The story of an American family restoring a centuries-old château in rural France and the life they’re building inside it, with a little magic at the edges.
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I know this because I’m one of those people who writes about it. I have personally published articles about bluebells and four-course school lunches and a...
How We Ended Up Buying a Château in France: The Conversation That Didn’t Make the Final Cut
The stories, detours, and questions we simply couldn’t fit into the YouTube episode.
We sat down to film the story of how we ended up here with a very reasonable plan - thirty minutes, with a beginning, middle, and end. Extremely professio...
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Kamille writes from rural France, where her family is restoring a centuries-old château one room, and one chapter, at a time. Expect life in France, old-house lore, the renovation diary (minus the gloss), and the stories between the big moments.
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