How fun! First guests! The Guest room looks very cozy ❤ the garden is shaping up ! That was a lot of work well done ❤❤❤❤

How great to have your friends visit…and what great helping hands they were ! ❤

The chateau de Chenonceau is built as a bridge on the Cher river. Between 1940 and 1942, the Cher river was a part of the demarcation line ("border") between Nazi occupied France and the Free zone. The Resistance used this "hidden bridge" to smuggle resistance fighters and allied bomber crews to the Free zone.

@AustintoAmboise

8 күн бұрын

Yes, it has a very interesting history. Standing on that bridge and imagining that time was really fascinating.

Nothing better than to share your new home with old friends. Memories indeed❤️

Beauty everywhere! Your auction finds are amazing, too. And the garden is coming alive again. Your friends are wonderful. Enjoy!😊

What a feast for the eyes! Between all your new antiques, chandeliers, weeded garden and the delicious-looking meals, why not party on your last night? Thank you for introducing us to your friends. Their guest bedroom was very inviting with the chocolates and flowers. I bet you hated to return home. 😢

@AustintoAmboise

9 күн бұрын

Indeed we did! Can't wait to go back - we're planning to return in late August or early September.

What a charming town! No wonder you are moving there!

Love the Texas Rollergirls t-shirt.

Love the torn of Amboise. And DaVinci’s influence and home.

Great new furniture! Very nice to see the house becoming a home. And the chateau de Chenonceau is absolutely amazing, loved the visit too (years ago)

Can’t wait for you to meet with the previous owners to hear about all the history. Besides being very interesting, it may help you with your future renovations. Good luck for the future.

Garden is coming right along. The roses are gorgeous. Lovely to have friends visit and help out.

Best week and Best vid ever!!!! Exciting week with friends giving you a hand with so many projects.....love your humor, keep them coming❤

@AustintoAmboise

4 күн бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

Looks like a fun town.

The buffet cabinet is absolutely gorgeous!

@joellenmeek658

9 күн бұрын

I agree. I actually have my buffet cabinet in my hallway and I love it there.

I think the weird room is an altar to something or someone. Hus-Ben thoroughly enjoyed all wiring talk.

@AustintoAmboise

7 күн бұрын

It certainly looks that way... Hoping to unravel this mystery soon! Thanks for watching, friends!

Loved the tours.

I am wondering if you worry about squatters while you are away from your Amboise home. I hear that it is a real problem here in France. Enjoyed seeing all the work you got done. I am enjoying my last 4 days in France❤️

Beautiful acquisitions. I can't wait to see how they look in their completed rooms. Garden will be spectacular. You have great friends! If the large chandelier body is becoming electified, the chandilier should be rewired.

Great episode guys! Beautiful haul of antiques, that hutch is gorgeous and what a deal for that lovely secretay! I cant wait until you guys can spend more time in france, i always look forward to your vlogs. 😊 thanks for sharing! ❤

I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I really loved the china hutch with the beautiful carving. The garden will be really nice as it gets saved from all the weeds and overgrowth.

I love your home and its history. Great to see your friends staying for a couple of days and lending a hand. The gardens in your yard are gorgeous after the tidying up and weeding. Also love your new furniture you have amazing taste. Thank you for the video

@AustintoAmboise

9 күн бұрын

Merci beaucoup! 😊 Thanks for watching.

Enjoying the videos. Maybe a slap of marble or granite for the table center when you need the full extension. Something out of the ordinary.

@AustintoAmboise

9 күн бұрын

That's a cool idea! Thanks for watching.

Absolutely lovely vlog, so chill and educational😘

@AustintoAmboise

7 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 😊

I love the old art and furniture pieces you've found for your home! It's awesome because in US, we have nothing like it since our Nation is barely over 200 years old! I also love the music you've put with the video! It's so relaxing!

Thank you so much for sharing the chapel restore I was there last year and it was still closed to the public . It’s absolutely amazing

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Ha ha! Loved your "killer at the window!" Your garden looked a lot better, so nice to have so many strawberries. Is that Baby's Breath I see in the garden? Love that. Wow! Your video just kept going and going with all sorts of lovely things to see. Love Da Vinci's final resting place and the celebration! Great friends! Glad you had some fun. (Remind me, how far away are you from Paris?). Thanks!!!!

@AustintoAmboise

8 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I think maybe you're seeing the tiny daisy-like flowers, which I've been told is called flea bane. 🙂 We are about 2 hours southwest of Paris. There's a high speed train that is actually faster than driving.

@kathif8598

8 күн бұрын

@@AustintoAmboise Aw, thanks for answering my questions! I know you're busy and I appreciate it. Keep doing what you're doing. I'm enjoying you from Illinois 😃

It looks like the design in the simpler alcove is cut off. Maybe there’s more alcove behind that new looking back wall or maybe it was a doorway that was closed. What’s on the other side of that wall?

@AustintoAmboise

9 күн бұрын

We think it was a doorway that was closed in. The other side of the wall is now the back of our building, alongside a driveway for the neighboring building.

What a beautiful Chandelier! Can you share what auction sites you are finding your lovely things from?

@AustintoAmboise

8 күн бұрын

The auction site is drouot.com/en - it lets you watch auctions held at the Druot auction house in Paris live online, and/or place your top bid for auctions that you won't be watching. It's a really cool site, amazing deals to be found, and it has a good search engine. I also love just reading about the items up for sale and learning more history that way. Be forewarned though, if you are unable to pick up your items right away, you'll have to pay storage fees at some of the auction houses. And if you need things delivered, that also adds up quickly. But if you're able to go and get things yourself within a few days, you will score some incredible bargains! Have fun shopping! 🙂

How wonderful to be able to share your new home and city with your very helpful friends. A visit to Chenonceau is always amazing. How much did you love the floral displays they have there? It’s so beautiful no matter what time of year you visit. I went in November on a misty day and it’s was breathtakingly beautiful. Just love following your channel. I think next time I’m in Amboise I’d love to knock on the door and say hello!

@AustintoAmboise

8 күн бұрын

The floral displays were breathtaking!! So beautiful. I bet it's really nice any time of year. If you ever want to say hello, dm me on Instagram or email austin2amboise@gmail.com - would be happy to if we're in town!

I havent watched the entire vlog yet, but the library looks like it was at one time meant to be a private chapel or devotional. Look at the draped wall pattern at the La Lande chapel, and what you have on your wall in pencil sketch is penciled in swag lines; is the same. The big alcove, or cupula as you called it, would hold a statue probably of Mary, and the pencil drawings of the mouldings show where pedestals were going to be placed. The three ( I think it was 3) circled pencil drawings with a vague head shape inside, I think would have been the sketch for where a religious painting was to be. It definately looks like each circle had a head in the center of each circle, with the circles themself being halo's. I wonder why this was not completed, as it certainly looks like it has been all worked out for placements? Maybe they ran out of money? I think this was original from time house was built. Maybe caught up in some religeous upheavals in the 1700's? I think Hugonauts were persecuted for religeous beliefs through the centuries and left the country. maybe at that point the house was sold or passed into other hands, or simply the owners thought maybe better not to have a chapel in thier home? Fascinating!! That salamander I think is a interior depiction of a gargoyle as seen on many churches. It looks like it has been gilded, but probably not originally gilded at all. probably plaster, but if you imagine it was in stone, it would not look out of place on an outer church wall near roof line. This is a beautiful house. You are so lucky to have found and bought it.

@AustintoAmboise

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment! Interesting points, although the decorative work has a date painted on it of 1902. So it isn't an original feature of the house (though maybe the alcove itself is). You can get a better look at all of this in episode 3. Thanks for watching!

Just lovely❣️ I’m curious if you have work visas or how you will be able to stay in France. I followed Mr Bloke on KZread, they bought a house in France but could not get working visas and returned to the USA.

@AustintoAmboise

7 күн бұрын

We're actually in the fortunate position of not needing a long-term visa. Patrick's mom is from Germany, so he's in the process of acquiring his German passport. That will allow us (as a married couple) to live anywhere in the EU. Thanks for watching!

I believe the alcoves were used to display items of heritage or foreign provenance. There could have been a low display table in each alcove. This was a common practice among the well healed.

@AustintoAmboise

9 күн бұрын

Could be... The painted designs just look so specific and symbolic though...

Thank you for your latest video, we really look forward to them. The iteams from the auction are amazing. We have a house in confolens and would love some of the things you bought. Could you please share the details of the auction site??? Please 😊. Take care.

@AustintoAmboise

9 күн бұрын

Thanks so much - glad you enjoy our videos. The auction site is drouot.com/en - it lets you watch auctions held at the Druot auction house in Paris live online, and/or place your top bid for auctions that you won't be watching. It's a really cool site, amazing deals to be found, and it has a good search engine. I also love just reading about the items up for sale and learning more history that way. Be forewarned though, if you are unable to pick up your items right away, you'll have to pay storage fees at some of the auction houses. And if you need things delivered, that also adds up quickly. But if you're able to go and get things yourself within a few days, you will score some incredible bargains! Have fun shopping! 🙂