion different, like, greens and browns,
so I think the more realistic it's going to be,
and the more fun they're going to have.
Ancl actually, when you think about what we've got available,
gosh, there is so much stuff!
This is all sawdust from Dick's workshop.
And adding acrylic paint and water will give it a more earthy look.
Let's see how this actually works.
In the world of model railways,
building landscapes is known as scenery building - or scenicking -
and often very accurately based on real locations.
Now this is little offcuts from seat foam.
You're always cutting bits and pieces off when you're
upholstering chairs and stuff.
Ancl we never chuck anything away.
So why not? Let's give it a go.
See what happens, eh?
I did ask my husband, because I didn't want to get into trouble,
if I could use the blender for some foam.
Actually, thinking about it,
maybe he thought I meant, like, foamed milk or foam.
Oh, well, let's see what happens.
Right, that's not bad, actually.
Oh, it's like getting toothpaste out.
There is quite a nice, sort of, variation.
Ancl I'm going to sprinkle them.
We're going to have some greens and browns, and lighter browns.
What this one gives me is another texture.
Kind of, something that looks a little bit more rocky.
Dick would be proud.
Outside, a momentous event is about to happen.
The first fully-fitted carpet in the chateau's history
is going in the games room.
And everyone, including Petal, is inordinately excited.
Petal! It's called a carpet! It's so exciting.
It's called a carpet, and you get to sit on it!
As long as Sasha doesn't see your muddy feet.
But as there's almost 60 square metres to cover,
it first needs to be cut into two more manageable pieces.
Tuck it in. Tuck it in.
And then, it's just a simple matter of rolling them up...
PETAL BARKS
...extracting Petal from the middle...
No! Yay! SHE LAUGHS
...and carrying them to the attic.
How come I'm getting the back?
ANGEL LAUGHS
I can't get over how much excitement has been caused by the carpet.
It's been fantastic. You know what?
That room up there has been made 100 times more difficult by the fact
that it's that room up there.
Right, I think I can help.
Right, hold on, hold on...
Unfortunately, getting a heavy carpet up there involves...
Hold on. ..six staircases.
...five very tight corners...
INDISTINCT CHATTER
...and almost 100 steps.
We're nearly there.
That's not funny!
That's it.
How many pieces?!
At the top of the chateau, a new games room is being created.
I actually...
...think this is the comfiest room in the house.
It's because of the carpets.
Angel's plan is for it to have three distinct areas -
the main room, for playing games,
the turret, for sitting in.
And Pigeon Corner - also known as "the uncarpeted craft corner" -
for more messy pursuits.
When it comes to the areas,
that area over there is being kept over there,
it has a very different feel to it. So, that's workshoppy. Yes.
Carpet, play, comfort, and being able to paint,
get glue on the floor, etc.
But I'm twitching because it's beige,
so let's get some furniture in and stop the twitching.
Let's go. Let's get something up here first.
Mind the step, Dick.
Right, should we leave this over here for the minute, if we're...?
You don't know where it's going. Yeah.
The beauty about all this sort of thing,
is wherever we put it, I know it'll never end up.
It's finding zones, isn't it?
Angel might still be working out what goes where...
I think this can be the hockey table zone.
Using that? Yeah.
...but she's hoping Dick can turn the doors from the old cupboard
into modern workbenches.
I would love there to be a little semicircle cut out of it,
like my dad's workbench.
You've just got this area around you. I'll have a look.
The only thing is, it's a door. It's got all the joints in it.
I know that's, why I don't know if it's possible.
Let's see what the doors are like.
You can have anything, but not everything.
Yes, you can have that. All right, let's have a look.
Angel's father, Papi Steve, may be retired,
but he still uses the beloved jeweller's bench that
he's owned for over 50 years.
And, as it's designed for detailed work,
the curved shape's perfect for hobbies and crafts.
All Dick has to do is make one each for the kids.
Right, the workbench is a door.
Ancl that's going to have legs on it.
It's going to have a piece of wood against the wall.
So, that's the basis of it, but instead of it being
a plain workbench, Angela's drawn the curve -
and the idea is you put a little, sort of, piece of material
underneath it, so when the children are working with little fine bits,
anything drops gets caught in the material.
It's quite a simple and a nice idea.
Doors for workbenches aren't necessarily the best thing
in the world, because, apart from anything else,
the way they're actually made, you don't want to weaken them.
Ancl to give it some integrity, I've put a piece of thin ply
underneath it, so it's a door supported by ply.
Just like Angel's father,
Dick treats his workbench like an old friend.
This whole concept here, all these little saw marks,
all these screws that have been drilled through and into it,
each one of those holes means something. That's history.
Just shows that it's loved.
A thought that Dick's hoping Arthur and Dorothy will continue.
There'll be a little bit of paint on there from
the first bit of painting they do.
There'll be a cut from the first time they saw things.
History, isn't it?
There you go.
The door of the cupboard that was there when we arrived, is now...
...a workbench.
Up in the new games room,
the old toys that were once hidden in dark, dusty corners
are now being given pride of place.
We found this in the attic,
quite near the train set.
So, I think, once upon a time, they lived together.
Ancl it sends your mind boggling, doesn't it?
Because you think, we found an old train set,
we found this, and...
They had loads of kids, the Baglioni's were a big, big,
big family, and their cousins and their uncles, and everybody
would've been here.
Ancl I just think, did that happen up in in the attic?
Because, you know, we found a billiard table up here.
Or did they just not want to throw any history away?
I'm looking forward to telling the kids that, you know,
this is part of the history, this is the old -
and they'll be doing the new, doing their own stuff.
Ancl honestly, I cannot wait to start doing stuff like this with the kids.
I think Dick is quite excited by it, too.
This does feel a bit weird, sort of, dressing the
train set table with scenery.
Well, pots of sand and dyed sawdust, and foam.
But it's here for the kids to take it to the next level.
I think they'll be really happy with this,
because honestly, this is the start.
As well as toys both old and new,
Angel has ensured the chateau's past lives on,
no matter how inconsequential.
I just didn't think that six pieces of, sort of, paper,
postcards, and old cardboard would make me so happy here.
You know, the fact that we found an old playing card
makes it feel like we've clone the right thing with this room.
In Craft Corner,
now the home-made jeweller's benches have been fitted,
and the cloths for catching tiny bits and pieces attached,
the room's ready for even the most intricate of ideas.
I actually shouldn't feel like this about a cupboard door
and a couple of shammies, but I do!
Because they're just little versions of what my Dad had,
and what I just remember as a child.
What once was used to store cheese,
now being used to hold their tools.
The kids are going to be, honestly, made up that they've got glue guns.
Ancl they won't know that this is a cheese safe
that we found here in this room,
in this area, actually.
And, you know, those little gems remind us of the Baglionis.
And 'R's 'gust...
It's lovely, I don't ever want to forget that history.
Ancl I guess, as we make our history, as well,
you can only hope that someone,
be your future generations, kind of, preserves that.
There is, though, still space for Dick and Angel's favourite
piece of treasure - at least in toy terms.
There you go.
You do know that this can't be incorporated on to this, don't you?
That's lovely. Go on, you do the hon ours.
That's just made me really happy.
Careful of my balls.
Art's going to love those.
Right, there you go. Oh, that's lo...
That's nice, isn't it?
The Baglionis' toy train may have inspired their latest acquisition,
but as far as Dick's concerned,
there's been an equine explosion.
Why are you putting horses here at all? It's for Dorothy?
You've just answered it, yeah. I know Dorothy is...
One, two, three, four...here.
Yeah. There's more. Five.
There's more, this, look. Stable.
I don't know, but look.
It's the name of the ponies! Gladiator.
We actually, I don't know, I think it's part of
what they what they played on. But it...
Dorothy will love it, Dorothy will love it.
But before Dorothy or Arthur can see it,
there's just one more job to do.
I need you, Mr Straw bridge, take that side.
You're taking it to new levels.
Huh? Pink and...
That's Dick.
Dick and Angel. Right, OK.
Thank you very much.
And so, what was once a place of detritus, dirt, and dust...
...is now a room filled with light and possibility.
I think it's incredible.
The Baglionis' old games and toys sitting side-by-side
with the Strawbridges'.
Everything's set up, and it doesn't have to be put away and ripped up.
They can play chess over a period of weeks.
They can play fives over a period of time.
I think it's stunning.
For Dick and Angel,
the chateau's new games room is where anything is possible
and the imagination can run free.
Each of the areas specifically designed for its purpose -
whether crafting...
...competing...
...or just contemplating.
There's a place for everyone,
whatever their age.
I know that we want the kids to go and explore the world.
But I want them to have such beautiful memories here
that they actually always want to come home.
Ancl they will. They will. This is amazing.
In fact, let's start, let's go get them.
KIDS SHOUT
Oh, my gosh! Come on.
Oh, my gosh!
I love this part.
I can stand up here, watch me.
You watching? Yeah.
It goes! Yes!
But hold on, go and check out your workshop.
Let's go, Mummy.
Where have you seen one of these before?
BOTH: In Grandad's workshop!
Saw goes like this.
They are loving it, honestly, I just...
Dorothy has just glued her first little bead onto the fan.
She's made it pretty already. She's making it pretty.
Right, come on, we'll play with choo-choo trains, you and me.
You can make the little noises for me. Choo-choo.
SHE LAUGHS
Chou-choc.
Next time...
...the last word in weddings.
We officially have the best job in the world.
On the trail for truffles.
Ooh, look, she's digging, she's digging!
Truffle energy.
And extraordinary extensions.
You know what?
That is the first sunrise with our Winter Garden. Oh!
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